Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of Georgia Libraries


Would you like to be a part of an exciting new team that includes scholarly communications, research data management and wrangling, digital humanities, social sciences data and GIS? This new team, Research and Computational Data Management (RCDM), brings together key positions into a new unit at the University of Georgia Libraries that we believe aligns more with current and future research practices. . . . The Scholarly Communications Librarian will report to the new Head of Research and Computational Data Management (RCDM) and will work as a part of a team to provide access to the scholarship of the University of Georgia community.

https://www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/286720

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The State of Open Data Report 2022


Based on a global survey, the report is now in its seventh year and provides insights into researchers’ attitudes towards and experiences of open data. With more than 5,400 respondents, the 2022 survey is the largest since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

This year’s report also includes guest articles from open data experts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), publishers and universities.

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E-Resources Supervisor at University of Edinburgh


The post is based within a small and friendly team which works both remotely and on campus. A key part of the role is to manage licensed e-resources such as e-journals and databases, ensuring relevant knowledgebases are accurate and resource access is maximised. You will provide support to colleagues and users, troubleshooting access issues to ensure problems are resolved and collect usage statistics to inform renewal decisions.

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Program Project Specialist at University of North Texas


To coordinate Texas newspaper digitization activities to meet UNT’s obligations under a National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant, and to perform digitization activities and staff administration in support of the products and services of the UNT Libraries Digital Newspaper Unit.

https://jobs.untsystem.edu/postings/65323

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"Synchronic Curation for Assessing Reuse and Integration Fitness of Multiple Data Collections"


SC is a framework that can be implemented to curate data collections to solve multiple research use cases in different scientific fields. SC fills an urgent need in data driven research that requires usage of large and diverse data collections. To reuse data, the first step is to assess its quality and its fitness to address the research use case at hand. SC proposes modelling data collections to research questions to enable targeted analyses and comparisons that can help users identify which collections are more reliable and adequate to solve them. Importantly, SC enables curators and researchers to assess multiple datasets at the same time.

https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v17i1.847

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Digital Resource Librarian at Dakota State University


The Digital Resource Librarian is responsible for providing institutional leadership in the development, implementation, maintenance, and use of the library’s electronic resources and technologies.

https://yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/31381

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UC Davis: " University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship MacKenzie Smith to Retire in June 2023"


“MacKenzie has led our library during a period of transformative change in how scholars create, access and share research,” said Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan. “She has made substantial contributions to the campus’s research enterprise at every level, from data science and informatics to the establishment of an undergraduate library research prize. MacKenzie has also elevated our library’s leadership role, within UC and far beyond, in advancing free and open access to research. We will miss her leadership and collaboration, but wish her all the best in her retirement.”

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Assistant or Associate Librarian, Research & Scholarship at University of Guelph


Reporting to the Head of the R&S team, the Research & Scholarship Librarian will collaborate with members of the R&S team, other teams in the library (particularly Collections & Content), and units across campus to provide continued support for researcher needs around open publishing, especially as they pertain to the University of Guelph’s institutional repository (IR). The position will be responsible for providing support to members of the campus community through instruction, consultation, and outreach activities.

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"Science‘s No-Fee Public-Access Policy Will Take Effect in 2023"


Since then [9/9/2022], Bill Moran, publisher of the Science journals at the AAAS, has told Nature that Science’s policy will come into effect from January 2023 and applies to all five subscription journals in the Science family. . . . He also said that the terms under which authors will be able to share their manuscripts have yet to be finalized, because a custom reuse licence for non-commercial use is still being developed. Open-access scholars say that this leaves questions about how liberally researchers will be able to share their work.

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03128-2

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Audiovisual Digitization Specialist at Washington University St. Louis


Reporting to the Digitization Manager, the Audiovisual Digitization Specialist is responsible for all in-house audio-visual digitization, and provides quality control and editing for outsourced digitization of audiovisual materials in the Washington University Libraries’ collections. The position provides expertise that informs strategies for long-term preservation of and access to these digital assets and their analog counterparts.

https://cutt.ly/UBv5xCa

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"Publishers, Internet Archive Ready for Summary Judgment Hearing in Book Scanning Case "


“That is what this case is about,” IA lawyers conclude. “Whether the selection of books available from libraries digitally will be chosen by librarians, or instead determined by publishers’ unilateral and unreviewable licensing choices. This Court is being asked to decide whether copyright law gives publishers the power to dictate which books in a library’s collection can and cannot be loaned digitally.”

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Program Manager for the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio at University of Iowa


This position manages the programmatic activities of the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio and facilitates the operational activities of faculty, staff, and graduate student research projects. The Program Manager provides administrative support for the graduate certificate in Public Digital Humanities, co-manages the Studio-Graduate College Summer Fellowship Program, negotiates memoranda of understanding with Studio scholars, and coordinates the staffing and grant writing needs of PIs and Studio staff.

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Or the Opposite: "Meta Quest Pro Hands-On: The $1,500 Headset That ‘Will Enable the Metaverse’"


After using the Quest Pro, I feel like this is the headset Meta really needs to provide a high-quality VR experience for building out apps and environments. Now I still don’t know if this is enough to convince people to work and live in VR, but when it comes to enabling the Metaverse, the Quest Pro seems like the big building block for making that happen

https://cutt.ly/pBbeddp

See also: Paywall: "Inside Zuckerberg’s $1,500 Headset, the Metaverse Is Still Out of Reach," https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/11/meta-quest-pro-metaverse/.

