Link dump 2016/3: Academia.edu, Target’s messy data and a new keyboard for France

Several takes on the #DeleteAcademiaEdu thing. First off, let’s not forget that academia.edu is a (for profit) social network, not a repository. In the academic rat’s race, every mean to get one’s work out there is justified, so deleting profiles might be a luxury only established folks can afford. Also, not all researchers have access to an institutional repository. Personally, I kept my (few) publications on my former institution’s IR and only linked them from my academia.edu profile. This is the approach I recommend when asked.
Thanks to this post on the Duke Library blog also advocating a balanced approach to the academia.edu debate, I learned the existence of an open-source alternative network called VIVO, which has been implemented in many schools and allows for integration with IRs.
The Last Days of Target (Canadian Business). What brought down the giant in its ill-fated Canada venture? Messy data.
Alors oui, un nouveau clavier, voilà ce qu’il faut pour sauver l’orthographe française. Je me dépêche d’en parler avant qu’il soit nécessaire d’obtenir l’autorisation des ayants-droit pour insérer un lien hypertexte. Slow clap.