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Creative Technologist on the Data Stories project at MUSSI Data Visualisation | Urban Sensing | Mixed Realities | 3D Dynamic Mapping

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 16h
Announcing three new events for Fictions, Frictions & Evictions. Check the website for booking details: fictions-frictions-evictions.ie
Flier for Between Data & Narrative with Ella Harris & Hannah Mumby, Sean Borodale, Mel Galley and Clara McSweeney.Flier for Nervous System with Joan Somers Donnelly.Flier for DATA, ACTIVISM AND THE HOUSING EMERGENCY: DO WE HAVE A CRISIS OF EVIDENCE?
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Data Stories publication - The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning, edited by Data Stories project members Danielle Hynes, Rob Kitchin and Samuel Mutter. The book is available in print and digital open access via Policy Press: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-data-pol...
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The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning
The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning; This pioneering book critically examines how governments, industry and civil society use housing, property and planning data, offering a vital refl...
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BETWEEN ART AND ACTION: ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL Join Data Stories artists and activists as they discuss how exploring data through creative practice can challenge injustice, shape public debate and connect communities. For booking, see www.eventbrite.ie/e/between-ar...
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BETWEEN ART AND ACTION: ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
Fictions, Frictions & Evictions: exhibiting artists and activists discuss their creative practice and the housing emergency
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NO SPACE FOR COMMUNITY Join award-winning author and activist Naoise Dolan for a conversation with Eoghan Lynch and Seán Doyle representing the Anne Devlin Community Centre the Revolutionary Housing League (RHL). For booking, see www.eventbrite.ie/e/no-space-f...
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NO SPACE FOR COMMUNITY
In Conversation with Anne Devlin Community Centre
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IN CONVERSATION WITH @THE_LIBERTIES_SOS Join Fictions, Frictions & Evictions curator Brendan Fox for a conversation with artists and activists Abaigeal Meek and Jack Caffrey about their photographic and film archive project, @the_liberties_sos. For booking, see www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-convers...
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IN CONVERSATION WITH @THE_LIBERTIES_SOS
Join Fictions, Frictions & Evictions curator Brendan Fox for a conversation with artists and activists Abaigeal Meek and Jack Caffrey.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HOUSING EXPERTS PANEL — BOOK FORUM Join @robkitchin.bsky.social in conversation with a panel of housing experts to discuss their recent books and their diagnosis of the housing emergency. For booking, see www.eventbrite.ie/e/housing-ex...
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HOUSING EXPERTS PANEL — BOOK FORUM
Housing experts and writers discuss their books and the current housing emergency
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HOLDINGS WORKSHOP with Mel Galley and Clara McSweeney Venue: iD8 Studio at The Gatelodge, Roe Lane, The Digital Hub, Dublin 8, D08 EY05 For booking, see www.eventbrite.ie/e/holdings-w...
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HOLDINGS WORKSHOP
Join Mel Galley and Clara McSweeney for a one-hour participatory workshop that takes a closer look at the places we pass through every day.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SYMPOSIUM: CRITICALLY REFLECTING ON THE EVIDENCE BASE FOR HOUSING AND PLANNING Venue: iD8 Studio at The Gatelodge, Roe Lane, The Digital Hub, Dublin 8, D08 EY05 For booking see: www.eventbrite.ie/e/symposium-...
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SYMPOSIUM: REFLECTING ON THE EVIDENCE BASE FOR HOUSING AND PLANNING
Experts discuss how housing and planning evidence is produced, shared & used, & the limits to our knowledge & its implications.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A useful little reality check on 3D generation with AI in Blender: youtu.be/qsmDdOi07fI
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Testing Viral AI 3D Products
YouTube video by Blender Guru
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are delighted to announce our upcoming exhibition, 'Fictions, Frictions & Evictions: Understanding Ireland’s Housing Emergency through Data Stories, Public Knowledge, Art & Activism'. Find details on our dedicated exhibition website: fictions-frictions-evictions.ie
Fictions, Frictions and Evictions exhibition poster (16-24 October 2026)
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Testing a new simulation workflow using #Godotengine and #Rust to visualise training a perceptron and other #MachineLearners
A perceptron training simulation using Rust and Godot.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The time seems ripe for the rebooting of hermeneutics, but this time in the technical sense of ‘understanding’ nonhuman agencies (‘authors’) such as algorithms as machines.” (Ernst, 2021)
Cover of Ernst, W. (2021) Technológos in Being: Radical Media Archaeology & the Computational Machine. New York: Bloomsbury.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New post on Data Stories - Read about researcher @juliettedavret.bsky.social recent presentation at the RC21 conference in Vienna: “Data Intermediaries and Territorial, Labour, and Epistemic Frontiers in Ireland’s Planning Digitalisation” datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=976
Juliette Davret presenting “Data Intermediaries and Territorial, Labour, and Epistemic Frontiers in Ireland’s Planning Digitalisation” at RC21.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Live code iteration in Unity...another neat feature coming soon! One to watch for. I'd be really keen to give it a whirl! youtu.be/TBo10DvAlX8
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Live code iteration
YouTube video by Unity
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I haven't used Unity in about 4 years but I'd love to get back into it. The Unity CLI looks genuinely cool and exciting for creative projects: youtu.be/C7wwjNeR4OE
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Unity CLI - This is FRICKIN' AWESOME!
