Kevin Ashley’s (DCC director) closing remark at the IDCC (International Digital Curation Conference) 2024 meeting was “ Reflect, Enjoy, Do something! ”. Hopefully you will enjoy my doing something.

The package qualtRics maintained by Julia Silge together with Joseph O’Brien provides functions to access survey results directly into R using the Qualtrics API. Qualtrics is an online survey and data collection software platform.Help test or improve qualtRics! Are you a heavy user of the Qualtrics survey tooling in general, and of the qualtRics R package in particular? Then you can help build and test the package.How to help?

Vor wenigen Tagen konnten wir den ersten Bericht zum Open-Access-Monitoring für das Land Brandenburg vorlegen.

When training PhD students and other postgraduates, we often have a section on publication. It covers the basic background process, the rudiments of peer review, and what to expect. There is often, also, a lengthy discussion of ensuring that you publish in the place that will do most for your career. What is the _prestige_ status of the journal, for instance?

The package targets maintained by Will Landau, and its companion packages, are pipeline tools, that coordinate the pieces of computationally demanding analysis projects.Help sustain targets discussion forums!

En la última entrada sobre collatio hablé del potencial de la edición asistida por ordenadores.

re3data Call for Editorial Board The re3data.org registry has been in operation for over 10 years and provides a curated index of over 3,000 research data repositories around the world from all disciplines. New repositories are identified and reviewed by an international editorial board who bring different subject, language, and cultural backgrounds to catalog and represent a diverse and ever-growing data repository landscape.

Künstliche Intelligenz, aber reguliert? Die EU legt die weltweit erste Verordnung vor, um die Potentiale und Risiken von KI-Systemen gesetzlich zu regeln. Der AI-Act enthält Transparenz-Pflichten für KI-Anbieter, Regelungen zu Deep Fakes, hohem Energieverbrauch und zu einigem mehr. KI-Systeme wie beispielsweise ChatGPT können Bewerbungen schreiben, Reisen planen, Studienarbeiten verfassen und sogar Kunstwerke nachahmen oder Stimmen imitieren.

The best thing about collaborations is that I get to work with amazing colleagues from around the world.

Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT into organizations’ data workflows is a complex process with various challenges. These obstacles include but are not limited to technical, operational, ethical, and legal dimensions, each presenting hurdles that organisations must navigate to harness the full potential of LLMs effectively.