Month: September 2018

Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology at University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is recruiting an Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The AUL for Digital Initiatives will develop and lead Library initiatives that rapidly increase the digitization of the Library's collections, enhance discovery, delivery, accessibility, and usability of resources within and beyond our collections, and, together with the AUL for Scholarly Resources, ensure preservation of our digitized collections. The AUL will partner with fellow members of the Library’s Leadership Team, Library staff, faculty, students, campus units, the California Digital Library, our sister UC campuses, and others.

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Assistant/Associate University Librarian for the Digital Library at University of California, Riverside

The University of California, Riverside is recruiting an Assistant/Associate University Librarian for the Digital Library.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Responsibilities: Under the general direction of the University Librarian, the AUL for the Digital Library:

  • Provide vision, strategic direction, leadership, and management for the Digital Library, which includes Cyberinfrastructure/Library Information Technology Solutions, Digital Library Initiatives, and Digitization Services;
  • Provide strategic leadership and management for the planning, design, implementation, and operation of technology services, systems, and infrastructure for the UCR Library, which includes but is not limited to the library online catalog and component parts; web and access systems, digitization lab software; and the core server, database, storage, backup and web infrastructure;
  • Provide strategic leadership and management for advancing digital initiatives and information technology services through rapid identification, assessment, and adoption of new technologies and methodologies in support of the Library’s mission to support the teaching, learning, and research mission of the university;

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"Facilitating and Improving Environmental Research Data Repository Interoperability"

Corinna Gries et al. have published "Facilitating and Improving Environmental Research Data Repository Interoperability" in Data Science Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

Environmental research data repositories provide much needed services for data preservation and data dissemination to diverse communities with domain specific or programmatic data needs and standards. Due to independent development these repositories serve their communities well, but were developed with different technologies, data models and using different ontologies. Hence, the effectiveness and efficiency of these services can be vastly improved if repositories work together adhering to a shared community platform that focuses on the implementation of agreed upon standards and best practices for curation and dissemination of data. Such a community platform drives forward the convergence of technologies and practices that will advance cross-domain interoperability. It will also facilitate contributions from investigators through standardized and streamlined workflows and provide increased visibility for the role of data managers and the curation services provided by data repositories, beyond preservation infrastructure. Ten specific suggestions for such standardizations are outlined without any suggestions for priority or technical implementation. Although the recommendations are for repositories to implement, they have been chosen specifically with the data provider/data curator and synthesis scientist in mind.

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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation

ARL has released the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation.

Here's an excerpt:

This Code was made by and for the software preservation community, with the help of legal and technical experts. It provides librarians, archivists, curators, and others who work to preserve software with a tool to guide their reasoning about when and how to employ fair use, in the most common situations they currently face. It does not provide shortcuts in the form of prescriptive "guidelines" or rules of thumb. Nor does it seek to address all the possible situations in which software preservation professionals might employ fair use, now or in the future.

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