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Two Reports on Disk Image Formats from the Harvard Library Digital Preservation Program

The Harvard Library Digital Preservation Program has released Disk Image Content Model and Metadata Analysis ACTIVITY 1: Comparative Format Matrix Analysis and Disk Image Content Model and Metadata Analysis ACTIVITY 2: Metadata Analysis

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Harvard Library collections include a variety of computer media that will be imaged using forensic disk imaging techniques and preserved in the Library's preservation and access repository—the Digital Repository Service (DRS). As a first step towards providing support for this material in the DRS, the Library contracted AVPreserve in late 2015 to assist with the analysis. The goals of the analysis were:

Recommended disk image formats to accept and prefer for the DRS

Recommended technical metadata schema(s) to use for disk image file formats

DRS content models for these objects

Recommendations for enhancing Harvard Library's FITS tool to better support these objects

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at Boston College

Boston College is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Scholarship Librarian will employ both experience with History research methods and technical expertise to advance the integration of library liaison responsibilities and digital humanities to the History Department. We are seeking a creative librarian familiar with History collections and instruction who is motivated to investigate new tools and collaborate with faculty, students, and other librarians to initiate and support digital projects. This Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer advances digital scholarship by providing research services, technical support, and project management assistance, focusing on applications in the humanities, as well as providing liaison services for the History Department.

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"The Durability and Fragility of Knowledge Infrastructures: Lessons Learned from Astronomy"

Christine L. Borgman, Peter T. Darch, Ashley E. Sands, and Milena S. Golshan have self-archived "The Durability and Fragility of Knowledge Infrastructures: Lessons Learned from Astronomy."

Here's an excerpt:

Infrastructures are not inherently durable or fragile, yet all are fragile over the long term. Durability requires care and maintenance of individual components and the links between them. Astronomy is an ideal domain in which to study knowledge infrastructures, due to its long history, transparency, and accumulation of observational data over a period of centuries. Research reported here draws upon a long-term study of scientific data practices to ask questions about the durability and fragility of infrastructures for data in astronomy. Methods include interviews, ethnography, and document analysis. As astronomy has become a digital science, the community has invested in shared instruments, data standards, digital archives, metadata and discovery services, and other relatively durable infrastructure components. Several features of data practices in astronomy contribute to the fragility of that infrastructure. These include different archiving practices between ground- and space-based missions, between sky surveys and investigator-led projects, and between observational and simulated data. Infrastructure components are tightly coupled, based on international agreements. However, the durability of these infrastructures relies on much invisible work—cataloging, metadata, and other labor conducted by information professionals. Continual investments in care and maintenance of the human and technical components of these infrastructures are necessary for sustainability.

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Project Manager for Digital Collections at University of Michigan Library

The University of Michigan Library is recruiting a Project Manager for Digital Collections

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The University of Michigan Library is seeking a librarian to be a project manager, with experience in the creation of digital collections and the software and applications that are the base of those collections. The successful candidate will collaborate with a team of librarians, programmers, and other experts on a major initiative to build a new digital library system architecture. The new system will make use of recent developments in the open source community and will handle a wide array of materials: text and images, video, music, research data sets, historical records, and more.

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"Happy Beta Release Day, Omeka S!!"

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University has released "Happy Beta Release Day, Omeka S!!."

Here's an excerpt:

Omeka S is the next-generation, open source web-publishing platform that is fully integrated into the scholarly communications ecosystem and designed to serve the needs of medium to large institutional users who wish to launch, monitor, and upgrade many sites from a single installation.

Though Omeka S is a completely new software package, it shares the same goals and principles of Omeka Classic that users have come to love: a commitment to cost-effective deployment and design, an intuitive user interface, open access to data and resources, and interoperability through standardized data.

Created with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Omeka S is engineered to ease the burdens of administrators who want to make it possible for their end-user communities to easily build their own sites that showcase digital cultural heritage materials.

Digital Library Developer Analyst at UC Irvine

UC Irvine is recruiting a Digital Library Developer Analyst.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position performs operational level management of the Libraries' digital repositories and digital preservation systems under the general supervision of the Head, Digital Scholarship Services. This includes providing technical support to repository users, scripting work flow processes, and managing feature development to adapt and expand repositories' functions in support of the Libraries' strategic digital initiatives.

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"Funding Article Processing Charges, SPEC Kit 353, Published by ARL"

ARL has released "Funding Article Processing Charges, SPEC Kit 353, Published by ARL."

Here's an excerpt:

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Funding Article Processing Charges (APCs), SPEC Kit 353, an exploration of the strategies that ARL member institutions are using to address APCs. This SPEC Kit covers how the funds are established and how they are handled (e.g., policies, applications, budgets, administration, outreach activities, etc.), sources of funding, and whether and under what circumstances libraries are partnering with other units (or other libraries) to fund this aspect of open access. . . .

Read/download SPEC Kit 353.

