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Tom Elliott<p>Via a post by Greg Lindahl in the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a> slack:</p><p>“Common Crawl Foundation Opt-Out Registry.” Common Crawl Blog, September 17, 2025. <a href="https://commoncrawl.org/blog/common-crawl-foundation-opt-out-registry" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commoncrawl.org/blog/common-cr</span><span class="invisible">awl-foundation-opt-out-registry</span></a>.</p><p>"Publishers have been sending Common Crawl legal opt-out requests. In the interest of transparency and to better serve our ecosystem, we are publishing the full opt-out list for every legal request we have received."</p>
Arty-chan (Cynthia)<p>We're hosting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Code4lib</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BC</span></a> at Emily Carr on October 16 &amp; 17. If you're interested in the intersection of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archives</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a>, join us!</p><p>Registration, proposals, bursary and more info: <a href="https://wiki.code4lib.org/BC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wiki.code4lib.org/BC</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vancouver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vancouver</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Code4LibBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Code4LibBC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibTech</span></a></p>
Osma Suominen<p>Version 1.4 of the Annif automated subject indexing tool has been released! 🚀 </p><p>• 3 new corpus formats (JSON, JSONL, CSV) supporting metadata + document IDs<br>• Include/exclude vocab concepts for better control<br>• annif index now supports short-text formats<br>• Faster hyperopt with parallel processing<br>• tfidf backend refactored (no gensim!)<br>• REST API improvements &amp; Python 3.13 support</p><p><a href="https://github.com/NatLibFi/Annif/releases/tag/v1.4.0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/NatLibFi/Annif/rele</span><span class="invisible">ases/tag/v1.4.0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Annif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Annif</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/subjectindexing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>subjectindexing</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a></p>
Ben Companjen 🟥<p>It took a little longer than usual, but it looks like we've successfully upgraded to the latest version 4.4.3 of Mastodon. 🥳 </p><p>cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://code4lib.social/@kayiwa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kayiwa</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://code4lib.social/@dltj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dltj</span></a></span> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a></p>
Ben Companjen 🟥<p>Hi <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a>, you may notice some hickups in the coming moments because I'm doing updates :)</p>
Sebastian Meyer<p>Für das Deutsche Literaturarchiv in Marbach habe ich vor einiger Zeit einen performanten OAI-PMH-Dienst entwickelt, um die ca. 3,5 Millionen bibliographischen Datensätze standardisiert in verschiedenen Formaten anbieten zu können. </p><p>Die Software ist selbstverständlich quelloffen und jetzt ist endlich auch die Dokumentation fertig.</p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/oaipmh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oaipmh</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://github.com/opencultureconsulting/oai-pmh2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/opencultureconsulti</span><span class="invisible">ng/oai-pmh2</span></a></p>
Ben Companjen 🟥<p>Hello <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a>, we're now running the latest Mastodon (v4.3.9).</p><p>cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://code4lib.social/@kayiwa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kayiwa</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://code4lib.social/@dltj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dltj</span></a></span></p>
Ben Companjen 🟥<p>Spoiler alert: "ALTO KNIGHTS" is *not* about OCR post-correction</p><p><a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/Code4Lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Code4Lib</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OCR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OCR</span></a></p>
#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈<p>Static Web Methodology as a Sustainable Approach to Digital Humanities Projects</p><p><a href="https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18372" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journal.code4lib.org/articles/</span><span class="invisible">18372</span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Code4Lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Code4Lib</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/StaticWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StaticWeb</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digipres</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DH</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/CollectionBuilder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollectionBuilder</span></a></p>
George Macgregor<p>New issue of the <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/Code4Lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Code4Lib</span></a> Journal published: <a href="https://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue60" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journal.code4lib.org/issues/is</span><span class="invisible">sues/issue60</span></a>. </p><p>Includes a contribution on <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenWEMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenWEMI</span></a> vocabulary from Karen Coyle.</p><p>OpenWEMI: A Minimally Constrained Vocabulary for Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item <a href="https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18412" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journal.code4lib.org/articles/</span><span class="invisible">18412</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DCMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DCMI</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/RDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RDF</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/FRBR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FRBR</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/LRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LRM</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/WEMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEMI</span></a></p>
