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Kathy Hart
@khhart.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Reading Historic Maps: A Practical Guide for Students and Educators! | World History Center | University of Pittsburgh
"Reading Historic Maps: A Practical Guide," created by WHC Research Affiliate Kathy Hart, is an educational resource designed to help students and educators better understand historic maps. Focusing o...
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Love #historic #maps but you’re not always able to interpret them? Check out my guide: www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/news/reading...
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A lot of immigrants are working on home health care so let’s deport all the immigrants
The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.
December 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
A lot of immigrants are working on home health care so let’s deport all the immigrants
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
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Archives can't digitize everything because
understaffed
underfunded
undervalued
overworked
volumes of materials
pre-/post-processing costs
copyright
ethical concerns
digital preservation issues
environmental impact
[...]
Most importantly: information is not in the content but in the context!
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understaffed
underfunded
undervalued
overworked
volumes of materials
pre-/post-processing costs
copyright
ethical concerns
digital preservation issues
environmental impact
[...]
Most importantly: information is not in the content but in the context!
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Wait until you hear that LLMs can only train on digitized/datafied info.
Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries.
Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized.
Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.
Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries.
Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized.
Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Archives can't digitize everything because
understaffed
underfunded
undervalued
overworked
volumes of materials
pre-/post-processing costs
copyright
ethical concerns
digital preservation issues
environmental impact
[...]
Most importantly: information is not in the content but in the context!
+
understaffed
underfunded
undervalued
overworked
volumes of materials
pre-/post-processing costs
copyright
ethical concerns
digital preservation issues
environmental impact
[...]
Most importantly: information is not in the content but in the context!
+
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Researchers and activists increasingly fear that under the Trump administration, the U.S. government is abdicating its historic role as a clearinghouse for reliable information.
Government’s historic role as trusted information source is under threat
The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Researchers and activists increasingly fear that under the Trump administration, the U.S. government is abdicating its historic role as a clearinghouse for reliable information.
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As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.
December 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.
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I just wrote a list of what I think are the 5 things the #PleiadesGazetteer needs most in 2026 (in no particular order):
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
Tom Elliott (@[email protected])
I just wrote a list of what I think are the 5 things the #PleiadesGazetteer needs most in 2026 (in no particular order):
1. bibliography curators/editors
2. day-to-day editor/reviewers (format, compl...
hcommons.social
December 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I just wrote a list of what I think are the 5 things the #PleiadesGazetteer needs most in 2026 (in no particular order):
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
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Join us for Linked Pasts 11, "Linking Knowledge Through Place: ISHI, WHG, & the Future of Gazetteer Collaboration", Tues 9 Dec 15:00 GMT. The @whgazetteer.org will introduce the new Institute for Spatial History Innovation and highlight recent WHG developments. Sign up here forms.gle/dzSq2GibT17n...
World Historical Gazetteer
Linking historical places across time and language.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Join us for Linked Pasts 11, "Linking Knowledge Through Place: ISHI, WHG, & the Future of Gazetteer Collaboration", Tues 9 Dec 15:00 GMT. The @whgazetteer.org will introduce the new Institute for Spatial History Innovation and highlight recent WHG developments. Sign up here forms.gle/dzSq2GibT17n...
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Great 'text on maps' work presented by Katie and Bert #FF2025
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev
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December 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Great 'text on maps' work presented by Katie and Bert #FF2025
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance | Common Dreams
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts.
www.commondreams.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
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"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking."
hmml.org/stories/reve...
hmml.org/stories/reve...
Reversal of Fates: Access Through Photographs can be a Counterbalance
“Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict...”
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November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking."
hmml.org/stories/reve...
hmml.org/stories/reve...
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As we celebrate this year’s #GeoWeek theme, “Making Spaces of Possibility,” what better spaces does our discipline have than libraries and archives that work to preserve materials?
Let's check out 4 incredible libraries and organizations and their work in conserving and promoting the discipline. ⬇️
Let's check out 4 incredible libraries and organizations and their work in conserving and promoting the discipline. ⬇️
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
As we celebrate this year’s #GeoWeek theme, “Making Spaces of Possibility,” what better spaces does our discipline have than libraries and archives that work to preserve materials?
Let's check out 4 incredible libraries and organizations and their work in conserving and promoting the discipline. ⬇️
Let's check out 4 incredible libraries and organizations and their work in conserving and promoting the discipline. ⬇️
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The program for the 6th Spatial Data Science Symposium is now online. Registration will open soon. The symposium is Dec 4 & 5. Plan to check out the Thematic Sessions, Paper Sessions, Emerging Researchers Panel, Keynotes, and Interview. sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net/program.html
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Cruelty really is the point. Who else would go to court begging for permission to starve their own citizens? Meanwhile, they send $40 billion to Argentina, buying two private jets for ICE “Barbie,” and Trump has already burned through $1 trillion in less than two months.
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Cruelty really is the point. Who else would go to court begging for permission to starve their own citizens? Meanwhile, they send $40 billion to Argentina, buying two private jets for ICE “Barbie,” and Trump has already burned through $1 trillion in less than two months.
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🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation
The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months.
The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open.
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The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months.
The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open.
🎁 Gift link:
Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson
At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force resigned after Roberts defended Carlson’s interview with antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
wapo.st
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation
The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months.
The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open.
🎁 Gift link:
The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months.
The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open.
🎁 Gift link:
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Don't miss our first #WorldCafe event on #SubjectAnalysis at the Wellcome Collection, London: 11:00-16:00 on 26th November.
Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies.
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies.
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
@cilipmdg.bsky.social invites participants to a WorldCafe Event @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on the topic of Subject Analysis & LCSH within the current metadata landscape.
Wed 26th November 2025 11:00-16:00
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
Wed 26th November 2025 11:00-16:00
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Don't miss our first #WorldCafe event on #SubjectAnalysis at the Wellcome Collection, London: 11:00-16:00 on 26th November.
Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies.
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
Contribute to the discussion on the use of LCSH and other subject heading vocabularies.
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics
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The Trump administration has billions of dollars to pay SNAP benefits, or food stamp, next month.
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Trump administration has billions of dollars to pay SNAP benefits, or food stamp, next month.
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
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In the present day, it’s easy to take maps for granted. But to make a #map useful, you have to decide what to keep in and what to leave out—which #mathematical equations to use. Mathematician Paulina Rowińska takes us on a journey through the math at the heart of all kinds of maps. buff.ly/pl6aJ1h
How Math Helps Us Map The World
In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In the present day, it’s easy to take maps for granted. But to make a #map useful, you have to decide what to keep in and what to leave out—which #mathematical equations to use. Mathematician Paulina Rowińska takes us on a journey through the math at the heart of all kinds of maps. buff.ly/pl6aJ1h
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WCK is serving free meals for furloughed federal workers impacted by the U.S. government shutdown. These meals are available to federal employees and their families. Below are locations and hours. #ChefsForFeds (1/2)
October 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
WCK is serving free meals for furloughed federal workers impacted by the U.S. government shutdown. These meals are available to federal employees and their families. Below are locations and hours. #ChefsForFeds (1/2)
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Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people
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BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.
Please Use it and SHARE!
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Please Use it and SHARE!
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Federal Action Reporting Form
Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start
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October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.
Please Use it and SHARE!
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Please Use it and SHARE!
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
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Donald Trump did what a hijacked airliner on 9/11 was stopped from doing by the people on it! 🤬
October 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Donald Trump did what a hijacked airliner on 9/11 was stopped from doing by the people on it! 🤬