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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 23h

We are honored to receive an NDSA Digital Preservation Excellence award. In accepting the award, @lyndamk.bsky.social expressed how this work is only possible due to our volunteers who "have spent countless hours working to ensure that public data remains a public good that is publicly accessible."

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 19d

Making things in Global Asia

🗺️ Explore the new online exhibition by our @erc.europa.eu project CAPASIA 👉 loom.ly/ig-EXQY

The exhibit highlights the overlooked, but nonetheless worldmaking, role of Asian manufacturing in the global history of #earlymodern capitalism

🌐 #onlineexhibition #capitalism

Making Things in Global Asia Exhibition

Long before Asia became the epicentre of global manufacturing at the end of the twentieth century, it was home to sophisticated cultures of production in the early modern period (1500-1800). This rich...

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Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer.com · 17d

If you still want to give ocrmypdf a shot you can try installing it using homebrew. It might help to avoid dependency hell. In principle ocrmypdf is a pretty good. formulae.brew.sh/formula/ocrm...

ocrmypdf

Homebrew’s package index

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Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer.com · 17d

It‘s a great project. It can‘t reassemble PDFs yet though, it can only extract the content as Markdown, plain text, etc. I‘ve been meaning to write a plugin for Docling to reassemble PDFs using the methodology from ocrmypdf. Your post is a reminder for me to tackle this sometime soon 😅.

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Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer.com · 17d

Give Docling a try! It can using OCR using a tesseract backend as well as the latest state-of-the-art VLM models. github.com/docling-proj...

GitHub - docling-project/docling: Get your documents ready for gen AI

Get your documents ready for gen AI. Contribute to docling-project/docling development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer.com · 19d

Perhaps Omeka-S with the IIIF presentation module or the IIIF Server module enabled? omeka.org/s/docs/user-... gitlab.com/Daniel-KM/Om...

IIIF Presentation - Omeka S User Manual

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 25d

Robert Redford (1936-2025) 🤍

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · Sep 3

Y'all are ducking fantastic! Because of you and your efforts to #SaveOurSigns, we've collected more than 6000 photos from over 300 #NationalParks. Keep up the great work!

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · Sep 2

New DRP post is up. If you aren't familiar with the Federal Statistical System, we encourage you to learn more. And tell others. Be that data nerd in your family.

www.datarescueproject.org/the-federal-...

The Federal Statistical System Under Threat

Learn about the Federal Statistical System and ways to support it. Public data is a public good!

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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · Sep 2

Powerful presentation from @lyndamk.bsky.social of @datarescueproject.org on ongoing work to rescue and preserve digital and physical federal data targeted by the Trump administration www.datarescueproject.org #OpenFest25

Data Rescue Project

Preserving public data

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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · Sep 2

EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS today released Apertus, Switzerland's first large-scale, multilingual language model (LLM). As a fully open LLM, it serves as a building block for developers and organizations to create their own applications.
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Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for trans...

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · Aug 29

Struggling to participate in the Indian Ocean sea trade

Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article by Michael O'Sullivan on the evolution of Ottoman shipping in the Indian Ocean from 1650 to 1900 👉 buff.ly/GN9hF8G

Part of our CAPASIA @erc.europa.eu project research 👉 buff.ly/K57rhlr

📚 #Fridayreads

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Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer.com · Aug 29

Here we go, they're seriously coming after Wikipedia now: www.heise.de/en/news/Wiki...

Wikipedia: Republicans launch investigation

An investigative committee in the USA is demanding information from the Wikipedia Foundation within two weeks about suspected manipulation of content.

www.heise.de

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · Aug 28

🎙️ Say hello to OLMoASR—our fully open, from-scratch speech-to-text (STT) model. Trained on a curated audio-text set, it boosts zero-shot ASR and now powers STT in the Ai2 Playground. 👇

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · Aug 28

Great article about our work profiling @storytracer.com Thanks @zeit.de and @cendt.de

Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer.com · Aug 28

@zeit.de hat heute eine einen langen Artikel über das @datarescueproject.org veröffentlicht. @cendt.de schafft es in seinem Porträt, eindrücklich und verständlich zu erklären, warum öffentliche Daten in den USA vor der Löschung gerettet werden müssen. www.zeit.de/2025/37/date...

Datenlöschung in den USA: Ein Back-up der Realität

Die US-Regierung tilgt Informationen aus dem Internet, die nicht ins MAGA-Weltbild passen. Ein Mann aus Köln versucht, schneller zu sichern, als Trump löschen kann.

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Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer.com · Aug 28

@zeit.de hat heute eine einen langen Artikel über das @datarescueproject.org veröffentlicht. @cendt.de schafft es in seinem Porträt, eindrücklich und verständlich zu erklären, warum öffentliche Daten in den USA vor der Löschung gerettet werden müssen. www.zeit.de/2025/37/date...

Datenlöschung in den USA: Ein Back-up der Realität

Die US-Regierung tilgt Informationen aus dem Internet, die nicht ins MAGA-Weltbild passen. Ein Mann aus Köln versucht, schneller zu sichern, als Trump löschen kann.

www.zeit.de

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · Aug 24

Thank you for speaking out! We all work together to #SaveOurSigns

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · Aug 14

#DataRescuers, let's get #InFormation! Help us stay informed and submit any datasets that need rescuing to our Nominations Form:

Nominate Data in Need of Rescue | Baserow

Please fill out this form to nominate public datasets, data resources, and tools created and maintained by U.S. government organizations which may be in danger of deletion or alteration. After…

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 14

Absolutely necessary investment and good move by NVIDIA. Very hard to do science when you’re simultaneously trying to answer your research question, and figure out how your instruments were built and what they do.

NSF and NVIDIA award Ai2 a combined $152M to support building a national level fully open AI ecosystem | Ai2

Ai2 has been awarded a combined $152 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and...

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CNN @cnn.com · Aug 12

Trump's pick for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner suggests suspending monthly jobs report. cnn.it/4fvvr0u

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Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social · Aug 1

Amazing work by @lyndamk.bsky.social and @datarescueproject.org to preserve history in the face of fascism. #SaveOurSigns

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · Aug 1

In roughly six weeks, more than a dozen exhibits about slavery at Independence National Historical Park could be removed or covered up by the Department of Interior.

Philadelphians are trying to preserve or archive these sites before it could be too late.

Inside the fight to save more than a dozen Independence Park exhibits from potential Trump admin removal in September

Two Philadelphians are working to preserve or archive historic sites at Independence National Historical Park before items are removed or covered by the Trump administration in the fall.

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · Jul 28

Check out our latest data user story on essential data for flood predictions. www.datarescueproject.org/flood-predic...

Use public data? Share how you use it and why it matters!

#DataRescue #FloodData #NASA

Flood Predictions: A Data User Story

Today, we are back to featuring some data user stories. Thank you to Natasha Randall for sending this post about the importance of public data for her research on flood prediction. I am a PhD…

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · Jul 25

Another shout out for the #SaveOurSigns initiative, this time from @washingtonpost.com

wapo.st/40BHUJR

"Real history is not just happy stories." Thank you to everyone who has been able to contribute so far!

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · Jul 25

We ❤️ statistical agencies. We know you care about #DataRescue, but more needs to be done! Speak out!

"People take statistical agencies for granted. So they're easy to cut because there's no lobby or special interest group that's powerful enough to protect them."

www.reuters.com/business/us-...

US economic data quality a worry, authorities not acting urgently enough, experts say

Risks to the quality of official U.S. economic data - long seen as the gold standard - are worrying 89 of 100 top policy experts polled by Reuters, with most also concerned that the authorities are not addressing the issue urgently enough.

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