mastodon 4.7.3Head of Library Services at European University #Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder); Editor-in-Chief of #OA journal Bibliothek – Forschung und Praxis; #openness advocate; 3D aficionado; bicycle owner.
Notepad++ finally lands on macOS. The classic Windows coder’s companion is now a native Mac app: free, open-source, and ready to stand among the sleek editors it once only envied.
#NotepadPlusPlus #macOS #opensource
https://boingboing.net/2026/04/28/beloved-windows-text-editor-notepad-now-on-mac.html
Mehr Sichtbarkeit für deutsche Forschung: Open Research Europe kommt nach Deutschland. Transparente, schnelle Publikation statt Paywall – ein wichtiger Schritt für offene Wissenschaft.
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #DFG
Stop manually curating your CV. ORCID + DataCite can auto-update your record, crediting datasets, software, images, and more—building a PID graph that actually reflects your work.
#ORCID #DataCite #OpenScience
https://datacite.org/blog/orcid-and-datacite-supercharge-your-research-visibility/
Ahead of Print in BFP: ALIMA, a RAG-based LLM system for subject indexing, is a prototype that assigns GND subject headings and DK/RVK classes via LLMs, reducing cataloguing workload while controlling hallucinations with database-backed RAG and standard APIs. #LLM #RAG #cataloguing #metadata
Regulierung ist kein Innovationskiller, sondern unser einziges Werkzeug gegen Digitalmonopole. Solange Politik lieber YouTube-Partys feiert als Alugha, Ecosia & Co. zu nutzen, bleibt „digitale Souveränität“ eine Leerformel.
#Regulierung #DigitaleSouveränität #Europa
Ahead of Print in BFP: “Künstliche Intelligenz in der Informationsvermittlung” explores AI training at the Austrian National Library. Dominique and Kramer describe how an internal AI team tests tools, adapts training content, and supports knowledge transfer for diverse user groups. #AI #libraries
War destroys monuments – and with them, memory. A new photo exhibition at European University Viadrina shows how Russia’s ongoing invasion is erasing Ukraine’s cultural heritage, site by site.
#Ukraine #CulturalHeritage #WarCrimes
Ahead of Print in BFP: New article on the Open Library Badge and openness in libraries. Ahead-of-print in “Bibliothek – Forschung und Praxis”, Grimm et al. rethink the Open Library Badge after 10 years of practice. #OpenLibraryBadge #OpenScience #libraries
When AI CEOs start equating chatbots with humans, something’s gone badly wrong. Matteo Wong on Sam Altman, data centers as fossil-fuel engines, and an industry that calls code “life” while externalizing the real climate costs.
#AI #climate #ethics
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/sam-altman-train-a-human/686120/?utm_source=feed
16 Millionen NSDAP-Karten online: Chance für unbequeme Familienfragen US-Nationalarchiv stellt komplette NSDAP-Mitgliedskarteien ins Netz – kein einfacher „Naziscanner“, aber ein mächtiges Werkzeug gegen Verdrängung.
#NSDAP #Familiengeschichte #Zeitgeschichte
Louvre-Aktivisten zeigen: Spott ist eine Waffe gegen Milliardärs-Imagepflege. Kunstsponsoring, Klima, Klassenkampf – warum Hohn mächtiger ist als Empörung. https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/louvre-aktivisten-wenn-wir-ueber-milliardaere-lachen-nehmen-wir-ihnen-die-macht-a-5c24c268-f9e9-4d5a-9358-6a3163085cef?giftToken=59731150-4c91-48e8-9947-d5b532ae6668
Beta testers wanted: Zotero Redis RAG for Obsidian (local-first). Imports Zotero PDFs, indexes in Redis, returns cited answers in your vault. Requires Zotero + Docker/Podman. Install via BRAT.
Repo: https://github.com/jmiba/zotero-redisearch-rag
Docs: https://jmiba.github.io/zotero-redisearch-rag/
A treasure trove of English lowlife now costs you nothing. Green’s Dictionary of Slang—the definitive historical record of vulgarities, slurs and other ne’er-do-well words—is now free to read online.
#slang #language #lexicography
https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/largest-dictionary-of-english-language-slang-now-free-online.html
Ahead of Print in BFP: New article: ‘Mehr als Methoden!’ on library pedagogy theory. Dennis Kranz calls for deeper theoretical grounding in library pedagogy, beyond methods and output metrics. #libraryscience #education #pedagogy #openaccess
Physische Treffen sind kein nostalgischer Luxus, sondern ein unterschätzter Produktivfaktor. Warum Konferenzen, Meetups und Workshops vor Ort trotz Homeoffice, Videocalls und KI relevanter sind, als viele glauben.
#Konferenzen #Meetups #NewWork
Ahead of Print in BFP: Review of Patricia F Blume’s monumental history of the Leipzig Book Fair in the GDR. Schmitz highlights Blume’s archive-rich, interdisciplinary study of Leipzig’s book fair as a key site of cultural policy, censorship and East–West exchange. #Leipzig #bookhistory #censorship
History is repeating itself on immigrants and refugees in Britain. Monbiot shows how today’s attacks on migrants echo 1920s antisemitic scares, media hatred and state cruelty – and why standing up to the billionaire press is essential.
