Appalachian History Series Herrington Lake began as an idea on paper and ended as a reservoir that changed work, water, and recreation across central Kentucky. Kentucky Utilities planned the project in the early 1920s to produce hydroelectric power on the Dix River and to steady flows on the Kentucky River. Construction started in late 1923, the gates closed in March 1925, and commercial power followed in 1927.

I recently came across this wonderful position paper by Olivia Guest and colleagues, where they pick apart the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm, arguing for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. Guest, O., et al. Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo, 5 Sept.

For more than 32 years, the dblp computer science bibliography (https://dblp.org) has been providing the computer science community with open, quality-checked, and curated research information.

When military fathers started arriving at her centre in Bulgaria, sharing challenges they faced with their own children, Irina V. found herself drawing on lessons learned not from textbooks, but from conversations with fellow practitioners scattered across a war zone.

A thirteen-year-old girl in Nigeria, bitten by a snake, arrived at a hospital with her frantic family. The hospital demanded payment before administering the antivenom. The family could not afford it. The girl died.

Earlier this week at the sixth NFDI4Chem consortium meeting, Torsten Schrade from the NFDI4Culture consortium gave a lovely and whimsical talk entitled A Data Alchemist’s Journey through NFDI which explored ways that we might federate and jointly query both consortia’s knowledge via their respective SPARQL endpoints.

This week, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive started registering DOIs and metadata with Crossref using the InvenioRDM repository platform rather than relying on external tooling. InvenioRDM has of course supported DOI registration with DataCite for a long time, so this adds another option for repositories hosting reports, preprints, dissertations, or other textual documents.

Das scholar-led.network versteht sich als Interessenvertretung von Akteur*innen des wissenschaftsgeleiteten Publizierens im deutschsprachigen Raum. Es besteht aus Akteur*innen, die unterschiedliche Positionen im Publikationssystem einnehmen und die teilweise institutionell angebunden, teilweise frei affiliiert sind.

Die Organisation Creative Commons hat kürzlich das Konzept der „CC Signals“ vorgestellt. Damit sollen „data stewards“ neue Regeln für die Nutzung von Inhalten durch KI-Anbieter setzen können. Wir stellen die Signals dar und beleuchten die Hintergründe. Dürfen KI-Anbieter fremde Inhalte im Netz sammeln, um damit ihre Modelle zu trainieren? Das ist wohl die größte Urheberrechtsfrage […] The post CC Signals – Anstandsregeln fürs KI-Training?

Appalachian History Series Cave Run Lake sits in the northern hills of Bath County, Kentucky, a broad ribbon of water bordered by the Daniel Boone National Forest. The lake exists because the federal government spent four decades planning and nearly a decade building an earth-and-rockfill dam on the Licking River to curb floods, secure water, and welcome recreation.

To date, there are about 100 Crossref members who have made use of our co-access service for one or more of their books. The service was designed to be a last-resort measure when multiple parties - book publishers, aggregators, and other members - had rights to register book content.