raffaele

— what I do: digital libraries, metadata, web archiving, digital preservation, IIIF, Readium LCP
— what I love: mountains, bikes, JG Ballard, Colin Wilson

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2024-08-07 16:31:15

The mining of the public domain
https://www.librarian.net/stax/5566/the-mining-of-the-public-domain/

2024-08-06 15:31:16

a memory unlocked: KITT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITT
was it a LLM?

2024-08-04 09:45:14

“All you have to do is put some fake papers on ResearchGate.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/how-easy-it-fudge-your-scientific-rank-meet-larry-world-s-most-cited-cat

2024-08-04 06:55:28

from book to reality
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/southport-protests-enough-riots-far-right-b2590700.html
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/902/440/659/415/214/original/66a07e50c82daf57.png

2024-08-04 06:47:58

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26754354
primo film alla regia di Federico Zampaglione (si, Tiromancino!)
molto gore e splatter, un omaggio all'horror storico italiano.
bella fotografia e musiche. trama abbastanza originale.
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/902/411/126/076/720/original/2d8f1455a789fa3d.jpg

2024-08-01 14:40:20

The data models of the new Italian National Digital Library https://partecipa.gov.it/processes/IPaC
very friendly entity names: `RisorsaDigitaleCulturaleIntellettuale`.
good job ontology designers!

2024-08-01 08:49:02

LOCKSS 2.0-beta1 https://www.lockss.org/news/lockss-20-beta1-now-available
👍 Multiple Web replay engines (pywb)
👎 LOCKSS 2.x is a containerized application managed by Kubernetes

2024-08-01 07:03:28

"SpinachBot will try to write a SPARQL query based on your input request and send it to Wikidata Query Service"
https://spinach.genie.stanford.edu/

2024-07-30 06:33:22

bellissimo!
https://public.work

2024-07-29 08:02:31

#ICanHazPDF / “The offline part was the essence of it” – the social history of iWiW, the Hungarian online social network
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2024.2370748

2024-07-28 08:19:56

❤️
https://hachyderm.io/@tailscale/112854656110034120

2024-07-27 13:21:59

Online PDF tools leaked user documents with an exposed S3 bucket
https://cybernews.com/security/online-pdf-maker-leaks-user-documents/
I have seen this news copy/pasted on minor technology sites or X, and I cannot verify on trusted sources.
Anyway, DO NOT USE ONLINE CONVERTERS WITH SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS!
@npub12fx…6vnh

2024-07-26 07:18:32

Rick McGrath's JG Ballard archive donated to sfu.ca
Hopefully will be digitised!
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/851/570/470/591/799/original/300e787f6417ac4a.png

2024-07-25 15:31:02

Personal experience: The more time passes, the more I find it very tiring to read with a dark background. Except for the terminal, I prefer to use a white background for everything else. I'm getting old.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/17/dark-modes-bright-future-how-dark-mode-will-transform-wikipedias-accessibility/

2024-07-23 08:34:51

Anyone here using or have expertise with https://manifoldapp.org/ or that can provide me an invite to Slack community?

2024-07-22 10:46:26

TIL EV charging protocol uses SOAP https://openchargealliance.org/protocols/open-charge-point-protocol/
XML won't die!
https://mastodon.online/@karppinen/112828701009776475

2024-07-19 04:50:53

periodical reminder: url shorteners were a utterly bad idea. shorteners managed by google, even worse. #webarchiving
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

2024-07-18 06:23:25

Hauntology
https://defrag98.com/

2024-07-17 07:58:18

after using NixOS for 6 months, I just want a peaceful life. hardcore distro never again.
https://mastodon.uno/@linux/112800438416598742

2024-07-17 05:56:07

Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/07/hacking-scientific-citations.html
oh, DOI!
"When registering a new publication and its references with Crossref, a publisher may sneak extra undue references in the metadata sent in addition to the ones originally present."
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24896

2024-07-17 05:49:01

"the new Worldcat website is a Next.js-powered piece of junk. It’s a good example of a website that completely flunks basic HTML semantics"
https://macwright.com/2024/07/16/bookish.html

2024-07-16 13:56:46

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@npub1t7d…pqpp deploy with rsync or die!

2024-07-16 09:34:19

TIL You cannot make a screenshot of a browser playing a video with DRM (tried on macos). But if in browser settings you disable `graphics acceleration`, then you can make the screenshot.

