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The Research Data Alliance just posted a news item about the Mastodon-based work that @hochstenbach@openbiblio.social and I are doing with SURF aimed at allowing researchers to claim contributions by tooting about them:
New Research Contribution Claim Network explores recognition of diverse research outputs
https://www.rd-alliance.org/news/research-contribution-claim-network/
The defense of @hochstenbach@openbiblio.social PhD thesis “Scholarly Communication Using the Decentralized Web” at Ghent University was a total blast. Obviously because of the mere quality of the presented research. But also because, for the first time in over 20 years, it reunited the 4 Belgians who worked together at the Los Alamos National Laboratory http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01KJQ133EV7095YNBDARB6QNJ8
Truly remarkable that, at a time when everyone is talking about digital sovereignty, a European university decides to start using WhatsApp as an official communication channel.
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@petersuber@fediscience.org I seriously worry that this will be an opportunity for the big publishers to “indirectly” capture another “open infrastructure” node. However much I want to love this evolution, I can’t keep myself from smelling a rat. I will be thrilled to be shown I got this all wrong.
everything he touches turns to shit
One year ago, @cni@mastodon.social Cliff Lynch passed away. In remembrance, I’m going to re-read the tribute I co-authored with @phonedudemln.bsky.social “Cliff Lynch: The Invisible Influencer in Information Infrastructure” https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/04/cliff-lynch-invisible-influencer-in.html
I’m in a hotel room. Just watched half an hour of CNN. The trusted source in news. The bias in their reporting is not even remotely hidden anymore. Everything I heard was 100% Trump talking points. And Trump will obviously keep referring to CNN as fake news. Because it’s never right wing enough.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@newsthump/116493618016857302
@newsthump what’s remarkable is that I’ve seen pics of this statue published by a range of well-known news organizations. none show its true message. they only show a frontal view.
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@Lana@beige.party not a single word about the role of insurance in the blockage of the strait in today’s episode of The Daily https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000761507943
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@disquiet@post.lurk.org looks really cool! my apologies for a really ignorant question: how do books get onto the device and in which shop(s) can one buy supported books?
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@archivist_Liz@digipres.club @machawk1@digipres.club I live in the 4th. But I do extensive city walks, so came by that bar and just had to take a pic.
I was happy to learn that a new #Signposting library is under active development: Compass is a lightweight Java library for validating and interpreting FAIR Signposting. It comes with:
* defensive RFC 8288 model-level validation,
* FAIR Signposting Level 1 and Level 2 recipe validation,
* semantic views and Link Set (RFC 9264) processing.
Compass at https://github.com/qbicsoftware/compass
FAIR Signposting at https://signposting.org/FAIR/
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@jyasskin @pointlessone yes, correct. we’re currently working with @internetarchive on an enhanced version of the Robust Links spec, which will need an updated, yet backwards compatible, implementation. The most significant challenge is to seamlessly get the annotations into html. Requires authoring/editing tool support.
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@pointlessone @jyasskin You can see Robust Links at work, e.g. at https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15509 The handler used there is compliant with the previous version of the spec. Re-spec work is still ongoing.
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@cameronneylon didn’t the failure by CNRI to renew the magical DOI.org domain happen around that time?
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In the olden days, people in charge of institutional IT probably would have just gone ahead, give it a try, see what happens. In today’s “professionalized” IT setups, that likely requires a feasibility assessment, a user requirement study, a policy draft, a multi-year budget prognosis, and endless meetings (probably forgetting some) before the first stone can be laid. By which time Microsoft 365 offers Mastadon instances, which defeats the whole centralization idea. Apologies for the sarcasm.
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@jyasskin A date in data-versionurl is the snapshot date of the URL of the version resource that precedes it in the list. That’s e.g. the URL of a resource in web archive A. In case that URL is no longer accessible in web archive A (result of takedown request, for example), then the date can be used to find alternative version resources in other web archives.
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@jyasskin @pointlessone A little context: Significant Memento infrastructure was operated as an official service of the LANL Research Library. That included a web archive aggregator (that leveraged Memento interoperability) covering the holdings of 30-ish web archives, Robust Links tools, and APIs for both. A few months ago, the Research Library decided to pull the plug on the infrastructure. There are contacts with @internetarchive aimed at resurrecting some components.
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@jyasskin that’s part of the memento protocol. It’s datetime content negotiation. That can also work for datetime access to resources in eg wikis, btw. But, thus far, mainly web archives have implemented support.
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@chrysn @jyasskin indeed, “memento” points from an original resource to a snapshot thereof, whereas “original” points from a snapshot of a resource the original. In Tim BL’s terminology, the original resource is a “time generic” resource https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Generic.html
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@RepShontelBrown@mastodon.social I think I speak for a lot of people on here when I say I agree. But I’m pretty sure that, like me, many also wonder what our elected democratic representatives are doing to actually stop him?
Utterly depressing to watch US media pushing the perspective that the one and only problem people have with the administration is high gas prices.
You know what could help with making US news sources more trustworthy? Putting on talking heads that are not naturally or artificially good looking.
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@jyasskin Note that the datetime annotations are rather relevant when interacting with web archives, most of which support the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” protocol https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7089.html
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@chrysn @jyasskin This RFC contains a nice analysis of the actual meaning of relation types like “alternate”, “bookmark”, “duplicate”, … https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8574.txt