Librarian/Technologist, Executive Director of the Open Science Hardware Foundation.
Formerly Director of Strategic Initiatives for National Information Standards Organization. Creator of LibraryBox and Measure the Future projects, former fellow at Berkman Klein Center.
Recovering academic, enthusiastic tinkerer/maker, obsessed with theater. This Account Kills Fascists.
http://jasongriffey.net for everything else
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117004005387778336
This is literally a plot point in Vernor Vinge's novel Rainbow's End from 2006. In it, a company is digitizing the collection of a University library, and the cheapest and easiest way to do it is to literally throw the books through woodchippers, video the resulting confetti, and then let the computers reconstruct the pages via edge-matching before OCRing them.
A little bit of local excitement for you - my local university (Sewanee) has a Corpse Flower that’s about to bloom, could be any day now. Livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0bzkpRukbY
@adr Which escooter did you buy? Very early in their emergence I bought a cheap-ish one just to tool around on, and to give my then-not-driving kiddo a way to get to slightly-further-away friend's houses. It was super fun, but finicky (especially the tires/replacing/repairing them).
I imagine a lot of that finicky-ness is solved these days?
@ksclarke@code4lib.social It's amazing to me how every time this gets invented, no one has ever seen the predecessors...or at least never seems to mention them.
@adr @copystar @redlibrarian @djfiander You're also fighting against 50 years of user experience pushing people farther and farther away from the underlying structures of things like a filesystem. Explaining to someone who's primary computing device throughout their life has been a smartphone how hierarchies of directories work is like, step one of a thousand to get them to understand CLI.
I would expect the rise of chatbots to have helped somewhat in making text a primary interface again tho.
Attending the OSHWA Summit in Berlin today, very excited to learn about the amazing projects from the Open Hardware community. If anyone wants to talk Open Science Hardware, come find me to chat. #ohs2026
What was supposed to be a simple BNA-JFK-BER trip has become an insane BNA-SLC-AMS-BER journey. Added 12 hours to the trip, but at least I’m getting there.
@adr Thanks friend! Last August I had about 20% of my right kidney removed and it scooped all the cancer with it. If you're going to have kidney cancer, I had the best kind. :-P
@adr Did you know that the average person in the world has more than two kidneys? When docs do a kidney transplant, they don't remove the old one and just shove it to the side, so anyone with a transplant ends up with 3.
The world record for transplants is SEVEN, so there's a dude in the netherlands walking around with 7 right now.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@OSHF/116574755894549360
I am so thrilled to be bringing someone new to the OSHF team. Very excited to hire a Program Manager, and if you think it should be you, take a look and apply!