Gene @dzshuniper@ausglam.space

The National Gallery of Australia is repatriating looted artefacts to India: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-29/indian-artefacts-repatriated-from-national-gallery-australia/100331278

A post on uncovering LGBTQ+ rural histories in the archives that addresses whether relevant records would have been destroyed for self-protection, catalogued in ways that mean they're not discoverable, or described using terminology that is now considered offensive:
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2021/07/uncovering-lgbtq-rural-histories-in-archives/

Sign an open letter to stop the Robert Menzies Institute, a prime ministerial library and museum at the University of Melbourne established by Liberal Party think-tank the Menzies Research Centre: https://stopmenziesinstitute.wordpress.com/open-letter-to-stop-the-robert-menzies-institute/

Australian research in search personalisation: https://www.admscentre.org.au/searchexperience/

This looks interesting: a framework for assessing collections of archival scientific records for the purpose of data curation: https://doi.org/10.13016/1zmx-ghhq

Have only just figured out what those messages at 4am from my English friends asking if we were all ready were about. The football GIFs should probably have been a giveaway. Obviously, I was not at all ready.

I started reading a book about Jewish anarchists and anarchism - There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart, edited by Cindy Milstein - over Shabbat and as a consequence of that I'm now listening to anti-Zionist klezmer on Bandcamp. Feeling good about my life choices. https://brivele.bandcamp.com/album/a-little-letter

National Archives gets funding for digitisation: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-01/national-archives-of-australia-receives-urgent-federal-funding/100257692

The program for the 2021 Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) is out: http://aeri.website/events/category/virtual-aeri-2021/2021-07/ This year there's no central registration or participation fee. Just sign up for any sessions you're interested in. You can read abstracts for the sessions here: http://aeri.website/virtual-aeri-2021-abstracts/

"I thought the library was my home.
The doctor thought Aspergers syndrome.
[...]
I can fly, in this world.
I have a brain, I feel no shame.
And to the world, I say it loud:
I am a nerd, and I am proud."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOX7ls2cPhc

Ugh, my keyboard broke. It had a number pad on the left, because I find that when it's on the right keyboard I have to stretch too far to reach the mouse. Now I'm back to using an old keyboard with a number pad on the right again, and my mouse is too far away, and my shoulder hurts. Maybe I should get a new keyboard with no number pad and avoid the problem entirely. @petrichor, was it you who was looking at keyboards recently? Any recommendations?

Reviewing our research data management online training. Was a little sad to have to correct 'data breeches' to 'data breaches'. Started imagining the data breaches that would no doubt result from data breeches, and found, to my horror, that smart trousers are on the verge of actually existing. Okay, one product was an April Fool, but they are already creating wearable products out of quite a few smart fabrics and e-textiles.

Njeri from ONYX Pages hosted a discussion with A Song Below Water author Bethany C. Morrow recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOl5MpvlocQ

She talks about the importance of solidarity and sisterhood between black women, the inspiration behind the magical creatures in the book, and the experience of intergenerational trauma in racialised communities. It really added to my appreciation of the book.

#SFFBookClub

Some interesting thoughts on long term maintenance of digital infrastructure: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/code-as-infrastructure/

Is this the nerdiest paper ever? Using the FRBR model as a conceptual framework for data versioning: https://datascience.codata.org/articles/10.5334/dsj-2021-012/