Peter Brantley (talking recently in an interview on the ATG Podcast) has been involved with the interaction between publishing and technology ever since studying sociology at university. For his dissertation, he looked at how established companies adapt to rapidly changing product …
Institutional Repositories were typically founded ten or twenty years ago, and today have reached a kind of maturity. Yet, unlike startups, which go through a trough of …
Small libraries face the same challenges as larger institutions, but with fewer resources, which is why it was so fascinating to talk for ATGthePodcast with Russell “Rusty” Michalak, Library Director at Goldey-Beacom College in Delaware. Despite having only 1300 students, Goldey-Beacom …
Orland Hoeber (University of Regina, Canada) has spent much of his academic career looking at why and how we search for scholarly content. Should we have one search interface for everything? Clearly not, but what kind of searching is most appropriate …
Ben Lee teaches on the library master’s course at the University of Washington, including AI literacy, as well as editing a scholarly journal, Digital Humanities Quarterly. He trained as an astrophysicist, but got involved in human-computer interaction by working with …
Trip is that rare exception, a David in a world of Goliaths. In the real world, the Goliaths usually win, but in Trip’s case, it has survived and gone from strength to strength.
What is Trip? It is a database of …
Having started using genAI, I can’t resist comparing its coverage with Wikipedia – and the …
It was a moment of pure geekdom. Guglielmo Iozzia, director of machine learning at Merck, Dublin, proposed in a presentation how to run an LLM on a Commodore 64. …
One unexpected aspect of digital publishing is the increasing misuse of links. Instead of explaining something, writers are increasingly turning to hyperlinks, saying, in other words, that I don’t need to explain this term – …
Ghost references are links that have not been validated. If an author cites an article, then many tools exist to check that link and to turn it into a hyperlink (if one doesn’t already exist). But, for whatever …
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