Rebecca Hedreen @delibrarian@scholar.social

have you ever noticed that someone post a screenshot of text without providing an image description, preventing you from being able to read it? or maybe they posted a huge amount of text that just can't possibly be described with the image description feature?

simply tag @OCRbot in a direct reply to the image. it will download the image and scan it using tesseract OCR to output the text contained in the image!

because OCRbot runs on fedi.lynnesbian.space, it has a character limit of 65535, so even the longest images should work OK!

check the reply to this image to see it parsing the attached screenshot!

It's #LoveDataWeek (https://lovedataweek.org/) !!

This year's themes are:

* open data: https://lovedataweek.org/about/open-data/
* data justice: https://lovedataweek.org/about/data-justice/
* data in everyday life: https://lovedataweek.org/about/data-in-everyday-life/

I might be tooting some stuff (most like xposting across some social media channels) under #LoveDataWeek19 if anyone is interested!

Kashmir Hill concludes her series on ditching the #BigFive with a Purism Librem laptop and a little help from her friends 🤓 https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

Hey, Librarians of Mastodon!*

Do any of your branches have gender neutral restrooms? Add them to Refuge Restrooms!

Refuge Restrooms seeks to provide safe restroom access for transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals. Users can search for restrooms by proximity to a search location, add new restroom listings, as well as comment and rate existing listings.

https://www.refugerestrooms.org/

*Librarians of Mastodon is going to be the name of my Finnish nerdcore symphonic metal band.

Library folks: I'm looking for feedback on this article draft: Creatures in the Stacks: Library Archives and Historical Ecology
https://mfr.osf.io/render?url=https://osf.io/dq6ta/?action=download%26mode=render (slightly updated from the last draft I posted)

Is it interesting?
Have I gone on too long or not long enough?
What questions are you left with?

Thanks!

You can see the flecked paint through the ice on the railing (metal pipe) of my back steps.
#ice #winter #pipe #icicles #photo

On sadder note though, USDA data is being seriously mess with.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-trump-trying-to-politicize-agricultural-data-some-former-usda-officials-suspect-yes/

GAHGH!

The Hu, a New Breakthrough Band from Mongolia, Plays Heavy Metal with Traditional Folk Instruments and Throat Singing http://www.openculture.com/?p=1059956 https://t.co/p6ZT4qTeYN

How to Spot Bullshit: A Primer by Princeton Philosopher Harry Frankfurt http://goo.gl/6eaKz9 https://t.co/8OhMVjjOWR

https://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

Super cool! A list of open access logic textbooks! https://github.com/OpenLogicProject/OpenLogic/wiki/Other-Logic-Textbooks

#OER #opentextbooks #philosophy