Demmy Verbeke

viroviacum@hcommons.social

Head of KU Leuven Libraries Artes | associate professor of open research with a past in classics and 16C humanism <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#openaccess</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#openresearch</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openscholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#openscholarship</a>

Posts

Post #1636092
Transformative agreements are a blind alley, by Elena Simukovic: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2024/transformative-agreements-a-blind-alley
Post #1171898
Als ik naar het programma van Informatie aan Zoo (https://www.vvbad.be/informatie-aan-zoo-2025) kijk, vraag ik mij af wie in het programmacomité ik zo kwaad heb gemaakt.
Post #1171897
Sign that I am getting old #120: article on reputed Flemish newssite which tries to answer the serious question : who is Tony Blair? https://vrtnws.be/p.M9neeWDWE
Post #1171895
Despite not being a podcast person, I’m thoroughly enjoying ‘Midnight at the Cassablanca’ and have caught up way too quickly. I have some thoughts though.
Post #1171894
(1) A lot of these VI people high level in scholcomm seem very intelligent and very competent and a lot of them seem very interesting and genuinely nice people.
Post #1171893
(2) Mainstream scholcomm is doomed, isn’t it?
Post #1171891
&quot;The futility of working with commercial publishers is clear from the multiple failed attempts to do so.&quot; https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820
Post #1171889
Registrations for BiblioTech Hackaton 2026 now (yes NOW) open! https://bib.kuleuven.be/english/research/digital-humanities/bibliotech-hackathon/2026
Post #1171888
Is this how parents feel when their child becomes a teenager? https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17641186
Post #1171887
It even surprises me how much I’m struck by this but this feels like a massive/final shift which very few realize (which probably says all you need to know): https://www.zdfheute.de/panorama/vatikan-amtssprache-latein-100.html
Post #1171886
I know I am supposed to be all excited/promotional about all the great posters, talks and articles I am planning in 2026, but, right now, I am mostly excited about getting tickets for Patti Smith coming to Ghent Jazz.
Post #1171885
Even if I do nothing else anymore, at least I got a shout out in the same breath as David Lewis and Vannevar Bush.
Post #1171884
It might be complete chance (but even then: I appreciate a tool which fosters serendipity rather then pushing worse versions of what I like) but I feel that Qobuz does a better job of suggesting what I listen to after only 1 week of use than Spotify has done in years. https://open.qobuz.com/track/383431018
Post #1016478
What does the Barcelona Declaration mean for research libraries? explained by @MsPhelps @cameronneylon and @LudoWaltman : https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/qa-barceolna-declaration-on-open-research-information