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The Annotated Planner original ↗

22 May 2026

When Everything You Have Looks Like OpenRefine original ↗

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OpenRefine: API Basics and Repeat Operations original ↗

4 May 2026

Open Refine: Repeating Groups of Operations (the Easy Way)original ↗

23 Apr 2026

Open Refine: Blanking Down Only Within Records original ↗

11 Apr 2026

Re-approaching Peer Review in the Age of LLMs original ↗

18 Mar 2026

Powerlifting and Mastodon Made Me Learn FFmpeg original ↗

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Evaluating Joplin After a Year of Robust Use original ↗

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2025

Hollinger's Edge: The Retrieval Object at the Margins of the Archival Ontology original ↗

14 Dec 2025

Cat-scrapaganza original ↗

19 Oct 2025

Deeper Dive into Estimating BTAA Sociology Serials Holdings with WMS APIs, Z39.50, and Spreadsheets original ↗

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Light and Shadow original ↗

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Hartman Triplet Quilts: Foxes original ↗

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Hartman Triplet Quilts: Hedgehogs original ↗

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Hartman Triplet Quilts: Otters original ↗

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Detangling Feeds: Niche RSS Options for This Site original ↗

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Bulls (Still) on Parade, or, Rage Against the Budget(s)original ↗

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The Bitter Taste of the Land Grant original ↗

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Testing the Summon Research Assistant original ↗

22 Jul 2025

Fence Flags original ↗

6 Jul 2025

My Coworkers Don't Want AI. They Want Macros original ↗

24 Jun 2025

Supporting Doctoral Research in Sociology in the BTAA original ↗

13 May 2025

Remembering Mom at 80 original ↗

11 May 2025

Batik Geese original ↗

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All Hallows Garden original ↗

23 Apr 2025

Audio Cues, The Missing Element in Library Systems?original ↗

21 Apr 2025

Anniversary Trip Around the World original ↗

6 Apr 2025

My Experience With Nasacort's Rare Side Effect: Suicidal Ideation original ↗

3 Apr 2025

Crossing Silos: Assessing the Utility of Identity Attributes in Name Reconciliation original ↗

2 Apr 2025

American Beauty original ↗

24 Mar 2025

Echoing Fans original ↗

21 Mar 2025

Technical Difficulties: Updating Site RSS ... or Attempting original ↗

20 Mar 2025

Atlantic Compass original ↗

17 Mar 2025

Make Something Beautiful Before You Are Dead original ↗

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Winter Diamonds Quilts original ↗

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Scaffolding Possibility: Systems, Stress, and Small Acts of Care original ↗

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Making Statements: a Reflection original ↗

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Apple Health's Weird Workout Assumptions original ↗

20 Feb 2025

Choosing Anabaptism: an Anabaptism at 500 Reflection original ↗

21 Jan 2025

2024

Regex Resources for Catalogers and Others in the Library original ↗

22 Nov 2024

Waiting for Production: Making Use of Long Liminality original ↗

13 Nov 2024

What's Up With WorldCat?original ↗

6 Aug 2024

MARC Misconceptions: Which Language of Sound Track? Use of the 041$a original ↗

1 Aug 2024

MARC Misconceptions: Incorrect ISSN or the 022$y original ↗

22 Jul 2024

The Interdependent Library System: Revisiting Human Aspects of Library Automation original ↗

10 Jul 2024

2023

Highlights of My 2022 Reading original ↗

24 Aug 2023

The Ethics of Sustaining Linked Data Infrastructure original ↗

15 Jul 2023

Indispensable, Interdependent, and Invisible: A Qualitative Inquiry into Library Systems Maintenance original ↗

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2022

All Clothing Is Handmade original ↗

29 Oct 2022

Mastodon Introduction and Overview for GLAM original ↗

27 Oct 2022

Between Exports and Infrastructure: Linked Data Systems in 2022 original ↗

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Introducing Discovery Systems original ↗

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Pragmatic Principles for Archival Linked Data original ↗

5 Jul 2022

Weighing Fields in Library Catalog Search, or, The Hillbilly Elegy Problem original ↗

18 May 2022

Beyond Implementation: Positioning Maintenance as a Core Commitment in Libraries original ↗

8 May 2022

The Extra-Long Highlights of My 2020-2021 Reading original ↗

6 May 2022

MARC Records vs. the Catalog original ↗

9 Mar 2022

CV original ↗

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2021

The Power of Parallel Description: Wikidata and Archival Discovery original ↗

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Editorializing original ↗

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Time is a Property of Data original ↗

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2020

Out of Silence, Toward Solidarity original ↗

22 Oct 2020

An Update on EADiva Examples and an Apology original ↗

12 Jun 2020

Learning Cell Cross in OpenRefine original ↗

16 Mar 2020

The Long Highlights of My 2019 Reading original ↗

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On Disappointment and Surprise at the Behavior of Certain Senior Archival Community Members original ↗

16 Jan 2020

UPDATED: One Weird Query: Resolving LC Subject Strings to URIs Using Python original ↗

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2019

Contact original ↗

21 Dec 2019

How My Father Taught Me the Power of Automation original ↗

12 Dec 2019

Wikidata for Catalogers: Workshop Materials and Design original ↗

4 Dec 2019

Digital Labor Forum Tackles Temp Jobs on Grant, Digitization Projects | Peer to Peer Review original ↗

7 Nov 2019

Reading Motley in 2019 original ↗

9 Oct 2019

Maintenance, Labor, and the Classic Catalog original ↗

8 Oct 2019

Maintenance of the Dead original ↗

5 Oct 2019

Implementing the Open Access Button in Summon's Link 2.0 original ↗

3 Sept 2019

Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums original ↗

1 Sept 2019

Repository Ouroboros original ↗

30 Jul 2019

A Brief Guide to My Name original ↗

4 Jul 2019

What Death Positivity Means to Me original ↗

25 May 2019

Linked Data is Made of Systems original ↗

16 May 2019

Creating linked data converts: syncretism in the cataloging department original ↗

10 May 2019

On Rachel Held Evans and Losing a Fellow Traveler original ↗

5 May 2019

Barriers to Ethical Linked Data Name Authority Modeling original ↗

1 Mar 2019

Running on Fumes: One Snapshot of Adjunct Life and Commuting original ↗

10 Feb 2019

Encountering Bigfoot in Children's Nonfiction, or, a Crisis of Taxonomy original ↗

6 Feb 2019

2018

My (partial) 2018 reading list original ↗

31 Dec 2018

Collective Responsibility Labor Forum original ↗

1 Dec 2018

How (and why) I Redacted 488 PDFs Using Image Magick and Paint original ↗

22 Oct 2018

Tutorial: Setting Up a Traject Project on Your Windows Machine original ↗

13 Sept 2018

On the Unironic Singing of 'This Land is Your Land' at Rallies/Protests/Demonstrations original ↗

18 Aug 2018

On Getting and Using Contraceptive Insurance at Notre Dame original ↗

10 Jul 2018

Bai Jia Bei: the One Hundred Families Quilt original ↗

30 Jun 2018

2018-04-22 original ↗

24 Jun 2018

Angle Bracket Fetish: Reflecting on EADiva 5 Years Later original ↗

30 May 2018

How to Register a New XSLT Operation in MarcEdit 7 original ↗

25 May 2018