Appalachian Figures On summer evenings at Middlesboro Country Club, regulars still point toward certain fairways and talk about the scores that once came off that nine hole layout. For more than forty years, the course record on this little crater rim track belonged to one of their own, a Bell County kid named George Ancil Cadle.

I have been running automated curation tests for many years now, at least from before 2018. Because it has been done without funding, it has not been as nicely integrated, and depends, for example, first on the RDF generation to be integrated in the GitHub Action. So, I still run them regularly (often in the morning during breakfast). Meanwhile, the curation tests help the project to monitor and maintain the quality of the pathways.

This book is squarely at the intersection of being an objectively great thing to have in the world, and a subjectively great thing to have on my gaming shelf. I’ve been playing tabletop RPGs since I was 16, and running Dungeons &

In this segment of Archipelago, explore the recap of events since September 2025, and the rest of the newsletter. Events in Latin America In September and October 2025, PKP participated in two events in Ecuador. First, PKP’s Publication Support Specialist Pedro López Casique participated in a hands-on workshop on the role of metadata in scholarly […] The post Featured Events Recap appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

This one starts with a personal note. I’ve never blogged much about the media whirlwind that accompanied the announcement of Sauroposeidon. Rich Cifelli and I did tons of interviews, separately and together, for local and national television news, newspapers, and magazines.

Canada is positioned as a leader in diamond open access with a strong foundation, investment in open infrastructure, unique funding models, wide-spread adoption of Open Journal Systems (OJS), and a focus on what really matters to Canadian scholarly knowledge creators, mobilizers, and publishers. Canada has a longstanding, internationally recognized leadership role in scholarly communications.

What is Amazon Prime Video (APV)? I’ve been asking myself questions about what streaming is and where continuities and differences to other media forms lie, and how to make sense of it all for over a decade.

Ergebnisse der Studie „Open-Science-Kompetenzen von Forschenden objektzentrierter Daten in der Erd- und Menschheitsgeschichte“ Für den Arbeitsschwerpunkt Open Science im Projekt WiNoDa wurden Haltungen, Erwartungen und Kompetenzbedarfe zu offener Wissenschaft erhoben.

Results of the study “Open science competencies of researchers working with object-related data in Earth and human history” For the Open Science focus area of the WiNoDa project, attitudes, expectations, […]

For over 8 years, the Coalition Publica partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has been a force in consolidating support for Canada’s open access scholarly publishing communities.

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