Month: June 2018

Library Applications Developer III at Tulane University

Tulane University is recruiting a Library Applications Developer III.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Library Applications Developer III will gather client requirements and translate into application features. Reporting to the Director of Library IT, s/he will design prototypes according to specifications and write source code for applications and test and debug applications by stated deadlines. S/he will ensure the optimal performance of assigned library platforms such as Islandora, ArchivesSpace, Omeka, or Open Journal System and evaluate applications to update and add new features. The position will develop appropriate documentation to accurately represent application design and code. S/he will also have secondary responsibilities for the design, development, and maintenance of the library's web applications and content management system and support staff computers and equipment.

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"Cultural, Ideological and Practical Barriers to Open Access Adoption within the UK Academy: An Ethnographically Framed Examination"

Gareth J. Johnson has published "Cultural, Ideological and Practical Barriers to Open Access Adoption within the UK Academy: An Ethnographically Framed Examination" in Insights.

Here's an excerpt:

This article presents the results of part of an ethnographic study which examined the perceptions, development and conceptions of open access (OA) practice across the UK higher education environment. It details a qualitative semi-structured interview data capture approach with many institutionally based OA practitioners, which provided a narrative picture of academic and institutional responses to emerging OA dissemination paradigms. Through an analytical process incorporating qualitative content analysis and ideological critique, it focuses on practitioner perceptions of the types and configuration of barriers between scholars and a greater cultural adoption of OA practices. While the greatest problems perceived relate to academic intellectual disengagement or indifference to publishing praxis change, no singular cause of resistance was identified. The study reveals practitioners' perceptions of a multiplicity of operational, technological and ideological barriers blocking progress, and consequently a picture of academic engagement remaining disappointingly patchy. Moreover, moves to increase scholarly compliance through allying it to modalities of fiscal income and metrics, while potentially enhancing practical compliance, appear to risk distorting any revolutionary configuration of OA practices.

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Supervisor, Library Applications Programming at University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is recruiting a Supervisor, Library Applications Programming.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Supervisor, Library Applications Programming, provides high level technical leadership, management and direction in planning, developing and maintaining the library’s public and staff Web environment and applications to support library workflows and services. The Supervisor supervises the programming staff of the Application Development & Integration team (ADI), coordinates needs assessment, design, testing, maintenance and support of a wide variety of library applications, working to ensure compliance with accessibility guidelines and standards.

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Turning FAIR Data Into Reality: Interim Report from the European Commission Expert Group on FAIR Data

The European Commission Expert Group on FAIR Data has released Turning FAIR Data Into Reality: Interim Report from the European Commission Expert Group on FAIR Data.

Here's an excerpt:

The central chapters of the report focus on existing practice in certain fields to ascertain what can be learned from those research areas that have already standardised practices and developed international agreements and infrastructure to enable FAIR data sharing. These examples have helped to define models for FAIR data and the essential components of a FAIR data ecosystem. Naturally the main building blocks in the ecosystem are technology-based services, however the social aspects that drive the system and enable culture change are also addressed in sections of the report covering skills, metrics, rewards, investment and sustainability.

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Digital Scholarship Research Developer at Stanford University

Stanford University is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Research Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the head of CIDR, the successful candidate will join a distinguished and widely-recognized team of software developers and academic and library technologists with combined decades of expertise in the computational social sciences and digital humanities. Its activities support research and teaching in these fields for the Stanford community. CIDR collaborates both with individual faculty and with Departments, Centers and Institutes engaged in digital research, such as the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA); the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS); the Stanford Humanities Center; and the Center for Computational Social Sciences. CIDR is also a hub for collaboration and communication among social science and digital humanities scholars, library curators, and professional developers, promoting a sense of shared purpose in support of the Stanford mission of research and teaching.

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Digital Curation News (6/11/2018) #digitalcuration #digitalpreservation #datamanagement #researchdata #rdm

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Director of the Office of Digital Research & Scholarship at Florida State University

Florida State University is recruiting a Director of the Office of Digital Research & Scholarship.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

DRS focuses on connecting people to people and providing tools, expertise, and infrastructure for new forms of scholarship. This position will foster programs and partnerships, advocate for the sustainable development of data/repository infrastructure, support digital humanities project development, and aid in the exploration and development of digital publishing initiatives.

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"’Yeah, I Guess That’s Data’: Data Practices and Conceptions among Humanities Faculty"

portal: Libraries and the Academy has released an e-print of "'Yeah, I Guess That's Data': Data Practices and Conceptions among Humanities Faculty" by Jennifer L. Thoegersen.

Here's an excerpt:

Libraries are attempting to identify their role in providing data management services. However, humanities faculty’s conceptions of data and their data management practices are not well-known. This qualitative study explores the data management practices of humanities faculty at a four-year university and examines their perceptions of the term data.

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Metadata Librarian at University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is recruiting a Metadata Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Specific duties include, but are not limited to: creating original metadata and complex metadata revision for the Libraries’ digital collections, creating original metadata and complex metadata for special collections materials, performing original and copy cataloging of continuing resources and non-book materials such as sound recordings, and performing authority work, evaluating the effectiveness of catalog data and metadata for resource discovery, participating as a consultant to digital humanities projects with the Alabama Digital Humanities Center, and keeping abreast of current issues and trends in cataloging and metadata.

