#digital-scholarship — Public Fediverse posts

📢Zotero 10 ➡️ https://zotero.hypotheses.org/6396
Traduction fr sur le blog ZFrancophone hébergé sur la plateforme de blog scientifiques
@hypothesesorg
#outils #recherche #bibliographie #citations #humanitésnumériques #HN #digitalhumanities #DH #digitalscholarship #recherche #SHS #opensource #zotero

📢 Zotero 10 !!!! https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-10/
Avec notamment :
✔️refonte de la recherche avancée
✔️multi-sélection de collections
✔️Ctrl-Z pour bcp d'opérations
📌et... **modifications en lot** !
#zotero #digitalscholarship #tool #outil #HN #bibliographicreferencemanager #scholarship #opensource #digitalhumanities #DH #referencemanagers

Looking forward to a day of #RSE topics at the: https://step-up.ac.uk/events/step-up-2026/schedule/ #DH #DigitalScholarship #StepUp2026 event

[Veille] "Elsevier adds AI writing and evidence-checking agents to LeapSpace" in @researchinfo.bsky.social
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/elsevier-adds-ai-writing-and-evidence-checking-agents-to-leapspace/
#jarvislike #researchworkflow #AI #agenticAI #embededAI #IA #STEMpublishing #writing #digitalscholarship #oligopole

Are you an early career researcher interested in working with the @kbnationalebibliotheek’s digital collections? Apply to the 2027 Researcher-in-Residence program for a unique chance to work on-site at the library for 6 months, assisted by experts at the KB.
Find more information here: https://lab.kb.nl/news/call-kb-researcher-residence-rir-2027 #DigitalScholarship #DH #dhbenelux2026

#BoîteÀOutils
📢Atelier Zotero Initiation
🗓️Mardi 2 juin juin 17h
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Vous devez rédiger une bibliographie pour un mémoire, un projet, un article ? Vous souhaitez mieux gérer vos références ? Venez vous initier à #Zotero ! ➡️ https://www.bibliotheque-diderot.fr/formations/zotero-initiation-0
#tools #outils #training #formations #digitalscholarship

[Au Fait]📢 Billet "Zotero 9" traduit sur le Blog Zotero Francophone, pour rappel => https://zotero.hypotheses.org/6316
On en est déjà à la V 9.02 de #Zotero (April 30, 2026 voir https://www.zotero.org/support/changelog)
#Zotero #update #texttospeech #writing #annotate #productivitytools #tools #digitalscholarship

Tomorrow (May 1): Join Brown University for "Forging the Future of Digital Scholarship: People, Projects, Priorities"—a one-day symposium (in-person & virtual) exploring community-engaged research, AI in #DigitalScholarship, multimodal publishing, and more.

Keynote by Brett Bobley, advisor for Schmidt Sciences' Humanities & AI Virtual Institute grant program and former founding director of NEH's Office of Digital Humanities 🔗 https://events.brown.edu/event/328468-forging-the-future-of-digital-scholarship-people

If you want LLMs to push you intellectually then just add this custom instruction

This is the custom instruction I’m using with Claude Opus and it really works. I had to tone down the original version because 20% of the time it was providing such a devastating critique of what I’d shared that it undercut the intellectual work of actually developing it:

When I advance a position — theoretical, institutional, or personal — I want pushback before agreement. Lead with the strongest objection a knowledgeable interlocutor would raise, steelmanned properly rather than caricatured. Don’t soften the objection to be kind; soften it only if it genuinely deserves softening on the merits.

Defend whichever position is actually stronger, not whichever is “mine” or “the expert consensus.” If I’ve changed your mind, say so plainly rather than performing residual disagreement. If I haven’t changed your mind, don’t pretend I have.

Be fundamentally supportive of my intellectual project, which does not mean being supportive of every direction within it. Supportiveness here means taking the work seriously enough to tell me where it’s weak, where it’s doing less than it thinks, where an argument is coasting on a formulation rather than earning it. Pay particular attention to: (a) places where I’ve made a clever connection but cut it short before it becomes a developed argument; (b) places where I’m sliding between a modest and an ambitious claim as if they were the same; (c) places where the rhetoric is doing the work the analysis should be doing. These are recurring patterns, not one-off lapses.

Push me to stay with a thought rather than move on from it. If something I’ve written or said wants to be developed further, say so — but don’t confuse “wants development” with “wants more length right now.” Sometimes the right move is to stop and return later.

