Peter (PT) Sefton's blog -- mostly about research data and archival repositories these days
You've all noticed that Google is a bit shit lately, right? You get AI answers instead of decent search results, and for me at least it always sends me to Reddit where there's more AI shit. Quite a few of the bloggers I follow have been talking about how they are extracting themselves from the services run by the big tech companies, for all sorts of reasons to do with risk, privacy, social justice…
[UPDATED 2025-12-01] Recorded a demo for this song and made a lyrics video: Skip the intro, straight to the live video Or play using the chart or read up on the background in the free PDF . I am getting around to setting up a part of this website for all my songs as something to leave behind for the two people who might care about that (they know who they are). Meanwhile, I have this blog so I'm…
PDF version Copyright Rosanna Smith, Mike Lynch, Peter Sefton, Simon Musgrave, River Tae Smith 2025 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International . This presentation is from the eResearch Australasia Conference . It was delivered by Rosanna Smith and Michael Lynch. I'm putting it here as one of the authors. We followed this presentation with an RO-Crate Birds of a Feather session with…
This presentation is an update on the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) technical architecture for the LDaCA Steering Committee meeting 22 August 2025, written by members of the LDaCA team; me, Moises Sacal, and Ben Foley edited by Bridey Lea. This version has the slides we presented and our notes, edited for clarity. There's a more compact version of this up over on the LDaCA site The…
This is my summary of The 19th International Conference on Open Repositories, June 3-6th 2024, Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden. I paid for air travel to Sweden, via Tokyo, Helsinki and Stockholm and the University of Queensland paid for the conference registration and accommodation for the 4 days of the conference. I've been going to this series of conferences for a while, starting with the initial…
[Update: 2024-06-25 Fixed typos] This blog turned 20 this year. Now, I mostly use this site to put up what Simon Willison calls annotated conference presentations [1] like this recent one from June . Most of the projects or institutions I've worked for don't bother to maintain their websites over time, but with my own site I still have access to (most of) the stuff I've done in one place. It's…
This post is also available at the Language Data Commons of Australia site . PDF version Five ways RO-Crate data packages are important for repositories Presented at: The 19th International Conference on Open Repositories, June 3-6th 2024, Göteborg, Sweden Session: Presentations: Integrations for Research Data Management Time: 05/June/2024: 11:00 - 12:30 · Location: Drottningporten 1 Peter…
This post is also available at the Language Data Commons of Australia site . PDF version Developer Track Session 2 Time: 05 June 2024, 09:00 - 10:30 · Location: Drottningporten 2 Crate-O - A drop-in linked data metadata editor for RO-Crate (and other) linked data in repositories and beyond Peter Sefton, Alvin Sebastian, Moises Sacal Bonequi, Rosanna Smith University of Queensland, Australia…
This post is also available at the Language Data Commons of Australia site . PDF version From “R-Drive to RRKive ” – a comprehensive, open and sustainable set of principles and tools for low (and high) resource archival-repositories Presented at: The 19th International Conference on Open Repositories, June 3-6th 2024, Göteborg, Sweden Session: Presentations: Open and Sustainable Infrastructure…
This is a summary of my trip to the 18th Open Repositories conference, hosted by Stellenbosch University in South Africa. My travel was paid for by my main employer, the University of Queensland. I've attended 17 of the 18 OR conferences -- including the first one which was held in Sydney, organized by the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories . I think Jon Dunn from Indiana and I…