The digital transformation of higher #education … for better and for worse

Neil Selwyn @neil_selwyn has an interview with Cathrine Tømte (University of Agder) where they talk about the impacts of #digitisation on #Norwegian #universities, For me it is a reminder that the path of these things is not inevitable and is the result of a sequence of decisions.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1301377
#higereducation #norway

When the mind is willing, but the flesh is weak.

[New publication]: A Tale of Twin Transitions: How did we come to think that digitization and sustainability go hand in hand.

A chapter I wrote for a Palgrave Handbook is finally out. This is also a modified version in one of my incoming PhD thesis. From 60' economics to today's European taxonomy, I try to trace back the genealogy of ideas that assumed that digitalisation will result in a more sustainable economy.

Link: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-031-04196-9_48-1

This is the way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABvMXV-QtUg

Peret - La Fiesta No Es Para Feos

https://revivalrecords.co.uk/2024/12/19/peret-la-fiesta-no-es-para-feos/

New blog post for #fileformatfriday - #PDF Quality assessment for #digitisation batches with #Python, #PyMuPDF and #Pillow. This introduces the new #Pdfquad tool, which might be useful for others as well:

https://www.bitsgalore.org/2024/12/13/pdf-quality-assessment-for-digitisation-batches-with-python-pymupdf-and-pillow

Earlier this year, 24 professionals with varied skillsets, perspectives & end-use goals for #digitized #fossil #collections data joined at University of Colorado Boulder for a workshop, as part of a project funded by @NSF's #Geosciences #OpenScience #Ecosystem program.

Find more in the #WorkshopReport published in our #journal at: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e134840

Finding my granddad and siblings in Catholic baptism registers for Leeds, Yorkshire https://vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2024/08/19/finding-my-granddad-and-siblings-in-catholic-baptism-registers-for-leeds-yorkshire/ #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #BaptismRegisters #Baptism #Ireland #Dublin #Leeds #Yorkshire #WestYorkshire #Digitisation #FindMyPast #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Latin

In sunny Leiden for an #ImpactCoC writing workshop #Digitisation #DigitalHumanities

The @EUCommission wants European enterprises to waste more ressources on #BigData, #cloud, and #AI. Because of #digitisation. "In 2023, the uptake of AI, cloud and/or big data by European companies was also well below the Digital Decade target of 75%. Under current trends, only 64% of businesses will use cloud, 50% big data and only 17% AI by 2030." Maybe for a reason? https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_3602

This is a scan of my Dad’s school report from King’s High School in Ōtepoti in December 1939 when he was 14. It was his last year of high school as he, like many others, had to work and support the family.

It strikes me how useless these reports are - just a bunch of numbers that seem purely designed to rank pupils. And the comments - “Steady work”. What does that even mean? Still, it’s great to have these.

At the KBR in Brussels for a https://www.digitisation.eu/ planning & strategy meeting. Currently in a Benelux digitisation showcase and looking forward to hearing about:

- Digitisation at KU Leuven Libraries
- Transkribus Communities
- OCR / HTR Pipelines @ GhentCDH
- Digitisation Activities @ the Dutch Language Institute
#digitisation #OCR #HTR #DigitalHumanities #DigitalScholarship #MachineLearning

How can we make digitalisation sustainable?

The Berlin group of the FSFE wants to show an answer to this question at the Umweltfestival 2024 together with @bitsundbaeume_berlin and @be4foss . Come to our stand to learn more about the sustainable use of computers with Free Software. We will also have information about Upcycling Android, Public Money, Public Code and the Fediverse at our booth.

We will be at the Straße des 17. Juni between Siegessäule and Brandenburger Tor on April 28th from 11am to 7pm. Come by and talk to us about Free Software!

"This #Europeana Impact Community Café will explore the role of #digitisation in fostering #peace and safeguarding #heritage within #conflictzones.
In the upcoming session, the spotlight will be on Platoniq's compelling case study, 'Comparte tu rollo Peacebuilding in #colombia undertaken in collaboration with The National Library of Colombia and Historypin. Employing the Impact Playbook value lens, participants can discuss the analysis of this project."
https://pro.europeana.eu/event/europeana-impact-community-cafe-building-peace-and-safeguarding-heritage-through-digitisation

How does the Natural History Museum of London (NHM) put "Open by Default" into practice?

Check out the Policy Brief: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e120629 for the rationale behind the policy at this key DiSSCo member and the policy itself.

Looking for help for any photographers with experience of digitising reversal film. A few of the slides (originating from 1960s and processed then too) look awfully blue; both the original and the digitised version. Agfacolor colour reversal 35mm. Could it be original shot is underexposed and the processing turns the underexposed area blue?

Any Audio Cultures researchers interested in putting a panel together for @AoIR ?