Amber Swope

These 3 higher ed website needs should drive your platform choice. Find out how Drupal meets your content, tech, and user experience needs. ⬇️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e6DUpUfS

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With the European Accessibility Act #EAA coming into force at the end of June 2025 it is important that metadata describing the accessibility features of a digital publication are available to the book supply chain - this document explains how to use #ONIX 3 to describe #a11y - there is an advanced note https://lnkd.in/exg2Y6c9 and a basic introduction: https://lnkd.in/eUvwGzjv

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TECH WRITING PRO TIP Initial caps in your social media hashtags (#TechnicalWriter vs. #technicalwriter) allow users employing screen readers (such as the blind and those with dyslexia) to hear the correct hashtag. Initial caps enable the speech-generating text parser to discern and correctly pronounce the individual words. They also improve readability for any user (#CurtRobbinsTechnicalWriter vs. #curtrobbinstechnicalwriter).

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I have difficulty getting people excited about #LinkedData and the positive impact for both libraries and end users. As a profession, we often resist big changes to established rules, standards, and workflows. This piece by OCLC does a phenomenal job of outlining the benefits of linked data in a very succinct way and is very much worth the read: https://lnkd.in/ew3uEhYB

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Archetype builds AI models that act as a translation layer between humans and complex sensors, using plain language to help people understand what’s happening in a building, car, or human body Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/ASM0m #TranslationLayer #ComplexSensors #PlainLanguage #HumanBody #Plaintext #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Tags #RecognizeHumanIntention #SeniorPrincipalScientist

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Does your organization have KPIs in place to help guide its accessibility strategy? TPGi’s Mark Miller recently spoke about steps you can take to mature your accessibility program, involving several key stages, components, and strategic considerations. Learn more about maturing your accessibility program: https://lnkd.in/exNE2MGZ #Accessibility #DigitalAccessibility #WebAccessibility #A11y

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Does your organization have KPIs in place to help guide its accessibility strategy? TPGi’s Mark Miller recently spoke about steps you can take to mature your accessibility program, involving several key stages, components, and strategic considerations. Learn more about maturing your accessibility program: https://lnkd.in/exNE2MGZ #Accessibility #DigitalAccessibility #WebAccessibility #A11y

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#highered #drupal7eol #sustainablility Are you trying to figure out how to migrate your site off Drupal 7 without loosing features with limited budget? Join discussion about bulk moving sites from D7 to Backdrop CMS at Penn State and at Stanford University https://lnkd.in/gBgS-w-s

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Getting Started with Automated Scoring New blog article by Susan Lottridge of Cambium Assessment introduces automated scoring for those considering it for the first time. https://lnkd.in/eVG9UruZ Sue authored the Chapter in the TBA Guidelines on Automated Scoring of Constructed Response Items and the blog article is worth reading.

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#OSTP Update Alert: “Updated Report to the U.S. Congress on #Financing Mechanisms for #OpenAccess #Publishing of Federally Funded #Research" ASM is on a mission to promote and advance the Microbial Sciences. ASM's commitment to support an equitable and inclusive open access publishing model with our move to Subscribe to Open #S2O in 2025 is represented on pages 9-10. https://lnkd.in/ggWrxDaA Take action to support your researchers by simply continuing your ASM subscription and receive these key benefits: ✔ ASM Early Commit Flat Renewal Pricing - Renew by Jan 31st, 2025 ✔ OA Guarantee for affiliated authors at subscribing institutions ✔ No APC Fees for our six primary research S2O Journals ✔ Open Access policy compliance (including OSTP for US Market) 👉 Learn more about ASM's S2O model here: https://lnkd.in/eWxFFyvU

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Feature Article: Best Practices for DAM User Adoption As part of June’s editorial theme, Image Relay's DAM Librarian Sophy Bishop highlights some best practice tips for improved user adoption. https://lnkd.in/eQk6EP2J #DAM #digitalassetmanagement #useradoption #bestpractice

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One of the best projects I've worked on in the past thirty years! Read about it in The Scholarly Kitchen - "The success of the duplicate submission checker application, including its automated content feeds from editorial systems, led to the decision to develop this application into an automated background screening for submitted content that screens for a variety of signals, depending on the choice of the publishers. For example, publishers can screen incoming submissions for duplications, check if references appear in the Retraction Watch database, and run the content through the Papermill Alarm tool all in one go." https://lnkd.in/eEqd6zav

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It’s time to make your #writing standards standard, across your company. Acrolinx helps people write better, and makes sure they do by stopping bad content from getting published. Learn how 👉 https://bit.ly/3WP5r9f.

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In an effort to modernize document processing, the #SSA is utilizing electronic signatures to refine their operations. Our Adobe Senior Product Specialist, David Wilmer takes readers through the journey of SSA’s digital transformation and explores the various ways eSignatures have significantly improved their processes: https://ow.ly/yzhG30sHTw4

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White Papers: What Every Tech Writer Should Know "Note that your white paper may include many more sections than those listed above. Think of the ones presented here as the core essentials of a white paper. More complex examples may feature dozens or even hundreds of sections or subsections." > Listen now: https://lnkd.in/gMfjNnTT > Read now: https://lnkd.in/gEG9UJiV #TechnicalWriting #WhitePapers

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I was traveling on Friday and missed posting my usual weekly #climatechange resource. This book was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Outdoor Book Award! The Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, by Elizabeth Rush. From the publisher: With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand testimonials from those facing this choice—a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago—with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities, Rising privileges the voices of those too often kept at the margins. In a new afterword for the paperback edition, Rush highlights questions of storytelling, adaptability, and how to powerfully shift conversation around ongoing climate change—including the storms of 2017 and 2018: Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, Irma, Florence, and Michael. #ClimateEmergency #GlobalClimateStrike week 214 #SeaLevelRise #ClimateActionNow #Hurricanes #Flooding #Floods #CoastlineErosion #Sustainability

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When do you need #DITA XML adoption? DITA addresses a slew of documentation-related hurdles: ⬇️ ✔️ Unstructured documentation that hinders effective reuse of the existing content  ✔️ Inconsistent content with duplicates scattered across the organization ✔️ Inability to produce several output formats from one source item at a time ✔️ Lack of linkage between related documents  ✔️ Human error-prone processes due to inadequate automation ✔️ Difficulties with seeing a complex content tree as a whole ✔️ Time-consuming documentation updates  ✔️ Pricey content maintenance, localization, etc. Bear the low-hanging fruits of DITA-driven documentation management > https://lnkd.in/e9kdV74e #instinctools_services #DITAxml #softwaredevelopment #SaaS #softwaredevelopmentcompany

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Even with a detailed update from the Alabama Public Library Service, questions on how the code changes will be implemented surround the situation. My latest for AL.com. Link in the comments.

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