#immigration #racism #media
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/05/shabana-mahmood-immigrants-britain-history
Ahead of Print in BFP: Review: “AI Innovations in Public Services. The Case of National Libraries” (book review). German‑language review of Mergel & Schmidt’s 2026 open‑access volume on how national libraries adopt and govern AI in public services. #AI #libraries #publicsector #OpenAccess
She freed physics, but couldn’t free herself. On Emmy Noether, whose mathematics slipped the bounds of the physical world even as her own life remained tightly constrained.
#EmmyNoether #physics #mathematics
Ahead of Print in BFP: New BFP article: Escape-game edutainment for teaching library use. Stella & Voigt present “BiblioBreak”, a mobile escape game at SuUB Bremen that replaces classic inductions with game-based, team-oriented learning for up to 30 participants. #gamification #informationliteracy
Are AI overviews quietly breaking our research discovery ecosystem? If zero-click readership becomes the norm, who controls visibility, what does impact even measure, and can we still claim to be “engaging” with research at all?
#AI #scholcomm #research
Ahead of Print in BFP: Ahead-of-print article: “Computer in den Staatlichen Allgemeinbibliotheken der späten DDR”. How late-1980s East German public libraries became sites of early computerization—then lost much of it after 1989. #EastGermany #libraries #history #digitalhistory
Allies now grasp the cost of Trump’s impulsive foreign policy—he still does not. Applebaum details how tariffs, insults, and erratic war-making have pushed NATO partners to sit out America’s latest crisis.
#Trump #NATO #foreignpolicy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war-allies/686423/?utm_source=feed
Kristi Noem, fired like a dog. Jonathan Chait dissects how Noem turned DHS into a vanity project, entangled Corey Lewandowski in shadow power, and finally crossed the one red line Trump never forgives: implicating the boss.
#KristiNoem #Trump #DHS
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/kristi-noem-fired/686251/?utm_source=feed
Ahead of Print in BFP: New article: “Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries” (ahead-of-print, Bibliothek – Forschung und Praxis). How can university libraries embed AI initiatives into university governance? Case study: University of Basel. #AI #libraries #highered
In Alexandra Petri’s future classroom, Melania’s AI teacher Plato mostly serves ads and stun blasts instead of knowledge. Dark, funny, and a little too close to our ed-tech reality.
#AI #education #politics
What’s the minimum library needed to reboot civilization? Kevin Kelly riffs on von Neumann: a self-reproducing bookshelf whose books teach you how to rebuild everything, including the library itself.
#KevinKelly #civilization #libraries
https://boingboing.net/2026/06/29/post-kevin-kelly-s-plan-for-the-smallest-library-to-res.html
Explainable KI statt stundenlanger PubMed-Suche? Puraite will Evidenzsynthesen in den Lebenswissenschaften radikal verkürzen – ohne Blackbox, mit nachvollziehbaren Vorschlägen. Wie weit kann das gehen?
#KI #Lebenswissenschaften #Literaturrecherche
Ahead of Print in BFP: “Es ist auch ein Treffpunkt”: new impact study on public libraries in Zürich (journal article). Zürcher libraries strengthen wellbeing, learning, creativity, community and sustainability, measured with the Social Impact Compass. #libraries #Switzerland #socimpact #Zürich
Ahead of Print in BFP: Ahead-of-print article: “Computer in den Staatlichen Allgemeinbibliotheken der späten DDR”. How late-1980s East German public libraries became sites of early computerization—then lost much of it after 1989. #EastGermany #libraries #history #digitalhistory
Kristi Noem, fired like a dog. Jonathan Chait dissects how Noem turned DHS into a vanity project, entangled Corey Lewandowski in shadow power, and finally crossed the one red line Trump never forgives: implicating the boss.
#KristiNoem #Trump #DHS
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/kristi-noem-fired/686251/?utm_source=feed
Import starred RSS items into Obsidian as Markdown notes with YAML frontmatter (title, URL, feed, author, dates, tags) and stable, deduplicated filenames from URLs or IDs. Convert HTML summaries to safe Markdown, optionally fetch full article content, and sync manually or on a schedule; supports FreshRSS, Inoreader, Feedly, Miniflux and other compatible readers.
Ahead of Print in BFP: Review of U.J. Schneider’s “Atmen beim Lesen – Bibliotheken im Industriezeitalter”. Brandtner situates Schneider’s history of modern libraries between industrial-era urban stress and the library as a carefully engineered refuge for reading and reflection. #libraries #history
Ahead of Print in BFP: Review of Karolin Bove’s study on Reclam Verlag under National Socialism. Vodosek discusses Bove’s exhaustive reconstruction of Reclam’s strategies, constraints and ideological positioning in the Nazi era. #bookhistory #Reclam #Nazism #publishing
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/bfp-2025-0063/html
Ahead of Print in BFP: “Haben wollen! 20 Jahre NS-Provenienzforschung …” - Review of a major volume on 20 years of Nazi-era provenance research at the University of Vienna’s libraries, archives and collections, highlighting results, challenges and future tasks. #NSProvenienzforschung #Raubgut
Ahead of Print in BFP: Editorial: “Zukunftsgestaltung in Bibliotheken” in Bibliothek – Forschung und Praxis. I introduce a special issue on how libraries actively shape democratic, social and educational futures amid crisis. #libraries #futures #democracy #openaccess
Die Zeit ist reif für wissenschaftsgeleitetes Publizieren. Welche Perspektiven braucht eine nachhaltige, qualitätsgesicherte Publikationspraxis – jenseits reiner Impact-Fetischismen?
#Wissenschaftskommunikation #OpenScience #Publizieren