RE: https://openbiblio.social/@hochstenbach/117466185547617415
👇 More evidence that a lot of work will be required to achieve the @coar_repositories vision (which I have long embraced) to make repositories a fundamental building block of the #scholcomm system. While progress is being made e.g. with adoption of the Notify protocol and #FAIR Signposting, recent findings by @g3om4c and the below by @hochstenbach (with focus on how repositories deal with machine access in the age of over-agressieve #AI bots), suggest a “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back” pattern.
In the age of genAI, we all know about “bad bots” that are hitting our institutional repositories and websites. But, what about the “honest bots”? How does our scholarly infrastructure react to them? For the next months I will generate on my blog a report of a “honest bot” that t
OpenBiblio.SocialPatrick Hochstenbach (@[email protected])In the age of genAI, we all know about “bad bots” that are hitting our institutional repositories and websites. But, what about the “honest bots”? How does our scholarly infrastructure react to them? For the next months I will generate on my blog a report of a “honest bot” that tries to access publication landing pages in European institutional repositories. Follow the reports and stats. Feedback