Blog topic: Emerging tech

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Don Knuth email collection now available for research

October 8, 2020
by Annie Schweikert
Born digital
Digital preservation
Emerging tech
Open source
University Archives

Stanford Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to announce that the email collection of Don Knuth has been processed. This collection consists of email from January 1999 through January 2019. Users can preview Knuth’s email corpus via Stanford's ePADD discovery website. The full text of the emails is only accessible on a workstation in the Field Reading Room, which is open to all members of the general public.

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Elements of AI in the Library

May 12, 2020
by Catherine Nicole Coleman
Artificial intelligence
Digital library
Emerging tech

Last week 38 people from units across Stanford Libraries completed the six-week Elements of AI course. Of those who responded to the course survey, all said they would recommend it to colleagues. They also unanimously agreed that meeting weekly in groups to discuss each chapter was the most rewarding part of taking the course.

ePADD logo

ePADD 1st Quarter Update

May 7, 2020
by Sally DeBauche
Born digital
Digital preservation
Emerging tech
News
Open source

In January, the ePADD project team began work on the current phase of development to the software, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The focus for this first quarter of the year is on the redevelopment of the ePADD’s attachment review feature. Attachments are a rich source of information in an email collection, providing context to the archive owner’s work, communications, and relationships.

ANSI

ANSI releases select standards for COVID-19 support (UPDATED)

April 3, 2020
by Zac Painter
Emerging tech
Engineering
Government information
News
Open source
Science

Several librarians across the United States have been petitioning ISO and ANSI to release or open up access to several critical standards in the response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic. ANSI has announced a portal that contains several of these important standards, including standards for the fabrication of ventilators and standards for incident management response, released to the public. At this time, 31 of these ISO standards have been released, and you can access them by visiting the following links.

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Is learning about AI in libraries preparation for a future without librarians?

April 1, 2020
by Catherine Nicole Coleman
Artificial intelligence
Digital library
Emerging tech

The image associated with this post is from "Autonomous Trap" by James Bridle.

If you attended or watched the talks at Fantastic Futures December 2019, you know that the answer to that question is emphatically No. Both of the keynote speakers addressed the essential role of libraries in providing curated data to improve AI and in preserving the data, models, and records for oversight of how the technology is implemented. Lightning talks (recordings available) demonstrated applications of AI by practitioners operating within libraries, archives, and museums. And Teemu Roos presented Elements of AI, a free online course for everyone designed to demystify AI.

Technology should reflect the ethos of the library

March 4, 2020
by Catherine Nicole Coleman
Artificial intelligence
Digital library
Digital library architecture
Emerging tech
Engineering

At the VALA2020 conference on Libraries and Technology last month I stated, as I have in numerous other presentations, reports, and recommendations, that implementations of technology (and I am usually speaking about AI) in libraries should reflect the ethos of the library. I say this not because the ethos of the library is correct, just, or even well-defined; but it is something to which we who work in libraries can be held accountable.

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