Metadata Librarian at University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is recruiting a Metadata Librarian.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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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Special Collection Analyst at Columbia University

Columbia University is recruiting a Special Collection Analyst.

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Columbia University Libraries (CUL) seeks an innovative and energetic librarian to provide support for Columbia's digital library and scholarly technology systems by adapting, configuring and using relevant software tools and implementing standards and best practices. The Special Collections Analyst will work directly with Libraries and University stakeholders to research, develop and document technology solutions for digital library and digital scholarship initiatives. Working collaboratively, the incumbent will apply and help develop procedures, guidelines, policies, and principles for the use of Columbia's digital library and scholarly infrastructure.

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"Collections as Data: Implications for Enclosure"

Thomas G. Padilla has published "Collections as Data: Implications for Enclosure" in .

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In recent years a growing amount of interest has been dedicated to collections as data. A collections as data paradigm seeks to foster an expanded set of research, pedagogical, and artistic potential predicated on the computational use of cultural heritage collections. Collections as data raises the question of what it might mean to treat digitized and born digital collections as data rather than simple surrogates of physical objects or static representations of digital experience.

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Head, Discovery & User Experience at Indiana University, Bloomington

Indiana University. Bloomington is recruiting a Head, Discovery & User Experience.

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The Head, Discovery & User Experience Department will provide leadership and vision for the development of a continuously evolving range of services, discovery systems, and online interfaces that support users and ensure a consistent and successful online and in-person experience. The position manages the libraries web presence (Drupal), content strategy for online services, and works in collaboration with the Enterprise Library Services Team (UITS) to deliver the discovery experience for library services and content (Blacklight and EDS).

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"A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives"

Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle have self-archived "A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives."

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Personal and private Web archives are proliferating due to the increase in the tools to create them and the realization that Internet Archive and other public Web archives are unable to capture personalized (e.g., Facebook) and private (e.g., banking) Web pages. We introduce a framework to mitigate issues of aggregation in private, personal, and public Web archives without compromising potential sensitive information contained in private captures. We amend Memento syntax and semantics to allow TimeMap enrichment to account for additional attributes to be expressed inclusive of the requirements for dereferencing private Web archive captures. We provide a method to involve the user further in the negotiation of archival captures in dimensions beyond time. We introduce a model for archival querying precedence and short-circuiting, as needed when aggregating private and personal Web archive captures with those from public Web archives through Memento. Negotiation of this sort is novel to Web archiving and allows for the more seamless aggregation of various types of Web archives to convey a more accurate picture of the past Web.

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Digital Art: May’s Gouache Paintings, Ink Drawings, and Pastel Drawings

In May, I transformed photos into pastel drawings, pen and ink drawings, and oil paintings 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 Pastel Drawing of the Grand Grocery in Lincoln

Digital Gouache Painting of a Streetlight Being Lit in Parvis Notre-Dame

Digital Ink Drawing of the Grands Magasins de la Bourse in Brussels

Digital Pastel Drawing of the Chicago and North Western Railway Roundhouse

Digital Ink Drawing of a Bar in Melrose

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