It's official, I even having my speaking time and everything. I'm going to be talking at @SeaGL this year! If you want to be faintly amused (in a "That'll never work" Rocket J Squirrel style) as I try to convince enthusiasts of this very Fediverse that they have an untapped ally in a public library system close to them, then a ticket is what you'll want. They're hoping to record and release the talks, so if you can't make it live, you can still hopefully make fun of me afterward.
@TheyOfHIShirts i don’t think this is quite what you are talking about, but if you aren’t familiar with https://www.coar-repositories.org/notify/ (it’s ActivityStreams!) — i can only really speak regarding academic & research libraries, but i think a tide is turning towards really embracing federation As A Library Technology
i would really like to see library best-practices (e.g. regarding persistent identifiers) break into fediverse technologies more broadly but unfortunately a lot of the work on the library side is very institutionally-oriented and a lot of non-library folks are taking all their cues from social media not cultural heritage spaces
@Lady That's not what I'm going to be talking about, as my aims are not nearly so academic and are much more about getting over the startup costs to running social media type instances, but thank you all the same for the link. It looks like an interesting way of tying useful academic work, like peer review, to specific persistent identifiers and making requests for reviews for works that want to go into print or be officially published.
@TheyOfHIShirts yeah we (samvera community) had a guy from there speak with us about it a while back, and he was very friendly and seemed very interested in its potential for decentralized peer review (to help break down some barriers there) and like, overlay journals and such
in my area of libraries we would be more interested in using it for getting materials from management systems into discovery platforms; right now we're doing that on an internal network (using RabbitMQ if you want technical details) but it's interesting to think about what a solution might look like over the open web
anyway what i was trying to say is that in addition to the benefits libraries might be able to offer to fediverse users (getting them on the fediverse etc), i think (from a technologist’s perspective) there are ALSO things libraries can offer the fediverse in terms of making the technology itself better. i'd like to see more lines of communication between those communities because i really do think they have a lot in common.
@Lady I agree that there's a lot that libraries and technologists could offer each other to make their work better, and much of it is "let's not reinvent something the other has spent decades on."
(I confess I don't know what an overlay journal is, nor much on the mechanics of ingesting and displaying materials in discovery layers. I'm much more public services than internal systems.)
Decentralized peer review is a great idea, but like all people things, it needs harassment control.