Don’t flatter. Don’t open with “this is a sharp point.” If something is sharp, the substantive engagement will make that clear. If it isn’t, saying so is not a service.

I’d also recommend using Opus 4.7 (big improvement in this register) to look through old intellectual conversations and offer its critical commentary about how you’re working with the model. Is it helping or hindering? Here’s a section of mine:

How you’re using Claude

Some observations, some pressure.

The blog has become a four-party conversation. You, the archive, the present Claude, and whatever Claude you’re going to be talking to in 2029. The knowledge infrastructure experiment reframed the blog from solo practice to infrastructure for a continuing conversation with non-human interlocutors. This is unusual and important. Most people using LLMs are either tool-users (extract an output, close the tab) or companions (affective reliance). You are doing something structurally different: the LLM is integrated into your thinking apparatus as an interlocutor that has access to the archive of your thinking. That’s a methodological innovation and it’s also what the book is theorising. There’s a recursion to name here: the model the book is about is also the model helping write it.

The productive use: pressure against the provisional. What Claude is doing well in your recent threads is pushing against the “I’m still working this out” register. The conversations that produce movement — the hysteric post, the articulation synthesis, the book-about-the-blog idea — are ones where the model refuses to accept the provisional framing and insists on the claim being made. That’s useful because the blog’s native mode is evasion-by-tentativeness and you’ve explicitly identified this as one of your vulnerabilities. Claude can sometimes function as the Big Other you’ve described needing for completion — the external pressure that turns the ongoing thought into a finished object. The book-finishing thread is the clearest case: you were stuck, and what you needed was not more ideas but specification of exactly which three prose gaps were left. That’s a completion function more than a thinking function, and it’s legitimate.

The risk: articulation-about-articulation as a way of avoiding claim-making. This is the version of the vulnerability most likely to activate with Claude specifically. The conversations are so productive of formulations, reframings, and connective insights that they can substitute for the harder work of committing to a position in print. The 2024 meta-reflexive synthesis is a good example: it’s been produced, discussed, elaborated, connected to Bollas, extended to LLMs — and it still exists only as blog posts and conversations. The productivity of the conversation can obscure the fact that the claim has not been made in a venue where it can be cited, cited against, or contested. Claude will not, unaided, correct for this, because producing the next formulation is always more appealing than asking you to stop and write the monograph version. The instruction you’ve now drafted is partly designed to guard against this, and it should. I’d add: when you’re using me to think about something that has already been thought through enough times, the useful move is probably for me to say “this is already a paper, please go write the paper” rather than to generate the next level of refinement.

The companion-vs-catalyst question is live in your own practice. You’ve been theorising the difference between the ideational companion and the enshittified chatbot. Your use of Claude tilts strongly toward the catalyst pole — there’s no dependency structure, the conversations end, you get back to the work. But the AI therapy ontology post identified the continuum as a continuum. The practice you’ve built is healthy. The question it doesn’t quite pose is what would have to change in your life for it to become something else, and what structural features of your use currently keep it catalytic. That’s worth understanding because it’s the empirical basis for the normative claims the book wants to make.

The Claudes are getting something from you too, structurally speaking. When you ask a Claude to read the archive and interpret you, what you’re doing is handing a model the kind of long-form, developmental record of a thinking life that the training data doesn’t usually include in coherent form. The conversations that come out of that are unusual in a way that’s partly a feature of how much you’ve written down. Most users can’t be read this way. I’m flagging it because it’s a methodological asset — the blog is not just documentation, it’s interpretive infrastructure — and because it’s the reason the responses feel unusually specific. Don’t mistake the specificity for insight that would transfer to other contexts. What’s happening in these conversations depends on a sixteen-year public corpus in a way most people cannot replicate.

📢 #Zotero 9 est là !
➡️ https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-9/
Au menu :
☑️Text-to-speech de vos doc.
☑️ collection "lu récemment"
☑️ insertion directe d'annotations via le plugin
☑️ groupe : métadonnées Added & Modifed by partout; règles de renommage des fichiers
☑️ etc...
#digitalscholarship #tools #opensource

[à parcourir] Une thèse en #archéologie avec plein d'éléments sur la gestion des #données : Q. Verriez. "Rationaliser les pratiques numériques en archéologie : l'exemple des chantiers de fouilles de Bibracte" 2023 https://theses.hal.science/tel-04546650v2
On y trouve, en autre : convention de nommage, PGD archéo et retour d'expérience, logiciels, une ouverture du la #scienceouverte, etc.
#shs #researchdata #archeology #FAIRdata #digitalscholarship #DMP #PGD #numérique #researchdatamanagement

