The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has published a statement specifying three significant challenges arising from #ArtificialIntelligence. @coar_repositories cite 1) lack of attribution, 2) #misinformation, and 3) aggresive #bots, as emerging problems to be navigated.

Navigating the Uneasy Interdependence of #AI and #OpenScience https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/navigating-the-uneasy-interdependence-of-ai-and-open-science/ #repositories #OpenResearch #GenAI #DigitalLibraries #scholcomm

Recruiting real users for your #lab-based experiments for #DigitalLibrary #HCI research is a real drag, isn't it? Lean into an #LLM agent instead!

"[Our agent] generates realistic user profiles and dynamic #search sessions that closely mimic actual search strategies, including #querying, clicking, and stopping behaviors [...] accuracy in replicating real user interactions has been validated through comparisons with real user data."

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.22529 #DigitalLibraries #GenAI

What? RLUK Repositories Symposium.
Where? British Library, London.
When? Friday, 08 May 2026, 0930-1715.

The symposium theme is 'Securing, Sustaining, and Sharing the Future of UK #Repositories'.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rluk-repositories-symposium-tickets-1982282261606 #RLUK #DigitalLibraries #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenData

Tired of phishing scams while looking for #ZLibrary? 📚

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#AI #ZLibrary #Zlib #Ebooks #Privacy #DigitalLibraries #Automation #IndieDev #DotNet

Do you or your organization use #EPrints software to power a #repository? If so, you might be interested in supporting a new #governance structure for the software. Community participation is being sought for the new EPrints Steering Committee and Maintainers group. Interested? Get involved!

Full details, including how to register interest, available here: https://community.eprints.org/2026/02/06/governance-participation-invited/ #repositories #DigitalLibraries #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenData #scholcomm

Very helpfully @coar_repositories have published the outcome of the 'Dealing with #Bots Task Group'. Thanks! This includes a toolkit for #repository managers devised around the phases: Preparation, Protection and Mitigation. Essential reading for any institution with one or more repositories -- or indeed any digital library or archive. Let's bust the abusive bots!

Dealing With Bots: A #COAR Resource for Repository Managers
https://dealing-with-bots.coar-repositories.org/ #repositories #DigitalLibraries #LLMs

A useful exploration of #AI assistants in #search, using the Primo Research Assistant (PRA) as a case study. This is especially relevant to research #libraries because, anecdotally at least, many libraries have disabled the PRA. The results here suggest a more nuanced approach to whether institutions should choose to enable or disable.

AI-Infused Discovery Environments
Information #Retrieval Boon or Overpromised Hype? https://doi.org/10.5860/ital.v44i4.17465 #InformationRetrieval #DigitalLibraries

An inspiring essay from @kiru setting out a potential curriculum for a bibliographic #DataScience training course. "...for those who already have some knowledge in one of the relevant fields (e.g., library science, cultural history, literary sociology, information technology)".

An outline of an imagined training course on #bibliographic #data science https://bibliodata.substack.com/p/an-outline-of-an-imagined-training #DigitalLibraries #metadata #DigitalHumanities

#CFP

Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2026)

📍 Thessaloniki
📅 02/07/2026

A venue for research on digital libraries & musicology: music encodings, MIR, archives, interfaces, metadata, workflows & computational analysis. Satellite event of IAML 2026.

Deadline: 23/01/2026

https://dlfm.web.ox.ac.uk/2026-cfp

#Musicology #DigitalMusicology #DigitalLibraries #SoundStudies #MIR #ComputationalMusicology #ComputationalMusicProcessing

De Marque Arrives in Rwanda – a Big Boost for One of Africa’s Digital Hubs

De Marque launches in Rwanda, highlighting the country’s rise as a digital publishing hub and its growing potential to transform reading and education.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/11/17/de-marque-rwanda-digital-publishing-hub/

#Africa #DigitalLibraries #Rwanda #RwandaDeMarque #Rwandadigitallibraries

Come work with us! 😀 Our team is seeking a #Repository Team Leader to oversee the operational delivery of University of Glasgow's portfolio of 'Enlighten' open #repositories. Love open repositories? Love the related domains of #metadata and open #scholarship?! Love supporting #research excellence?! If the answer to any of these questions is 'yes' then this job could be for you!

Details in the link. Happy to take DM enquiries.

https://www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/repository-team-leader-enlighten-services #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #DigitalLibraries

RE: https://glammr.us/@universalviewer/115542994436445391

Should be of interest to anyone working in or with #iiif #digitisation #DigitalLibraries #dh #UniversalViewer #learning

⏳⏳⏳4 days left (November 7, 2025, AoE) to submit your work to the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc).

CFP: https://sites.google.com/view/langarc-2025

#JCDL2025 #digitallibraries

⏳⏳⏳4 days left (November 7, 2025, AoE) to submit your work to the workshop: Beyond Search Engines: Intelligent Knowledge Discovery From Scholarly Publications

CFP: https://besides-workshop.github.io/

#JCDL2025 #digitallibraries

⏳⏳⏳4 days left (November 7, 2025, AoE) to submit your work to the 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for the Science of Science (AI4SciSci).

CFP: https://ai4scisci.github.io/2025/

#JCDL2025 #digitallibraries

⏳⏳⏳4 days left (November 7, 2025, AoE) to submit your work to the workshop Smarter Extraction of ScholArly MEtadata using Knowledge Graphs and Language Models (SESAME).

CFP: https://sesame-workshop.github.io/SESAME/

#JCDL2025 #digitallibraries

⏳⏳⏳4 days left (November 7, 2025, AoE) to submit your work to the accepted workshops:
- SESAME
- AI4SciSci
- Beyond Search Engines: Intelligent Knowledge Discovery From Scholarly Publications
- LangArc

https://2025.jcdl.org/accepted-workshops-and-tutorials/

#JCDL2025 #digitallibraries

Johanna Mauermann just published a new blog post about her experience at #TPDL2025. She attended the conference to present a joint paper on studying model design biases in LLMs for multilingual historical newspaper extraction.

Read the full post here: https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/7898

#DHLab_IEG #DigitalLibraries #DigitalHumanities

📢Aujourd'hui et demain 14-15 oct., MathDoc, cellule de coordination documentaire nationale pour les #mathématiques, fête ses 30 ans 🎉🎈🥳 ! Joyeux anniversaire.
Remember #digitallibraries folks : vers 2003, il n'y avait en gros que Gallica et ...Numdam #oldies
=> https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/14572/
#maths #openscience #france

#SolarSPELL (a Solar Powered Digital Library Device) Named a TIME 'Best Invention' https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318502/solarspell/?filters=social-impact ||| Learn More in this Arizona St. University Post https://news.asu.edu/20251009-local-national-and-global-affairs-asu-solarspell-initiative-named-time-best-invention #socialimpact #digitallibraries #libraries