Year: 2018

Geospatial Metadata Coordinator at University of British Columbia (Grant Funded)

University of British Columbia is recruiting a Geospatial Metadata Coordinator (18-month grant).

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The UBC Geospatial Metadata Coordinator provides technical expertise for the creation, collection, preservation and presentation of geospatial metadata in all formats. This member of the UBC Library data services team develops and oversees all metadata related activities for the project including template creation, metadata crosswalks, processes documentation, and ingestion for self-depositing researchers.

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"Defining the Relevant Market in Fair Use Determinations"

Xiyin Tang has self-archived "Defining the Relevant Market in Fair Use Determinations."

Here's an excerpt:

Whereas current copyright analysis and scholarship focuses overwhelmingly on the infringer's conduct, this Article argues, instead, that a copyright holder’s own actions should define the scope of the market for the work. In what I term a copyright owner’s "negative" uses of her own work—such as engaging in holdup strategies that make fair market value impossible to determine, failing to update Copyright Office records, refusing to mitigate damages, or using a copyright for litigation value rather than copyright value—the copyright owner herself has much to tell us about whether she is likely to suffer market harm.

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Data Analyst 3 at Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University is recruiting a Data Analyst 3.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Analyst will be involved in curation of research data, facilitating ingest of data into the institutional repository, providing training to researchers and librarians in the realm of data management, both in person and by developing online content. Responsibilities of the position include: curation of research data and similar content as it is ingested into the Institutional Repository; working with the repository team to improve ingest workflows for research data and improve metadata and documentation; developing curatorial workflows for different data types, file formats, and subject areas; contributing to educational content concerning data management best practices and developing workshops for researchers and librarians about data management and curation best practices.

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"Quadcopters or Linguistic Corpora: Establishing RDM Services for Small-Scale Data Producers at Big Universities"

Viola VoB and Gõran Hamrin have published "Quadcopters or Linguistic Corpora: Establishing RDM Services for Small-Scale Data Producers at Big Universities" in LIBER Quarterly.

Here's an excerpt:

Our research hypothesis is that small-scale data producers have similar needs in engineering and the humanities. This hypothesis is based on the similarities in demands from funding agencies on (open) research data and on the assumption that research in different subjects often creates results which are different in content but similar in structure.

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Archivist and Digital Preservation Librarian at Marshall University

Marshall University is recruiting an Archivist and Digital Preservation Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position is responsible for managing digitization projects and the preservation of digital assets within an academic archives/library environment.

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"Towards More Consistent, Transparent, and Multi-Purpose National Bibliographic Databases for Research Output"

Linda Sile et al. have published "Towards More Consistent, Transparent, and Multi-Purpose National Bibliographic Databases for Research Output" in the LSE Impact Blog.

Here's an excerpt:

Even though the various national databases differ in terms of implementation and organisation, the challenges faced are rather similar. These range from specific technical tasks such as record deduplication, to more theoretical debates on principles that should guide the work with national bibliographic databases. However, perhaps the most pertinent issue is the need for reliable (persistent) identifiers for all research information entities. Author identifiers, research organisation identifiers, digital object identifiers – all of these could, in the long run, establish a more stable research information environment where different datasets can be integrated across institutional, regional, and even national contexts.

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Director of Library Systems at Cornell University

Cornell University is recruiting a Director of Library Systems.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

You would manage a team of DevOps engineers, database developers, and applications support specialists who work to support the Library’s IT development teams, cloud-based applications, and mission-critical 24x7x365 production services. You would have an opportunity to participate in an international collaboration of university libraries and vendors working on creating and implementing FOLIO (https://folio.org), an open source library services platform.

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"EFF, Human Rights Watch, and Over 70 Civil Society Groups Ask Mark Zuckerberg to Provide All Users with Mechanism to Appeal Content Censorship on Facebook"

The EFF has released "EFF, Human Rights Watch, and Over 70 Civil Society Groups Ask Mark Zuckerberg to Provide All Users with Mechanism to Appeal Content Censorship on Facebook."

Here's an excerpt:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and more than 70 human and digital rights groups called on Mark Zuckerberg today to add real transparency and accountability to Facebook's content removal process. Specifically, the groups demand that Facebook clearly explain how much content it removes, both rightly and wrongly, and provide all users with a fair and timely method to appeal removals and get their content back up.

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Sciences Data Librarian at UCLA

UCLA is recruiting a Sciences Data Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

With a demonstrated understanding of the work of laboratory scientists, the scientific process, and the impact and potential of data science methodologies to research, the Sciences Data Informationist provides a broad range of research data management and information services. Working with campus partners and library colleagues in Sciences User Engagement and beyond, the incumbent designs, implements, and assesses library services and activities related to sciences research data management.

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"Requirements for Transformative Open Access Agreements: Accelerating the Transition to Immediate and Worldwide Open Access"

Jisc has released "Requirements for Transformative Open Access Agreements: Accelerating the Transition to Immediate and Worldwide Open Access."

Here's an excerpt:

These requirements are for 2019 and are for hybrid journal agreements. The requirements may be updated to support changes in research funder policies. Jisc Collections will evaluate agreements against these requirements and make the results of the evaluation publicly available online. This evaluation will also make clear if an agreement is compliant with a research funders' policies and their implementation of Plan S.

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Digital Project Coordinator at Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is recruiting a Digital Project Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The incumbent assists with the integration of digital and traditional library services through work on assigned projects involving digital reformatting and/or collecting original digital material. Individually and in collaboration with IT and digital media experts, incumbent assists with program components that include design, implementation, and evaluation of projects, creation of digital images and post-processing functions, review of presentation of digital material, metadata and standards for content development, and models for information access and delivery.

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"Plan S and Researchers’ Rights: (Re)Framing Academic Freedom"

Marc Couture and Richard Poynder have published "Plan S and Researchers’ Rights: (Re)Framing Academic Freedom " in Open and Shut?.

Here's an excerpt:

Given the apparent disenchantment with Plan S amongst at least some in the research community, and given that researchers find themselves increasingly subjected to ever more demanding OA policies like it (in which new duties, new restrictions and limitations, and new responsibilities are imposed on them), it is surely time to look again at what academic freedom does and does not mean, and what it should and should not mean in today’s context, and try to redefine and/or refine it for today’s historical situation; or at least to, as Marc Couture puts it in his guest post below, seek to "reframe" it?

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