The @mozilla.org team has done a spectacular job for MozFest 2025. If you‘re also in Barcelona and would like to chat about Open Data and Open Source AI send me a DM, I‘m here until Monday! #mozfest #mozfest2025 #mozillafestival #mozilla #opensource #ai

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has generously awarded us funding to secure our own storage. This critical processing space will be instrumental in ensuring that large datasets can be temporarily stored, curated, and described. Thank you, MacArthur Foundation, for your support!

Members of our Steering Committee @lyndamk.bsky.social and @storytracer.com are in Strasbourg France today and tomorrow to talk about our DRP at Numérique en Commune[s]. Some of the earliest interest in our work was from the French media so it is exciting to be here.

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

Very nice work! IMO, this is the kind of topic that more libraries/GLAM/DH people should be working on. The training of these models is *relatively* simple. As always, the missing ingredient is readily accessible data.

We are honored to receive an NDSA Digital Preservation Excellence award. In accepting the award, @lyndamk.bsky.social expressed how this work is only possible due to our volunteers who "have spent countless hours working to ensure that public data remains a public good that is publicly accessible."

Making things in Global Asia 🗺️ Explore the new online exhibition by our @erc.europa.eu project CAPASIA 👉 loom.ly/ig-EXQY The exhibit highlights the overlooked, but nonetheless worldmaking, role of Asian manufacturing in the global history of #earlymodern capitalism 🌐 #onlineexhibition #capitalism

Robert Redford (1936-2025) 🤍

Y'all are ducking fantastic! Because of you and your efforts to #SaveOurSigns, we've collected more than 6000 photos from over 300 #NationalParks. Keep up the great work!

New DRP post is up. If you aren't familiar with the Federal Statistical System, we encourage you to learn more. And tell others. Be that data nerd in your family. www.datarescueproject.org/the-federal-...

Powerful presentation from @lyndamk.bsky.social of @datarescueproject.org on ongoing work to rescue and preserve digital and physical federal data targeted by the Trump administration www.datarescueproject.org #OpenFest25

EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS today released Apertus, Switzerland's first large-scale, multilingual language model (LLM). As a fully open LLM, it serves as a building block for developers and organizations to create their own applications. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Struggling to participate in the Indian Ocean sea trade Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article by Michael O'Sullivan on the evolution of Ottoman shipping in the Indian Ocean from 1650 to 1900 👉 buff.ly/GN9hF8G Part of our CAPASIA @erc.europa.eu project research 👉 buff.ly/K57rhlr 📚 #Fridayreads

Here we go, they're seriously coming after Wikipedia now: www.heise.de/en/news/Wiki...

🎙️ Say hello to OLMoASR—our fully open, from-scratch speech-to-text (STT) model. Trained on a curated audio-text set, it boosts zero-shot ASR and now powers STT in the Ai2 Playground. 👇

Great article about our work profiling @storytracer.com Thanks @zeit.de and @cendt.de

@zeit.de hat heute eine einen langen Artikel über das @datarescueproject.org veröffentlicht. @cendt.de schafft es in seinem Porträt, eindrücklich und verständlich zu erklären, warum öffentliche Daten in den USA vor der Löschung gerettet werden müssen. www.zeit.de/2025/37/date...

Thank you for speaking out! We all work together to #SaveOurSigns saveoursigns.org

#DataRescuers, let's get #InFormation! Help us stay informed and submit any datasets that need rescuing to our Nominations Form:

Absolutely necessary investment and good move by NVIDIA. Very hard to do science when you’re simultaneously trying to answer your research question, and figure out how your instruments were built and what they do.

Trump's pick for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner suggests suspending monthly jobs report. cnn.it/4fvvr0u

Amazing work by @lyndamk.bsky.social and @datarescueproject.org to preserve history in the face of fascism. #SaveOurSigns

Check out our latest data user story on essential data for flood predictions. www.datarescueproject.org/flood-predic... Use public data? Share how you use it and why it matters! #DataRescue #FloodData #NASA

Another shout out for the #SaveOurSigns initiative, this time from @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/40BHUJR "Real history is not just happy stories." Thank you to everyone who has been able to contribute so far!

We ❤️ statistical agencies. We know you care about #DataRescue, but more needs to be done! Speak out! "People take statistical agencies for granted. So they're easy to cut because there's no lobby or special interest group that's powerful enough to protect them." www.reuters.com/business/us-...

📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.” In a new interview‬, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system. @cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org vimeo.com/1103555091/8...

Today’s story: Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics? apnews.com/article/cens...

