Category: Scholarship
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Bing Chat and a quick Library Metadata test
I just got access to Bing Chat, so let's see what it can do in the library world. I found myself on the monthly AI4LAM Community Call first thing this AM, and the topic was the use of ChatGPT in Libraries, Archives and Museums. While not my area of expertise, one of the examples shared…
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New Artificial Intelligence LibGuide
I wish I'd put it together, but it was my colleague, Bronte Chiang, who just released this fantastic LibGuide on Artificial Intelligence. It's not a hard-science guide, but "…has been created for students and instructors to explore how to responsibly and ethically use AI in their work. There is information about how to critically engage…
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Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Data Liberation Project
Not to be confused with Canada's Data Liberation Initiative, Jeremy Singer-Vine is spending his time on the Data Liberation Project, "an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest." There's not yet a lot to look at there, but there's plenty in the pipeline. I just attended a…
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How to cite ChatGPT
Last week, a colleague forwarded the following from a listserv, where someone was asking how to cite ChatGPT using IEEE style. A response from another user, – I can’t speak to IEEE style yet, but a colleague of mine reached out to APA’s style experts just yesterday to ask how to handle citing ChatGPT in…
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Re-running the Scholarly Kitchen Interview with ChatGPT
Yesterday, Todd Carpenter posted a transcript of his interview with ChatGPT on the Scholarly Kitchen blog. I thought it would be fun to see how much the answers would change when asked again. I'll make the same disclaimer he did, "You can review for yourself whether you think the responses are good ones or not…
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Library Futures Funtime Book Talk w/Chokepoint Capitalism and Data Cartels
On November 17, I was able to attend most of an amazing book talk sponsored by Library Futures. It was with the authors of two timely books, Chokepoint Capitalism (Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow), and Data Cartels (Sarah Lamdan). You can, and should, watch the entire recording! In Chokepoint Capitalism, "by analyzing book publishing and…
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At first glance: Misleading figures – How Open Is the U15? A Preliminary Analysis of Open Access Publishing in Canadian Academic Libraries
When I first saw the article, How Open Is the U15? A Preliminary Analysis of Open Access Publishing in Canadian Academic Libraries, of course I had to see how MPOW, the University of Calgary, stacked up. We've long been a proponent of open access; we had the first open access author's fund in Canada, established…
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Quick review: An AI toolkit for libraries
Even more on artificial intelligence. I'm going to create a new category for this blog! I just finished reading An AI toolkit for libraries, by Michael Upshall, in UKSG Insights. I found it to provide a really good background on what artificial intelligence is, and isn't, including some examples of some basic narrow AI currently…
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AI, Images, and Academic Titles
Yesterday, shortly after helping a student start a literature search, I found myself poking around at DALL-E, one of the crop of machine-learning tools that can generate images based on a text prompt. I had an article title saved on my clipboard, and wondered what would be generated from the title. I was not impressed.…