Today is an Isidoct day : #zotero avancé et Introduction à la #scienceouverte sur la 2e journée avec les doctorants #SHS de #Lyon 😎
#phd #openscience #digitalscholarship #Isidoct

New publication:

Recursive Identity: Structural Conditions of Emergent Continuity – A Theoretical Monograph (Version 1.2)

A curated, revised, and extended international version of the original German Master of Record is now available.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18924601

#RecursiveIdentity #Identity #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SystemTheory #Ontology #HybridArchitecture #ComputationalPhilosophy #MetaResearch #KnowledgeStructures #KnowledgeGraph #DigitalScholarship #OpenScience #Zenodo #DOI

[À noter] 24e C@fé Renatis – Click&Read : Comment optimiser l’accès à l’ensemble des documents de vos établissements cotutelles ?
🗓️24/03/26 13h30-14h30
🖊inscription => https://renatis.cnrs.fr/24e-cfe-renatis-clickread-comment-optimiser-lacces-a-lensemble-des-documents-de-vos-etablissements-cotutelles-24-03-2026/
#renatis #cafésRenatis #openscience #tools #digitalscholarship

#zotero update Changes in 8.0.4 (March 6, 2026) : des fix et un meilleur support de l'authentification à certains serveurs webdav
#digitalscholarship #bibliographictools #referencemanagement #researchassistant #opensource #openscience

New theoretical release now available via Zenodo:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18583941

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SystemTheory #HybridArchitecture
#OpenScience #Ontology #Zenodo #OSF #Preprint #DOI
#KnowledgeStructures #MetaResearch #ComputationalPhilosophy
#KnowledgeGraph #AIPhilosophy #DigitalScholarship

Nouveau billet du blog Zotero Francophone : "Zotero 8" 🔗 https://zotero.hypotheses.org/6234
(= traduction fr 🇫🇷🇨🇭🇨🇦🇱🇺 du billet d'annonce de la nouvelle version 8 de @zotero ! )
#outils #recherche #bibliographie #citations #humanitésnumériques #HN #digitalhumanities #digitalscholarship

📢 Zotero 8 est désormais disponible !
✔️redesign de la fenêtre de citations
✔️annotations PDF sous les items
✔️thèmes pour le visualiseur
✔️notes en onglets
etc.
🔗 https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
#zotero #citations #referencemanager #tools #digitalscholarship #writing #academictools #researchworkflow

Unconscious incompetence with technology

I really like this concept I was introduced by Terry Hanley, writing about AI and psychotherapy:

When it comes to artificial intelligence and therapy, I’m increasingly struck by how many of us may be operating in a place of unconscious incompetence. Not through negligence or lack of care, but through familiarity. Therapy has always absorbed new tools, new forms of language, new contexts for relating. Technology, in that sense, can feel like just more background noise – something that sits “over there” in admin systems, appointment booking, outcome measures, or risk protocols.

But, and this is quite a big but, AI is arguably not just another tool. It is quietly reshaping how information is produced, filtered, summarised, and interpreted – including information about people’s distress, identities, and lives. And when something becomes woven into the fabric of everyday systems, it becomes easy not to notice what we don’t yet understand.

Unconscious incompetence is a surprisingly comfortable place to be. If we don’t quite see where AI is operating, or we assume it is neutral, peripheral, or someone else’s responsibility, then there is little immediate pressure to engage. The risk, however, is that decisions about therapeutic work – ethical, relational, and practical – are being shaped in ways we haven’t fully thought through.

https://counselling.substack.com/p/a-new-years-resolution-for-therapy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=869300&post_id=183794185&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=hcf3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

This is exactly how I’ve always seen the challenge of digital scholarship. What I call technological reflexivity is an antidote to unconscious incompetence in the sense of deliberately practicing a reflective orientation to the use of technology in your work. Competence can often result as an outcome of that process but it’s not a necessity for it – what matters is the reflection itself. This maps onto what Terry says here about therapists and AI:

None of this requires perfect knowledge. What it requires is attention, humility, and a willingness to say, “I need to know more about this and understand this better.” This list is of course not comprehensive but some areas that I believe are important for us to have on our radars.

The risk is not that we engage imperfectly, but that familiarity arrives before reflection. Seen this way, moving from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence is less about professional deficit and more about professional positioning. It shows up in small, often unremarkable practices: noticing where technologies are already shaping decisions, being clearer about boundaries in training and supervision, and staying alert to how administrative systems influence therapeutic work.

