Web Innovations
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How Live Dealer Casino Technology Works
Live dealer games sit at a fascinating intersection between a real casino and a digital one. A human dealer at a real table is streamed live to players' screen…
When the House Goes Dark: Online Gambling and the Preservation Problem No One Is Funding
Online casinos and betting platforms are among the most data-rich environments on the internet — and among the most fragile. A look at the born-digital records…
Model Collapse and What Happens When AI Starts Learning From Itself
The large language models that have reshaped how we write, search, and learn were built on a single irreplaceable resource: the vast accumulation of text that…
Shadow Libraries, AI Training Data, and the Copyright Problem Digital Libraries Cannot Avoid
The problem the field was handed without being asked In 2023 and 2024, a sequence of disclosures, lawsuits, and investigative reports established what many in…
What Digital Libraries Have Stopped Learning From Industry Recommender Systems
There was a period, roughly between 2008 and 2015, when the digital library community and the recommender systems community were genuinely talking to each othe…
The Library Catalog Was Never Neutral
The catalog has always made an argument. It argues that certain concepts are the correct way to organise knowledge. That certain vocabulary terms are the appro…
Algorithmic Entertainment in Online Gambling and the Engineering of Player Engagement
The global online gambling industry has evolved into a highly sophisticated digital entertainment ecosystem driven by data science, behavioral psychology, and…
Global Reach, Diverse Impact: Rereading the 2004 Manifesto
What the original JCDL theme understood about cross-regional collaboration — and what the digital edition inherits twenty-two years later.