@librarianth.bsky.social and I talked about this a couple of years ago at the @uksg.bsky.social conference - and nothing has changed since! #dataSOS
"...the open-access advocacy group SPARC has also focused on [library] contracts as a source of leverage. A paper SPARC commissioned analyzing contracts w/ Elsevier noted that 'user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms.'"
Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels” – The Markup
Digital collections put library patrons’ privacy at risk
themarkup.org
March 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
@librarianth.bsky.social and I talked about this a couple of years ago at the @uksg.bsky.social conference - and nothing has changed since! #dataSOS
The link to the presentation Caroline refers to is here: underline.io/lecture/8321...
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The link to the presentation Caroline refers to is here: underline.io/lecture/8321...
There was talk of @jisc.bsky.social updating the model licences to include clauses relating to vendor/supplier use of library-generated data - not sure if that ever went anywhere? #dataSOS
Elsevier’s stranglehold on academia: How publishers get rich off our data
Academic publishers get rich collecting and then selling data from researchers. That is extremely concerning, say UG researchers.
ukrant.nl
March 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
There was talk of @jisc.bsky.social updating the model licences to include clauses relating to vendor/supplier use of library-generated data - not sure if that ever went anywhere? #dataSOS
Having a good old #dataSOS chat with @librarianth this morning - and it reminded me of this paper by Dorothea Salo on physical-equivalent privacy that I think really gets to the heart of my discomfort with digital data surveillance...
https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/81297
https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/81297
Physical-Equivalent Privacy
minds.wisconsin.edu
November 17, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Having a good old #dataSOS chat with @librarianth this morning - and it reminded me of this paper by Dorothea Salo on physical-equivalent privacy that I think really gets to the heart of my discomfort with digital data surveillance...
https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/81297
https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/81297
omg curioso es como funcionan las transformaciones buenos datasos
January 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
omg curioso es como funcionan las transformaciones buenos datasos
November 18, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Got ten minutes this morning? Why not read @librarianth's and my editorial on the weaponisation of library usage data and then come chat/rant/discuss on the #dataSOS hashtag!
You’ve heard of #ebookSOS - is it time for a #dataSOS?
https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-527/all-your-data-are-belong-us-weaponisation-library-usage-data-and-what-we
https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-527/all-your-data-are-belong-us-weaponisation-library-usage-data-and-what-we
November 18, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Got ten minutes this morning? Why not read @librarianth's and my editorial on the weaponisation of library usage data and then come chat/rant/discuss on the #dataSOS hashtag!
You’ve heard of #ebookSOS - is it time for a #dataSOS?
https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-527/all-your-data-are-belong-us-weaponisation-library-usage-data-and-what-we
https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-527/all-your-data-are-belong-us-weaponisation-library-usage-data-and-what-we
November 18, 2024 at 3:49 AM
You’ve heard of #ebookSOS - is it time for a #dataSOS?
https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-527/all-your-data-are-belong-us-weaponisation-library-usage-data-and-what-we
https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-527/all-your-data-are-belong-us-weaponisation-library-usage-data-and-what-we
#dataSOS
https://www.digital-future.berlin/en/events/events/news/conversations-on-science-in-the-digital-future-1-data-privacy-in-the-digital-era/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=18ff5c2fcacf3b75c394af73fb763b1f
https://www.digital-future.berlin/en/events/events/news/conversations-on-science-in-the-digital-future-1-data-privacy-in-the-digital-era/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=18ff5c2fcacf3b75c394af73fb763b1f
Events
EN
www.digital-future.berlin
November 18, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Anyone interested in #dataSOS and/or attending my and @librarianth’s webinar on library data next week would be recommended to read this!
4 of 5 stars to Data Cartels by Sarah Lamdan https://goodreads.com/review/show/5123243337
Caroline's review of Data Cartels
4/5:
goodreads.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Anyone interested in #dataSOS and/or attending my and @librarianth’s webinar on library data next week would be recommended to read this!
Excuse me while I choke on the irony of Elsevier talking about privacy in the digital age. Remind me again what their parent company, RELX (which is LITERALLY a data broker firm) gets up to with people's data? #dataSOS...
November 18, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Excuse me while I choke on the irony of Elsevier talking about privacy in the digital age. Remind me again what their parent company, RELX (which is LITERALLY a data broker firm) gets up to with people's data? #dataSOS...
