Peter Binkley
@pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy
a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file […]
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*waves hands at everything* ok ok that's great but let's remember, the real world is *enough* - this is all *extra*
February 10, 2026 at 11:36 PM
*waves hands at everything* ok ok that's great but let's remember, the real world is *enough* - this is all *extra*
Reposted by Peter Binkley
📊 Open Science in Action: the Université de Lorraine Shifts to #OpenAlex for Bibliometric Reports!
The Bibliometrics team at the Université de Lorraine has taken a major step in its open science commitment by using OpenAlex for the first time in the annual bibliometric report for the A2F […]
The Bibliometrics team at the Université de Lorraine has taken a major step in its open science commitment by using OpenAlex for the first time in the annual bibliometric report for the A2F […]
Original post on social.sciences.re
social.sciences.re
February 9, 2026 at 12:48 PM
📊 Open Science in Action: the Université de Lorraine Shifts to #OpenAlex for Bibliometric Reports!
The Bibliometrics team at the Université de Lorraine has taken a major step in its open science commitment by using OpenAlex for the first time in the annual bibliometric report for the A2F […]
The Bibliometrics team at the Université de Lorraine has taken a major step in its open science commitment by using OpenAlex for the first time in the annual bibliometric report for the A2F […]
So I tried Gemini for an actual research question for the first time last night, looking for new instances of people burning letters socially (my brainworm last summer). It came up with a couple I didn't know about, so yay. But one of the sources it gave turned out to be a recent debunking of […]
Original post on code4lib.social
code4lib.social
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
So I tried Gemini for an actual research question for the first time last night, looking for new instances of people burning letters socially (my brainworm last summer). It came up with a couple I didn't know about, so yay. But one of the sources it gave turned out to be a recent debunking of […]
Reposted by Peter Binkley
"Federal Data Is Disappearing."
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/federal-data-is-disappearing
"Since retaking office, the Trump administration has transformed how the government collects data, cut access to previously-public data and stopped collecting some data altogether. This overhaul […]
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/federal-data-is-disappearing
"Since retaking office, the Trump administration has transformed how the government collects data, cut access to previously-public data and stopped collecting some data altogether. This overhaul […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
February 7, 2026 at 12:23 AM
"Federal Data Is Disappearing."
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/federal-data-is-disappearing
"Since retaking office, the Trump administration has transformed how the government collects data, cut access to previously-public data and stopped collecting some data altogether. This overhaul […]
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/federal-data-is-disappearing
"Since retaking office, the Trump administration has transformed how the government collects data, cut access to previously-public data and stopped collecting some data altogether. This overhaul […]
This CNI session from December has shout-outs to a couple of library technology innovations from my early career days: LibX toolbar (yay!) and reference desks in Second Life (boo! )
Discovery and Use Reimagined: Connecting Scholarly Collections and Artificial Intelligence Workflows […]
Discovery and Use Reimagined: Connecting Scholarly Collections and Artificial Intelligence Workflows […]
Original post on code4lib.social
code4lib.social
February 4, 2026 at 4:16 PM
This CNI session from December has shout-outs to a couple of library technology innovations from my early career days: LibX toolbar (yay!) and reference desks in Second Life (boo! )
Discovery and Use Reimagined: Connecting Scholarly Collections and Artificial Intelligence Workflows […]
Discovery and Use Reimagined: Connecting Scholarly Collections and Artificial Intelligence Workflows […]
Online meeting invitation: "Time: 12:00pm ET / 11:00am CT / 9:00am PT"
I mean ... there's room in the email for all the timezones, isn't there? WE IN MT EXIST!!!
You could at least put a dot dot dot between CT and PT
I mean ... there's room in the email for all the timezones, isn't there? WE IN MT EXIST!!!
You could at least put a dot dot dot between CT and PT
February 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Online meeting invitation: "Time: 12:00pm ET / 11:00am CT / 9:00am PT"
I mean ... there's room in the email for all the timezones, isn't there? WE IN MT EXIST!!!
You could at least put a dot dot dot between CT and PT
I mean ... there's room in the email for all the timezones, isn't there? WE IN MT EXIST!!!
