When published, bad data can have long lasting negative impacts on research and the wider world. In this post Rebecca Sear, traces the impact of the national IQ dataset and reflects how its continued use in research highlights the lack of priority give…
Female researchers are less influenced by journal prestige – will it hold back their careers?
Drawing on a natural experiment that occurred when German institutions lost access to journals published by Elsevier, W. Benedikt Schmal shows how female researchers made significantly different publication choices to their male counterparts during thi…
Jump in! An Interview with Thomas Crowley
I’m excited to share this interview with Thomas Crowley, one of my colleagues in the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. My hope with this interview, and the others that we publish here, help spread awareness about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress. Along …
Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence – review
In Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, Dan McQuillan calls for a restructuring of artificial intelligence (AI) which prioritises the common good over an algorithmic optimisation that reinforces the marginalisation of vuln…
Five Ways to Nudge Labmates Toward Better Data Management
This post is aimed at the graduate students, post docs, and research scientists who have established good data management practices in their own work and now want to make a positive impact on their peer’s data management. It can be … Continue reading
artificial intelligence, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Introducing the LC Labs Artificial Intelligence Planning Framework
LC Labs has been developing a planning framework to support the responsible exploration and potential adoption of AI at the Library.