Month: October 2018

Systems Engineer at Columbia University

Columbia University is recruiting a Systems Engineer.

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Reporting to the Senior Systems Engineer, the Systems Engineer will design, develop and deploy Unix server and storage systems and perform maintenance and security updates as required. Additionally, the incumbent will document and provide support for a variety of innovative projects and services within the Libraries as well as collaborate on specialized projects with various departments across the organization as needed.

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"Software Curation in Research Libraries: Practice and Promise"

Alexandra Chassanoff et al. have published "Software Curation in Research Libraries: Practice and Promise" in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.

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INTRODUCTION Research software plays an increasingly vital role in the scholarly record. Academic research libraries are in the early stages of exploring strategies for curating and preserving research software, aiming to facilitate support and services for long-term access and use. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM In 2016, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) began offering postdoctoral fellowships in software curation. Four institutions hosted the initial cohort of software curation fellows. This article describes the work activities and research program of the cohort, highlighting the challenges and benefits of doing this exploratory work in research libraries. NEXT STEPS Academic research libraries are poised to play an important role in research and development around robust services for software curation. The next cohort of CLIR fellows is set to begin in fall 2018 and will likely shape and contribute substantially to an emergent research agenda.

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Systems Architecture and Web Services Librarian at Colorado School of Mines

The Colorado School of Mines is recruiting a Systems Architecture and Web Services Librarian.

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The Systems Architecture and Web Services Librarian provides leadership for the design, development, implementation, documentation, policy development, assessment, and maintenance of the overall technical architecture of the Library’s multiple platforms and systems, to ensure a fully integrated information environment that optimally supports and advances the mission of the Library and the University:

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"Recording Available: ‘Securing Community-Controlled Infrastructure: SPARC’s Plan of Action’"

DuraSpace has released "Recording Available: 'Securing Community-Controlled Infrastructure: SPARC's Plan of Action'."

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In this webinar, Heather shared SPARC's efforts on their community-controlled infrastructure project that further explores this question. Heather highlighted what lead to SPARC conducting a market analysis, which included both a financial analysis and an analysis of strategies of some of the key commercial players in the infrastructure arena, and the implications of those strategies for our community. . . .

The recordings and presentation slides of both webinars are available at https://duraspace.org/webinar/.

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Social Sciences and Data Librarian at Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & Clark College is recruiting a Social Sciences and Data Librarian.

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The Social Sciences and Data Librarian provides leadership in the planning, implementation, and assessment of data discovery and related services in support of the social sciences. Works with faculty and students across social sciences departments on the discovery, analysis, and presentation of data using relevant technology.

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The Potential of Global Identifiers to Support More Efficient Workflows for All Kinds of OA

Jisc has released The Potential of Global Identifiers to Support More Efficient Workflows for All Kinds of OA.

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This document describes the potential of Persistent Identifier (PID) registries, in particularly for researchers and organisations, and how, if properly used, they can ease the administrative burden of any open access (OA) policy and improve workflows.

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Web Accessibility and Emerging Technology Librarian at Syracuse University

Syracuse University is recruiting a Web Accessibility and Emerging Technology Librarian.

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The Web Accessibility and Emerging Technology Librarian actively collaborates with library staff to create and implement accessible web-based library services including online tutorials, videos, podcasts, blogs, web/mobile applications and consults with librarians and staff on the development of web-based services.

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"Do Authors Comply When Funders Enforce Open Access to Research?"

Vincent Larivière and Cassidy R. Sugimoto have published "Do Authors Comply When Funders Enforce Open Access to Research?" in Nature.

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Of the more than 1.3 million papers we identified as subject to the selected funders' open-access mandates, we found that some two-thirds were indeed freely available to read.

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Scholarly Communication Specialist at Marshall University

Marshall University is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Specialist.

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This position supports the University goal of Marshall research output and Marshall archive function in Marshall Digital Scholar (MDS,) an Institutional Repository, by working with the University Librarian/Director of Libraries Operations, Administrators of MDS, Music and Digital Services Librarian, Archivist, and Cataloging and Digital Services Librarian to input data and maintain records, and to research and create materials for Marshall Digital Scholar using databases, software applications, digital scanning programs and hardware.

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"Supporting FAIR Data Principles with Fedora"

David Wilcox has published "Supporting FAIR Data Principles with Fedora" in LIBER Quarterly.

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Making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable is an important but challenging goal. From an infrastructure perspective, repository technologies play a key role in supporting FAIR data principles. Fedora is a flexible, extensible, open source repository platform for managing, preserving, and providing access to digital content. Fedora is used in a wide variety of institutions including libraries, museums, archives, and government organizations. Fedora provides native linked data capabilities and a modular architecture based on well-documented APIs and ease of integration with existing applications. As both a project and a community, Fedora has been increasingly focused on research data management, making it well-suited to supporting FAIR data principles as a repository platform. Fedora provides strong support for persistent identifiers, both by minting HTTP URIs for each resource and by allowing any number of additional identifiers to be associated with resources as RDF properties. Fedora also supports rich metadata in any schema that can be indexed and disseminated using a variety of protocols and services. As a linked data server, Fedora allows resources to be semantically linked both within the repository and on the broader web. Along with these and other features supporting research data management, the Fedora community has been actively participating in related initiatives, most notably the Research Data Alliance. Fedora representatives participate in a number of interest and working groups focused on requirements and interoperability for research data repository platforms. This participation allows the Fedora project to both influence and be influenced by an international group of Research Data Alliance stakeholders. This paper will describe how Fedora supports FAIR data principles, both in terms of relevant features and community participation in related initiatives.

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