L ike every year I drafted an end-of-year newsletter round-up for The Comics Grid this year. 2022 was our 12th year and therefore our 12th volume. I’d like to personally thank everyone involved in the production of the Grid: without everyone’s participation nothing would have been possible. For personal preservation purposes I have copied and pasted below the text from the newsletter.
In a blog post last week I talked about what I am currently working on, namely a) helping to make it easier (and safer) to run the InvenioRDM digital repository software in Docker container infrastructure, and b) working on converting the bolognese metadata conversion Ruby gem to Python to enhance InvenioRDM functionality.
On Friday 16 December 2022, Linda Berube will present our paper ‘My Heart Goes Boom Boom!”: Understanding the Experience of Reading Digital Comics’ at the Margins 22 conference.
Researchers, librarians, policy makers, and practitioners often complain about the scholarly publishing system, but the system also offers exciting opportunities to contribute to innovations in the way academic findings are disseminated and evaluated.
In August 2021 I joined the InvenioRDM project to help develop and host a modern repository platform for scholarly content. Things didn't exactly go as planned at the beginning of 2022, and I spent five months in the hospital with serious personal health issues. Since returning home in early June, my health has improved considerably, and in September I was able to slowly start working again.
Since last year this blog is powered by the Ghost open source blogging platform. Two important and long-standing shortcomings of the platform were search and comments, which I added via integrating third-party tools (Typesense and Discourse, respectively). In the last several weeks Ghost team has worked hard to add these features to the core platform, described here and here.
In January I woke up one day and couldn't move my right arm and leg properly. As I have high blood pressure, and my father had a stroke the exact day seven years ago, I worried that I might have a stroke and went to the emergency room of the local university hospital.
Weniger Cookie-Banner, weniger Werbung, mehr Transparenz und Verbraucher*innenschutz? Ein neues EU-Gesetz verspricht ein besseres Internet. Es nimmt dabei die großen Tech-Plattformen wie Meta, Google oder Amazon in den Fokus und die Verantwortung. Wir stellen die europäischen Pläne vor. Wie können große digitale Plattformen demokratisch kontrolliert werden? Welche Standards sollen im Netz gelten? Und wie lassen sie sich durchsetzen?
Während Rechteinhaber*innen die Einführung von Uploadfiltern bejubelten, sahen Kritiker*innen die Meinungsfreiheit bedroht. Der Europäische Gerichtshof hat jetzt Zweifel an der Reform und speziell an der Verwendung von Uploadiltern ausgeräumt. Gleichzeitig nimmt er die Mitgliedstaaten in die Pflicht.
I am very happy to announce the publication of The Comics Grid’s latest special collection, out now in technicolour open access.