Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@social.cleverlibre.org

This older comic is going around. Animals with misleading names! A gentle attempt to poke fun at English common names.

The rare Catopus.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #Cats #Saturday #Meme #Fedicats #Mastocats

Our new article has been published: Ferwerda, E @RonaldSnijder & @nielsstern (2023, 5 9). Open Access to Books – the Perspective of a Non-profit Infrastructure Provider. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 26(1)

#OpenAccess #book platforms OAPEN Library and DOAB: 1.the development and activities of OAPEN in the first ten years; 2. the underlying technical approach behind the platforms; 3. the current role of OAPEN and DOAB and future outlook.

https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.3303
#oabooks #academia

A reminder that today, at 2pm UK time, I will be speaking about my work on digital preservation at @CrossrefOrg. All are welcome. https://alpsp.cventevents.com/event/8a600474-f572-42a1-bea7-2cfe591884ca/summary

Cats alphabet

I wrote it at the weekend as a personal act of catharsis, but my thoughts on pain seem to have been appreciated by a broader audience, so I am reposting. https://eve.gd/2023/05/07/on-pain-and-subjectivity/

For the record, here's how Midjourney V5.1 expresses a "Persian Cat Nebula."

#AI #Midjourney #Nebula #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

The fall of British cultural influence can be seen by how millions of tech people across the globe think the word 'git' is unproblematic.

We have a sneak preview of a new endpoint that will let you know all the relationships @crossref knows that link to an item, person, or organisation. We need feedback on this to get it from concept to useful https://community.crossref.org/t/relationships-are-here/3523. Plus, I reckon there are a bunch of uses for it that aren't on our radar yet, and I want to hear about them.

OAPEN & DOAB sign up to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure. Excellent news.
https://oapen.hypotheses.org/524