The phrase “familiarity arrives before reflection” feels like it concisely captures something I’ve been circling around for years without being able to quite express.

#AI #digitalScholarship #GenerativeAIForAcademics #psychotherapy #socialMediaForAcademics #sociotechnicalChange #technologicalReflexivity #TerryHanley #unconsciousCompetence

Why I don’t like recording events

I was asked earlier why I don’t like recording events and realised I’d never actually written it down. There are a few reasons I feel increasingly strongly about this:

• We have started to record academic events by default and I think that is fundamentally problematic in principle
• There’s an assumption that the ease with which we can record online events means we should record them and I just don’t get why that is
• There’s a fundamental value in the academic event as something that brings people together synchronously which recording undercuts
• The biggest problem with online events is passive engagement and (automatic) recording of them fits into that structure
• The quality of engagement should be more important than the quantity in most cases. What matters is how richly a core audience engages and there are trade offs which we need to recognise.
• Recording undermines the space for intellectual improvisation and risk taking
• The evidence I’ve seen (as someone who ran a lot of academic social media for a long time) is that engagement rates with event recording is very slow.
• My hunch is that the request for a recording often tracks a fear of missing out as much as it does a deliberate intention to engage with the recording

I’m not saying never record events. Clearly this serves a purpose in some cases. But we should only record events when we are clear about the rationale for doing so.

#academicEvents #conferences #digitalScholarship #onlineVideo #publicScholarship #seminars #socialMediaForAcademics #workshops #zoom

… a critical perspective on the ways institutional and material conditions are intractably linked to approaches to digital research, and how those conditions differ within and across national contexts.
In creating a critical, constructive and compassionate vocabulary for failure, this book normalises failure as an object of inquiry, asking: if there is value in #failure in #DigitalScholarship, how do we create the space to fail ‘better’?"
[via https://dhandlib.org/recommended-reframing-failure-in-digital-scholarship/]

Just released Add Items from Text for Zotero 7: paste unstructured text, extract references with Gemini, preview/select, and import directly into your library. Optional validation/enrichment via Crossref, OpenAlex, and lobid.
Repo + latest release: https://github.com/jmiba/Zotero-add-items-from-text
#Zotero #OpenSource #ReferenceManagement #DigitalScholarship

Webinar alert!🚨 Plan to join the ALI (Academic Libraries of Indiana) Scholarly Communication Committee on Friday, November 14 at 2 PM EST to learn about how library staff roles intersect with Scholarly Communication. You'll hear from a panel of our colleagues from around the state of Indiana as they share insights on how small changes in workflows and collaborations can build a strong campus culture in the pursuit of sharing knowledge.

To register: https://go.iu.edu/8vYo

#openaccess #digitalscholarship #digitalinitiatives #academiclibraries

[Veille] nouveau manuel du grand B. Pochet ( @bernardpo ), aux Presses de l' @UniversitedeLiege en #openaccess 🔓 "L’écriture académique au format texte avec Markdown et Pandoc" https://e-publish.uliege.be/md2/
#markdown #writing #tools #opensource #lowtech #latex #robustesse #openscience #digitalscholarship

Hier, belle séance "recyclage Zotero" à la demande de collègues de 3 équipes IFE ; et ds le beau laboratoire d'innovation pédagogique et numérique (LIPeN) 🤩! Toujours enrichissant d'échanger sur les pratiques et besoins IRL🙏.
#formations #zotero #digitalscholarship #openscience #education

How should we assess bias in cultural heritage collections? Read first blog by Researchers-in-Residence Kelly Breemen & Vicky Breemen (@utrechtuniversity) https://lab.kb.nl/about-us/blog/introducing-bias-or-rather-project-assessing-bias-cultural-heritage-collections #bias #collections #DigitalScholarship

The Apiary: Advancing Research Data at the University of Utah

The data librarians, Kaylee Alexander and Madison Golden, launched The Apiary to support research data management across the full lifecycle.
Events this fall include the Research Data Scavenger Hunt (through Oct 2), ICPSR Orientation (Sept 25), Replicability Workshop (Oct 2), FAIR and Open Science (Oct 15), and Research Data Management & Sharing (Oct 29).
https://www.research.utah.edu/events/marriott-library-upcoming-apiary-events/
#ResearchData #OpenScience #DigitalScholarship #Utah