Todd A. Carpenter

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Executive Director of NISO - Facilitating information exchange through standards. And wine. And photographs. And maybe some other stuff too. Otherwise, it’s turtles all the way down. @TAC_NISO elsewhere on the web. Thoughts and opinions are my own, because

Author Eric Larson speaking at Baltimore County Public Library event. Mr Larson sits speaking into a microphone in front of a banner that reads “Foundation for Baltimore County Public Library”
A blue tshirt that reads “Show up for libraries. With QR code to support them and access more information available at ala.org/showup
The empty IMLS booth at the the American Library Association conference in Philadelphia. It is a blue drape with two signs. They read: “INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES” And “IMLS Can't Be Here. So We Need To Show Up For Our Libraries.”
A photo a marionette version of Hitler used by the young parents of Frank Oz, Isidore and Françoise Oznowicz from. The 1930s. The puppet was buried by the couple when it was clear the Germans would invade Belgium. They then fled from Antwerp to Portugal, Morocco, then England before returning with the invasion forces to take back the continent from German control. Eventually they dug it back up. This is being displayed in an exhibit at the Dutch Mational Archives in The Hague
Jeff Jarvis and Matthew Kirschenbaum seated on a stage talking about the technology of books
Brian OLeary, Laura Dawson, and Phil Madans seated on a stage talking about the BISG report Book Publishing Next
Cindy Hohl opens up NISO Plus conference.
Scott Dinnen, in front of a slide describing Optica’s goals for mathematics workflows
Slide showing the text of an Optical Society Contract from the 2000s “PRICE OF COMPOSITION SERVICES OSA aerees to pay a fixed page rate of $54.00 for composition and SGML services.”
Ingo Rother, CEO, Berlin Institute for Scholarly Publishing (BISP) welcomes people to the APE conference. He stands at a lectern in the bottom left, in front of a screen that readers Welcome to APE 2025
Cal Fire map of the Palisades Fire in LA. The map shows the already burned sections in bright orange and mandatory evacuation orders to the east and to the north as well as a voluntary evacuation zone that extends out. The new evacuation zones are at least as large as what has already burned. It extends from UCLA into the Ventura valley, from the 405 west to past Calabasas. An insane distance and zone.
A black screen of the Amazon Prime Video App, with a circular clock-shaped logo (that was spinning) and the lower icons that read Home, with a home Logo), then Prime, Subscriptions, download and a box logo with lines. This was during the NFL ravens-Steelers playoff game, streamed —or rather not—by Amazon Prime
A pine tree, which is barely visible because it is backlit with sunlight streaming through a fog of man-made snow casting a starburst rays if sunlight and shadows radiating from the center of the image. The sky is blue and the ski slope in the foreground is dark because of the early morning shadows
Technical drawing from the December 22, 1891 patent for a roll of toilet paper. The white technical drawing is on a dark grey background with an angled view of a roll of toilet paper with the end draped down the front. A single piece is ripped off. There are two signatures of the inventor and a witness
A single red Christmas ball ornament set alone on a 1950s antique silver garland Christmas tree from close up. The silver is backlit from a lime green light from the left, giving it a surreal starburst-like effect
An 11 x 10 grid of dots in a random pattern on a nearly black background. The dots range in color from yellow to orange and a few are red. There is no apparent order to the colors
A view of the National Mall from about 2000 feet above the Potomac River looking east. The Memorial Bridge is in the foreground with traffic into the city. The Lincoln memorial is in the center of the image with the Reflecting Pool, the Washington monument and the capital building is barely visible in the background. The sky is clear on a fall day, with the leaves fallen from the trees and the grass is brown.
Robert Cartolano standing at a wooden lectern with a sign stating “CNI Coalition for Networked Information” with a blue background
Clifford Lynch behind a lectern with a sing reading CNI Coalition for Networked Information
An abstract pattern that is side lit with yellow-orange light from the top of ripples in the sand.
