I'm looking to speak to some #ComputerVision folks about what seems like a *relatively* simple problem: How do you extract the coordinates of the border-lines of something like an information table?

https://2d-ocr.glitch.me has access to coordinate data for every character, but they're being grouped across lines and split within them.

In addition, this could potentially move table-OCR in-browser and out of Google's hands, help very welcome.

In the whirlwind of #ACH2023 planning, I forgot to share info on the session I'll be part of:

#10C: Roundtable on Scholarly Communication for Digital Humanities Librarianship. Friday (tomorrow!) June 30 11:30-12:45 EDT/8:30-9:45 PDT with the awesome @dhandlib folks

@johnruss28 @claudiaeberger @nickoal Rachel Starry and Linsey Ford

#DigitalHumanities #DH #librarians

“Illinois public #libraries that restrict or ban materials because of ‘partisan or doctrinal’ disapproval will be ineligible for state funding as of Jan. 1, 2024, when the new law goes into effect…

‘What this law does is it says, let’s trust our experience and education of our #librarians to decide what books should be in circulation’…

Attempts to censor #books in #schools and public libraries reached a 20-year high in 2022.”

(HT @samlitzinger)

#censorship #BookBans

https://apnews.com/article/book-ban-library-lgbtq-illinois-f5516941473e474712eaaafda084de76

Religious Liberty for All? A Religious Right to Abortion https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4375866

**Have you checked out my new paper yet?**

I argue that Jewish plaintiffs seeking a religious liberty exemption from abortion bans should be entltled to one, esp given the Roberts Court's expansive protection of religion.

#Law #LawFedi #LawProf #abortion #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #exemptions #FediLaw #ReproductiveRights #religion

Access is such a frustrating concept. Saw a post saying that a large stash of handwritten weather records were "unavailable" to scientists.

They were NOT unavailable. They just weren't digitized. I think about the tensions of labor and funding and dignity in #library/ #archives work, and I worry that all that complexity gets painted over by the simple view that digitization equals access.

(Note: I am aware that this person may not have meant it so simply. But the effect on perception remains.)

If you're cis, I'd like you to read this article and learn that Missouri is about to enact a full ban on transition healthcare for transgender people. The deadline is April 27.

No cisgender person I've shared this with has had any idea that this is a ban, not a regulation - the requirements are impossible to meet.

I would also ask that you share this information with three other cis people today, preferably ones in or near #Missouri .

Thank you. (Update: The ban is temporarily restrained until July 24, with a new hearing about a preliminary injunction on July 20. The ban cannot be implemented until then. But the Missouri GOP is determined to ban youth trans care and sports participation, and keep allowing literal children to get married.) (Update late May: The Missouri legislature ended trans healthcare coverage for ALL minors, all people on Medicaid, and all incarcerated people. This is an absolute disaster - it means that all anyone needs to do to restrict trans healthcare for paying adults is to declare us criminals - but it is at least not a flagrant violation of the lawmaking process like Bailey's "emergency rule" was.)

https://gizmodo.com/missouri-trans-gender-affirming-care-ban-adults-order-1850337858