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Digital Scholarship Coordinator at University of Houston

The University of Houston is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to Head of Digital Research Services, the coordinator will partner with colleagues and units within the Libraries to advance digital research services and activities, including: providing services to publish, archive, and make accessible research data and scholarship; marketing UH Libraries' digital scholarship expertise; and collaborating with Libraries' stakeholders to enhance programming in the Digital Research Commons.

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MIT: Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of Libraries: Preliminary Report

MIT has released the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of Libraries: Preliminary Report.

Here's an excerpt:

Recommendation 6: Through interdisciplinary institutional and external partnerships, the Libraries should generate open, interoperable content platforms that explore new ways of producing, using, sharing, and preserving knowledge and that promote revolutionary new methodologies for the discovery and organization of information, people, ideas, and networks. . . .

Recommendation 7: The Task Force recommends that the Institute convene a new Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to review the current MIT Faculty Open Access Policy and its implementation with an eye toward revising and expanding current policies and practices, where appropriate, to further the Institute's mission of disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. . . .

Recommendation 10: The Task Force recommends that MIT establish an Initiative for Research in Information Science and Scholarly Communication, based in the MIT Libraries, to enable bold experimentation and to serve as a hub for best-in-class research on the great challenges in information science and scholarly communication.

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Software Engineer III (LITS) at Emory University

Emory University is recruiting a Software Engineer III (LITS).

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Library and Information Technology Services division of Emory University seeks an accomplished software engineer with significant web application development experience. The selected individual will join a motivated team of developers with the privilege of creating innovative software in support of the Research and Health Sciences missions of Emory University.

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"Provenance in Support of ANDS’ Four Transformations"

Andrew E. Treloar and Mingfang Wu have published "Provenance in Support of ANDS' Four Transformations" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.

Here's an excerpt:

This article introduces the provenance activities that are being carried out at the Australia National Data Services (ANDS). Since its beginning, ANDS has been promoting four data transformations so that Australia's research data become more valuable and reusable by researchers. Among many other activities that enable the four transformations, ANDS has been encouraging ANDS partners to capture and describe rich context at the time when a data collection is created. In 2015, ANDS funded a number of external projects that had provenance components. In addition, ANDS is working on the interoperability between the schema that is used by the ANDS research data registration and discovery service – Research Data Australia (RDA) – and the W3C recommended provenance standard, Provenance Ontology (PROV-O), and investigating how to enrich the schema to access provenance information. The article concludes by discussing the lessons we learnt and our future planned activity.

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Director, Scholarly & Library Information Technology Services at George Washington University

George Washington University is recruiting a Director, Scholarly & Library Information Technology Services.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Director is responsible for advancing the GW Library's mission to support research, teaching and learning by delivering relevant services including research-oriented search and discovery systems, GW's expert finding system, the integrated library system, desktop support within Library spaces, institutional repository, website development, and consultation services (GIS, software development) for faculty and students. In many instances, active engagement with community-driven open source software development efforts is vital to advancing the University's interests.

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"Towards a Collaborative National Research Data Management Network"

Chuck Humphrey, Kathleen Shearer, and Martha Whitehead have published "Towards a Collaborative National Research Data Management Network" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.

Here's an excerpt:

This paper describes the plans and strategies to develop Portage, a national network of sustainable, shared services for research data management (RDM) in Canada. A description of the RDM context in Canada is provided. This environment has heightened expectations around the Government of Canada's Open Science plans and includes deliverables aimed at improving access to publications and data resulting from federally funded scientific activities. At the same time, a recent environmental scan published by Canada's three federal research granting councils reveals significant gaps in services, infrastructure, and funding mechanisms to support RDM. In addition, Canada's RDM environment consists of stakeholders from a variety of communities with minimal ongoing coordination or cooperation.

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"The Location of the Citation: Changing Practices in How Publications Cite Original Data in the Dryad Digital Repository"

Christine Mayo, Todd J. Vision, and Elizabeth A. Hull have published "The Location of the Citation: Changing Practices in How Publications Cite Original Data in the Dryad Digital Repository" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.

Here's an excerpt:

While stakeholders in scholarly communication generally agree on the importance of data citation, there is not consensus on where those citations should be placed within the publication – particularly when the publication is citing original data. Recently, CrossRef and the Digital Curation Center (DCC) have recommended as a best practice that original data citations appear in the works cited sections of the article. In some fields, such as the life sciences, this contrasts with the common practice of only listing data identifier(s) within the article body (intratextually). We inquired whether data citation practice has been changing in light of the guidance from CrossRef and the DCC. We examined data citation practices from 2011 to 2014 in a corpus of 1,125 articles associated with original data in the Dryad Digital Repository. The percentage of articles that include no reference to the original data has declined each year, from 31% in 2011 to 15% in 2014. The percentage of articles that include data identifiers intratextually has grown from 69% to 83%, while the percentage that cite data in the works cited section has grown from 5% to 8%. If the proportions continue to grow at the current rate of 19-20% annually, the proportion of articles with data citations in the works cited section will not exceed 90% until 2030.

