Alex Wingate

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PhD student in #InformationScience. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries). Also does #DH and #rarebooks (looking to be DH librarian post-PhD). #Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton and SHARP News. Random posts on #knitting, #sewing, #quilting, and #cooking
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Personal websitewww.alexandraewingate.com
Libros en Navarra Projecthttps://int-heuristweb-prod.intersect.org.au/heurist/?db=aewingate_LorenzoCoroneu&website
SHARP Bibliographieshttps://www.sharpweb.org/sharpnews/category/bibliographies/
Chymistry of Isaac Newtonwww.chymistry.org

Apple did the research; LLMs cannot do formal reasoning. Results change by as much as 10% if something as basic as the names change.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and

LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

Important new study from Apple

Marcus on AI

Today the #TEI conference in Buenos Aires is starting.

Check out the fantastic program:
https://www.conftool.pro/tei2024/index.php compiled by @gimenadelr et al. I am particularly excited for my friend and colleague @u_henny who is giving the closing keynote in Spanish.

Have fun everyone at #TEI2024

TEI 2024 - ConfTool Pro - Login

Y'ALL—I’ve been waiting anxiously for *months* for clearance to share & finally can!

Last spring, a media team from UIUC's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences spent a day at Skeuomorph Press working on a story about it for the college's magazine—in print now!—& filming this gorgeous video. The resulting video wonderfully captures the beauty of the materials we work with at the press. But most importantly to me, the video reflects our most ambitious hopes for the press in this community: to be a catalyst for novel research & teaching, but also to foster space for reflection, inquisitiveness, & contemplation.

As a bonus, you can see me & English undergrad Aaron M.—the founder of our Skeuomorphics club—interviewed in true History Channel style, fulfilling my dream to be a talking head. But seriously, I truly cannot say how delighted I am with how this came out. I'm delighted I can finally share more widely!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJG4_q7vcc

Skeuomorph Press: Slowing down in the digital age

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Just reading @lhowsam 's piece for SHARP News reflecting on feminist book history from the 1990s to now, and this is exactly what I hope for us too: "Now that feminist (and otherwise diverse) book history is more established, what I hope for the next twenty-five years and beyond is that our field of study will be capacious, ambitious, generous, and collaborative."
#BookHistory
#bibliography
#FeministBibliography
https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2024/09/27/revisiting-my-view-feminist-book-history-from-the-1990s-to-the-2020s/
Revisiting My View: Feminist Book History from the 1990s to the 2020s  – SHARP NEWS

*OpenWEMI - A minimally constrained vocabulary for Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item*

OpenWEMI vocabulary is a generalization of the WEMI concepts that are broader than the library-defined use case. It can be applied to any created resources. OpenWEMI is a Dublin Core specification:

https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/openwemi/

The vocabulary:

https://ns.dublincore.org/openwemi/

https://dcmi.github.io/openwemi/ns/openWEMI.ttl

OpenWEMI

OpenWEMI is a minimally constrained RDF vocabulary defining classes for Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item (WEMI) and properties for the relationships between them. It is based on concepts that were originally developed out of library cataloging practice.

DCMI
Also, if you will be at the #TEI conference in Buenos Aires, I will be talking about this inventory in my presentation! (1st day, 1st panel!)
I subbed in for our Digital Libraries class today where we did Markdown and an introduction to GitHub. During one of the activities, a student drew this diagram to help explain to her neighbors GitHub fetch, pull, commit, and push 😂 I think it’s pretty accurate!! #DH
#github
(shared w/ permission)
Doing the additional TEI encoding to parse out the information in inventory entries can be kind of mind-numbing (requires background hockey podcast), but I love doing the visualization at the end. This is my fav inventory from my metadata happy 17th c. priest #BookHistory
#DH
#TEI
Error correction in the margin of a Book of Hours from Girton College, Cambridge. #MedievalManuscripts #Art #Devotion #Editing
@bookhistodons @medievodons
Did you finish or examine a book history dissertation in 2022 or 2023 at any level (undergrad, masters, doctoral)? Please submit the citation info to the form below! The next SHARP bibliography will be the 2022-2023 Dissertation Bibliography! (Plz boost!) #BookHistory #SHARP https://forms.gle/XbTJNUTSy7Tp9KTT7
SHARP Thesis/Dissertation Bibliography Submission Form

Use this form to submit citation information about book history theses and dissertations completed between 2022 and 2023 Guidelines Dissertations and theses about book history (interpreted broadly, if you think it's book history, submit it!) Completed in 2022 or 2023 Any level and type of degree (BA, MA, MLS, PhD, etc.) Dissertations and theses in any language are welcome! You can submit your own dissertation or thesis, as well as those of others. You may submit multiple dissertations or theses. Contact If you have questions contact Alex Wingate by email (bibliographer [at] sharpweb.org)

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