After some encouraging conversations following the TEI conference in Paderborn, I readied myself to offer consulting and training for digital humanists and librarians as a side business.
- XML for Digital Humanists (XML, XSLT, ISO Schematron, RELAX NG, TEI ODD)
- Processing and publishing library data (MARC, PICA, MODS, LIDO et al.)
- Building and maintaining XML-based workflows
- Developing custom solutions (modules) for VuFind
-based discovery systems
- Salvaging DH projects that are in the danger of going awry
Feel free to get in touch!
And here are the TEI Stylesheets (7.59.0) also part of "The Olinguito Release":
This release is super significant because we have integrated @dmaus's SchXSLT (Schematron in XSLT) into our XSLT Stylesheets that manage the TEI's build processes.
Closed GitHub Stylesheets tickets:
https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets/milestone/18?closed=1
LLMs exist to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.
There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.
EDIT: I should have expected this post would attract the deliberately obtuse shills, but my goodness
Read the f-ing room.
Due to power dynamics there is no "open AI". Unlike open source, where a person could still significantly contribute, the required scale and cost of compute puts most AI* development out of reach of most.
So, no. “Just as the CC licenses helped build the open web, we believe CC signals will help shape an open AI ecosystem grounded in reciprocity.”
This is fundamentally different. This is license-washing.
(*LLM)
Something that stuck with me from a conversation I had with @GarethFW recently: providing text to label parts of an interface is one thing. But if that text constitutes a visual metaphor, that may be problematic. What is a "tab" to someone who was born blind?
We should really have adopted more functional naming conventions from the outset. Non-visually, something that pops up and something that drops down are neither. They're just *revealed*.
This article is a good example of why I’m fed up with the “if used responsibly” argument:
Alright, so #GenAI “holds tremendous promise if integrated wisely.” Thus we must not “resist AI but to direct its use thoughtfully.” I agree that the question is not whether AI will enter the classroom, it already has, so yes, “The real challenge is how to harness it in ways that enhance critical thinking rather than diminish it.”
1/n
It’s really this thing that gets me.
Let’s say you’re on a big mission in the world. You think websites should be more accessible. Websites should work for anyone regardless of their disabilities. You also think the web right now is failing in this regard. There are far too many inaccessible websites existing and being created. You think that educating developers is great and that developers should make accessible websites, but that’s not doing enough.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/07/13/its-really-this-thing-that-gets-me/
So, Altman’s superintelligence will allegedly do away with millions of jobs, but don’t worry kids, after graduating you “could be leaving on some kind of mission to explore the solar system on a spaceship.”
“Some kind of a mission,” huh? That’s a nice way of saying that he’ll shoot useless people into space.
This level of stupidity and arrogance is sickening.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/10/sam-altman-gen-z-luckiest-generation-artificial-intelligence-jobs/
Excellent - yes mine is definitely not unique, nor as effective as a proof-of-work - but the key difference is that it's all entirely encapsulated inside the nginx config. I only have to install this once and it works on all domains served by that nginx instance.
I've got several tiny websites with varying domains, I don't want to have to install challenge files / applications onto each of them!
It's always reasonable to unfollow (or block!) people who post ai. In posting ai they're broadcasting their disregard for truth, art, the environment, and basic human interrelationships! You don't need to voluntarily remain connected to that bad vibe.
Drought forced a group of farmers out of their homeland. Squatting near Zambia’s West Lunga National Park, one of them unexpectedly struck gold, setting off a deadly international frenzy. https://continent.substack.com/p/zambias-gold-rush-a-lucky-strike
Stellenausschreibung: Teamleitung Bibliotheksmanagementsystem (E13)
In der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg ist schnellstmöglich folgende Stelle zu besetzen: Teamleitung Bibliotheksmanagementsystem Die Stelle ist: unbefristet Vollzeit/Teilzeit Stellennummer: J000036117 Die Ausschreibung richtet sich an: Alle Interessierten Entgelt-/Besoldungsgruppe: EGr. 13 TV-L Bewerbungsschluss: 14.09.2025 Ausführliche Informationen zur Bewerbung entnehmen Sie bitte diesem…
GitLab CFO, Brian Robins, says they are “aligned with the goals of DOGE, because the company’s software tools aim to help people do more with less. What the Department of Government Efficiency is trying to do is what GitLab does.”
You either support fascism or you don’t. It’s binary. There’s no gray area or “aligning.”
Considering GitLab? Don’t.
Use @Codeberg instead.
(Hat tip @aphyr)
Es ist sooo ekelhaft: Laut einer Mitteilung der Hamburger Linken bereitet der rot-grüne Senat ein Vorprojekt zur Einführung der #Bezahlkarte für Empfänger*innen von Sozialleistungen nach SGB XII vor. (#Sozialhilfe, #Grundsicherung )
#Transparenz: Ich hab den Tröt korrigiert, da es vorläufig wohl "nur" um Sozialhilfeempänger*innen gehen soll, es sollten aber schon lange bei uns alle Alarmglocken schrillen!
Hier die Orginalmitteilung der hamburger Linken:
https://www.linksfraktion-hamburg.de/bezahlkarte-in-hamburg-bald-auch-fuer-rentnerinnen/
Hier die FAQ der @Freiheitsrechte zur Bezahlkarte. Besonders bei Punkt 4 kann man sich mal versuchen vorzustellen, wie der eigene Alltag dann aussieht: offener Vollzug.
Nachricht über den Newsletter von Thomé, vielen Dank wie immer!
Weiterführend noch das Dossier dazu von @labournet_de
"Hamburg will die Bezahlkarte auf Jugendliche in betreuten Einrichtungen ausweiten und testet es bereits – wer ist danach dran beim repressiven „Bürokratieabbau“?"
Kurzurlaub an der Ostsee
Stoppt die Transkartei! In einem offenen Brief kritisiert der CCCHH den Referentenentwurf zum Anlegen einer für alle Behörden abrufbaren Kartei von Personen, die das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz in Anspruch genommen haben. Wir fordern Dr. Tschentscher und Frau Fegebank aus der Hamburger Landesregierung dazu auf, den Vorschlag abzulehnen, falls es zu einer Abstimmung im Bundesrat kommt.
Weiterlesen: https://hamburg.ccc.de/blog/2025/07/30/transkartei/
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Come learn about @arks_org ARK persistent identifiers Monday 28 July 13:30 - 14:30 ET (tomorrow)! It's part of the all virtual LD4 (Linked Data for libraries and archives) conference, and it's free to attend as long as you register. https://sched.co/26eO7
Using ARK identifiers to simplify access to open data at the National Library of France https://arks.org/news/2025-07-23-ark-access-to-open-data-at-the-national-library-of-france/