Laura J. Wilkinson

@ljwilkinson
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Scholarly communication, cats, bicycles. Live adventurously!
ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8922-7839
My homepagehttps://lwilkinson.eu/

Generally Recognised Standards for use in the data protection purpose ‘archiving purposes in the public interest’ [UK & Eire]

https://www.archives.org.uk/generally-recognised-standards

Generally Recognised Standards — Archives & Records Association

Archives & Records Association
the thought "coffee is tea" entered my head unbidden and i had to make the whole alignment chart in order to banish it

I don't want this important news to go unnoticed: the National Library of Scotland's Access team have given names to collection trolleys including: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft.

Via @cawston.bsky.social's https://cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-12-monsters-only/

Weeknotes #12: Monsters Only

A week of interesting chats, admin churn and unexpected tribulations. What happened this week? Monday began with a useful chat with one of our Board members about a large-scale AI roll-out across a multi-national organisation. Initial scepticism has been replaced by seeing dedicated agents delivering huge time savings. Context is

Cawstonotes

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science: Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it

By Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer

https://nautil.us/how-tiny-shortcuts-are-poisoning-science-1279176

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science: Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it

Little did you know this was preparing you for a life of plugging cables into the right hole
Text & Data Mining – E-Resource Licensing Explained

This guide puts complex legal concepts and terms into understandable language for those librarians and library professionals without legal training.

E-Resource Licensing Explained

Crossref is sunsetting Event Data:

Strengthening support for data citations and saying goodbye to Event Data

https://doi.org/10.64000/rzbn5-wjy58

Strengthening support for data citations and saying goodbye to Event Data - Crossref

We’re excited to announce a new data citation API endpoint and are seeking your feedback. The new service makes existing data citation relationships in our metadata available, thereby surfacing this part of the research nexus. At the same time, we’ve decided that it’s time to move on from Event Data.

www.crossref.org

Incredibly specific job klaxon if you are:

🇬🇧 looking for a UK remote role
💻️ where you can use your programming and data skills
🛠️ and do some hardware hacking too
🐈‍⬛ also if you like cats, omg this is a weird cat tech job

https://careers.cats.org.uk/job/851046

(Cat Scientist - Emerging Welfare Technology at Cats Protection, £49k, apply by April 3)

#FediHire

Careers | Work with cats | Cats Protection

Are you looking for #YourPurrfectJob? Take a look at a career with Cats Protection.

Spring is here in the northern hemisphere! Here's a graphic from the #PeriodicGraphic archives in C&EN looking at the pigments that give daffodils their golden glow: https://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i15/Periodic-Graphics-Chemistry-Daffodils.html
📍 PinDrop Day #17
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PinDrop — Daily Geography Challenge

Drop a pin on 5 locations across the globe. New challenge every day. How well do you know the world?

PinDrop