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NEW RESOURCES
News Center Maine: UMFK’s Acadian Archives digitizes much of its collections of Maine’s French-Acadians. “Even though northern Maine is still the most Francophone region of the state, there’s been an effort in the past few years to help preserve and teach our state’s Acadian history throughout Maine. To do that, different federal agencies, state officials including Gov. Janet Mills, and the Maine State Library are all working together to digitize historical records focused on French heritage in Maine.”
The Hallé: The Hallé’s brand new digital repertoire database – now live!. “Over 20 years in the making, the Hallé is the only UK orchestra to have produced such a database to date. This fully searchable online tool contains over 40,000 listings of individual works, artists, soloists, concert halls and much more from 1858 to 1990, allowing everyone to become a community archivist. This database will continue to develop and grow but already allows the Hallé to share its history – from schools concerts to international tours and everything in between – far and wide.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Library of Congress: More Jefferson Building Drawings Digitized. “The Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building celebrated its 125th birthday in November of 2023. To support research interest in the building and to mark the occasion, we digitized nearly 1000 architectural drawings documenting its construction.”
USEFUL STUFF
How-to Geek: How to Go Frame by Frame on YouTube. “If you want to watch your favorite YouTube video one frame at a time, it’s possible to do that for both downloaded and online YouTube videos. We’ll show you how to use that feature on your device.” One of those rare things that you do on desktop instead of mobile.
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Variety: Film Curator, Programmer and Archivist June Givanni to Receive BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. “June Givanni, film curator, writer and programmer of African and African diaspora cinema and founder of The June Givanni PanAfrican Archive, will be presented with BAFTA’s Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award at the BAFTA Film Awards in February.”
University of Texas at Arlington: Rangers’ World Series Title Made History. UTA Seeks To Preserve It.. “The UTA Libraries Special Collections Department is seeking community donations of digital materials documenting the Texas Rangers’ 2023 World Series run and celebration. Items of interest include digital photographs, videos, artwork, and more relating to the Rangers’ playoff games, community gatherings and celebrations. These materials will be preserved and made accessible through the UTA Libraries Digital Archive.”
University of Southern California: USC Annenberg and Scripps Howard Fund launch open-source investigative journalism program. “With an investment of up to $300,000 from the Scripps Howard Fund, the USC Annenberg School of Journalism is building America’s premier open-source investigative reporting education program. USC Annenberg Associate Professor of Journalism Mark Schoofs and adjunct instructor Kevin Reyes will lead the initiative aimed at supporting the next generation of investigative journalists and innovating journalism education.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
US Department of State: The Framework to Counter Foreign State Information Manipulation. “Foreign information manipulation and interference is a national security threat to the United States as well as to its allies and partners. Today, the U.S. Department of State is announcing an important new tool for addressing this problem: The Framework to Counter Foreign State Information Manipulation. This Framework seeks to develop a common understanding of this threat and establish a common set of action areas from which the United States, with its allies and partners, can develop coordinated responses to foreign information manipulation and protect free and open societies.”
US Government Accountability Office: The Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions At Risk from Digital Asset Growth. “Economic sanctions are an important foreign policy tool that the U.S. uses to try and deter foreign states that are acting contrary to our interest or engaging in behavior such as human rights abuses. But increasingly, foreign states facing U.S. sanctions—including Iran and North Korea—are using digital assets to evade the impacts of those sanctions. Today’s WatchBlog post looks at our new report on how digital assets are being used to evade U.S. sanctions and what the federal government is doing about it.”
PC Magazine: Google: Russian Hackers Using Encrypted PDFs as a Ploy to Spread Malware. “Google says a group of Russian state-sponsored hackers are sending encrypted PDFs to trick victims into running a decryption tool that’s actually malware. On Thursday, the company published a blog post documenting a new phishing tactic from Coldriver, a hacking group that the US and UK suspect works for the Russian government. A year ago, news emerged that Coldriver targeted three US nuclear research laboratories.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Stanford Business: How Much Is Your Favorite Free App Worth to You?. “How much would someone have to pay you to stop using Facebook for a month: $5? $10? $100? That’s the question Erik Brynjolfsson and his fellow researchers posed to nearly 40,000 Facebook users from 13 countries. It turned out that less than one-fifth would stay away in exchange for five bucks, while more than three-fourths would abstain for $100.”
InfoWorld: What is RAG? More accurate and reliable LLMs. “Retrieval-augmented generation draws upon external data sources to address two shortcomings of large language models, out-of-date training sets and limited context windows.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 20, 2024 at 06:31PM
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