2024-07-15 10:08:39

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@npub1mex…3mva yeah, it is not my intention to question years of work on schemas and APIs. Maybe I am just frustrated about the Italian fragmentation

2024-07-15 08:58:02

I wrote something:
Beyond HTTP APIs: the case for database dumps in Cultural Heritage
https://literarymachin.es/beyond-api-data-dumps/
Could we adopt SQLite, DuckDB and Parquet instead of HTTP API?

2024-07-15 05:38:38

firefox, no thanks
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/788/892/330/425/991/original/32c3381a9d3ea6e6.png

2024-07-12 06:02:29

TIL PDF Fragment Identifiers
https://pdfa.org/pdf-fragment-identifiers/#Browser_support_for_basic_PDF_navigation_features
https://technicalwriting.dev/www/pdf.html

2024-07-11 19:41:22

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@npub1fv7…2wrj Punta Penia! how were the glacier conditions?

2024-07-10 19:35:22

Archiving images: TIFF vs PPM
https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing2/2024-07-04.html
Has anyone ever used PPM in their archives?

2024-07-08 20:09:04

Anna’s Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-faces-millions-in-damages-and-a-permanent-injunction-240708/

2024-07-08 15:17:36

“Show trending search suggestions” (from Google) is enabled by default in Firefox 128. oh my gosh Firefox... 🙈
https://floss.social/@9to5linux/112751386833926434

2024-07-03 15:10:29

Do you have an opinion on Redpanda https://redpanda.com/ ?
Is it a safe switch from Apache Kafka?

2024-07-03 08:37:16

tl;dr `<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="..." >`
https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/112718231305707672

2024-07-03 07:53:11

🤦 https://web3.vaticanlibrary.va/

2024-07-03 07:49:55

Related to EPUB/a initiative, check this discussion on Readium github:
https://github.com/readium/go-toolkit/discussions/95

2024-07-03 06:49:05

Review the Draft International Standard for the Preservation of eBooks
https://clockss.org/new-draft-international-standard-for-the-preservation-of-ebooks-published-in-the-epub-format/

2024-06-28 07:55:27

The End of an Era: MTV News Shuts Down… Or why archives are important
https://crazyonclassicrock.com/2024/06/26/the-end-of-an-era-mtv-news-shuts-down-or-why-archives-are-important/

2024-06-25 10:14:37

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@npub1zrt…3ue4 è su Internet Archive https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Futura+%28rivista%29%22&sort=title
https://archive.org/details/Futura02/page/n31/mode/2up?q=aldo+grasso

2024-06-25 09:57:55

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@npub1xvm…wmsl Probably was the first place where I heard the word "Internet". Also, it was extremely good for music discovery, better than today platforms.

2024-06-25 05:16:39

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/
#webarchiving

2024-06-23 20:28:50

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@npub1rf0…vykp https://sioyek.info - https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/
not sure if they do exactly what you ask, but they are _fast_, and I have never seen image reloading.

2024-06-22 08:03:18

current status: open water swim. season begin
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/659/228/028/285/907/original/cd04fcd706a9bde1.jpeg

2024-06-21 18:36:28

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@npub1x6v…y3fm I have some kind of strange attraction to mono fonts :) I've been thinking of buying Berkeley Mono for long time. Your slides convinced me.

2024-06-21 07:31:06

The Distill CLI uses Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Bedrock to create summaries of your audio recordings (e.g., meetings, podcasts, etc.) directly from the command line.
https://github.com/awslabs/distill-cli
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/06/introducing-distill-cli.html

2024-06-21 04:45:07

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@npub1x6v…y3fm nice presentation, thanks.
unrelated question: what's that mono font you are using? is it Berkeley Mono?

2024-06-20 08:54:47

"Il blog riproduce l’esperienza di linearità del sito web"
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2024/06/19/maturita-2024-il-prof-di-sociologia-la-traccia-sul-digitale-con-un-articolo-del-2014-sui-blog-questi-poveri-ragazzi-hanno-tutta-la-mia-vicinanza-morale/7593704/
da un docente di Sociologia dei media digitali che forse non ha ben chiaro cosa sia l'**ipertestualità**. e ci sono talmente tante cose sbagliate nella sua visione che non saprei da dove iniziare

2024-06-18 07:16:59

≪l’onorevole Matteotti è stato ucciso altrove≫.
Leonardo Sciascia, “Apocrifi sul caso Crowley”, contenuto ne ‘Il mare colore del vino” (1973).
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/636/396/704/756/642/original/b4185732b2068f9a.png

2024-06-16 20:08:41

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@npub1w50…g5gh https://glycerine.io/ was presented a few months ago at IIIF community call.

