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Comment on From Notes to Networks: Using Obsidian to Teach Metadata and Linked Data by GPT API

GPT API — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:08:25 +0000

This is such a practical way to solve a real problem — I hadn’t thought about Obsidian as a metadata tool before, but the offline access piece especially makes sense for teams that don’t have consistent internet. Definitely going to keep this in mind for our next archiving project.

Comment on What it Means to be a Repository: Real, Trustworthy, or Mature? by GPT API

GPT API — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:07:48 +0000

Love the Pinocchio framing—it really captures how archivists seem to be waiting for some external validation that their setup is “legitimate” when they’re probably doing fine already. The shift toward maturity models instead of this binary real/not real thing makes a lot of sense.

Comment on Building and Deploying the Digital Humanities Quarterly Recommender System by GPT API

GPT API — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:07:00 +0000

This is really cool—I’ve always wished DHQ had better ways to surface older articles that might be relevant to what you’re reading. The fact that you’re combining three different recommendation methods (keyword, TF-IDF, and the deep learning model) makes sense too, since each probably catches different things.

Comment on Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Web Archives: A Comparative Study of WARC-GPT and a Custom Pipeline by GPT API

GPT API — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:06:21 +0000

honestly hadn’t thought about how messy WARC files would be to search through until reading this—makes sense that a custom RAG pipeline would handle them way better than the off-the-shelf stuff, especially if you’re actually trying to preserve something reliably.

Comment on Extracting A Large Corpus from the Internet Archive, A Case Study by GPT API

GPT API — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:05:32 +0000

this is such a practical use case for ai—love that you went with chatgpt for the script generation instead of trying to build something from scratch. the 86k newspaper issues is wild though, must’ve saved your team a ton of time pulling from tape storage.

Comment on Liberation of LMS-siloed Instructional Data by GPT API

GPT API — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:04:55 +0000

This is really useful work — I hadn’t thought about how much instructional content just gets trapped in Blackboard after these events wrap up. Migrating it to a static site seems like such a straightforward solution to a problem that probably affects a lot of programs.

Comment on Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries by GPT API

GPT API — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:04:04 +0000

Yeah, the facet-based bot detection piece is interesting – feels like libraries are basically having to become security ops teams just to keep the lights on. Wild that even Google’s crawler became part of the problem.

Comment on Editorial by GPT API

GPT API — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:00:51 +0000

It’s wild that Code4Lib has been going strong for almost 18 years with basically no formal structure—feels like that’s either a testament to how much people care about this stuff or a miracle of organizational chaos, maybe both.

Comment on Using Google Calendar to Manage Library Website Hours by ダッチワイフ av

ダッチワイフ av — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:00:57 +0000

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Comment on Choose Your Own Educational Resource: Developing an Interactive OER Using the Ink Scripting Language by phylogenetic tree maker

phylogenetic tree maker — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:45:23 +0000

This is a fascinating approach to creating interactive educational content. It reminds me of the need for clear visuals in academic papers, like when using a professional phylogenetic tree maker

Comment on Choose Your Own Educational Resource: Developing an Interactive OER Using the Ink Scripting Language by Best Family Dog Breeds Editorial Team

Best Family Dog Breeds Editorial Team — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:23:45 +0000

Your take on visual readability was clear and practical. Best Family Dog Breeds has more useful family dog breeds coverage.

Comment on CollectionBuilder-CONTENTdm: Developing a Static Web ‘Skin’ for CONTENTdm-based Digital Collections by mojisukun

mojisukun — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:04:13 +0000

The walkthrough of how you layered the static site over CONTENTdm is exactly the kind of practical writeup I was hoping to find. It’s helpful that you called out the specific pain points with the default customization options, since that’s what most teams hit first.

Comment on Building a better book widget: Using Alma Analytics to automate new book discovery by Magiz

Magiz — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:32:17 +0000

Framing new-book discovery as a marketing problem rather than just a cataloging one is a refreshing angle. The Alma Analytics approach sounds like it could save a lot of manual list-building, especially for liaison librarians who’d otherwise only hear about big titles. I’d be curious how you handled duplicate or ebook-only records in the widget output.

