Alissa 🧿 @alissa@ausglam.space
caution: uncontrolled vocabulary // 'here to radicalise bibliographic metadata practices and eat vegetarian brekkie rolls' // masto hermit who is not accepting follow requests (it's not you, it's me)
Joined May 2018
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we've never seen garbage levels like this
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Meanwhile here's a proposed ALA Council 'Resolution to Condemn White Supremacy and Fascism as Antithetical to Library Work' 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19V5g8osSRvYHAvkn3Lro18ERkX-3JwnxGNV4iiAxsGw/edit
this would have been my GO GLAM talk but giving talks is bad for my brain. maybe I'll blog about it instead
every so often the cantankerous cataloguers of America start muttering about open cataloguing standards and you know what it's tempting. what if we went all the way back to IFLA-LRM (which is freely available) and developed something open based on that. what if what if what if
RDA Steering Committee: Obsessively paywalls library cataloguing content standard, takes perverse glee in making product as useless as possible
SAA Standards Committee: Literally puts entire archival content standard on GitHub https://saa-ts-dacs.github.io/
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if anyone ever needs a 20-minute primer on linked open data, this video by Miriam Posner is excellent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZBpFiLbi-Y
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burrito levels are 33% and steady
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2021 isn't a prime number, it's something much worse: it's the product of two prime factors that are as large as they can be, so it takes as long as possible to find out it's not prime. I'm calling this class "fucker numbers"
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#GOGLAM #lca2021 program has been released and you do NOT want to miss this: https://lca2021.linux.org.au/schedule 
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New blog post: who among us, now, are not caretakers? https://lissertations.net/post/1589
This started out fairly normally and ended up at 'partial differential equations are a type of mystical literature' (the best bit is he's completely right) https://fivebooks.com/best-books/the-best-nature-books-of-2020-charles-foster/
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reaching dangerous fun levels
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how did twitter know this is precisely a thing I needed most https://tree.fm 🌲 🎶
I hope this place survived lockdown so I can visit one day https://warmhugcafe.com.au
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Lessening the use of outdated subject headings in the library catalogue - Andrew https://geocachinglibrarian.com/lessening-the-use-of-outdated-subject-headings-in-the-library-catalogue/ #GLAMBlogClub
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warning - extreme depression levels detected
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reaching dangerous existential dread levels
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boy am i extremely the target market for lavish yet sustainably-produced print journals about people, plants and place. i don't think i've ever preordered anything so fast
caution: uncontrolled vocabulary // 'here to radicalise bibliographic metadata practices and eat vegetarian brekkie rolls' // masto hermit who is not accepting follow requests (it's not you, it's me)
Joined May 2018
