Mastodawn

A Canadian goes to the world #QGIS User conferences in Sweden." I was pleased by the warmth and passion of the QGIS community." I note the number of European government agencies which are all into QGIS. https://gogeomatics.ca/advancing-open-source-gis-qgis-user-conference-2024-recap/

Emory Jun 23

Anirvan Chatterjee Jun 23

Firefox tab groups have genuinely improved the way I work with my browser, as someone who usually has ~100 tabs open across a dozen windows at any given point in time (about half related to history research)

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/

You asked, we built it: Firefox tab groups are here | The Mozilla Blog

What happens when 4,500 people ask for the same feature? At Firefox, we build it. Tab groups have long been the most requested idea on Mozilla Connect –

Emory Jun 17

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nataliyakosmyna Jun 16

Results for Brain-to-LLM participants suggest that timing of AI tool introduction following initial self-driven effort may enhance engagement and neural integration.

Emory Jun 16

petersuber Sep 30, 2024

There are many reasons to prefer #ARKs to #DOIs. But until now I hadn't seen a systematic case for them combined with good implementation detail. Recommended, esp to those unfamiliar with ARKs.
https://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/article/view/19891

More on ARKs themselves.
https://arks.org/

#OpenInfrastructure #PIDs #ScholComm #Standards
cc @arks_org

Implementing Free Persistent Identifiers in a Scientific Journal Management System Alternatively to DOI | DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology

Emory May 23

feliks Apr 7

shoutout to all the archivists

@calli @nelson @tmcw https://Mangrove.reviews tries to be that platformI integrated it in https://mapcomplete.org

Mangrove Reviews -

Try out writing reviews in the public domain, using a cryptographically generated account that puts you in control of your privacy.

Emory Apr 15

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calli Apr 9

@nelson @tmcw Yes, there should be an open platform for reviews / comments on places.

Emory Apr 15

Tom MacWright Apr 9

has anyone switched from google maps to another map platform as a daily driver? google is undeniably good in a lot of ways but the lock-in with saved places is making me want to bail

Emory Apr 11

Europe's independence from silicon valley tech has been a long time coming, and its really exciting to see the widespread embrace by governments and institutions of open source tools, and curating these to the public. As an example: France's Google docs alternative: https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/