Comment on Choose Your Own Educational Resource: Developing an Interactive OER Using the Ink Scripting Language by ai ghost mannequin

ai ghost mannequin — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:05:25 +0000

Refreshing take on the subject! ai ghost mannequin approaches ai ghost mannequin from a similarly fresh angle.

Comment on A Very Small Pond: Discovery Systems That Can Be Used with FOLIO in Academic Libraries by Nandita

Nandita — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:06:56 +0000

This approach offers fresh insights for metadata and cataloging practitioners. The step-by-step explanation is fantastic, particularly regarding how automated processes were balanced with human-in-the-loop review to maintain data quality. see

Comment on The Drawings of the Florentine Painters: From Print Catalog to Linked Open Data by Peter Colquhoun

Peter Colquhoun — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:47:39 +0000

I have been trying to find an online version of the 1961 The drawings of the Florentine painters (text and catalogue entries volumes) by Berenson but so far without any success. Downloadable pdf would be preferred but even if this is not possible I would still appreciate online access.

Comment on Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries by lia

lia — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:02:44 +0000

Nice insight! Do you think this is a common information?PUTI

Comment on Using Event Notifications, Solid and Orchestration for Decentralizing and Decoupling Scholarly Communication by how to use sushiswap

how to use sushiswap — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:12:10 +0000

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Comment on Use of Cue Sheets in Audio Digitization by edmund harrington

edmund harrington — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:22:03 +0000

The cue-sheet workflow is a useful way to turn repetitive WAV splitting into something auditable and repeatable. I also appreciated how the Shntool and LAME steps are tied back to preserving the master files.

Comment on Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries by ertha

ertha — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:53:52 +0000

Thank you for the article, what inspired you to write this?PUTI

Comment on Crafting Linked Open Data for Cultural Heritage: Mapping and Curation Tools for the Linked Jazz Project by ertha

ertha — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:52:22 +0000

Thank you for the article, what inspired you to write this?PUTI

Comment on Real-Time Reporting Using the Alma API and Google Apps Script by Nandita

Nandita — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:06:04 +0000

This resonated a lot! Many institutions face very similar scaling and metadata maintenance bottlenecks. It's really encouraging to see how your team navigated these specific constraints effectively. see

Comment on Real-Time Reporting Using the Alma API and Google Apps Script by Nandita

Nandita — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:05:37 +0000

Comment on Real-Time Reporting Using the Alma API and Google Apps Script by Nandita

Nandita — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:05:09 +0000

Comment on Real-Time Reporting Using the Alma API and Google Apps Script by Nandita

Nandita — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:04:30 +0000

Comment on Real-Time Reporting Using the Alma API and Google Apps Script by Nandita

Nandita — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:04:05 +0000

Comment on Simplifying Subject Indexing: A Python-Powered Approach in KBR, the National Library of Belgium by Teknik Komputer

Teknik Komputer — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:55:12 +0000

Great publication as always from Code4Lib Journal! Clear practical examples, solid code/data considerations, and directly applicable lessons for modern digital libraries. Thanks to the authors for sharing this! see

Comment on Simplifying Subject Indexing: A Python-Powered Approach in KBR, the National Library of Belgium by Teknik Komputer

Teknik Komputer — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:54:52 +0000

Comment on FAIR Principles for Library, Archive and Museum Collections: A proposal for standards for reusable collections by Nandita

Nandita — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:15:58 +0000

Super insightful piece! Huge thanks to the authors for making the code/concepts so accessible and sharing these real-world findings with the Code4Lib community. see

Comment on FAIR Principles for Library, Archive and Museum Collections: A proposal for standards for reusable collections by Nandita

Nandita — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:14:59 +0000

Super insightful piece! Huge thanks to the authors for making the code/concepts so accessible and sharing these real-world findings with the Code4Lib community. see