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.
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.
Computing is widely taught in schools in the UK and Ireland, but how does the subject vary across primary and secondary education in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland? In episode 1 of our community podcast, we spoke to Sue Sentance, at the University of Cambridge about her paper Computing in School in the UK &
On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya released a statement accelerating the timeline […]