You can help us #SaveOurSigns ! Take a pic and send to saveoursigns.org www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c... @nytimes.com

The Common Crawl Foundation, MLCommons, EleutherAI, and John Hopkins' Center for Language and Speech Processing have the pleasure of inviting you to register for the 1st shared task on Language Identification for web data. commoncrawl.org/blog/wmdqs-s...

Thanks to @404media.co for highlighting the #SaveOurSigns campaign. Tune in around 31:00. Visit our National Parks and help us document signs about history, people, and cultures. 🛟 ❤️ And yes we do love the people power of our project! Check it out: open.spotify.com/episode/77Dh...

On this week's podcast: @lyndamk.bsky.social on the efforts of US librarians to protect public govt #data from sudden erasure by the #Trump administration. Plus, @worcesteruni.bsky.social v-c David Green on a pioneering joint university-public #library: ow.ly/SLZ150WnvBs #datarescue #libraries

Thanks again to one of our co-founders @storytracer.org and @cnn.com Learn more about us and our work at www.datarescueproject.org

Yesterday CNN gave me a chance to talk about our work at the @datarescueproject.org. Our volunteers have been working tirelessly to back up US public datasets threatened by funding cuts and political censorship. www.datarescueproject.org/cnn-interview/

We are launching a new speaker series at EleutherAI, focused on promoting recent research by our team and community members. Our first talk is by @catherinearnett.bsky.social on tokenizers, their limitations, and how to improve them.

Everyone’s dropping VLM-based OCR models lately… But are they actually better than traditional OCR engines, which output XML for historical docs? I built OCR Time Machine to test it! 📄 Upload image + ALTO/PAGE XML ⚖️ Compare outputs side by side 🔗 huggingface.co/spaces/davan...

The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟

Learning about digital public infrastructures and geeking out at the UN.

How to Make Gallery, Library, Archive & Museum Collections Ready for AI 📚✨ Join me this Tuesday – I'm hosting a hands-on session for the #ai4lam community, where I'll show cultural institutions how to share data on Hub. 🗓️ June 17, 16:00 UK 📍 Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We got another mention! We have a lot of these @noaa.gov datasets backed up now. Be sure to check out our tracker: baserow.datarescueproject.org/public/grid/... Scientists scramble to save threatened federal research databases pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

Today we released Institutional Books 1.0, a 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability. 🧵

So wirft @erik.d-64.social der Regierungskoalition vor, alle Bürgerinnen und Bürgern als „potentielle Straftäter“ zu betrachten. (...) @henningtillmann.de sieht das Beharren der Bundesregierung auf der Massenüberwachung als „Methode der digitalen Steinzeit“. @netzpolitik.org

In 2017 the entire Flickr.com photo archive was almost deleted by its owner Verizon. The @flickrfdn.bsky.social is working heroically to preserve these photos for the next 100 years. They have developed a toolkit called Data Lifeboat which allows anyone to create a Flickr timecapsule. #Europeana2025

Thrilled to be at the #Europeana2025 kickoff event together with @danielvanstrien.bsky.social. Feel free to talk to us if you‘re interested in chatting about Open Source AI and cultural heritage data, especially public domain books. Thanks for the invitation @europeana.bsky.social!

📅 Catch our Director of Strategy @alek.bsky.social at #Europeana2025 in Warsaw (June 11-12). He will be speaking about culture as a data space and a public good, joining 100+ speakers exploring the future of digital cultural heritage. Details: pro.europeana.eu/tags/europeana-2025

In a prime time address, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California sharply criticized President Trump for sending in the military to handle the protests in Los Angeles. Read a transcript of his full remarks. https://trib.al/hufkabG

I'm very excited to talk with @ach.bsky.social on Thursday about the @datarescueproject.org and its work. I warn everyone there will be some nautical metaphors and references. It can't be helped. 🛟

Der neue Online-Recherche Newsletter ist da: Spuren sichern, bevor sie verschwinden. 🌬️🐾 Ich stelle zwei meiner liebsten Browser-Erweiterungen vor und interviewe mit @storytracer.org einen der Menschen, die öffentliche Daten vor der Trump-Zensur retten. #OSINT sebmeineck.substack.com/p/orn-53-dat...

Another article about our project. This time featuring a member of our steering committee @storytracer.org @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/ccb0...

Can you train a performant language model using only openly licensed text? We are thrilled to announce the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of openly licensed and public domain text. We train 7B models for 1T and 2T tokens and match the performance similar models like LLaMA 1 & 2

The fight to protect US data has begun | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/ccb0c850-f466-4b74-8c07-7d01230679a4