Ben Companjen 🟥<p>PSA for <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a>: it's time for basic server maintenance, so you may notice a few interruptions.</p>
Ben Companjen 🟥<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://w3c.social/@hvdsomp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hvdsomp</span></a></span> Some are installing (Cloudflare) Turnstile(s) to redirect bots to. There was a presentation at <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a> a few weeks ago about it, after this blog post: <a href="https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/using-cloudflare-turnstile-to-protect-certain-pages-on-a-rails-app/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bibwild.wordpress.com/2025/01/</span><span class="invisible">16/using-cloudflare-turnstile-to-protect-certain-pages-on-a-rails-app/</span></a> .</p>
Daniel Opitz<p>Darf ich vorstellen: <a href="https://codeberg.org/weirdfox/mfs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">codeberg.org/weirdfox/mfs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Ein Tool, mit dem man Metadaten herunterladen kann. Gerade nur Publikationen über DOI von Crossref / DataCite / OpenAlex, wird aber in alle möglichen Richtungen erweitert. Nutze es um Rust zu lernen, ist aber ernst gemeint :)</p><p>Momentan eine sehr Alpha-Version verfügbar, von jeglicher produktiven Nutzung ist stark abzuraten.</p><p>Ich freue mich über Tipps, Ideen, Kritik!</p><p>Über neue Releases wird hier ebenfalls berichtet.</p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/metadaten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metadaten</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metadata</span></a></p>
Hector Correa<p>Loved the "Scaffolding Possibility: Systems, Stress, and Small Acts of Care" post by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://glammr.us/@platypus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>platypus</span></a></span> </p><p>"we are the people building small parts of the environment in which those around us live every day. If we’re not building systems, can we build scaffolds to get people to the things they need to live and thrive? Whether it’s just in a place designers didn’t expect them to go or somewhere they were actively shut out of?" </p><p><a href="https://ruthtillman.com/talk/c4l-scaffolding-possibility/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ruthtillman.com/talk/c4l-scaff</span><span class="invisible">olding-possibility/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a></p>
Osma Suominen<p>The first alpha version of Skosmos 3 has been published! This release provides a peek into the upcoming next major version of the Skosmos publishing tool for SKOS controlled vocabularies.</p><p>The release features a reimplemented front-end with a fresh layout and improved accessibility, as well as many architectural improvements and modernization of the codebase.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos/releases/tag/v3.0-alpha.1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos/re</span><span class="invisible">leases/tag/v3.0-alpha.1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Skosmos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skosmos</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/SKOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SKOS</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/thesaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thesaurus</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/classification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classification</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ontology</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
Coral<p>It, uh, probably isn't ethical to host <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/Code4Lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Code4Lib</span></a> in the US next year.</p><p>US academics also aren't going to have much in the way of travel funds, either.</p><p>Can we talk about an online-only conference now?</p>
Ben Companjen 🟥<p>Maintenance is done; server packages have been updated and we're now running the latest v4.3.6.<br>(cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://code4lib.social/@kayiwa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kayiwa</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://code4lib.social/@dltj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dltj</span></a></span> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a> )</p>
Ben Companjen 🟥<p>PSA for <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/code4lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code4lib</span></a> .social: I'm going to run updates and restart the server.</p>
Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]<p>The <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/Code4Lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Code4Lib</span></a> pet tax ++++ <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/c4l25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>c4l25</span></a></p>
Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]<p><a href="https://glammr.us/tags/Code4Lib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Code4Lib</span></a> is a very special place where breakouts can be:</p><p>- ArchivesSpace Discussion w/Program Team Devs (Friend Center 108)<br>- How to Index Subject Headings (Friend Center 109)<br>- How to Defend Yourself Against a Dagger-Armed Brigand in Quattrocento Italy (Reprise) (Courtyard)<br>- Digitization Workflows (Friend Center 110)<br>- Local and Open Source Discovery Systems (Friend Center 111)</p><p>etc. <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/c4l25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>c4l25</span></a> (once you see it)</p>