Month: March 2019

Software Engineer at the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is recruiting a Software Engineer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Internet Archive is looking for an expert software engineer to join the Front-End UX Team.

You will be a core developer on Archive.org (a Top 250 website), responsible for ideating and implementing new site features in collaboration with others, as well as maintaining the health and efficiency of the existing site.

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"Open Access and the Graduate Author: A Dissertation Anxiety Manual"

Jill Cirasella and Polly Thistlethwaite have self-archived "Open Access and the Graduate Author: A Dissertation Anxiety Manual. "

Here's an excerpt:

Now that dissertations are deposited and distributed electronically, students must perform yet another anxiety-inducing task: deciding whether they want to make their dissertations immediately open access (OA) or, at universities that require OA, coming to terms with openness. For some students, mostly in the humanities and some of the social sciences, who hope to transform their dissertations into books, OA has become a bogeyman, a supposed saboteur of book contracts and destroyer of careers.

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Research Data Librarian–Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University is recruiting a Research Data Librarian–Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

You will deliver expert data information advice and guidance to researchers, collaborate on the enhancement of a suite of information services, and set priority for the development of the institutional repository, ScholarSphere. You will lead data curation activities for the University, including managing workflows, developing policies, and actively enhancing datasets. You will actively participate in the Samvera and Fedora, open source communities, to enhance infrastructure for the broader community.

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"Searching Data: A Review of Observational Data Retrieval Practices in Selected Disciplines"

Kathleen Gregory et al. have published "Searching Data: A Review of Observational Data Retrieval Practices in Selected Disciplines" in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Here's an excerpt:

This review explores the existing data retrieval literature and identifies commonalities in documented practices among users of observational data as a first step toward creating a model describing how users search for and evaluate research data.

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Systems Librarian at St. Lawrence University

St. Lawrence University is recruiting a Systems Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

  • Provides leadership and support for all aspects of the implemented web discovery platform, ILS, and other related library systems. . . .
  • Works with the Technical Services and Public Services staff and Collection Development and Acquisitions Librarian regarding configuration and operational support for acquisitions and resources management functions within the Library’s ILS.
  • Works with the Director of Research & Digital Scholarship Initiatives on technology platforms supporting the library and our digital collections

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"Research Computing in the Cloud: Leveling the Playing Field"

Michael Berman has published "Research Computing in the Cloud: Leveling the Playing Field" in EDUCAUSE Review.

Here's an excerpt:

The universal availability of commodity cloud services and high-speed networks can eliminate the requirement that departments must have local HPC resources. The infrastructure available from large cloud providers such as AWS dwarfs and outperforms all but the largest and most-specialized supercomputing facilities. . . .

Moving large data sets on commodity networks, or even on regional research and education networks, simply doesn't work well for hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data, which is the scale required by modern researchers in many fields. . . .

To begin to address these issues, the Pacific Research Platform (PRP), a collaboration among research universities and CENIC (operator of the CalREN network serving California), has been funded by the National Science Foundation to support the streaming of "elephant flows."

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Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at Rhode Island College

Rhode Island College is recruiting a Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The individual will provide vision and leadership in directing and managing the College's Special Collections and Digital Initiatives unit to provide Rhode Island College members and the community access to locally produced content and the College’s unique collections. . . . Stewards locally produced content, including media, student projects, and faculty publications. Oversees the digital initiatives unit in digital preservation planning to ensure long-term accessibility of digital assets.

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"Using Linked Data for Discovery and Preservation"

Sayeed Choudhury has published "Using Linked Data for Discovery and Preservation" in EDUCAUSE Review.

Here's an excerpt:

Linked data has been discussed since the beginning of the World Wide Web 30 years ago (i.e., the so-called semantic web). For something potentially so important, this begs the question: Why hasn't linked data more directly affected galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (aka GLAM)?

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What to Keep: A Jisc Research Data Study

Jisc has released What to Keep: A Jisc Research Data Study.

Here's an excerpt:

What to keep in terms of research data has been a recognised issue for some time but research data management and in particular appraisal and selection (i.e. 'what to keep and why') has become a more significant focus in recent years as volumes and diversity of data have grown, and as the available infrastructure for 'keeping' has become more diverse.

The purpose of the What to Keep study is to provide new insights that will be useful to institutions, research funders, researchers, publishers, and Jisc on what research data to keep and why, the current position, and suggestions for improvement.

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Humanities Data Curator at University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara is recruiting a Humanities Data Curator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Director of the Data Curation Program, the Humanities Data Curator is responsible for the planning and implementation of scholarly initiatives in support of data-intensive research and digital scholarship in the humanities on campus with the goal of ensuring the high functionality, discoverability, and preservability of digital research data throughout its lifecycle.

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Good News from Flickr about 500 Million CC and Public Domain Images: "Update on Creative Commons Licenses and ‘In Memoriam’ Accounts"

Flickr has released "Update on Creative Commons Licenses and 'In Memoriam' Accounts."

Here's an excerpt:

When we recently announced updates to Flickr Free accounts, we stated that freely licensed public photos (Creative Commons, public domain, U.S. government works, etc.) as of November 1, 2018 in excess of the free account limit would not be deleted. . . .

In this spirit, today we're going further and now protecting all public, freely licensed images on Flickr, regardless of the date they were uploaded. . . .

In conjunction with this announcement, we've disabled bulk license change tools in the Settings, the Camera Roll, and the Organizr for Flickr Free accounts. . . . Any member (Free or Pro) can still change the license of any of their photos on the photo page.

In memoriam accounts will preserve all public content in a deceased member's account, even if their Pro subscription lapses.

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Vice President for Information Technology and Dean of Libraries at Colorado State University

Colorado State University is recruiting a Vice President for Information Technology and Dean of Libraries.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The individual in this position oversees a collaborative division that includes the CSU Libraries and its associated units; Academic Computing and Network Services (ACNS); Telecommunications; and Information Systems (IS). The CSU Libraries support the academic mission of the University by providing access to information and research assistance for students, faculty and staff in support of research, teaching and learning.

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"Opening Up Open Access Institutional Repositories to Demonstrate Value: Two Universities’ Pilots on Including Metadata-Only Records"

Karen Bjork, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, and Ryan Otto have published "Opening Up Open Access Institutional Repositories to Demonstrate Value: Two Universities' Pilots on Including Metadata-Only Records" in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.

Here's an excerpt:

INTRODUCTION Institutional repository managers are continuously looking for new ways to demonstrate the value of their repositories. One way to do this is to create a more inclusive repository that provides reliable information about the research output produced by faculty affiliated with the institution. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM This article details two pilot projects that evaluated how their repositories could track faculty research output through the inclusion of metadata-only (no full-text) records. The purpose of each pilot project was to determine the feasibility and provide an assessment of the long-term impact on the repository's mission statement, staffing, and collection development policies. NEXT STEPS This article shares the results of the pilot project and explores the impact for faculty and end users as well as the implications for repositories.

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