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- Migration from 7.x to 9.x may be a useful discussion at some point?
- Open Repositories highlights?
- AI integrations?
- Annif Subject Indexing
- Challenge of absorbing infrastructure burden posed by accesses from AI bots
- Paying for 'for-profit' tech corporations to harvest our public resources for their benefit
- 'Open as possible and closed when necessary'
- AI: Tension between cost of AI on public infrastructure vs. emerging possibilities
- Segueway: University of Virginia Archival AI Protocol: https://libraopen.library.virginia.edu/entities/publication/4dd278d9-b75c-423a-a9e9-3053be4f37d7
- Aspirational vs. pragmatic
- AI integrations?
- General consensus: Virtual and Hybrid conferences are preferable over purely in-person conferences since they're more financially accessible, recordings are available if folks can't attend sessions synchronously or need reviews, etc.
Upcoming Conferences:
- North American User Group Meeting in September
Accessibility
- Any interest in participating in these groups?
- Julia Gilmore - text tooltips
- Can we build off the work of UX groups
- Submissions and policy guidelines for encouraging people to submit PDF/As, etc.
- Questions about integrating file checkers to assess accessibility
- US accessibility law (ADA Title II), risk of institution being sued for inaccessible content
- Remediating pdfs is labour-intensive
- Automated means would be amazing if that were possible
- OA published articles are generally terrible for accessibility
Call Attendees
Noor Alifa Ardianingrum FAO (version 7.2, Atmire-hosted, upgrading to 9 in fall)
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