Dan Scott @dbs@code4lib.social

Hmm, my Android device just asked me to update its Google Apps Device Policy because I'm signed into my work account.

The policy allows the IT admins at work to remotely wipe data and request a list of applications accessing domain data.

Guess I'm deleting the work account from my personal phone instead. Bonus: better work-life balance, hopefully!

Looking at http://www.rdaregistry.info/Examples/exRSCFullAudioDiscPerformedMusic.html and holding, not following, my nose:

Expression holds the track durations as a comma-separated literal:

rdae:P20219 "4:58, 4:06, 4:10, 4:26, 5:40, 3:12, 4:58, 3:12, 6:59, 4:38, 3:44, 6:51" ;

Each track listed only with uniform title labels:

rdaw:P10002 "Amos, Tori. Crucify"

RDA doesn't have to be like this, but people will follow examples faithfully. Don't set terrible examples!

So I emailed all the confidential stuff in a zip file but fully expect email security filters to strip it out...

Still, I itemized all the expenses and submitted only one week after the event. That feels like an accomplishment!

Stanford: "get set up in our payment portal so you can upload your documents securely"

Also Stanford: "email us a copy of your passport, travel forms, flight passes so we can upload it to our payment portal"

It is hard to concentrate when the construction next door is not just noisy, but also vibrates your entire building and anything in it. Including your body.

Sans noise, it could almost be like a free massage but every once in a while it gets to the level of *BOOM SHAKE*

So maybe I'll just play a game?

SirsiDynix Bluecloud (wrapper for Zepheira linked data web visibility snake oil) quote for a 10,000-enrolment university = 25,000 USD

GAWD

So Erin Dobias from Google Books just confirmed that bibliographic data expressed as schema.org is not used as a signal in their product that feeds into the Knowledge Graph; but instead uses MARC records from their scanning project, publisher ONIX records, OCLC data.

More $0 in each record = stronger signal for Google

Oh yay, one of my work colleagues is using mailtrack.io to track who has opened their emails. I guess they really missed "read receipts" when work moved to a new email system.

Thanks for using a third party service that now notifies you whenever your email is opened. Even if it's forwarded to someone else (although it doesn't identify the forwarded recipient at least).

C'mon. Surely you have better things to do than monitor whether someone has read your email?

I haven't had coffee for two days and my head aches and my body is sore and I'm tired - hah.

I have no reason for not having had coffee but apparently this experience is reason enough?

TIL that while Zotero navigates unAPI to get alternate formats for citations, it doesn't understand the comparatively simple <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-research-info-systems" href="">

I had foolishly assumed the latter and added that, so now maybe I'll try to build something based on https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/unAPI.js ...

I responded with "Okay, but some kids don't have parents who can help, or even care", to which he said "I know this will sound bad but there's 7 billion people on the planet, we can't save them all"

So yeah I spent a lot of time thinking about that exchange last night, too, when I should have been sleeping.

Yesterday I also talked with a neighbour. After they stated "we shouldn't be spending public money on needles, nalaxone, and a safe injection site, let them sleep in a church or something, we could buy a nice park for that money" I said "yeah, but if it's your kid…"

Apparently he spent $20K on getting one of his kids cleaned up. So he has big feelings on the subject. I get that.

Other dad said "Stick up for yourself son!" whereas I was prepared to halt any altercation.

It all makes me sad. A few minutes earlier my son--who doesn't have many friends--had been planning on having a play date with this boy, but after that he wanted nothing to do with him.

I understand kids forming a moral compass and experimenting with power over weaker beings, but I don't understand parents condoning cruelty to animals. Or possible fights w/other kids.

About ten minutes later, I pointed out the pair of ducks that was waddling around a nearby patch of grass. One of the same kids (9 years old) giggled as he picked up a small stick; I said "Hey! Be nice to the ducks" but he threw it at them anyway and scared them off. His dad did nothing.

My son (10 years old) noticed, though, and just started running at the other boy with a growl/roar. The other boy laughed and ran away.

Had a hard time sleeping last night, as I kept replaying the sight of three neighbourhood kids giggling as they crushed a caterpillar in front of our place. I had been distracted by talking to their father; when I noticed and asked them to stop, he just chuckled and shook his head like it was inevitable.

My son didn't see this happen, but found the caterpillar a bit later and buried it in a grave of sand.

Lucy McKenna and Jeremy Debattista are running an experiment evaluating a quality-driven dataset portal for supporting librarian metadata creators.

The evaluation portal is at: http://irc-eval.adaptcentre.ie/

If you have some time they would love your participation.