[CODE4LIB] DEADLINE EXTENDED Call for Volunteers: Code4Lib Community Support Squad & Co-coordinator

Hello everyone, I did not advertise the call for the volunteers, so I am extending the deadline to next Friday, March 8th. Please consider signing up and see below for details. I hope you have a wonderful weekend! This is the annual call for a very important subset of conference volunteers: our

[CODE4LIB] WordPress blogs, and training generative AI

Hello, I’ve seen some reporting on WordPress (and Tumblr) potentially selling access to their users’ content for training generative AI. When I checked my personal WordPress blog, lo and behold there was a new option to “opt out” of this, though with a pretty feeble assurance that they would re

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

If you are interested in attending Code4Lib 2024, *we encourage you to get on the waitlist as soon as possible*, as it is growing daily. We are planning to do some work next week to confirm the total spots we have available after moving any accepted speakers and poster presenters from the waitlist

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

I have to express some general frustration here I think it is very poor practice for ANY conference [stares at DLF] to open registration before a final schedule of events / speakers / sessions is distributed. Many of us have limited professional development funding and need to base our choices

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

I for one completely agree with Matt’s point here. Gregory Murray Director of Digital Initiatives Wright Library Princeton Theological Seminary From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Matthew Adair Date: Friday, March 1, 2024 at 11:22 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

Hi all, I believe the schedule was announced the same day as registration was opened. See "ANNOUNCEMENT: Code4Lib Schedule Available and Registration Opening January 31st, 2024" on this list. For what it's worth, I try to attend Code4Lib every year, regardless of the schedule, so having it ready

[CODE4LIB] Webinar on FIX-IT+, an open source tool for transcript correction

Greetings, Code4Lib! Are you looking for an easy way to correct and sync AV files with transcripts or subtitles? Then check out this webinar hosted by GBH Archives. Join us as we demonstrate FIX-IT+, an open-source, web-based tool for transcript corre

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

A colleague and I both missed out on going to our first Code4Lib last year that was also in our geographic neighborhood because it filled up extremely quickly. On Friday, March 1, 2024 at 11:43, Eric Phetteplace eloquently inscribed: > Hi all, > > I believe the schedule was announced the same

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

I will second this. I was waiting to see what topics would be covered at the conference, and while it is enviable that CODE4LIB has enough popularity to fill up blind, it's not exactly ethical to tie up participants' funds while they wait to find out whether or not the conference is going to mee

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

I stand corrected. The schedule merely looked like it had empty placeholders because the links on the schedule page look like headers. I retract what I said earlier. Keith Engwall, MSLIS (he/him/his) Systems Librarian DePaul University Library 2350 N. Kenmore, 215F | Chicago, IL 60614 Tel: (

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

Hi, This is a legitimate frustration. I've been in this position, too. I think it's a product of being a small organization. The Open Repositories of the world are big enough that they can accommodate a lot more people and can keep registration open a lot longer. -Carol On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 1

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib BC 2024 - Save the Date

Code4Lib BC organizers are pleased to announce that organizing is underway for our eleventh annual unconference! When: May 16-17, 2024 Where: Vancouver, BC: VCC Downtown Campus Program, registration, and travel bursary in

[CODE4LIB] Telemedicine Visit - help needed

My esteemed listmates, I'm trying to help do a telemedicine with a doctor on either of the following 2 laptops. On the Dell Latitude E6540 running W10, we can visit a Web site which tests your video and we can see ourselves on the laptop screen. But, when we conduct that Windows - Audio test it

[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals - Great Ideas Showcase & Snapshots Sessions

Hello, The NASIG Program Planning Committee invites proposals for the Great Ideas Showcase and the Snapshots Session for the 39th Annual Conference, to be held June 3-7, 2024 in Spokane, Washington. We are currently seeking in-person presentations. The NASIG Conference presenters and attendees

Re: [CODE4LIB] genrative ai; fine-tuning and rag

Regarding no. 2, I feel like this is an interesting write up https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1045339.1045340 "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity". It is about how naming a piece of software by its purpose, for example, naming a program "intelligence" or "understand" or "think" or "comp

[CODE4LIB] rag - retrieval-augmented generation

RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) -- as one way to implement generative AI -- is something easy for us libraries to get our heads around because the process is very much like the impementation of our discovery systems: 1. create content 2. index content 3. query content 4. return resp

Re: [CODE4LIB] genrative ai; fine-tuning and rag

> Regarding no. 2, I feel like this is an interesting write up: > > https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1045339.1045340 > > It is about how naming a piece of software by its purpose, for example, > naming a program "intelligence" or "understand" or "think" or "comprehend" > causes people to projec

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

I think that it is important to consider that Code4lib is not a formal organization. It does not have membership, a governing board, officers, or dues. Each year, we put out a call for proposals in the hope that some institution or group will volunteer to organize the next conference, with the mini

[CODE4LIB] Early bird deadline 1 March: DHSI East - Generative AI workshop (29Apr-2May)

Dear All, Registrations are coming in for the four-day “Understanding and Deploying the Basics of Generative AI” workshop, which will be here on campus, hosted by the StFX Digital Humanities Centre. We are pleased to see, like past years, participants coming in from across Canada and internation

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

Just agreeing that the online option shouldn't be overlooked. The realtime conversation in Slack combined with watching the conference has, for me, been really great the last couple years when I couldn't get myself to travel. As far as picking based on content, it's really tough to compare content