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Sr. Project Manager at Getty Research Institute


For the JPC Archive project, the Sr. Project Manager will work with colleagues in the GRI, Getty Digital, the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and the Smithsonian Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) on a project that encompasses five components: archival processing, conservation, digitization, metadata enhancement, and digital preservation and access. . . . The JPC Archive is regarded as one of the most significant and substantial collections documenting Black American culture in the 20th century, and features images from the iconic Ebony and Jet magazines, among many other JPC publications.

https://cutt.ly/1BbtjDD

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"The Real Impact of #BookTok on Library Circulation"


From before #BookTok began in 2019 to now in 2022, the sales of backlist titles that have trended on #BookTok increased over 1,000%! . . .Since a library’s ability to circulate titles is limited by the number of copies it has in its collection, library holds, rather than library loans, can show a clearer picture of library book borrowers’ interest in particular books. When we look at the library holds for our #BookTok trending titles over this time period, the number of holds increases exponentially, by 1,430%.

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"Boundaries, Extensions, and Challenges of Visualization for Humanities Data: Reflections on Three Cases"


This paper discusses problems of visualizing humanities data of various forms, such as video data, archival data, and numeric-oriented social science data, with three distinct case studies. By describing the visualization practices and the issues that emerged from the process, this paper uses the three cases to each identify a pertinent question for reflection. More specifically, I reflect on the difficulty, thoughts, and considerations of choosing the most effective and sufficient forms of visualization to enhance the expression of specific cultural and humanities data in the projects. Discussions in this paper concern some questions, such as, how do the multi-modality of humanities and cultural data challenge the understanding, roles, and functions of visualizations, and more broadly, visual representations in humanities research? What do we lose of the original data by visualizing them in those projects? How to balance the benefits and disadvantages of visual technologies to display complex, unique, and often culturally saturated humanities datasets.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03630

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Paywall: "Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Struggles"


The company’s flagship virtual-reality game, Horizon Worlds, remains buggy and unpopular, leading Meta to put in place a “quality lockdown” for the rest of the year while it retools the app. . . .The company’s struggle to reshape the business was described in interviews with more than a dozen current and former Meta employees and internal communications obtained by The New York Times.

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Copyright Librarian at University of the Arts London


Providing copyright advice and support to Library & Student Support staff and the academic community. Ensuring that we are exploiting licences and exceptions in relation to learning, teaching (including online courses) and research. Providing policy and guidance as well as a point of referral for queries relating to copyright issues. Developing and leading on the implementation of copyright strategy for the library service.

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"OpenStack Swift: An Ideal Bit-Level Object Storage System for Digital Preservation "


A bit-level object storage system is a foundational building block of long-term digital preservation (LTDP). To achieve the purposes of LTDP, the system must be able to: preserve the authenticity and integrity of the original digital objects; scale up with dramatically increasing demands for preservation storage; mitigate the impact of hardware obsolescence and software ephemerality; replicate digital objects among distributed data centers at different geographical locations; and to constantly audit and automatically recover from compromised states. . . . In this paper, we present OpenStack Swift, an open-source, mature and widely accepted cloud platform, as a practical and proven solution with a case study at the University of Alberta Library. We emphasize the implementation, application, cost analysis and maintenance of the system, with the purpose of contributing to the community with an exceedingly robust, highly scalable, self-healing and comparatively cost-effective bit-level object storage system for long-term digital preservation.

https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v17i1.782

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Electronic Resources Librarian at University of Alabama


Reporting to the Coordinator of Acquisitions and Electronic Resources, the Electronic Resources Librarian ensures optimal and accurate access to subscription resources, including databases, electronic journals, and e-books. The Electronic Resources Librarian supports the development of new methods of subscription and resource acquisition and strives to increase available resources for The University of Alabama community.

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Google —Text Prompts Create Videos (with Live Examples): "Imagen Video: High Definition Video Generation Wwth Diffusion Models"


We present Imagen Video, a text-conditional video generation system based on a cascade of video diffusion models. Given a text prompt, Imagen Video generates high definition videos using a base video generation model and a sequence of interleaved spatial and temporal video super-resolution models. . . . We find Imagen Video not only capable of generating videos of high fidelity, but also having a high degree of controllability and world knowledge, including the ability to generate diverse videos and text animations in various artistic styles and with 3D object understanding.

https://cutt.ly/aBzo4R2

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Digital Preservation Manager at Brigham Young University


The Digital Preservation Manager is responsible for the long-term preservation and curation of the library’s digital objects. This includes developing policies and processes for the digital preservation program; assisting stakeholders in selecting and preparing appropriate materials for digital preservation; and acting as the program manager for the digital preservation repository.

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"Increasing the Reuse of Data through FAIR-enabling the Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories"


To address this gap the FAIRsFAIR project developed a number of tools and resources that facilitate the assessment of FAIR-enabling practices at the repository level as well as the FAIRness of datasets within them. These include the CoreTrustSeal+FAIRenabling Capability Maturity model (CTS+FAIR CapMat), a FAIR-Enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories-Capability Maturity Self-Assessment template, and F-UJI, a web-based tool designed to assess the FAIRness of research data objects.

https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v17i1.852

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Library Systems Department Head at New Mexico State University


Reporting to the Dean of Library, the Library Systems Department Head is responsible for providing high-quality, robust management of library systems (applications and hardware) that facilitate search, discovery, and delivery of library services and resources.. . . This position plays a key role in NMSU Library’s integrated information technology-library ecosystem.

https://jobs.nmsu.edu/postings/48186

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"Uncommon Commons? Creative Commons Licencing in Horizon 2020 Data Management Plans"


I find that 36% of DMPs mention creative commons and among those a number of different approaches towards licencing exist (overall policy per project, licencing decisions per dataset, licencing decisions per partner, licensing decision per data format, licensing decision per perceived stakeholder interest), often clad in rather vague language with CC licences being “recommended” or “suggested”.

https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v17i1.840

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