November 30, 2023

National Library of Australia: Making history with Trove

National Library of Australia: Making history with Trove. “Australia’s much loved digital library Trove is inviting community-led, volunteer-run and rural and regional collecting organisations across Australia to make their significant digital collections and data available and findable in Trove. Following the budget announcement in April 2023, the National Library of Australia has announced that these organisations will not be asked to pay to showcase their digital content in Trove.”

Tweaks & Updates 0
November 28, 2023

ABC News (Australia): New laws to prevent ‘iconic’ sport moments slipping behind paywalls

ABC News (Australia): New laws to prevent ‘iconic’ sport moments slipping behind paywalls. “New laws are being proposed to prevent iconic Australian sporting events from slipping behind online paywalls. The federal government wants to modernise Australia’s anti-siphoning scheme, which prevents subscription television from gaining rights to broadcast an event before free-to-air television has had the opportunity to acquire those rights first.”

Security & Legal Issues 0
November 28, 2023

Queensland University of Technology: Google Australia and QUT launch A2O Search – a sound search engine to study Australian wildlife

Queensland University of Technology: Google Australia and QUT launch A2O Search – a sound search engine to study Australian wildlife. “A2O Search will enable nonprofits, universities, and governments to easily search millions of hours of audio from the Australian Acoustics Observatory and will be open sourced to the broader research community to help influence decisions about land and wildlife management. Researchers can simply upload audio recordings of a species to find similar sounds across the database, filter by location and date, and download results for other systems.”

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November 22, 2023

The Guardian: Australia to force social media companies to crack down on ‘emerging harms’ of AI deep fakes and hate speech

The Guardian: Australia to force social media companies to crack down on ‘emerging harms’ of AI deep fakes and hate speech. “Social media platforms and tech companies will be required to stamp out harmful material created using artificial intelligence, such as deep fake intimate images and hate speech, under new online safety rules from the federal government.”

Security & Legal Issues 0
November 16, 2023

News Australia: Google launches Indoor Live View at Sydney Airport

News Australia: Google launches Indoor Live View at Sydney Airport. “There is nothing more annoying than being in desperate need of a coffee at the airport only to learn you’ve gone in the wrong direction and have to trek all the way back. That, together with not knowing where the nearest bathroom or a specific retail store is located, will soon be a thing of the past after Sydney Airport partnered with Google to create an internal map called Indoor Live View.”

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November 14, 2023

The Conversation: Our mapping project shows how extensive frontier violence was in Queensland. This is why truth-telling matters

The Conversation: Our mapping project shows how extensive frontier violence was in Queensland. This is why truth-telling matters. “For seven years, we have been reconstructing the activities of the Native Mounted Police in order to help Queenslanders begin to understand this history…. We have organised all of our findings – nearly 20,000 documents in total – in an online database to shed light on the lives of the 450 officers and over 1,000 Aboriginal troopers who made up the Native Mounted Police, and the violence they administered.”

New Resources 0
November 11, 2023

ABC News (Australia): Major Australian port operator shuts down amid cyber security incident, impacting goods in and out of the country

ABC News (Australia): Major Australian port operator shuts down amid cyber security incident, impacting goods in and out of the country. “Australia’s second largest port operator has shut down because of a cyber security incident, impacting the movement of goods in and out of the country. DP World Australia, which operates ports in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle, is responsible for 40 per cent of maritime freight said it began responding to a cybersecurity incident on Friday.”

Security & Legal Issues 0
November 2, 2023

ABC News (Australia): Why Wikipedia users document the history, cultures and wildlife of Western Australia

ABC News (Australia): Why Wikipedia users document the history, cultures and wildlife of Western Australia. “With 55 million articles in 309 languages, and almost 7 million alone in English, Wikipedia has become a hub of information on practically anything you can think of. That includes the history, cultures, Indigenous languages and wildlife of regional Western Australia. But while many reading these articles may take them for granted, building the online database is the work of dedicated volunteers who are passionate about the online encyclopedia because it provides free information for all.”

Research & Opinion 0
October 26, 2023

The Guardian: National Library of Australia says yes to Indigenous voice referendum memorabilia

The Guardian: National Library of Australia says yes to Indigenous voice referendum memorabilia. “Australia’s national library is urging Australians not to dump the T-shirts, posters, badges, fridge magnets and other campaign material they acquired during the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum campaign, and consider donating the items to the national archives instead. The National Library of Australia is seeking material from both sides of the campaign, including examples of misinformation and images depicting the conflict in communities in the lead up to the 14 October poll.”

Security & Legal Issues 0

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