What’s the easiest way to make a chatbot that I can feed 50 to 60 gigs of PDFs into and then have a grounded conversation about roughly 6000 medical papers? Where is the relatively inexpensive “throw gigs into a folder and get RAG” solution? #AI

how come a company founded over 100 years ago has the fastest site on the internet?

I've been playing with the BOLD #DNAbarcoding #frictionlessdata data packages and have some thoughts iphylo.blogspot.com/2024/10/explor… iBOL Consortium #dataquality

Love this phrase “machine read” as opposed to “machine readable” from doi.org/10.22148/16.025 by Ben Schmidt / @[email protected]

Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/int…

Visualising 250K articles extracted from BHL via BioStor, intercative map made using Nomic AI atlas.nomic.ai/data/rdmpage/b…

The scientific community must move beyond its comfort zone of writing papers and preaching to its own choirs. It must engage with the public and policymakers to turn knowledge into action. Will we have yet another opportunity? Let’s not wait to find out. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Does anybody here use the BOLD website boldsystems.org ? If so, what do you think of the new version? #dnabarcoding

The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While Internet Archive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/van…

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Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to The Wayback Machine.

#ProtectedPlanet November 2024 Update: 🌍 WDPA: is 305,192 (303,309 #ProtectedAreas), covering 244 countries & territories. WD-OECM: is 6,484 (6,463 #OECMs), covering 15 countries & territories. GD-PAME: 5 assessment records were added and 1 updated. eu1.hubs.ly/H0dws2k0

We're pleased to announce we're recruiting for a driven and visionary leader to become our Director of Development and Communications. 🌿 This is a crucial role at one of the world’s most prestigious botanical institutions. Find details and apply: rbge.cc/Jobs

After two weeks in Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.soci lab to learn to #barcode, never ever tell me that liberating data from the #pdfprison is complex!

New update from Brewster Kahle on how the Internet Archive is learning from recent cyberattacks. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/14/lea…

Status Update: BHL services have been fully restored, including page viewing and custom PDF generation. All Internet Archive servers hosting BHL content are back online. Thank you to the #BHLib community for your support! For the latest information, visit about.biodiversitylibrary.org/ufaqs/what-is-…

New on the blog: "BHL Datasets Now Openly Accessible on the Amazon Web Services Cloud." 62 million pages of scientific text, images, and metadata, representing 500 years of biodiversity data will be openly accessible via the Registry of Open Data on AWS. s.si.edu/3BdlR2u

How can you talk about the importance of natural history museums without once mentioning its libraries, the place where hundreds of years of research is accumulated? Only a specimen in context makes sense. NHCMjournal @rkellerp nhcm.pensoft.net/article/142018/

Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort Before you say a group is 'understudied' you might want to check out the metric introduced here ... [Thanks to Lauren Esposito for introducing me to this paper] academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

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