Field notes from the commons.
FAIR Was Never Built for Machine Learning
The FAIR Guiding Principles — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable — emerged from a 2014 workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, were formalised by…
What Born-Digital Archives Are Losing Before Anyone Notices
There is a category of loss that archivists have spent two decades naming and still have not solved: the loss that accumulates not through flood, fire, or inst…
When Catalogs Hallucinate: Provenance and Trust in Retrieval-Augmented Library Search
A discovery layer that confidently surfaces a citation that does not exist is not a bug. It is the predictable consequence of stacking a generative layer on to…
When Behaviour Replaces Identity in Online Gambling Systems
KYC was never meant to define the full architecture of player experience. It entered the system as a regulatory necessity — a checkpoint designed to confirm id…
Algorithmic Entertainment in Online Gambling and the Engineering of Player Engagement
The global online gambling industry has evolved into a highly sophisticated digital entertainment ecosystem driven by data science, behavioral psychology, and…
Global Reach, Diverse Impact: Rereading the 2004 Manifesto
What the original JCDL theme understood about cross-regional collaboration — and what the digital edition inherits twenty-two years later.