Month: May 2019

"What Future for Digital Scholarly Editions? From Haute Couture to Prêt-à-Porter"

Elena Pierazzo has published "What Future for Digital Scholarly Editions? From Haute Couture to Prêt-à-Porter" in the International Journal of Digital Humanities.

Here's an excerpt:

Digital scholarly editions are expensive to make and to maintain. As such, they prove unattainable for less established scholars like early careers and PhD students, or indeed anyone without access to significant funding. One solution could be to create tools and platforms able to provide a publishing framework for digital scholarly editions that requires neither a high-tech skillset nor big investment.

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Open Educational Resources Librarian, NC LIVE at NC State University

NC State University is recruiting an Open Educational Resources Librarian, NC LIVE.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

NC LIVE invites applications and nominations for the position of Open Educational Resources Librarian to lead Open Education North Carolina (OENC), an initiative that reduces the cost of higher education and improves student success across North Carolina’s colleges and universities. . . . The Open Educational Resources Librarian manages all operational aspects of the OENC initiative; evaluates the initiative’s ROI by measuring performance metrics like adoption rate, cost-savings, and student performance; and regularly reports out to stakeholders.

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Open Educational Resources & Scholarly Communication Lead at George Mason University

George Mason University is recruiting an Open Educational Resources & Scholarly Communication.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Director, Mason Publishing Group/George Mason University Press, the Open Educational Resources & Scholarly Communication Lead will collaborate with colleagues in Mason Publishing, within the Libraries more broadly, and across the university to support the adoption and creation of open and affordable course content. . . . In the Scholarly Communications role, the incumbent leads the Libraries' educational program and outreach activities to promote open access scholarly dissemination, provides expert guidance to faculty and students wishing to pursue open access venues for their research and publication projects, and consults and advises on intellectual property issues and copyright generally in the publishing process.

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"Tiny Data: Building a Community of Practice around Humanities Datasets"

Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati et al. have published "Tiny Data: Building a Community of Practice around Humanities Datasets" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.

Here's an excerpt:

Quantitative data, the foundation of scientific research, have been in the foreground of discussions about data creation, curation, and publication pipelines. However, data for humanistic and social scientific inquiries take many forms, including physical and ephemeral primary resources (books, objects, performances, interactions); qualitative, free-form observations; as well as quantitative, structured data and metadata. At the Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Library, we started the Tiny Data Working Group (TDWG) in 2016 to tackle some of the humanistic research data creation and curation issues in a constructive, collaborative, and interdisciplinary format. The present paper considers what it means to be FAIR with humanities data, as well as how to build a community of data-literate humanists, based on our experiences with the TDWG.

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University of Kentucky: "Doug Way Named Next Dean of UK Libraries"

The University of Kentucky has released "Doug Way Named Next Dean of UK Libraries."

Here's an excerpt:

For five years, Way has served as associate university librarian for Collections and Research Services at UW-Madison, where he provides leadership for the library’s collection development and management, resource sharing and scholarly communications programs. During his tenure, he supervised a direct staff of 75 full-time employees and an overall budget of $12 million for the university's general libraries system of 14 libraries that supports more than 4 million visitors per year. . .

Before arriving at UW-Madison, Way served as head of collections and scholarly communications at Grand Valley State University. While at Grand Valley State, he also spearheaded a statewide distributed shared print program that resulted in nine state-funded institutions in Michigan working collectively to manage widely held low-use collections.

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Scholarly Communication Librarian at Tarleton State University

Tarleton State University is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Under the direction of the Manager for Electronic Resources and Scholarly Communications, the Scholarly Communication Librarian (Librarian I) performs professional tasks to grow and maintain scholarly communication services available through the Library.

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"Remediation Data Management Plans: A Tool for Recovering Research Data from Messy, Messy Projects"

Clara Llebot has published "Remediation Data Management Plans: A Tool for Recovering Research Data from Messy, Messy Projects" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.

Here's an excerpt:

Data Management Plans (DMPs) have been used in the last decade to encourage good data management practices among researchers. DMPs are widely used, preventive tools that encourage good data management practices. DMPs are traditionally used to manage data during the planning stage of the project, often required for grant proposals, and prior to data collection. In this paper we will use a case study to argue that Data Management Plans can be useful in improving the management of the data of research projects that have moved beyond the planning stage of the research life cycle. In particular, we focus on the case of active projects where data has already been collected and is still being analyzed. We discuss the differences and commonalities in structure between preventive Data Management Plans and remedial Data Management Plans, and describe in detail the additional considerations that are needed when writing remedial Data Management Plans: the goals and audience of the document, the data inventory, and an implementation plan.

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Information Technology Specialist (Sr. Designer/Art Director) at Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is recruiting an Information Technology Specialist (Sr. Designer/Art Director).

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

As a recognized expert in the field of Internet technology, including website design and information architecture, oversees the implementation, maintenance, enhancement, and coordination of online systems and Web site(s) on the Internet. Oversees the art direction and visual design (look, feel and layout) or IA of Internet and Intranet-based Web site(s) and applications. Designs templates, graphical elements, and other web interface components. Monitors emerging web design trends and directions and makes recommendations accordingly.

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"BC Digitized Collections: Towards a Microservices-based Solution to an Intractable Repository Problem"

Chris Mayo et al. have published "BC Digitized Collections: Towards a Microservices-based Solution to an Intractable Repository Problem" in the Code4Lib Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

Our Digital Repository Services department faced a crisis point in late 2017. Our vendor discontinued support for our digital repository software, and an intensive, multi-department, six-month field survey had not turned up any potential replacements that fully met our needs. We began to experiment with a model that, rather than migrating to a new monolithic system, would more closely integrate multiple systems that we had already implemented—ArchivesSpace, Alma, Primo, and MetaArchive—and introduce only one new component, namely Mirador. We determined that this was the quickest way to meet our needs, and began a full migration in spring of 2018. The primary benefit of a microservices-based solution for our collections was the potential for customization; we therefore present our experiences in building and migrating to this system not as a blueprint but as a case study with lessons learned. Our hope is that in sharing our experience, we can help institutions in similar situations determine 1) whether a microservices-based solution is a feasible approach to their problem, 2) which services could and should be integrated and how, and 3) whether the trade-offs inherent in this architectural approach are worth the flexibility it offers.

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Scholarly Communication Librarian at University of Texas at San Antonio

The University of Texas at San Antonio is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Job Duties

  • Serve as a resource on issues and trends relevant to copyright/fair use and scholarly communication.
  • Review license agreements for information resources and maintain licenses for record keeping purposes.
  • Develop strategic relationships with campus community members to inform, support, and advance the scholarly communication program’s goals.
  • Support the Libraries' institutional repository.
  • Engage and partner with subject librarians to design and deliver educational programs to faculty and campus units about copyright and scholarly communication. Develop relevant trainings, guides and tools for library and campus constituencies.
  • Establish and support mechanisms to assist faculty with publishing choices, publishing agreements, management of copyright and intellectual property, and compliance with funder requirements.

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