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!
Das hier dürft ihr gerne mal rumreichen: eine entfristete Stelle in meiner IT-Abteilung.
Die Besonderheit: wir suchen eine(n) Windows-Admin, der/die offen genug ist, sich mit uns auf eine Reise hin zu einer „open source company“ zu machen. Sprich Stück für Stück Windows-Dienste in Richtung Linux zu migrieren.
Da sollte sich doch hier eine Zielgruppe finden?
https://www.karriereportal-stellen.berlin.de/Windows-Administratorin-mwd-de-j52492.html
After a five-year testing period, I can heartily recommend marrying my husband. I also recommend you don’t try to marry my husband, because I can be quietly vicious when threatened.
Happy anniversary, @ndw !
(Pic by our wonderful photographer, Liga Stevenson).
Best snow truck name ever.
Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.
"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".
You're welcome. Please boost for others.
Cleaning Up Bhopal: the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster https://hackaday.com/2025/01/07/cleaning-up-bhopal-the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster/
Gesucht: Ein-Zimmer-Wohnung in Bremen für eine Kollegin (Bibliothek) mit Stelle an der SuUB. Sachdienliche Hinweise per Direktnachricht oder E-Mail an mich.
Dankeschön!
Finde ich ganz interessant: https://blog.codeberg.org/community-maintenance-matters.html
via https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-chooses-forgejo/
via @acka47
Werde mir Forgejo und Codeberg mal genauer angucken.
@Lambo
DOIs are overrated because commercial interest and marketing anyway. Check out w3id or ARK everybody.
Uhhh, I have a strange request. If you own a bread knife with a flat-sided handle in your kitchen, and calipers or something else that will measure to the nearest millimetre or so, and want something to do for 30 seconds, could you tell me how thick the handle is?
Yes, I'd like to collect some random samples of bread knife handle widths. Doesn't matter what brand, what it looks like, how long the blade is or where in the world you are.
I will explain later. Boosts appreciated.
UPDATE: 1000 Dank fürs Teilen! Es gibt jetzt 1 glücklichen Junghacker mehr.
Ich suche noch ein Ticket für einen Jugendlichen, der sehr gerne mit zum #38C3 möchte, um den Junghacker:innentag zu besuchen. Hat jemand noch eins übrig? Würde es ggf. auch zusammen mit einem Erwachsenenticket abnehmen können. #38C3ticket #38c3tickets
Alpha6. The story of XML Calabash 3.x has some twists and turns, but the last few alphas have passed all the tests and it’s finally possible to start thinking about some of the fun things. #XProc #XMLCalabash
The Bridgy "service" is basically acting as a volunteer advertising arm of a billionaire-backed commercial social network whose business model requires destroying Mastodon. Also this bot will spam you with DMs exhorting you to support their favorite billionaire social network repeatedly if you accidentally say the wrong words or reply to the wrong thing. Their replies are unmonitored. I strongly recommend preemptively blocking @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
isopod murder
isopod murder
Surprisingly few things eat them. They can live with ants and spiders and rarely get attacked or eaten. I think this is mostly because they are all exoskeleton. There aren't many yummy soft bits and the ants just think they are too much work unless you kill them for the ants AND cut them up.
Investing in a #Fairphone paid off: Just replaced the broken display with a new one. Easy. New display was 70€.
Dehmel Digital macht die handschriftlichen Originalbriefe an das Ehepaar Dehmel zugänglich und bietet vielfältige Lektüremodi und Nutzungsmöglichkeiten, die mit Hilfe computationeller Verfahren realisiert wurden. https://dehmel-digital.de/ #computergestützte #Korrespondenznetzwerke
DFG-Fortsetzungsantrag für FID Romanistik bewilligt
Ehe das Jahr zu Ende geht, erreichte uns noch die gute Nachricht: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fördert für weitere drei Jahre den Ausbau des Fachinformationsdienstes Romanistik, der seit 2016 gemeinsam von der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn und der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg betrieben wird. Beim diesjährigen Antrag ist mit dem Hub of Computing & Data Science (HCDS) der Universität…
https://blog.fid-romanistik.de/2024/12/18/dfg-fortsetzungsantrag-fuer-fid-romanistik-bewilligt-3/
Wer privat ein Auto fahren möchte, muss sich einen PRIVATEN Parkplatz suchen. Weg mit allen öffentlichen Parkplätzen für Privatautos in der Stadt. Der Raum, den das Auto verbraucht, zu beschränken, muss über die Wegnahme von Parkplätzen erfolgen. #Verkehrswende 🚲
https://www.klimareporter.de/verkehr/nehmt-den-autos-die-parkplaetze-weg
As part of my job I write a lot of grant applications.
The EU is just asking people in current EU projects for feedback on their (admittedly garbage, massively complex) process. Here's a screenshot from the questionaire:
The EU grant application process is a shit show demanding you to fill in all kinds of bullshit documents often at a level of specificity that nobody can really give in good conscience at the point of project application. But what would "AI tools" do?
Help generate the garbage text. Okay so who does this help?
- the applicants are handing in even more text they've hardly read nor understood potentially tanking their application
- the reviewers have to wade through a lot of text that nobody has written, that doesn't mean anything and that by definition does not help evaluating proposals.
The fucking brainrot runs so deep.
JUST FUCKING SIMPLIFY THE APPLICATION PROCESS AND FORMS FOR FUCKS SAKE.