Today's theme appears to be #digitalCuration (this morning anyway, random shitposting will resume shortly).

TIL that I can't download a video I uploaded to YouTube, and need to go through the Google takeout process.

...after some mindless mashing the download button and some WTAF? It is like... *mine*.

Turns out it isn't, really.

So... I'm shifting my sparse collection to peertube, where download == actually download! Happy watching / inspiration / cringeing...

https://makertube.net/a/adam_steer/video-channels

What does the death of Julius Caesar and probability have to do with the future of knowledge? Join me at noon EDT today for a webinar on how AI, like a JPEG, compresses information, risking a future where history is endlessly rewritten https://maine.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mf83tNhOSaGFUn4KxTMOuQ#/registration

Can you trust AI with your archives? On April 2 at 5pm EDT, UMaine's Digital Curation program hosts a webinar with Sara and Ben Brumfield on blending human crowdsourcing with AI's scale and speed. Join us for a discussion of practical uses and thorny ethics!

https://blog.still-water.net/should-you-let-ai-manage-your-collection

By popular demand, UMaine's Digital Curation graduate program is once again offering two summer courses on metadata. This is your chance to learn more about how standards for describing files can improve access to libraries, archives, laboratories, and businesses—no prereqs. https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu

Is there a faction more dangerous to the preservation of cultural heritage than the music industry? Attacking the Internet Archive because "you can listen to 78s on streaming" is laughable, esp. given Warner Brothers recent abandonment of movie collectors whose DVDs don't work anymore.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/07/221238/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/they-curdle-like-milk-wb-dvds-from-2006-2008-are-rotting-away-in-their-cases

Belated #introduction. Expat #kiwi living in Europe, albeit a bit with an identity crisis. Will toot about the #uk, sorry!

Into #climate, #ClimateScience & #ClimateModelling (particularly #ESM and #hydrology) using #CloudComputing & #HPC.
Also #DataScience, #DigitalCuration #metadata & the philosophy & practice of #simulation in all sci.

History: I brought the internet to the south island of NZ & invented and ran #jasmin for 10y (https://jasmin.ac.uk) Helped procure #Archer & #Archer2.