The side of a brick three-story building with three windows. Above the widows is painted a fading blue rectangle with the words “Take Courage” in yellow. Before the building is a high brick wall with a green door and the limbs of ivy growing on the wall, although the leaves have fallen for winter
Black and white abstract image with a partial circle that extends off the image and is broken at the bottom right, where a blue dot is nearby. A bright spot is in the top left third, which casts shadows through what appears to be clouds
Abstract image taken in London near the Tate Modern Museum. Black and white patterns of squares that resemble deformed windows
A backlit view of part of the London skyline with the sun just rising above the horizon. The landscape is dark, with a bright orange sky. The sun is partially blocked by a building, while the Shard tower extends upwards to the left of it
A bar chart showing Menti meter poll results showing results of how often attendees reported how recently they had to confirm their online identity. The overwhelming majority reported “yesterday” with 47 responses, the next highest was “last week” with 19, last month with 1, “sometime this year” 7 and never with 2
Hylke Koers stands at a lectern in front of a slide that reads Innovation & Integrity Days with a photo of the keynote speaker Debora Comparin
A granite wall with the word “HUMAN” faintly visible in all capitals, where the were removed from a wall. On can see holes in the wall where the letters were mounted onto the wall where the letters previously had been
Cover of a notebook conference schwag I picked up from the exhibition hall at the Charleston library Conference last week. It is a brown cover with the words “BioOne 25 Years”
2024 Charleston Conference Awareness Informed Action: Empowering Cooperative Collections Building
Child’s start of school paper work included document “Department policy on Deadlines, Extended Time and AI”. Section entitled “ChatGPT or other Artificial Intelligence Programs” just reads “No.”
Panorama view of Edinburgh Scotland skyline from Salisbury Crags. The view shows the hills of Holyrood Park
SSP President Randy Townsend kicking off the SSP conference. He is standing on a stage behind a podium
Photo of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore showing the freighter that struck the bridge and the steel trusses crumpled atop it and in the water
Image of the US showing average percentage chance of cloud coverage on April 8 with cloud cover of over 50 in blue and less than 50% in yellow, with shading increasing in intensity as it approaches 0% or 100%. The pacific southwest and most of the east coast are blue, with the southwest being yellow. The middle section is white, indicating even chance. Source: U Wisconsin-Madison CIMSS via Washington Post
Clifford Lynch standing at the podium, introducing people to the Fall meeting
Lovely orange sunrise peaking over the city of London seen from the peak of Primrose Hill. The sun is just peaking above the trees and backlighting the Shard on the horizon. In the foreground, two solitary walkers cross the scene
Frontispiece image of William Shakespeare from the First Folio. Shakespeare's First Folio London, 1623 A folio is a large volume produced by folding each sheet of paper once to create two leaves. The name derives from the Latin for 'leaf'. The 36 plays printed in Shakespeare's First Folio were brought together by John Heminges and Henry Condell, both of whom had acted alongside the playwright. The text was printed in the workshop of William and Isaac Jaggard. The portrait, however, is by Martin Droeshout, who engraved it into a copper plate that was re-used in later editions. Of the estimated 750 First Folios produced, only around 235 survive today. Five are at the British Library.
Selfie in front of the Einstein Memorial in front of the National Academies building on the National Mall in Washington DC. Einstein is shown holding a paper with his E=MC2 formula Inscribed in the back: “The right to search for truth, implies also a duty; one most not conceal any part of what one have recognized to be true.”
A graphic representation of the US, except with polygonal blocks instead of the actual shape, which depicts a color-coded shading of where one has lived, visited, stayed or never visited. I have lived in five states but have visited every other state, save three of the territories, which are also shown.
The Eastman Kodak is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York. Under Eastman's direction, the company became one of the world's largest film and camera manufacturers, and also developed a model of welfare capitalism and a close relationship with the city of Rochester.[5] During most of the 20th century, Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and produced a number of technological innovations, such as the first digital camera
Sunrise behind the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from the Western shore looking east, with the sweep of the bridge from left to right and then curving back left. This view was from the starting point of the 10k race to the other side of the Bay #BayBridgeRun
Sunrise over the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park. Looking toward the sun reflecting on the water along a path that is adjacent to the water with a few leaves along the pathway. A light broken cloud layer is lit from below by the rising sun
Stage set prior to the start of Ocean at the end of the lane. Stage set with leafless branches and an arch of beaches in the background
A bar chart showing my steps per hour from 6 am to 1 pm, totaling 21,976 steps today
Panel at STM conference with four panelists and a moderator in front of a screen that describes the panel
Blurry image of the partial eclipse of the sun from CLT airport with about 40% coverage of the sun on the bottom right of the disk
Table 8 - Summit Table 7 - Framework for responsible Al Table 6 - Disclosure of Al involvement Table 3 - Education and training Al Toolkit Table 10 - AI Playbook - safety, fraud, vendor Table 10 - Terminology Table 9 - Standards for models and attribution Table 2 - Best practice guide
A slide introducing the last portion of the NISO Plus Forum reading “ Session 4: Gather, Report Outcomes”