2024-06-15 06:40:08

Designing a website to not have 404s
https://pillser.com/engineering/2024-06-10-website-without-404s
no more linkrot! not actually, the title is deceptive, it talks about fuzzy redirection.

2024-06-13 19:19:14

TIL systemd.v — Directory with Versioned Resources
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/systemd.v.html
via https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/13/version_256_systemd/

2024-06-13 06:36:57

Michael Dinzinger – Open Web Search: A platform for a free European Web Index
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyTFWLZtwE

2024-06-11 16:34:16

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@npub1wnp…0uj8 Sorry I forgot to answe here. Ok, maybe we don't need github discussions at all. I can start writing a more detailed guide, then I will make a PR to canopy-iiif/docs

2024-06-10 20:20:06

I have found the perfect rss reader: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr
Installed in my home server, accessible with Tailscale.
Data saved into SQLite. I was previously using https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat that also saves to SQLite, but no mobile access.

2024-06-09 18:45:57

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@npub12vs…kup4 In Italy the disease has never been proper treated since the fascist regime fall. So today we have extreme far-right representatives in almost every institution.

2024-06-07 10:06:10

The curious world of UUIDs https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing2/2024-05-17.html

2024-06-05 10:55:42

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@npub1t7d…pqpp https://frankenphp.dev/ PHP executor embedded in Caddy. I am strongly re-evaluating PHP for its ease of deployment

2024-06-05 10:37:57

Building a simple #IIIF digital library with Tropy, Tropiiify and Canopy
https://literarymachin.es/iiif-tropy-canopy/
@npub1ts0…cw89
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/563/576/797/327/804/original/0d858bc76efc735b.png

2024-06-04 12:28:21

Software libero e open source tra potenzialità e criticità: tre esperienze a confronto
Webinar del Gruppo di studio sulle tecnologie dell’informazione nelle biblioteche e biblioteche digitali (TBID) dedicato al software libero e open source.
https://www.aib.it/eventi/software-libero-e-open-source/
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/558/348/656/527/571/original/8ecf7f184855edb4.png

2024-06-03 08:17:12

I have come to the conclusion that using NixOS is masochism. But Python deps are always the cause

2024-05-28 08:00:30

Secrets from the Algorithm: Google Search’s Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked
https://ipullrank.com/google-algo-leak

2024-05-24 08:06:48

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@npub19xr…gkcq well, the devil is in the details.

2024-05-24 07:15:15

"The only other common format for storing mails locally is mbox. But it stores all messages in a single file, which is unacceptable if you’d like to access them with regular tools."
disagree: mbox is absolutely not bad. I keep my entire mail archive (~20 years) with it. The largest file is 2GB, and I can read it easily with `mutt` and `grepmail`.
Having a single file is much more efficient than storing millions of small text files on disk.
https://mastodon.social/@kepano/112492204632170268

2024-05-23 14:25:25

Israeli soldiers set fire Aqsa University’s library in Gaza City and took pictures of themselves in front of the flames.
(via https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1793628894245118205 )
🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/490/861/255/511/488/original/a18ce8dbecec760d.png

2024-05-21 20:56:16

What to expect in future Firefox release?
"AI-generated alt-text for images inserted into PDFs"
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694
the good part: local model. accessibility feature for visually impaired users.
the bad part: PDFs ≠ web.

2024-05-21 07:37:14

release of the day: "iTerm2 now has ChatGPT integration "
is personal computing still a thing?

2024-05-18 16:44:43

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@npub1q0h…xqc8 Ha, indeed. It's the first time I've come across this Pew Research. I thought it was an academic project, but it is not.

2024-05-18 12:37:56

When Online Content Disappears
38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/
the good part: a detailed methodology report https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/methodology-link-rot/

2024-05-17 07:09:58

current status:
⚠️ Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com

2024-05-17 06:16:51

The defendant believes that libraries and archives should be “free and widely available”
https://code4lib.social/@mjgiarlo/112452199945214121

2024-05-16 07:43:21

sindone 3.5
https://digipres.club/@misty/112447153077066877