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Web Designer at University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is recruiting a Web Designer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Designs website and application information architectures and user interface components

Maintains and updates the communications content on the Library website

Conceptualizes and executes digital presentation for the Library's most important stories

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NCSU Libraries Fellows, 2017-2019 at North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University is recruiting NCSU Libraries Fellows, 2017-2019.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The NCSU Libraries is proud to offer a unique opportunity to a select group of M.L.S. and M.I.S. graduates whose degrees will be conferred between September 2016 and August 2017. Fellows are appointed at the faculty rank of librarian for a two-year term from July 2017 through June 2019. An option for January or September placement may be available, depending upon graduation date. The NCSU Libraries Fellows Program offers the opportunity to launch your career in a leading research library.

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"Michigan Publishing Announces Beta Launch of New Publishing Platform, Fulcrum"

Michigan Publishing has released "Michigan Publishing Announces Beta Launch of New Publishing Platform, Fulcrum."

Here's an excerpt:

In its beta phase, Fulcrum is focused on the presentation of digital source and supplemental materials that cannot be represented adequately in print form. Fulcrum allows for a richer experience and deeper understanding for the reader and enables authors to make better, multi-faceted arguments. The platform readily supports multimedia content, including playback for audio and video files and pan-zoom capability for high resolution images. All content is discoverable and preserved via durable URLs. Structured metadata and faceted search results also allow for further exploration of the materials.

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Digital Curation News (10/28/2016) #digitalcuration #digitalpreservation #datamanagement #researchdata #rdm

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Scholarly Impact & Social Sciences Librarian at University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington is recruiting a Scholarly Impact & Social Sciences Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

1. Scholarly Impact and Digital Identity a. Outreaches to and advocates for faculty and graduate students on different tools to enhance their digital identity, such as unique scholarly identifiers, institutional repositories, blogs, and academic social networks b. Consults with faculty on the research metrics associated with their scholarship and on research metrics platforms like plumx c. Constructs data visualizations to display faculty research metrics d. Assesses the campus climate around altmetrics and other new research metrics

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The State of Open Data

Figshare has released The State of Open Data.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The report gathers insights and narratives from leading professionals in the open data space from around the globe and a foreword from Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Chairman and co-founder of the Open Data Institute (ODI), UK.

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Digital Preservation Librarian at Northwestern University

Northwestern University is recruiting a Digital Preservation Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Head of Repository and Digital Curation, the Digital Preservation Librarian designs, coordinates and executes the day-to-day operations of repository preservation services for significant digitized and born-digital collections. The Digital Preservation Librarian will provide leadership and collaborate with library experts to help manage digitized and born digital collections for preservation and access, develop digital preservation policies, design and coordinate the implementation of and manage digital preservation workflows.

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Finding the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System

Ithaka S+R has released Finding the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System .

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The project team documented these lessons in a book called Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit. The Toolkit shares practical insights gained in this effort in the hope of supporting others interested in copyright review. This brief complements the practical toolkit. It explains the history of CRMS and introduces the basics of the CRMS procedure. It then discusses some of the lessons, successes, surprises, and challenges of the work.

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Senior Systems Administrator at Texas Digital Library

The Texas Digital Library is recruiting a Senior Systems Administrator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Overseeing the administration of systems, applications and other tools supporting scholarly communication activities as key services of the Texas Digital Library, including repositories, preservation systems, the Vireo Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Management System. Provide lead system administration for DSpace repository management. Provide operational management and oversight of applications and systems for TDL services.

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Research Data Services in Europe’s Academic Research Libraries

LIBER has released Research Data Services in Europe's Academic Research Libraries by Carol Tenopir et al.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Almost all of Europe's academic research libraries are working collaboratively, within and outside of their institutions, to help ensure that the scientific data of today is curated properly, so it can be accessed, shared and reused by future generations. . . .

The survey—which reflects answers from a representative sample of research libraries in 22 countries across Europe—also revealed that:

Libraries are currently offering more consultative-type RDS services (eg. how to find information on Data Management Plans, metadata standards, or data citation practices) than technological services (eg. own storage solutions);

Less than half of libraries say their institutions currently have policies relating to RDS;

Two-thirds of library directors express strongly that libraries need to offer RDS to remain relevant.

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Digital Publishing Specialist at Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech is recruiting a Digital Publishing Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reports to the Director, Publishing Strategy: Virginia Tech's University Libraries seek a full-time Digital Publishing Specialist with a passion for scholarly communication and an eagerness to grow with the latest trends and best practices to help expand the libraries' publishing services into new and emerging areas of research and scholarship. Virginia Tech was an early leader in digital publishing, having hosted open access, peer-reviewed journals since 1989 and electronic theses and dissertations since 1996. The Digital Publishing Specialist will play a key role in shaping the libraries' publishing services as they grow to meet the evolving needs of the community.

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