YouTube video by Gamefromscratch
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Useful reality check if you are curious: youtu.be/uwHQLLa4Rpc
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I Spent 1.5 Billion AI Tokens on Absolute Slop
YouTube video by Chris Titus Tech
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm doing some rough and ready image diffing on Satellite imagery for a change detection test. Are there any QGIS plugins or open source tools #gis anyone would recommend for doing this properly? Tried Google Earth Engine. Anything else?
Change detection test on Satellite Imagery in Cork, Ireland. Imagery via ESRI wayback.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Useful video if you a curious about influencer agencies and digital labour: youtu.be/mniOXxxonB4
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The Dystopian Reality of Online Advertising
YouTube video by Venus Theory
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ace! www.raspberrypi.com/news/peppes-...
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Peppe's ghost LiDAR scanner - Raspberry Pi
This LiDAR sensor's maker thinks that its 3D-printed shell evokes a "jumbo-sized juice container or Ghostbusters gizmo".
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Data Stories welcomes four new team members. Find out more about them on our blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=949
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
'How Nature Solved Robotics' by Art of the Problem: youtu.be/S67z2aekBrI
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How Nature Solved Robotics
YouTube video by Art of the Problem
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Turning a Gaussian Splat Into a Videogame blog.playcanvas.com/turning-a-ga...
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Turning a Gaussian Splat Into a Videogame | PlayCanvas Blog
How I turned a photogrammetric 3D Gaussian Splat scene into a playable browser FPS - with collision, pre-baked lighting, navmesh-driven NPCs and behavior-tree AI, all in PlayCanvas.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
ENIAC’s Architects Wove Stories Through Computing: Grandchild of an inventor and a programmer reflects on their legacy spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-80th-a...
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ENIAC’s Architects Wove Stories Through Computing
Grandchild of an inventor and a programmer reflects on their legacy
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Data Stories have a new book chapter out on "The nature and development of a planning data ecosystem" in the new Research Handbook on Digital Data, edited by Aaltonen, Stelmaszak and Lyytinen. Read more on our blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=33
Research Handbook on Digital Data
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New post on Data Stories - Find out about Carla's visit to Zurich for a workshop on tech in planning followed by her presentation of our Unreal Homes project at BeNeLux Geography 2026: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=920
Carla at Land-Use Planning in the Digital Age in Zurich Carla presenting on Commodity Narratives and Unreal Homes at BeNeLux Geography
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"A core worry is that agents will become autonomous enough to dictate the terms of human participation while still recruiting us for sensing and liability." via Noema www.noemamag.com/ai-agents-ar...
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AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans To Observe The Offline World | NOEMA
Agents need us — as sensors, as verifiers, as bearers of liability — in ways we have barely begun to account for.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
“The golden age of analogue refers to our current fetishization and celebration of the analogue.”
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
CFPs inbound! Data Stories are announcing calls for participation in two separate sessions on policy making and arts-based methods at University College Cork for CIG 2026 (6th – 8th May). Check posts below and our blog for full details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=33
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Blog | Data Stories | Telling stories about and with planning and property data
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Read our project's latest blog post by Juliette on participation in 'Boundaries & boundary concepts in/as datafication' organised by Yana Boeva, Louis Ravn and Sarah Davies at the University of Amsterdam: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=896
Juliette presenting in 'Boundaries & boundary concepts in/as datafication' at the University of Amsterdam.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Digital Theory roundtable with Fazi, Galloway, Handelman and Weatherby via The Disintegrator Podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5qfV...
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42. The Cut (w/ M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby)
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I enjoyed this video by Mo Bitar...basically a talk about responsibility in coding: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTs...