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"Conceptualizing Data Curation Activities within Two Academic Libraries"

Sophia Lafferty-Hess et al. have self-archived "Conceptualizing Data Curation Activities within Two Academic Libraries."

Here's an excerpt:

At the 2017 Triangle Research Libraries Network Institute, staff from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University used the 47 data curation activities identified by the Data Curation Network project to create conceptual groupings of data curation activities. The results of this "thought-exercise" are discussed in this white paper. The purpose of this exercise was to provide more specificity around data curation within our individual contexts as a method to consistently discuss our current service models, identify gaps we would like to fill, and determine what is currently out of scope. We hope to foster an open and productive discussion throughout the larger academic library community about how we prioritize data curation activities as we face growing demand and limited resources.

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Manager, Library Software Engineering at Harvard University

Harvard University is recruiting a Manager, Library Software Engineering.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Manager supervises a team of library software engineers responsible for developing, enhancing, and maintaining an extensive portfolio of Library applications and platforms. The Manager collaborates with staff in LTS and in the Harvard Library (HL) as well as staff in Harvard University Information Technology’s (HUIT) Academic Technology team.

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"The EU’s Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even (Especially!) Wikipedia"

Cory Doctorow has published "The EU's Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even (Especially!) Wikipedia" in DeepLinks.

Here's an excerpt:

Under Article 13 of the proposal, sites that allow users to post text, sounds, code, still or moving images, or other copyrighted works for public consumption will have to filter all their users' submissions against a database of copyrighted works. Sites will have to pay to license the technology to match submissions to the database, and to identify near matches as well as exact ones. Sites will be required to have a process to allow rightsholders to update this list with more copyrighted works.

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OER and Emerging Technology Librarian at Indiana State University

Indiana State University is recruiting an OER and Emerging Technology Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This is a 12-month tenure-track position that designs and works with open educational resources (OER), web applications, social media, and mobile interfaces. The OER and Emerging Technologies Librarian identifies, implements, and evaluates current and emerging technologies for the delivery of library services, with a special focus on social networking applications, mobile services, and instructional technologies; plans, develops and evaluates the Cunningham Memorial Library website; and works with the Reference faculty to ensure that Library’s instructional resources are easy to use.

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"Data-Level Metrics Now Available through Make Data Count"

DataONE has released "Data-Level Metrics Now Available through Make Data Count."

Here's an excerpt:

One year into our Sloan funded Make Data Count project, the Make Data Count Team comprising DataONE, California Digital Library and Data Cite are proud to release Version 1 of standardized data usage and citation metrics! . . .

Since the development of our COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data we have implemented comparable, standardized data usage and citation metrics at Dash (CDL) and DataONE, two project team repositories. . . .

The Make Data Count project team works in an agile "minimum viable product" methodology. This first release has focused on developing a standard recommendation, processing our logs against that Code of Practice [COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data] to develop comparable data usage metrics, and display of both usage and citation metrics at the repository level.

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Open Educational Resources Librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University is recruiting an Open Educational Resources Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Scholarly Communications Outreach Librarian, the Open Educational Resources (OER) Librarian will implement open and affordable course content adoption and creation at VCU through collaborative efforts with librarians, faculty, students, staff, administrators, and the wider open education community. . . . The OER Librarian will guide faculty in the creation, dissemination, identification, adoption, and assessment of open and affordable course content; create educational resources and deliver educational workshops on open and affordable course content; document open and affordable course content use on campus, calculate student savings, and communicate benefits and impact to the broader university community.

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"The Changing Influence of Journal Data Sharing Policies on Local RDM Practices "

Dylanne Dearborn et al. have published "The Changing Influence of Journal Data Sharing Policies on Local RDM Practices" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.

Here's an excerpt:

The purpose of this study was to examine changes in research data deposit policies of highly ranked journals in the physical and applied sciences between 2014 and 2016, as well as to develop an approach to examining the institutional impact of deposit requirements. Policies from the top ten journals (ranked by impact factor from the Journal Citation Reports) were examined in 2014 and again in 2016 in order to determine if data deposits were required or recommended, and which methods of deposit were listed as options. For all 2016 journals with a required data deposit policy, publication information (2009-2015) for the University of Toronto was pulled from Scopus and departmental affiliation was determined for each article. The results showed that the number of high-impact journals in the physical and applied sciences requiring data deposit is growing. In 2014, 71.2% of journals had no policy, 14.7% had a recommended policy, and 13.9% had a required policy (n=836). In contrast, in 2016, there were 58.5% with no policy, 19.4% with a recommended policy, and 22.0% with a required policy (n=880). It was also evident that U of T chemistry researchers are by far the most heavily affected by these journal data deposit requirements, having published 543 publications, representing 32.7% of all publications in the titles requiring data deposit in 2016. The Python scripts used to retrieve institutional publications based on a list of ISSNs have been released on GitHub so that other institutions can conduct similar research.

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