Month: July 2018

Assistant Director, Digital Product Strategy at Emory University

Emory University is recruiting a Assistant Director, Digital Product Strategy.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

In this role you will lead a Digital Product Strategy Department, which includes major product and program development for end-user technology. Together with your department's staff, we will cultivate roadmaps for your portfolio to develop the larger technology roadmap.

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Scholarly Metrics Recommendations for Research Libraries: Deciphering the Trees in the Forest

LIBER has released Scholarly Metrics Recommendations For Research Libraries: Deciphering the Trees in the Forest.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The report sets out recommendations on how research libraries and information infrastructures can deal with scholarly metrics, and how to get started with the development of services to support this. The recommendations are grouped into four important types of activities relating to metrics:

  1. Discovery and Discoverability
  2. Showcasing Achievements
  3. Service Development
  4. Research Assessment

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Digitization Coordinator and Registrar at University of Illinois

The University of Illinois is recruiting a Digitization Coordinator and Registrar.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Head of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML), the Digitization Coordinator and Registrar provides and coordinates digitization services in the RBML and the Special Collections Division, and coordinates the use, management and loans of materials in RBML and the Division.

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"Managing Digital Research Objects in an Expanding Science Ecosystem: 2017 Conference Summary"

Joshua Borycz and Bonnie Carroll have published "Managing Digital Research Objects in an Expanding Science Ecosystem: 2017 Conference Summary" in Data Science Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

Digital research objects are packets of information that scientists can use to organize and store their data. There are currently many different methods in use for optimizing digital objects for research purposes. These methods have been applied to many scientific disciplines but differ in architecture and approach. The goals of this joint digital research object (DRO) conference were to discuss the challenge of characterizing DROs at scale in volume and over time and possible organizing principles that might connect current DRO architectures. One of the primary challenges concerns convincing scientists that these tools and practices will actually make the research process easier and more fruitful. This conference included work from CENDI, the National Federal STI Managers Group, the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the National Academy of Science (NAS).

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License Change at Major Social Media Site for Photographers: "500px Nukes 1M+ Creative Commons Photos"

Michael Zhang has published "500px Nukes 1M+ Creative Commons Photos" in PetaPixel.

Here's an excerpt:

But overnight, all of the CC photos that have been uploaded since 2012 have been nuked from 500px. Users can no longer choose a CC license during uploading, search for CC photos, or download them.

Jason Scott reports on Twitter that the photos have been archived in the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine:

3 terabytes of Creative Commons photos going into the Wayback machine thanks to the efforts of dozens of volunteers slamming from NO warning and going for 48 hours straight. Amazing work, everyone. It's going to take a while to understand exactly what we got.

Note that the Wayback Machine is only searchable by site URL.

The Creative Commons photos have not been deleted; however, the Creative Commons license has been. Consequently, the user has no way to know about the existing Creative Commons licensing terms. On logon today, 500px gives the user the option of opting out of commercial distribution by Getty Images.

See also: "500px Photo Site Abandons Freely Shareable Images with Commercialization Push."

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