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Jason Griffey is the Executive Director of the Open Science Hardware Foundation. Prior to joining OSHF, he was the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he worked to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise was useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of Library IT and a tenured professor at the University of TN at Chattanooga.
Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently a chapter in Library 2035 - Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries by Rowman & Littlefield. His latest full-length work Standards - Essential Knowledge, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, was published by MIT Press in March 2025.
He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.
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Tons of fun at the 4th of J
Tons of fun at the 4th of July fireworks last night, and tossing frisbee with Abe and the gang beforehand. Got a few good pics, and since I mentioned Gallery before and finally got some pics up, take a look.
Question for Justin: I know you use Gallery as well….have you have issues with it being buggy at times? Mine seems to only want to upload 2 pics or less…not sure if there's a size restriciton on uploads somewhere that I'm missing. Also, does your install sometimes force you to logout and login to continue working with it? Mine locks occasionally. Figured I'd just ask here. 🙂
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Excellent technology day to
Excellent technology day today….finally managed to get Gallery (thanks Justin for the recommendation!) working, and now bets and I can start our online photo repository for our respective families to view. Nice.
It took a little bit of work…first wasn't happy with a missing program, then it wouldn't recognize the correct path for the photos themselves. Now I just need to figure out which CSS sections deal with which parts of the HTML, and I can figure out how to customize it a bit. Woo Hoo!
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Don't know who e
Don't know who else picked this out of the blogsphere, but Harvard now has an official privacy policy and terms of use for blogging by students. Even more interesting, the _default_ is a Creative Commons license.
Story from Scripting News:
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Some quick
snapshots from the convention this weekend, to give you guys who aren't gamers
some sense of what it's like. Click on a picture for an enlargement.
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Ok gang…I'm back, an
Ok gang…I'm back, and exhausted after nearly 1000 miles on the road, 4 days in Columbus, and something like 20 hours of sleep over those 4 days. Lots of game playing, lots of seeing friends…I'll have pics up later for those of you that have no idea what a gaming convention looks like. 🙂
But the blogging will resume.
Glad to be back.
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Just a quick blog….just m
Just a quick blog….just made it to Cincy, OH. 8 hours, 15 minutes door to door, with two quick pit stops. Not a bad drive, actually. Dinner tonight, then Columbus bound for Origins. Lots of pictures forthcoming from that, but no access after tomorrow…so it'll be up next week.
Have a great weeked, guys!
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Betsy and I were having a d
Betsy and I were having a discussion today about wierd names in our family. Mine just has a LOT of old fashioned, sort of “mountain” names. Here's a short list:
Van
Jorene
Thurman
Acey
Flo
Bernice (pronounced, for some reason, Ber-ness, no long e for the i)
Check (short for Chester)
Vida Lou (pronounced VYE-DA, not VEE-DA)
Not a lot of names that you'd find on birth certificates now. None of them appear in the top 1000 names from the last 12 years.
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Round-up of Links About SCOTUS Decision to Censor Library Internet Access.
Not too much new to report about the SCOTUS censorship decision yet, but here are more links from around the web. Some librarians are reporting calls from companies selling filtering software already. Oy.
- Read the opinion itself at the SCOTUS site or at FindLaw
- News.com: Supreme Court Backs Library Net Filters
- New York Times: Effort to Equip Libraries With Internet Filters Is Allowed
- Washington Post: Supreme Court Upholds Internet Filters
- Slashdot: US Supreme Court Upholds CIPA
- Yahoo News: Court OKs Anti-Porn Filters in Libraries
- TeleRead: Needed: A Mega-PAC to Undo Big Bro's Library Filtering
Look twice at that Yahoo News headline – it refers to the Court approving “anti-porn” filters in libraries. What they fail to mention is that there's a heck of a lot more content than just porn that is also being blocked.
I want to make sure that I note that this ruling currently applies only to those libraries that accept federal e-rate money for technology and telecommunications. Unfortunately, with the funding situation facing most libraries today, many don't have a choice. And as Andrew Mutch implied in his message, it's a good bet that Congress will try to apply this logic to ALL federal funding now, which means pretty much every library everywhere.
It will be interesting to see if this applies to wireless internet within a library, too. What a major step backwards that would be.
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For those that might have m
For those that might have missed it, big defeat in library land today. Have I mentioned that I'm really not happy with the political leanings of our government right now? I think this is a poor reading of the first amendment, as well as detrimental to libraries public trust. Hopefully something like SquidGuard or something much like it will become the defacto standard for library filtering, since it's free (as in beer and speech) and it allows you to control the filtering in a plain text file. No hidden commercial filters would be great, and since the CIPA isn't specific on WHAT libraries should filter in order to continue to recieve federal funding, perhaps they could just install something like squidguard, block…oh…goatse.cx (the perennial joke on Slashdot), and then leave access to the rest of the web alone. Would that satisfy CIPA?