Appalachian History Series Kentucky on the Brink In late 1861 Kentucky stood in a dangerous middle ground. The Commonwealth had remained in the Union, yet communities were split in loyalty and both armies moved to control key valleys and roads. In the Big Sandy country of the eastern mountains, Confederate Brig. Gen. Humphrey Marshall crossed in from Virginia to recruit, while Union commanders rushed to push him back. Col.

Appalachian History Series A county at war with itself By the turn of the twentieth century, Breathitt County, Kentucky, had become a byword for political killings and courthouse cliques. The flashpoint came on May 4, 1903, when attorney and United States commissioner James Buchanan Marcum was shot at the entrance to the Jackson courthouse.

Appalachian History Series How a wagon note, a courthouse ambush, and a hidden rifle shot pulled two Kentucky counties into years of bloodletting until state power forced a weary peace. Setting and background In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the mountain counties of Clay and Harlan balanced self reliance with thin institutions.

The “Publishing Cultures in Transition: Open Access, Critical Digital Literacy, and Digital Infrastructures” call for papers is open until November 14th, 2025. This special issue will be edited by Klaus Rummler, Natalie Marty, and PKP’s Urooj Nizami. The original, full call for papers was published at medienpaed.com.

Happy Friday, colleagues. Somehow it’s September (I did not approve of this). Lots going on this week, and this is my regular attempt to close out my browser tabs I’ve accumulated over the past week with blog posts, podcasts, papers, etc. in AI, data science, genomics, public health, programming, scicomm, and other miscellany.

A lawyer and a developer use software to generate billions of melodies and make them available to the public. This hack won’t put an end to music plagiarism, but it could be a way to defend against it. It’ll definitely get people talking more about copyright in musical works. Pop music often uses short musical […] The post No more Fights over Melodies? appeared first on iRights.info.

Vorwort Die o-bib hat vor wenigen Tagen einen Call for Papers zum Themenschwerpunkt „Literatur und Daten in Gefahr – die Sicherung des freien Zugangs zu Informationen in Zeiten politischer Einflussnahme“ veröffentlicht. Wir, die Redaktion der LIBREAS rufen dazu auf, auf diesen zu reagieren und Beiträge zu diesem Themenkreis einzureichen.

Using standard CURIE prefixes and URI prefixes in semantic web artifacts such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) promotes interoperability, enables reuse in downstream data integration, and makes data more FAIR. The Bioregistry defines a set of standard CURIE prefixes and URI prefixes against which RDF files can be validated/standardized.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.

Hello translators! PKP is currently seeking volunteers to help with translations for the brand new Publication Facts Label (PFL) plugin!

What do employers want from Computer Science students and how good are Universities in producing graduates with what employers need? In episode 3 of our community podcast, we spoke to Rosanne English at the University of Strathclyde about her paper co-authored with Alan Hayes Towards Integrated Graduate Skills for UK Computing Science Students published at ukicer.com.