You could at least put a dot dot dot between CT and PT
That's the second time lately I've caught myself glancing to the top of an ink and paper book page to see what time it is
February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
That's the second time lately I've caught myself glancing to the top of an ink and paper book page to see what time it is
If anyone asks why the library is providing 3d printers or whatever, just show them this, especially the last line: 'And, as Mr. Clark, the Librarian, says, "With this added attraction some students will see the inside of the Library for the first time."' […]
[Original post on code4lib.social]
[Original post on code4lib.social]
January 27, 2026 at 9:13 PM
If anyone asks why the library is providing 3d printers or whatever, just show them this, especially the last line: 'And, as Mr. Clark, the Librarian, says, "With this added attraction some students will see the inside of the Library for the first time."' […]
[Original post on code4lib.social]
[Original post on code4lib.social]
Normally, having breakfast at Wendy's at 1:30pm on a workday would sound like a lot of bad choices coming together
January 23, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Normally, having breakfast at Wendy's at 1:30pm on a workday would sound like a lot of bad choices coming together
Hey AI, when you have a minute could you fix Google Scholar so it doesn't harvest dissertation titles like this kthx
January 21, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Hey AI, when you have a minute could you fix Google Scholar so it doesn't harvest dissertation titles like this kthx
A year ago the Guardian ran a story about a wartime onderduiker (under-diver: someone in hiding from the Nazis) in Enschede named Curt Bloch, a German Jew, who made a poetry magazine called The Underwater Cabaret for other onderduikers and their helpers. It's now online, all 96 issues […]
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code4lib.social
January 19, 2026 at 1:52 AM
A year ago the Guardian ran a story about a wartime onderduiker (under-diver: someone in hiding from the Nazis) in Enschede named Curt Bloch, a German Jew, who made a poetry magazine called The Underwater Cabaret for other onderduikers and their helpers. It's now online, all 96 issues […]
Have been talking about our early digitization work a lot this week, and now Facebook showed me a post from 2009 about the craft as we practiced it: "I's the b'y that parses the xml and I's the b'y that transforms her, I's the b'y that generates the html and sends it home to Liza"
January 16, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Have been talking about our early digitization work a lot this week, and now Facebook showed me a post from 2009 about the craft as we practiced it: "I's the b'y that parses the xml and I's the b'y that transforms her, I's the b'y that generates the html and sends it home to Liza"
Trump has a nice reminder of what he'll never have
January 16, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Trump has a nice reminder of what he'll never have
#1lib1ref starts tomorrow! https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/1Bib1Ref_2026_1Lib1Ref
1Bib1Ref 2026 1Lib1Ref - Wikimedia Canada
ca.wikimedia.org
January 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
#1lib1ref starts tomorrow! https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/1Bib1Ref_2026_1Lib1Ref
One thing I've noticed about tv these days is that I don't want to watch any show that has rhythmic scratching instead of a musical soundtrack
January 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
One thing I've noticed about tv these days is that I don't want to watch any show that has rhythmic scratching instead of a musical soundtrack
If you had offered me the job of prime minister of Denmark a year ago, I would have been all "Sure, I'll give it a go!" Not so much now.
January 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
If you had offered me the job of prime minister of Denmark a year ago, I would have been all "Sure, I'll give it a go!" Not so much now.
this seminar plan may be getting out of hand, but when life gives you the opportunity to write a manifesto, you have to seize it
January 7, 2026 at 7:19 PM
this seminar plan may be getting out of hand, but when life gives you the opportunity to write a manifesto, you have to seize it
Reposted by Peter Binkley
I know this is pretty small beer in the light of world events, but I was not expecting to have to write “risk of invasion by the USA” into the risk assessment for my fieldwork in Greenland in June.
January 6, 2026 at 8:46 AM
I know this is pretty small beer in the light of world events, but I was not expecting to have to write “risk of invasion by the USA” into the risk assessment for my fieldwork in Greenland in June.
I love bulleted lists but I'm starting to see I'm going to have to give them up so my stuff won't look like slop. Em dashes, though, you'll have to pry out of my cold dead hands.
January 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I love bulleted lists but I'm starting to see I'm going to have to give them up so my stuff won't look like slop. Em dashes, though, you'll have to pry out of my cold dead hands.
In December I did the process of suggesting a new name/photo for a Pokestop near the library (it was named for a food place that hasn't been there for years). Got back to work today and the stop is GONE. Not renamed, not updated, just disappeared. I apologize to campus Pokemon Go players. 2026 […]
Original post on code4lib.social
code4lib.social
January 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
In December I did the process of suggesting a new name/photo for a Pokestop near the library (it was named for a food place that hasn't been there for years). Got back to work today and the stop is GONE. Not renamed, not updated, just disappeared. I apologize to campus Pokemon Go players. 2026 […]
I wish I could hallucinate as lucidly as LLMs can
December 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I wish I could hallucinate as lucidly as LLMs can
We discussed Ollama on social media today and I didn't once type "Obama" 😤
December 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
We discussed Ollama on social media today and I didn't once type "Obama" 😤
Ollama misbehaved in my workshop yesterday, wrecking most of my live demos. I see the new version, released 17 hours ago has a bugfix: "Fix error that would occur when running qwen2.5vl with image input". Let's see if that helps...
December 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Ollama misbehaved in my workshop yesterday, wrecking most of my live demos. I see the new version, released 17 hours ago has a bugfix: "Fix error that would occur when running qwen2.5vl with image input". Let's see if that helps...
I wonder: after the AI bubble bursts, will there be retro-LLM-ists who post here about how they're recreating the original ChatGPT experience on their quantum phones? "Here's what I had to tweak to get the extra fingers back..."
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I wonder: after the AI bubble bursts, will there be retro-LLM-ists who post here about how they're recreating the original ChatGPT experience on their quantum phones? "Here's what I had to tweak to get the extra fingers back..."