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After two years of vibecoding, I’m back to writing by hand
YouTube video by Mo Bitar
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Everyone wants to blame the content: misinformation, bots, polarisation. That mistakes catalysts and symptoms for the underlying causes. The crisis isn’t bad information, it's that the very information infrastructure we relied on to create a shared understand of the world had changed completely.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Source Code Exhibition: "Source code [...] holds rich layers of meaning. It can reveal the intentions of its author, reflect the historical, social, and cultural context of its creation, and even express personal style, creativity, or aesthetic choices" www.sourcecode-exhibition.softwareheritage.org
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Source Code Exhibition |
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Recently we've been working with @maedhbhlikedave.bsky.social to get our 3D printed of Cork city to its new home in the library at UCC. Everyone is super pleased with the result. Big thanks to the team at Display Contracts for mounting the model. datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=871
3D printed model of Cork city
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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Excited to share a new open-source project for the web-mapping and LiDAR community: maplibre-gl-lidar 🚀 With maplibre-gl-lidar, you can visualize large-scale LiDAR point clouds (LAS/LAZ, including COPC) directly in the browser using MapLibre GL JS.
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
New housing and planning resource for Ireland – a publications hub. >1,800 academic, policy and sector publications relating to housing, property and planning in Ireland. Access at www.zotero.org/groups/55867... if there are pubs missing you want us to add, please send them to us and we will do so
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Zotero | Your personal research assistant
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A talk by Barry O'Reilly @technologytulip.bsky.social on software architecture, complex systems, and stuffing meat into electric chargers: youtu.be/D8qQUHrksrE
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Residues: Time, Change & Uncertainty in Software Architecture • Barry O'Reilly • GOTO 2025
YouTube video by GOTO Conferences
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
"AI Agent, AI Spy" - Good talk by Udbhav Tiwari and Meredith Whittaker on the risks of agenetic AI and systems like Microsoft Recall: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-ag...
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AI Agent, AI Spy
Agentic AI is the catch-all term for AI-enabled systems that propose to complete more or less complex tasks on their own, without stoppin...
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
'Against Storytelling' - A refreshing piece by Miriam Rasch via @publicseminar.bsky.social publicseminar.org/2025/12/agai...
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Against Storytelling - Public Seminar
The glorification of storytelling to define who we are or save the planet induces aversion in some. Do digitally packaged stories restrict how we perceive our often rambling, fragmentary lives?
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"Half the houses built don't Exist" - Check out the Data Stories blog for a summary of Danielle and Sam's presentation at the Digital Geographies conference 'Artificial Geographies: opening the black box for a new wave of critical thinking' in Lisbon: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=853
Danielle and Sam introducing their talk 'Half the houses built don't exist' at Digital Geographies 2025.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Good talk on video game environments and spatial documentation for development from #GodotFest2025 - 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' by Robin-Yann Storm: media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2...
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Gyms, Zoos, and Museums
Everyone always mentions that people do not read documentation. This is also the case for us as game developers. So what can we do about ...
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I recently started a postgraduate diploma in Cybersecurity and I've really enjoyed researching different historic and contemporary encryption techniques. Here's a couple of diagrams I prepared with Excalidraw for my notes. Still working out the best way to communicate the AES S-box and round keys.
Caesar CipherVigenere CipherAES Encryption and Decryption
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Data Stories were busy during Maynooth Research Week. Check out our involvement in Maynooth Sparks 2025, and our workshop session 'Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland’s property market by spoofing property websites': datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=834
Maynooth Sparks 2025Spoof property website created for the workshop 'Daft.ie for Noobs'.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Very intriguing! A new paper discusses Skyfall-GS, a process for obtaining navigable 3D scenes from Satellite imagery via Gaussian Splats: skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev
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Skyfall-GS: Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery
Skyfall-GS converts satellite images to explorable 3D urban scenes using diffusion models, with real-time rendering performance.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Read our latest blogpost on workshops engaging Collaborative Urban Planning with Data by @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Helen Shaw and Carla Maria Kayanan. Also features real-time illustration by Eimear McNally: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=826
Presentation by Helen Shaw.Active note taking with post-it notes during the workshop.Real-time workshop illustration by Eimear McNally.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Exciting times! I've been eagerly awaiting EPUB reading with Zotero on iOS. Now it's here! www.zotero.org/blog/ios-epu...
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Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Now available in Zotero for iOS: EPUB and webpage snapshot annotation and PDF metadata retrieval
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
If you are working on structured data extraction and OCR with tricky documents like PDFs I strongly recommend checking out Docling. Good presentation via the Chaos Computer Club: media.ccc.de/v/sps25-5645...
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Docling: Get your documents ready for generative AI
Docling is an open-source Python package that simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats — including advanced PDF understa...
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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Circular deals among AI companies via @flowingdata.com flowingdata.com/2025/10/13/c...
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Circular deals among AI companies
The big AI companies are making deals with each other, promising and distributing hundreds of billions of dollars over the next few years. It’s difficult to keep track, but Bloomberg has this…
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
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