Notices by Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)

"The Book of Endless History is a deep dream of sorts — an infinite encyclopedia produced by an AI trained on the collective works of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. It is an experiment in narrative generation and machine learning."

https://bookofendlesshistory.com/about

Lining up some winter break reading

Bookmark: 2018 Festival of Maintenance (recordings) https://festivalofmaintenance.wordpress.com/2018-event/ - Maintainers can be found in many contexts, including nature, software, infrastructure, communities, industry, information, arts and heritage. The Festival brings together traditional disciplines of maintenance, repair and stewardship, with new forms such as supporting digital products, sustaining open source software, and moderating online communities.

Bookmark: Sea change: What happens when Jupyter becomes pervasive at a university? - O'Reilly Media https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/sea-change-what-happens-when-jupyter-becomes-pervasive-at-a-university via @mcburton #jupyter #video

"The Data Transfer Project eliminates the need to download data at all. Instead, data is transferred directly between service providers."

https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project

This is probably good for Google et al, and for usability, but it's not great for actually owning your data. Who interoperates with who, and how, will be very significant. More at:

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/07/introducing-data-transfer-project.html

The Documenting the Now project (which I've been lucky to be a part of) published its ethics white paper today about archiving social media in times of protest.

https://news.docnow.io/documenting-the-now-ethics-white-paper-43477929ea3e

The findings in short are:

Bookmark: [toread] OAuth for the Open Web • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/2018/07/07/7/oauth-for-the-open-web #oauth #identity #protocol #web

social.coop is looking for volunteers for its admin ops team:

https://www.loomio.org/d/e49bvwiA/place-to-dicuss-the-formation-of-the-tech-admin-ops-team-proposal-

I think it will be an opportunity to meet and collaborate with other co-op members as well as learn how platform cooperatives work at a very practical level. See you there?

Bookmark: webtorrent/webtorrent: ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent #bittorrent #javascript #web

Oh you know, searching through 20 years of CSS, JavaScript, HTML and source code for hard coded http URLs.

#ssl #y2018k

Martus is an interesting case study in the sustainability of human rights software tools:

https://benetech.org/martus-sunsets-human-rights-data-collection/

also:

https://martus.org/#News

It sounds like security vulnerabilities in SSL, changing Java APIs, & the sheer weight of maintaining 370,458 lines of Java were a significant factor. The shifting landscapes of funding & new approaches also seemed to play a part.

It’s good to see open discussion of the issues.

Writing for the multiverse in HTML.

https://inkdroid.org/2018/05/13/multiverse/

Or, some thoughts about writing on the web while reading @jr_carpenter's An Ocean of Static.

archives all the way down.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://archive.is/

Renee Saucier is talking about how an archivist at Duke University opted to *not* digitize a collection donated by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of concerns about how open access could recirculate hate materials. #eaw18

@ntnsndr and then there are web archiving practices, which is an area I'm specifically studying as a PhD student. The huge force here is the Internet Archive who have been working on nothing short of archiving the entire web. If this sounds like a crazy idea it kind of is, but it's more of an aspirational goal than what is actually happening. There are also organizations around the world that archive web content, a lot of which (but not all) is open. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Internet_Preservation_Consortium

I'm a big fan of the Web's DIY culture. But I wonder if sometimes we focus too much on the open source technologies that let anyone publish on the web (e.g. https://selfhostedweb.org/ https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club) instead of the social hacking needed to form collectives that are more resilient than an individuals DNS registration and server setup. If you have thoughts about that I'd love to hear them.

I work at the intersection of information technology and anthropology, and am interested in how web & archival practices are enacted in people's daily lives & as part of their communities.

I've worked as a software developer & designer in the open source community for the last 20 years. (Oh, shit, I guess that means I'm old.)

Thanks for the opportunity to join you all here on social.coop!

#introduction