Editorial
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18575
Published: October 21, 2025 19:58
Welcome to the 61st issue of Code4Lib Journal. We hope that you enjoy the variety articles published in this issue.
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Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489
Published: October 21, 2025 19:58
The rise of aggressive, adaptive, and evasive web crawlers is a significant challenge for libraries and archives, causing service disruptions and overwhelming institutional resources. This article details the experiences of the University of North Carolina…
Liberation of LMS-siloed Instructional Data
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18462
Published: October 21, 2025 19:58
This paper presents an initiative to extract and repurpose instructional content from a series of Blackboard course shells associated with IMLS-funded boot camp events conducted in June of 2021, 2022, and 2023. These events, facilitated by ten faculty…
Extracting A Large Corpus from the Internet Archive, A Case Study
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18510
Published: October 21, 2025 19:58
The Internet Archive was founded on May 10, 1996, in San Francisco, CA. Since its inception, the archive has amassed an enormous corpus of content, including over 866 billion web pages, more than 42.5 million print materials, 13 million videos, and 14…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Web Archives: A Comparative Study of WARC-GPT and a Custom Pipeline
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18555
Published: October 21, 2025 19:58
Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping digital preservation and access in libraries, but their limitations (hallucinations, opacity, and resource demands) remain significant. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) offers a promising mitigation strategy…
Building and Deploying the Digital Humanities Quarterly Recommender System
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18501
Published: October 21, 2025 19:58
Since 2007, Digital Humanities Quarterly has published over 750 scholarly articles, constituting a significant repository of scholarship within the digital humanities. As the journal’s corpus of articles continues to grow, it is no longer possible for…
What it Means to be a Repository: Real, Trustworthy, or Mature?
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18541
Published: October 21, 2025 19:58
Archivists occasionally describe digital repositories as being "not real," suggesting that their technical digital preservation infrastructure is inadequate to the task of digital preservation. This article discusses the concept of digital repositories,…
From Notes to Networks: Using Obsidian to Teach Metadata and Linked Data
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18535
Published: October 21, 2025 19:58
In this article, we describe a novel use of the note-taking software Obsidian as a method for users without formal training in metadata creation to develop culturally relevant data literacies across two digital archiving projects. We explain how Obsidian’s…