A reminder that if you are interested and/or horrified and concerned by library data and the way it is used and abused, come join the discussion at the #dataSOS mailing list! https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=DATASOS&A=1
JISCMail - Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the DATASOS List
www.jiscmail.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 2:18 AM
A reminder that if you are interested and/or horrified and concerned by library data and the way it is used and abused, come join the discussion at the #dataSOS mailing list! https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=DATASOS&A=1
Valuable discussion about finding support, either within your institution or sector or wider. For me, Twitter has been my main networking tool. I don’t think any of my #ebookSOS, #dataSOS, anti-racism, decolonisation or Wikipedia work would have happened without it! #LILAC23
November 17, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Interesting question raised in our #UKSG2023 #dataSOS session - is there IP in usage data? My instinct is ‘no’ because it’s generated via mechanical process rather than any intellectual endeavour, but then again, maybe database right might apply instead of database copyright?
November 17, 2024 at 12:32 PM
If anyone wanted access to or a reminder of mine and @librarianth's #dataSOS slides from #UKSG2023, you can find them here!
https://www.slideshare.net/UKSG/datasos-whats-going-on-with-library-data-what-can-we-do-about-it
https://www.slideshare.net/UKSG/datasos-whats-going-on-with-library-data-what-can-we-do-about-it
UKSG 2023 - #dataSOS: What's going on with Library data &...
UKSG 2023 - #dataSOS: What's going on with Library data &...
www.slideshare.net
November 17, 2024 at 11:12 AM
If anyone wanted access to or a reminder of mine and @librarianth's #dataSOS slides from #UKSG2023, you can find them here!
https://www.slideshare.net/UKSG/datasos-whats-going-on-with-library-data-what-can-we-do-about-it
https://www.slideshare.net/UKSG/datasos-whats-going-on-with-library-data-what-can-we-do-about-it
Good piece from @jeffersonpooley on unrestricted data surveillance by the massive 'publishers-in-name-only', highlighting the wider implications of the concerns @librarianth and I have been raising over library usage data with #dataSOS
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/yu34t/
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/yu34t/
OSF
osf.io
November 17, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Good piece from @jeffersonpooley on unrestricted data surveillance by the massive 'publishers-in-name-only', highlighting the wider implications of the concerns @librarianth and I have been raising over library usage data with #dataSOS
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/yu34t/
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/yu34t/
Fab write-up of the recent @UKSG conference, with a lovely summary of mine and @librarianth's #dataSOS talk. Thanks, Ella!
https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-540/ella-burrows-senior-library-assistant-lse-reviews-her-first-uksg
https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-540/ella-burrows-senior-library-assistant-lse-reviews-her-first-uksg
Ella Burrows, Senior Library Assistant at the LSE, review...
2 June 2023 Ella Burrows Senior Library AssistantLondon S...
www.uksg.org
November 17, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Fab write-up of the recent @UKSG conference, with a lovely summary of mine and @librarianth's #dataSOS talk. Thanks, Ella!
https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-540/ella-burrows-senior-library-assistant-lse-reviews-her-first-uksg
https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-540/ella-burrows-senior-library-assistant-lse-reviews-her-first-uksg
For those who couldn’t attend, here is mine and @librarianth‘s .@UKSG presentation on #dataSOS and the weaponisation/exploitation of library usage by vendors and...
November 17, 2024 at 12:10 AM
For those who couldn’t attend, here is mine and @librarianth‘s .@UKSG presentation on #dataSOS and the weaponisation/exploitation of library usage by vendors and...
Just registered for the @UNLibrary's upcoming webinar on 'A Right to Read Without Being Read: Data Collection and the Scholarly Record' - one for the #dataSOS crowd, for sure! It's free to register/attend, so you have no...
November 16, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Just registered for the @UNLibrary's upcoming webinar on 'A Right to Read Without Being Read: Data Collection and the Scholarly Record' - one for the #dataSOS crowd, for sure! It's free to register/attend, so you have no...
Sometimes wonder about what field I’d go into if I ever left libraries. Problem is, I can’t see myself working anywhere corporate/commercial - not knowing what I know via #ebookSOS and #dataSOS! Which basically leaves - the @internetarchive? 😂 @OpenBookPublish? @openhumanities?
November 16, 2024 at 5:34 PM