Mireille (elle/she/her)

Ensuring the sovereignty and security of Canadian health data Key points Health data are critical to health systems in Canada, but the potential of these data to be accessed and used by foreign entities for surveillance purposes without consent is concerning. Fu...

Ensuring the Sovereignty and Security of Canadian Health Data - my @cmaj.ca commentary with Kumanan Wilson and Mari Teitelbaum on the value of health data, the role of AI, and the overdue need for stronger privacy safeguards in Canada.
www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

CLIR Now Accepting Applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Grant Program CLIR Now Accepting Applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Grant Program August 5, 2025, Alexandria, VA: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is no...

CLIR is now accepting applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices! Grants from $50K to $300K support the digitization of rare materials that center on underrepresented communities. Initial apps due Oct. 20.

🌐 www.clir.org/2025/08/auv4...

More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org The issue of publicly saving shared LLM chats is bigger than just Google.

More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org

🔗 www.404media.co/more-than-13...

UMaine unveils app to gauge AI's environmental cost - UMaine News - University of Maine A new app, "What Uses More," aims to reveal the environmental footprint of tasks completed with artificial intelligence, encouraging users to examine critically the energy and water consumption of the...

UMaine has published a profile of my lab's efforts to harness new media for environmental causes, from my colleague Joline Blais's efforts to keep Maine's lakes healthy to the What Uses More tool for comparing AI's eco footprint to other activities. umaine.edu/news/blog/20...

McMaster U Faculty Assoc has voted to uphold academic freedom and freedom of expression by committing to remaining neutral with respect to views of its members. Model for others. Motion:
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Analysis:
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Graphic showing the constellation of Matariki with the iPRES logo.

Mānawatia a Matariki!

The iPRES 2025 Local Organising Committee is proud to celebrate Matariki, the Māori New Year. The return of Matariki (the Pleiades star cluster) in the winter sky marks the Māori New Year - a time for remembrance, celebrating the present, and looking to the future.

#DPCAccess event kicking off with interesting presentation by @roxponinja.bsky.social on developing workflows to catalogue and make born digital content available. Automating processes, and integrating systems.

We’re kicking off CC signals! These preference signals will be designed to offer a new way for stewards of large collections of content to indicate their preferences as to how machines (and the humans controlling them) should contribute back to the commons.

Register here: buff.ly/2v9fNVY

They are constant changes in the product, which means most users end up feeling unsure that they did the right thing.
I’ve been on leave for a few months already, and I kinda dread having to figure out things all over again. And I’ve migrated an old DB to Sharepoint lists, relational DB style.

Info dates from Spring 2024, so I’d be curious to hear about the projet’s evolution.
During the pandemic, MS was very generous with licensing & data storage in Higher Ed. Terms are not so generous anymore.
Fun times to manage that.

German Province Ditches Microsoft Office, Windows for Open-Source Alternatives In Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein province, 30,000 employees will switch to LibreOffice and Linux.

I saw this week that Germany is doing the same:

www.pcmag.com/news/german-...

CLOCKSS triggers the Journal of Home Language Research - CLOCKSS The Journal of Home Language Research (JHLR) was an international double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal that published original research from any part of the world in all areas related to…

Interested in linguistics, theoretical linguistics, psychology, sociology or education?
CLOCKSS is delighted to make the Journal of Home Language Research available in perpetuity as part of our mission to preserve the scholarly record. clockss.org/clockss-trig... #OA

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Poster for workshop.

Free! Climate change, archives, and digital preservation workshop, June 25-26, 12:00-2:00 pm EST/EDT.

Register and more info here: www.dpoe.network/upcoming-wor...

#digipres #archives #library 📚

Library Science Talk - Preserving Knowledge in a Shifting World: The Role of Libraries in Geopolitical Uncertainty | CERN Scientific Information Service (SIS) This Talk will take place in English exclusively on Zoom. Registration is not required to attend. Abstract:

Preserving Knowledge in a Shifting World: The Role of Libraries in Geopolitical Uncertainty - if you are feeling overwhelmed, please join us for a free webinar! library.cern/events/libra...

Work in #digitalpreservation? I'd like you to complete a short survey created just for you! 😍 It's all about identification, selection + appraisal practices and will help @eosc-eden.bsky.social project massively. Please have your say - we need YOUR expertise: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run... #digipres

Absolutely!
Though sometimes, the deed of gift is peculiar, and money is also given for processing, and it’s a tiny part of a very valiable collection.
I don’t deal with donors much, but they can be very peculiar. Legislation can come into it to if they was a tax receipt for the donation.
*sigh*

#maineaiconf | Jon Ippolito Beyond a series of talking heads, the 2025 Maine AI Conference on 13 June offers an “unconference” whose topics will be determined democratically by those in attendance. I’ve helped organize these bo...

Join the 2025 Maine AI 'unconference' on June 13 in Orono for face-to-face discussions whose topics will be democratically chosen by the attenders. (We've got expert panels too.) Register by this Friday—more at www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp... #MaineAIconf

Common Crawl - Blog - May 2025 Crawl Archive Now Available We are pleased to announce that the crawl archive for May 2025 is now available. The data was crawled between May 11th and May 25th, and contains 2.47 billion web pages, or 429 TiB of uncompressed con...

We are pleased to announce that the crawl archive for May 2025 is now available. The data was crawled between May 11th and May 25th, and contains 2.47 billion web pages, or 429 TiB of uncompressed content.

commoncrawl.org/blog/may-202...

The Hagley Digital Archives is currently offline due to a sustained bot attack. Our support team reports that "bots have accelerated to levels not previously seen," as AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models.

living in the cyberpunk future sucks

(AI-bots seeking material to train the pirate slop machine DDOS'd the Hagley Library's digital archive to death)

A library overflowing with thousands of books pouring out of every window and door, spilling into the street in every direction, generated by Leonardo.ai

How should libraries respond to the deluge of AI-generated book submissions? My Tuesday talk for the MLA considered:

- An outright ban
- Restriction to a specific "AI shelf"
- A required % of human authorship
- Restriction to certain genres (fiction yes/medical advice no)
- Community vetting

Quebec wants to set French quotas for streamers like Netflix and Spotify Quebec Culture Minister Mathieu Lacombe introduced a new bill Wednesday that would force streaming platforms like Netflix and Spotify to hit a quota of French-language content, and make it easier for ...

I appeared on CBC’s National last night on Quebec’s version of Bill C-11. The bill guarantees content removal: either streaming services will remove their content altogether from Quebec by blocking the service or they remove much English content to meet quota requirements
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Check out the resources in advance on @eudch.bsky.social

⚒️ toolsuite.diamas.org/toolsuite-su...

Don’t make me tap the sign meme. Sign reads “archives can’t preserve or provide access to materials they never got.”

Believe me, I would love to help. But alas
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💾 From file to integrity! Every CLOCKSS ingestion or trigger is a story of tech, metadata, and teamwork. Big thanks to our preservation team who make it all work behind the scenes!
#PreservationHeroes #CLOCKSS #ThymeTheBear

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Hey #museums folk and others: take my job! I'm off to other adventures and the best Museum in Australia needs new visionary leadership: www.derwentsearch.com.au/job-details/...

Oh hi there! 😊
I’m all the way up in Montreal, Canada.

The community used to be so good on Twitter. Many are here now, but there’s a lot of people in the Mastodon digipres community as well. Maybe I’ll lesrn to crosspost one day. Not today. 😆

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Happy normal sized archivist day to you too!
Weren’t we supposed to get t-shirts?
I hope they get the right size this year. I think I got small sized archivist last time. 🙄🫣🤣