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.
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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.
ISMB/ECCB 2025: Liverpool, LLMs and Lessons in Open Science 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.
It’s all very well getting an AI to write your code for you but neither writing code or reading code are the same as understanding code. So what is going on in novices brains when they learn to actually understand the code they are reading and writing?
Repurposed Appalachia Series Tucked in the quiet valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the town of Andrews, North Carolina, offers more than just a scenic rail bike ride—it offers a journey through history. Andrews Valley Rail Tours was launched during the town’s Oktoberfest festival in the fall of 2022, after the Andrews Chamber of Commerce partnered with Judy Fitzpatrick to develop this concept in 2021-2022.