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  Fedi, I need your input! Since the web is dead and googling "which user agent to use for responsible web scraping" mostly returns AI-generated garbage promoting how to spoof the user agent for non-responsible web scraping: What are your best practices? Any guide you would recommend? #FediHelp #WebScraping #DigitalHumanities

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@golemde/golem-q627d24rz/-/a-GQbWSXBTRrOZnLKOlohQrA%3Aa%3A3627898119-%2F0 Darüber habe ich schon länger nachgedacht. Es könnte ja sogar ein steuerungspolitischer Ansatz sein, nicht über konkrete Vorgaben, sondern über den Preis zu lenken. Auch wenn man dann Leuten sehr viel Informiertheit unterstellt und Weitblick abverlangt. Aber das funktioniert halt nicht, wenn man sofort einknickt, sobald der Preis wirkt und die Leute moppern.

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  It’s not a full-fledged argument, but I was just thinking how a standard narrative is “early computers were so large they filled complete rooms, then came the personal computing revolution, and now we carry computers much more powerful in our pockets” when actually the way we use our mobile computers they are again input/output terminals of computers that fill entire rooms (or halls, really).

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  RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@BlumeEvolution/116475223890832485 Es ist mir schon seit längerem ein Rätsel, dass die Geschichte von „Migration als Mutter aller Probleme“ mehr verfängt als die von „Tax the Rich“, wenn man sich anguckt, was unsere Gesellschaften wirklich herausfordert. Aber vielleicht kommt ja so langsam Bewegung in die Diskussion.

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  @mike @mpe Right, in the end, something like the Pandoc AST could be a good basis for a deliberately reduced document model for scholarly articles. Markdown is just currently the easiest way to edit that AST. A few years ago, there were multiple efforts to build “scholarly google docs” systems, mostly based on JATS. But few of them survived, probably supporting your skepticism.

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  @mpe @mike Yeah, we’re also struggling with this. But what if markdown would not be the user-visible file format, but just the version-controllable format the editorial system sees?

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  Btw, if you have feedback, would like to learn more, or are interested in working with it, I'm happy to chat!

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  One of my favorite projects that came out of that course is a map of the global dispersion of Shahnama manuscripts, using the Cambridge collection IIIF as a data source, processing it using OpenRefine, and displaying it as a spatial network using Palladio. All data and tools are easily available, it’s just very light data processing, but the clever combination results in a meaningful visualization that teaches us something about the history and present of global cultural heritage. 2/2

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  Two days into the semester, and already two successful PhD defenses. Congratulations to Sebastian Reimann and Adam Roussel, the first PhDs coming out of @sfb1475! It's great to see these years of work coming together like this.

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  Na hübsch, da ist sie, die Einladung für ein Webinar für eine „Transparente KI für vertrauensvolle Forschung“ von Elsevier/RELX. 🙄 No thank you, I think I’d rather not.

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  RE: https://fedihum.org/@felwert/116166144158162232 Note: The deadlines for our #DigitalHumanities #jobs have been pushed for a week, it’s now March 29. So there’s still time to apply!

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@markhurst/116110699512246549 Sweden already dialed back technology use in school classrooms and apologized to the young generation affected by this in-the-wild experiment. I'm increasingly worried that the introduction of GenAI will have the same effect on university students and that we'll owe them an apology in a couple of years when the negative impact becomes apparent.