March 15, 2023

TouringCars.net: TouringCars.Net launches comprehensive touring car database

TouringCars .net: TouringCars.Net launches comprehensive touring car database. “TouringCars.Net is today (14 March) announcing the launch of the Touring Car Database, featuring one of the internet’s most comprehensive sources of tin-top history and information. Data spanning more than four decades, 263 seasons, 4,066 races, 3,477 drivers, 2,438 qualifying sessions and over 30,000 photographs (and counting) is included in the comprehensive dataset.” I wasn’t sure what touring cars were so I looked it up. As I understand it, touring cars are modified road-ready cars, as opposed to F1 cars and suchlike which are designed for racing.

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March 13, 2023

Times of Malta: Film commissioner Johann Grech’s IMDB portfolio ‘completely unethical’

Times of Malta: Film commissioner Johann Grech’s IMDB portfolio ‘completely unethical’ . “Film insiders have questioned why Johann Grech is credited with 64 film productions on a popular online movie database when he is merely serving as Malta’s film commissioner. Grech has been linked to 64 productions on his IMDB page – an online database for the audio-visual industry – sparking accusations of unethical behaviour.”

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March 13, 2023

Beyond Elijah Rock: The Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers

New-to-me, via the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Beyond Elijah Rock: The Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers. “Non-idiomatic, as it relates to black composers, refers to the original concert music that is not part of the traditional idiomatic canon associated with black musicians. That canon includes spirituals, gospel, jazz, hip-hop, and rap among others. There will be pieces that may be based on spirituals or gospel tunes but are, at their core, original songs similar to ones that use chorale tunes in cantatas and popular songs parodied in Renaissance masses.”

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February 27, 2023

Library of Congress: Updated Federal Library Directory Increases Accessibility to US Agency Libraries

Library of Congress: Updated Federal Library Directory Increases Accessibility to US Agency Libraries. “The ‘Federal Library Directory,’ now in an updated second edition, profiles federal libraries and information centers in the United States and abroad. Presented with an interactive map, the directory displays geographic and collections data from nearly 1,400 federal libraries.”

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February 22, 2023

GlobeNewswire: Atari Announces the Launch of a Fully Rebuilt and Optimized MobyGames Website (PRESS RELEASE)

GlobeNewswire: Atari Announces the Launch of a Fully Rebuilt and Optimized MobyGames Website (PRESS RELEASE). “Atari and the team behind MobyGames are pleased to share that all game and account information, contributions, game collections, reviews, images, and more have been successfully migrated to the new website.” This includes, as the release notes, “323,918 games across 311 platforms.”

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February 18, 2023

New-to-me: A University of Calgary Research Guide on Artificial Intelligence

Thanks to the Distant Librarian for pointing me toward this new-to-me research guide on artificial intelligence. From the front page: “This guide has been created for students and instructors to explore how to responsibly and ethically use AI in their work. There is information about how to critically engage with AI tools, examples and further reading on how students and instructors can use AI tools in their work, and information about current AI news, such as Chat GPT.”

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February 18, 2023

MPR News: New app will help preserve and teach Dakota language one word at a time

MPR News: New app will help preserve and teach Dakota language one word at a time. “The dictionary app Dakhóta Iápi Wičhóie Wówapi has over 28,000 words, with more to come in later updates and editions. It’s a ‘talking dictionary’ with nearly 40,000 audio files to listen to women and men speak Dakota terms. It also includes conjugations and verb changes from first-person to second-person to first-person plural. After five years of planning and development, it has finally launched on iOS.”

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February 14, 2023

Canadian Coin News: Ferguson Foundation launches ‘long overdue’ digital repository

Canadian Coin News: Ferguson Foundation launches ‘long overdue’ digital repository. “Its creators hope the CNR [Canadian Numismatic Resources] will soon serve as the most complete resource of Canadian numismatic documents with at least 20,000 pages of digitized material added each year. As of mid-January, the website holds more than 10,000 pages of original sources, including numismatic periodicals, club journals, catalogues, price lists plus government and archival records.”

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February 4, 2023

PRNewswire: OSDB Expands With Addition Of NHL To Its Sports Platform

PRNewswire: OSDB Expands With Addition Of NHL To Its Sports Platform (PRESS RELEASE). “Since its inception in 2021, complete rosters of NFL, MLB and NBA athletes have been available on the OSDB website. Now, NHL enthusiasts will finally have a place to view in-depth athlete profiles featuring personal interests, business ventures, charities, and career statistics, along with agent and management contact information.”

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January 31, 2023

APN News: Indian English pronunciation added to the Oxford English Dictionary

APN News: Indian English pronunciation added to the Oxford English Dictionary. “Pronunciation transcriptions and audio for over 800 entries particularly associated with Indian English, including desh (a person’s or a people’s native country or place of origin), diya (a small cup-shaped oil lamp, typically made of baked clay, often used on religious occasions such as the Diwali festival), bachcha (a child; also a young animal), almirah (a free-standing cupboard, wardrobe, or other storage unit), and bindaas (bold; independent; admired; fashionable), are now available in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).”

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January 23, 2023

US Government Printing Office: GPO Digitizes Historic Congressional Directories From the 1800s

US Government Publishing Office: GPO Digitizes Historic Congressional Directories From the 1800s. The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is digitizing historic volumes of the Congressional Directory from the 19th and 20th centuries. The first release includes Directories from 1869–1888, as well as 1993. Additional digitized historic Congressional Directories will be released on GovInfo as they are completed. Historically, the Congressional Directory has been one of the most comprehensive and detailed resources for identifying the components of the three branches of the Federal Government.”

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January 20, 2023

Wikipedia Gets a Fresh New Look: First Desktop Update in a Decade Puts Usability at the Forefront (Wikimedia Foundation)

Wikimedia Foundation: Wikipedia Gets a Fresh New Look: First Desktop Update in a Decade Puts Usability at the Forefront . “The updated interface, which comes on the heels of English Wikipedia’s 22nd birthday (January 15), prioritizes usability and modernizes the Wikipedia experience to make it easier for everyone to access, explore, and share knowledge. The update is rolling out today on English Wikipedia and is already live on 94% of the 318 active language versions of Wikipedia for all desktop users.”

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January 5, 2023

GP Today: FIA Creates E-Library To Preserve Its History

GP Today: FIA Creates E-Library To Preserve Its History. “In order to preserve its rich heritage for future generations, the FIA will digitise its archives, creating an e-library that will be accessible to all in 2024, when the FIA celebrates its 120th anniversary…. The e-library will combine the 120-year-old Motor Sport and Mobility databases, making these facts and figures searchable and comparable. It will be an important tool for the FIA University’s work and by making it public, it will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of Motor Sport and Mobility.”

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December 29, 2022

Antara Indonesia News Agency: Minangkabau-Indonesian dictionary digitized

Antara Indonesia News Agency: Minangkabau-Indonesian dictionary digitized. “West Sumatra Language Development and Fostering Agency has digitized the Minangkabau-Indonesian dictionary to allow more residents to access the dictionary…. Apart from the Minangkabau-Indonesian dictionary with its 29 thousand entries, the regional office also published the Mentawai-Indonesia dictionary with 4,760 entries, which is expected to be digitized next year.”

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