🥳 Dear Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage and Semantic Web Communities:
We are hosting the 3rd edition of the Workshop for Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH), co-located with #ESWC2026

📝 Submit your work until March 03
✈️ We provide travel grants, made possible by @nfdi4culture

Papers will be published in CEUR Proceedings.
Website: https://semdh.github.io/

@semdh @lysander07 @fizise @eswc_conf #NFDIrocks #SemDH2026 #DH #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #AI #LLM #SemanticWeb

People have very different expectations of what “making services interoperable” actually means. I think we need to make this explicit by talking about 3 different levels: either you just want to promote iop within an app ecosystem (cf. ~ bsky), or you want cross-ecosystem reusability to be possible (cf. ~ activitypub).

https://pietercolpaert.be/interoperability/2025/08/22/levels-of-ambition

Ammar's PhD thesis can be found online at https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/enhancing-the-interoperability-and-reusability-of-nanosafety-data and his defense is live streamed, see the link at https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/phd-defence-ammar-ammar

It contains a lot of #openscience: https://social.edu.nl/@egonw/114766897696096032

And in the afternoon there is a minisymposium on the thesis topic: https://social.edu.nl/@egonw/114705860626722108

#semanticWeb #cheminformatics #maastricht #openscience

very excited to have @jelabra here in Maastricht since Tuesday evening. Yesterday he was opponent in Ammar's PhD defense and he give presentation in the mini symposium in the afternoon, and right now we're looking into his new Rudof tool

#openscience #semweb

Microsoft released v1.0 of their Quantum Development Kit in January, re-written in Rust and compiled to wasm so that you can run quantum circuits through the simulator directly in VSCode locally or in the browser - no server required. Pretty impressive and a nice developer experience. So now both MS and IBM's Qiskit are using rust for their Quantum offerings... a good time to be interested in Quantum Computing and working with rust!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/qsharp/announcing-v1-0-of-the-azure-quantum-development-kit/

#rust #rustlang #quantum_computing #microsoft

I have this wild hope that first, people will come to recognize #ChatGPT's unshakable confidence as a sign of complete and utter ignorance, and then, they'll start applying that to *humans*, too.

Maybe, just maybe, these Bullshit-as-a-Service generators can finally teach people that confidence isn't the same as competence or correctness — and that, in fact, they're often *negatively* correlated.

Maybe people can learn.

I have this wild hope.

"The Cost of Code": an excellent article that was actually a topic of a presentation in 2019.

https://dylanbeattie.net/articles/the-cost-of-code/

I can't believe I missed this. Great reading for the evening. Thank you @dylanbeattie

#coding #softwareengineering

“#LD42023 II: Getting to Know Each Other, Librarians in the Wikidata World”

“So, what has brought librarians to participate in the Linked Open Data movement in Wikidata?” Some answers that were recorded during the LD4 2023 conference:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/02/02/ld42023-ii-getting-to-know-each-other-librarians-in-the-wikidata-world/

#Libraries #Wikidata #LinkedOpenData #LD4_23

"If no one tries to do it, it for sure won't be done."

https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/

#OpenSource