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#crowdsourcing #NewYork #genealogy #VitalRecords

"From May 31st through June 8, Geneanet is organizing a special week dedicated to the transcription of the New York City Geographical Birth Index. Whether you are a frequent contributor to Geneanet’s indexing projects, or you haven’t used our indexing tools yet, discover this unique project which can help you find your immigrant ancestors in NYC!"

en.geneanet.org/genealogyblog/

Geneanet · Indexing Week at Geneanet! Help us transcribe the New York City Geographical Birth IndexFrom May 31st through June 8, Geneanet is organizing a special week dedicated to the transcription of the New York City Geographical Birth Index....

#genealogy #crowdsourcing #cemeteries #SaveOurGraves

"Since together we are stronger, we asked you, from May 16th through 18th, to participate in our 'Save our Graves' weekend. Thousands of you answered our call, and more than 100,000 photos of graves from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and more were uploaded to Geneanet. Bravo and thank you to all of our participants!"

en.geneanet.org/genealogyblog/

Geneanet · Results of our “Save our Graves” weekendMany of you participated in our “Save or Graves” weekend, many thanks to all of you! Spotlight on this project and its participants...

A Comprehensive Framework For Evaluating The Quality Of Street View Imagery
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doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.103 <-- shared paper
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“HIGHLIGHTS
• [They] propose the first comprehensive quality framework for street view imagery.
• Framework comprises 48 quality elements and may be applied to other image datasets.
• [They] implement partial evaluation for data in 9 cities, exposing varying quality.
• The implementation is released open-source and can be applied to other locations.
• [They] provide an overdue definition of street view imagery..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #streetlevelimagery #Crowdsourcing #QualityAssessmentFramework #Heterogeneity #imagery #dataquality #metrics #QA #urban #cities #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #StreetView #Google #Mapillary #KartaView #commercial #crowsourced #opendata #consistency #standards #specifications #metadata #accuracy #precision #spatiotemporal #terrestrial #assessment

#Poland #GLAM #crowdsourcing #WWII #history

"The Warsaw Rising Museum has launched a new app, called Memory Factory, to help young people document the wartime recollections of the remaining members of the generation who lived through the Second World War."

notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/13

Notes From Poland · Polish museum launches app for youth to record untold WWII stories

#crowdsourcing both #followerpower and #retootsplease in the #maker and #engineering space:

I need self-expanding foam tape to bridge and seal a gap for a garage floor. Sealing anything from 1-3cm in vertical distance. Good floor adhesion to concrete and primer. Oil-resistant, water-resistant, non-wicking, long-lasting, long-term flexible, and ideally with a barrier tape applied on top then it could also wick. And ideally breathable so I don't have mold behind. I know, I know.

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Carnegie Mellon University: Copilot Arena Helps Rank Real-World LLM Coding Abilities. “With so many AI coding assistants out there, it can be hard to keep track of ones that perform well on real-world tasks. To help analyze which leading or emerging code-writing large language models (LLMs) the developer community prefers, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed Copilot Arena, a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/04/carnegie-mellon-university-copilot-arena-helps-rank-real-world-llm-coding-abilities/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Carnegie Mellon University: Copilot Arena Helps Rank Real-World LLM Coding Abilities | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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Irish Echo: New chapter opens as oft-banned rebel publications made available online . “The Irish Republican Digital Archive, founded last year by a group of historically-minded colleagues from around Ireland, catalogues the ebb and flow of republicanism in the modern era, since the 1950s and the order to ‘dump arms’ following the failed Border Campaign, until today, with Sinn Féin the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/irish-echo-new-chapter-opens-as-oft-banned-rebel-publications-made-available-online/

We need your help to clarify some sections of #prav bye-laws. We have received feedback that some sections are unclear or confusing. You can see specific feedback in codeberg.org/prav/bye-laws/iss

You only need good English language skills to help in many of those issues.

You can see the current #byelaws at
prav.app/blog/finalising-our-b

You can also review and share your feedback as issues. Please let us know if you are unable to understand some sections.

Codeberg.orgbye-lawsBye-laws of The Prav Cooperative

iOS 18.4: Neue Datenschutzeinstellung für Standortgenauigkeit
Mit iOS 18.4 hat Apple kürzlich ein großes Update veröffentlicht, das zahlreiche Verbesserungen und neue Funktionen mit sich bringt. Neben bekannten Features wie Apple Intelligence
apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/ios-
#News #Services #Apple #AppleUpdates #Crowdsourcing #Datenschutz #GPS #IOS184 #MobileTechnologien #Ortungsdienste #Privatsphre #Standortgenauigkeit

Organization of American Historians: Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project . “Since January 2025, the federal workforce has undergone and continues to experience changes that are unprecedented in recent U.S. history. In response, OAH is launching an oral history initiative to document the experiences of federal workers and federal contractors affected by these shifts. These […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/organization-of-american-historians-federal-employees-and-contractors-oral-history-project/