My collaborators and I are very happy to announce this project, which has been brewing for a few months now. We’re launching a journal called Humanities Methods in Librarianship. In the next few months, we’ll put out a call for editors and peer reviewers, launch an instance of PKP’s Open Journal Systems, and ultimately put […]
In a previous post, I talked about reviving an old Dell XPS 13 9360 that I had accidentally smashed several years ago. I am glad I revived it; it is a lovely machine, though very obviously showing its age, as it is almost 10 years old now. It now runs Debian serviceably, and I’ve been […]
Earlier this week, I wanted to set up a root domain to point at a subdomain. The obvious reason for this is that I wanted a page to load whether a user types in example.org or www.example.org. I had tried this back in 2019 with my projects page, albeit with no success. This may have […]
Inspired by @fsvo, I’ve added a “Blogroll” tab to the top of these blog pages. Blogrolls were a popular late 1990s/early 2000s way to recommend content. The idea is that you include a list of links to other blogs on your own blog, so that people can discover new, related content. It’s basically low-tech relevance […]
I had an old, broken Dell XPS 13 9360 sitting around for quite some time. It was a computer that I really liked, but I dropped it off a table at one point, and the hinge of the monitor broke so badly that it became unusable. Anyhow, I didn’t want to throw it away, because […]
In a previous post, I described my recent install of PKP’s OJS. This week, I followed up by doing a run-through of a sample publication workflow on my localhost version. In brief, it was great. Without consulting the documentation, and without very much confused clicking around, I was able to peer-review and publish a sample […]
I just wanted to point out that Code4Lib Journal, issue 60 is now published! https://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue60 Quality Control Automation for Student Driven Digitization Workflows OpenWEMI: A Minimally Constrained Vocabulary for Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item Taming the Generative AI Wild West: Integrating Knowledge Graphs in Digital Library Systems Gamifying Information Literacy: Using Unity and Github to […]
The academic literature of librarianship is a bit narrow sometimes. Most journals expect conformity to an article structure taken directly from the social sciences. In my experience, this can chafe at a librarian’s creativity: we sometimes need to go to tremendous efforts to find ways to shoehorn our ideas into that social science article structure, […]
While I’m pretty sure that it is very out of style by now, I still really like the aesthetics and functionality of Bootstrap. As an example of its utility, I recently coded up a quick, off-the-cuff static page with Bootstrap. I could make it look nice with only one ‹link› tag and no JS or […]
