Month: October 2018

Digital Art: September’s Colored Pencil Drawings, Oil Paintings, and Pastel Drawings

In September, I transformed photos into colored pencil drawings, oil paintings, and pastel drawings using a variety of Photoshop plug-ins and Topaz Impression. Full-size download images (typically 8 x 10 in. or 8 x 12 in.) and descriptions of the processing steps involved are freely available on Flickr. The images are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Digital Colored Pencil Drawing of the Firehole River

Digital Pastel Drawing of the Sierra Ancha Range

Digital Oil Painting of the Midway Geyser Basin

Digital Pastel Drawing of Monitor Peak

Digital Oil Painting of a Storm over the Washburn Range

Digital Pastel Drawing of Aoraki/Mount Cook

Digital Oil Painting of the La Sal Mountains Viewpoint

Digital Oil Painting of Lake Clark

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Repository Manager at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is recruiting a Repository Manager.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Repository Manager supports all aspects of the Woods Hole Open Access Server (WHOAS), including technical functions and data publication. The MBLWHOI library is considered the intellectual heart of the Woods Hole scientific community. This position will help identify and participate in projects that support science activities through demonstration of one or more specialized skills.

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"Format Shift: Information Behavior and User Experience in the Academic E-book Environment"

Daniel G. Tracy has published "Format Shift: Information Behavior and User Experience in the Academic E-book Environment" in Reference & User Services Quarterly.

Here's an excerpt:

This article seeks to understand information behavior in the context of the academic e-book user experience, shaped by a disparate set of vendor platforms licensed by libraries. These platforms vary in design and affordances, yet studies of e-book use in an academic context often treat e-books as a unified phenomenon in opposition to print books. Based on participant diaries tracking e-book information behavior and follow-up interviews and focus groups on troubleshooting and format shifting behaviors, this study seeks to provide a deep qualitative look at decisions that academic users make about formats when encountering e-books.

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Repository Manager at University of Connecticut

The University of Connecticut is recruiting a Repository Manager.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Repository Manager is responsible for planning, developing, implementing, and configuring user-facing tools and information resources for the repository program that relate to management, metadata, content, and training. Working with the software support vendor, University ITS, and other stakeholders, the Repository Manager collaborates in creating and setting development priorities for the digital repository program and is responsible for the maintenance of policy/procedure documents relating to content and participant administration.

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"Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier"

Christine L. Borgman has self-archived "Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier."

Here's an excerpt:

As universities recognize the inherent value in the data they collect and hold, they encounter unforeseen challenges in stewarding those data in ways that balance accountability, transparency, and protection of privacy, academic freedom, and intellectual property. Two parallel developments in academic data collection are converging: (1) open access requirements, whereby researchers must provide access to their data as a condition of obtaining grant funding or publishing results in journals; and (2) the vast accumulation of 'grey data' about individuals in their daily activities of research, teaching, learning, services, and administration. The boundaries between research and grey data are blurring, making it more difficult to assess the risks and responsibilities associated with any data collection. Many sets of data, both research and grey, fall outside privacy regulations such as HIPAA, FERPA, and PII. Universities are exploiting these data for research, learning analytics, faculty evaluation, strategic decisions, and other sensitive matters. Commercial entities are besieging universities with requests for access to data or for partnerships to mine them. The privacy frontier facing research universities spans open access practices, uses and misuses of data, public records requests, cyber risk, and curating data for privacy protection. This paper explores the competing values inherent in data stewardship and makes recommendations for practice, drawing on the pioneering work of the University of California in privacy and information security, data governance, and cyber risk.

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Digital Publishing Research Fellow at California Polytechnic State University –San Luis Obispo

California Polytechnic State University –San Luis Obispo is recruiting a Digital Publishing Research Fellow.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Under general direction of the Exhibits and Campus Art Curator, the Digital Publishing Project Fellow will help investigate, develop, and pilot digital publishing approaches for library assets with a primary focus on faculty exhibit catalogs. The fellow will contribute to new directions in the open dissemination of digital materials resulting from the Creative Works program exhibition scholarship, research, and educational activities.

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"Using ORCID, DOI, and Other Open Identifiers in Research Evaluation"

Laurel L. Haak et al. have published "Using ORCID, DOI, and Other Open Identifiers in Research Evaluation" in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics.

Here's an excerpt:

We describe how identifiers, such as ORCID iDs and DOIs, are being embedded in research workflows across science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics; how this is affecting data availability for evaluation purposes: and provide examples of evaluations that are leveraging identifiers. We also discuss the importance of provenance and preservation in establishing confidence in the reliability and trustworthiness of data and relationships, and in the long-term availability of metadata describing objects and their inter-relationships.

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Research Data Archivist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting a Research Data Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The primary purpose of this position is to: (1) develop and lead initiatives that address emerging data management and curation needs of the research community in response to funding agency, institution, and scholarly publisher mandates for data access and research reproducibility; (2) provide oversight of archive operations to ensure ongoing adherence to established policies and archival standards; (3) establish training programs that support researchers’ adoption of data management best practices as part of normative research practice; and (4) make significant contributions to the data archives profession to help improve the practice of data curation.

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"OpenAPC: A Contribution to a Transparent and Reproducible Monitoring of Fee-Based Open Access Publishing Across Institutions and Nations"

Dirk Pieper and Christoph Broschinski have published "OpenAPC: A Contribution to a Transparent and Reproducible Monitoring of Fee-Based Open Access Publishing Across Institutions and Nations" in Insights.

Here's an excerpt:

The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funders and research institutions under an open database licence. OpenAPC is part of the INTACT project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation and located at Bielefeld University Library. This article provides insight into OpenAPC's technical and organizational background and shows how transparent and reproducible reporting on fee-based open access can be conducted across institutions and publishers to draw conclusions on the state of the OA transformation process. As part of the INTACT subproject, ESAC, the article also shows how OpenAPC workflows can be used to analyse offsetting deals, using the example of Springer Compact agreements.

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Project Manager, Art Information Commons at Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is recruiting a Project Manager, Art Information Commons.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

An innovative and passionate Project Manager who will work closely with the Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives and stakeholders across the museum, this position sustains the work and all workflows associated with planning the Art Information Commons. Project outcomes are to increase institution-wide efficiency in data management, provide access to the full range of art information resources stewarded by the Museum for both internal and external researchers, and to lay the groundwork for sharing collections data with other cultural institutions by adopting a linked data approach.

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"’It Is for Publishers to Provide Plan S-compliant Routes to Publication in Their Journals.’: An Interview with Robert-Jan Smits, with Preface"

Richard Poynder has published "'It Is for Publishers to Provide Plan S-compliant Routes to Publication in Their Journals.': An Interview with Robert-Jan Smits, with Preface" in Open and Shut?.

Here's an excerpt:

That publishers do not like Plan S is, of course, no surprise. That was doubtless what the architects of the initiative anticipated. What they perhaps did not anticipate was that they would face pushback from researchers. Yet just a week after the announcement nine researchers published a critical article entitled, A Response to Plan-S from Academic Researchers: Unethical, Too Risky! This appears to have shocked the Plan S architects as thoroughly as their plan must have shocked publishers.

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