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Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 month agoOrganizations Warn Fast-Track of Bill to Separate Copyright Office from Library of Congress Would Be a 'Grave Mistake'
A coalition of consumer rights and library groups opposes fast-tracking H.R. 6028, which would separate the Copyright Office from the Library of Congress and restructure leadership appointments, urging regular legislative procedures to prevent unintended consequences.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month agoHow Libraries Shape AI Literacy on Campus
Librarians have been actively collaborating and talking about it almost every day, whether it's creating tutorials and digital learning objectives or thinking about the conversations to have with instructors. It can feel like cognitive dissonance to be actively working with AI on a regular basis and also saying we're constantly thinking about the harms and the biases.
Higher education
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 month agoLydia Chodosh probes design rules through archiving and cataloguing
Designer Lydia Chodosh interrogates how knowledge is acquired and transmitted through language, archival systems, and interdisciplinary design practice informed by literature, publishing, and visual communication.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month agoComment | Why museum leadership needs to decentralise
Traditional museum leadership models are failing under contemporary pressures, requiring a fundamental shift from centralized, individual authority to distributed, collaborative leadership structures.
Media industry
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month agoBlocking the Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web's Historical Record
Major newspapers are blocking the Internet Archive from preserving their websites, threatening decades of historical records that journalists and researchers depend on.
Online marketing
fromThedrum
1 month agoExclusive Research Reveals the Importance of Integrated Content Management
Leading organizations using centralized content management are 3.5 times more likely to consistently meet communication goals, while marketers waste over half their time on automatable administrative tasks.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months agoMuseum wall texts are an art in their own right-but will they survive the digital age?
Museums should balance providing contextual wall text and inviting wordless, personal interpretation to make art accessible and meaningful to diverse visitors.
fromMedievalists.net
2 months agoRules of a Medieval Library - Medievalists.net
When universities began to emerge in Europe during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, they soon became important centres of knowledge. Their libraries could hold hundreds of books, and many of the most valuable volumes were kept under close control - sometimes even chained to desks. We have few details about how medieval university libraries operated, but a revealing set of rubric headings survives from the University of Angers in western France.
History
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month agoScientists created a digital library full of ants
Researchers created Antscan, a digital library of 3D scans and morphological data from 2,193 ants across 212 genera, using particle accelerator technology to advance biodiversity research and understanding of ant anatomy.
fromArchDaily
1 month agoArchiving the Technosphere: How Museum Architecture Mediates Human-Made Systems
The contemporary technology museum has emerged as a performative participant in the systems it seeks to document. The architecture of these institutions has become increasingly fluid and bold, often mirroring the velocity and complexity of the systems it houses. They operate as mediators between the human, the ecological, and the technological realms, transforming from encyclopedic warehouses into active educational engines.
Science
History
fromMedievalists.net
2 months agoOver 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI - Medievalists.net
Automated transcriptions of 32,763 medieval manuscripts were produced in four months using a standardized, machine-learning-trained corpus to enable large-scale searchable manuscript analysis.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months agoLarry Magid: Take control of your browser's bookmarks
Ever since Mosaic, the first web browser introduced in 1993, browsers have included bookmarking features that let users quickly return to favorite sites. Today, bookmarks are even more important, especially on PCs and Macs, where the browser has become the most frequently used software. It serves as the gateway to email, news, entertainment, video calls, shopping, banking and even word processing, graphic design, tax preparation and much more.
Digital life
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