Mastodawn

Jere Dec 1, 2022

petersuber Nov 30, 2022

#Texas universities negotiated lower prices from #Elsevier. Plus this interesting pilot project:

"TLCUA [Texas Library Coalition for United Action] & Elsevier…agreed to…a pilot project to revert ownership of journal articles back to original authors —& not just those at TLCUA-member institutions. Currently, authors transfer #copyright of their work in exchange for…being published. This pilot will provide for rights to go back to authors after a period of time."
https://tlcua.org/news/2022/11/30/texas-universities-reach-historic-deal-with-elsevier/

Texas Library Coalition for United Action

Jere Nov 30, 2022

eLife Nov 30, 2022

An examination of over 1 million funding proposals to the National Science Foundation from 1996 to 2019 reveals that white principal investigators are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs and relative funding rates for white PIs have been increasing. https://elifesciences.org/articles/83071?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features

Meta-Research: Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation

White principal investigators applying to the National Science Foundation are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs.

eLife

Jere Nov 30, 2022

Carl T. Bergstrom Nov 29, 2022

There's an important new piece, now out in the Communications of the ACM, from @nick and colleagues on how subfield differences and university prestige hierarchies contribute to gender inequity in faculty hiring in computer science.

Here's a short video summary:
https://vimeo.com/761970439

#ComputerScience #FacultyHiring #GenderDiversity #DEI #Prestige

Subfield Prestige and Gender Inequality Among U.S. Computing Faculty

Vimeo

Jere Nov 29, 2022

Julien A. Raemy Nov 29, 2022

The video recordings of #swib22 from yesterday were already uploaded!

Keynote:
1) Libraries, linked data, and decolonization https://youtu.be/cJxfZSv4xEI

Presentations of the Linked Library Data I session

2) Mapping and transforming MARC21 bibliographic metadata to LRM/RDA/RDF https://youtu.be/2NJPgMqEsnI

3) A crosswalk in the park? Converting from MARC 21 to #LinkedArt https://youtu.be/ZxkZnPerMgc

4) A LITL more quality: improving the correctness and completeness of library catalogs with a librarian-in-the-loop linked data workflow https://youtu.be/r29W73vle2I

#LOD #LOUD #LODLAM #decolonization #CulturalHeritage

@swib

Libraries, linked data, and decolonization

YouTube

Jere Nov 27, 2022

Oh, this is why it’s called going “cold turkey”.

Jere Nov 24, 2022

Only 11 months until next #persimmon season.

Jere Nov 22, 2022

Open Future Foundation Nov 22, 2022

“Misunderestimating Openness”: James Boyle’s response to the #ParadoxofOpen analyzes the cognitive agoraphobia that leads to underestimating the benefits of #open.

Join us on 30 November at 17 CET as we launch the anthology “Paradox of Open: Responses”:
https://openfuture.eu/event/open-future-salon-2-launch-of-paradox-of-open-responses/

Open Future Salon #2. Launch of Paradox of Open: Responses – Open Future

On 30 November at 17:00 CET (16:00 UTC), online, we will host an Open Future Salon to launch Paradox of Open: Responses.

Open Future

Jere Nov 22, 2022

Commuting by bicycle turned the worst of the workday into the best.

Jere Nov 21, 2022

Martin L. Poulter Nov 21, 2022

Wikidata can be used to explore demographic biases in other systems (so long as you keep in mind its limitations). Here are gender balances (%age winners who are women) for some literary awards: https://w.wiki/5$BR

Jere Nov 20, 2022

I understand why people choose CC BY NC at the thought that someone might monetize their work, but I don’t understand why they publish or post that same work with a company that monetizes their content and data.