February 2023 – Page 6

IT Project Manager at Johns Hopkins University

The Digital Research & Curation Center at Johns Hopkins University is seeking an IT Project Manager to help us solve intriguing problems efficiently and effectively.

We are seeking an IT Project Manager who will be responsible for management of the full lifecycle of software projects. This individual will execute project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered correctly and on-time. He/she/they will be responsible for developing project plans, running project meetings, defining team assignments, guiding project activities, monitoring work efforts, identifying resource needs, and escalating functional, quality, and timeline issues appropriately.

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"A Sustainable Infrastructure Concept for Improved Accessibility, Reusability, and Archival of Research Software "

Research software is an integral part of most research today and it is widely accepted that research software artifacts should be accessible and reproducible. However, the sustainable archival of research software artifacts is an ongoing effort. We identify research software artifacts as snapshots of the current state of research and an integral part of a sustainable cycle of software development, research, and publication. We develop requirements and recommendations to improve the archival, access, and reuse of research software artifacts based on installable, configurable, extensible research software, and sustainable public open-access infrastructure. The described goal is to enable the reuse and exploration of research software beyond published research results, in parallel with reproducibility efforts, and in line with the FAIR principles for data and software. Research software artifacts can be reused in varying scenarios. To this end, we design a multi-modal representation concept supporting multiple reuse scenarios. We identify types of research software artifacts that can be viewed as different modes of the same software-based research result, for example, installation-free configurable browser-based apps to containerized environments, descriptions in journal publications and software documentation, or source code with installation instructions. We discuss how the sustainability and reuse of research software are enhanced or enabled by a suitable archive infrastructure. Finally, at the example of a pilot project at the University of Stuttgart, Germany—a collaborative effort between research software developers and infrastructure providers—we outline practical challenges and experiences

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12830

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Director, Digital Library and Scholarly Technologies at Columbia University

The Director of DLST leads development of strategic vision, prioritization and assessment of system-wide Libraries digital library, scholarly technology services, and online web presence. The Director of DLST leads a creative and innovative team that advances development and implementation of digital library and scholarly technology systems for Columbia affiliates and the global scholarly community, in support of the University mission to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and convey the products of its efforts to the world.

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"arXiv Announces New Policy on ChatGPT and Similar Tools"

In view of this, we

continue to require authors to report in their work any significant use of sophisticated tools, such as instruments and software; we now include in particular text-to-text generative AI among those that should be reported consistent with subject standards for methodology.

remind all colleagues that by signing their name as an author of a paper, they each individually take full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. If generative AI language tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s).

generative AI language tools should not be listed as an author; instead authors should refer to (1).

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Digital Initiatives Librarian at University of Denver

The Digital Initiatives Librarian leads an innovative Library Technology Services group that develops and maintains a suite of flagship software, liaises with the University’s Information Technology Division (IT@DU), and coordinates support for vendor-provided core applications. With two full-time developers and additional hourly staff, the unit builds, maintains, and enhances Special Collections @ DU (built with node.JS, Elasticsearch and JavaScript), a Drupal-based website, two internal databases (one for instruction assessment, another for donor-management), and several other applications.

https://jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/495987/digital-initiatives-librarian

"W3C Re-Launched as a Public-Interest Non-profit Organization"

The World Wide Web Consortium began the year 2023 by forming a new public-interest non-profit organization. The new entity preserves our member-driven approach, existing worldwide outreach and cooperation while allowing for additional partners around the world beyond Europe and Asia. The new organization also preserves the core process and mission of the Consortium to shepherd the web, by developing open web standards as a single global organization with contributions from W3C Members, staff, and the international community.

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Research Data Specialist at East Carolina University

The Research Data Specialist is responsible for providing education, support, and expertise to faculty, students, and researchers engaged in data management planning, data acquisition, data sharing, and long-term data stewardship. This position emphasizes collaboration with faculty, students, and researchers in the Division of Health Sciences by supporting data practices and literacies. This position will coordinate data education, curation, and consultation activities.

https://ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/57619

Paywall: "LABDRIVE, a Petabyte Scalable, OAIS/ISO 16363 Conformant, for Scientific Research Organisations to Preserve Documents, Processed Data, and Software"

Before LABDRIVE no system could adequately preserve such information, especially in such gigantic volume and variety. In this paper we describe the development of LABDRIVE and its ability to preserve and to scale up to tens or hundreds of Petabytes in a way which is conformant to the OAIS Reference Model and capable of being ISO 16363 certified.

https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020648

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Associate Director, Digital Scholarship Lab at University of Richmond

The Associate Director (1) coordinates the development of digital collections and digital scholarship projects and applications and (2) manages all processes involved in the production and organization of spatial data for those projects. In the former role, they oversee and coordinate the work of the Boatwright Library’s website design and development staff and work with the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab. Head of Digital Engagement in selecting and prioritizing documents, and analyzes spatial data; oversees tasks including georeferencing and georectification of maps, particularly for the DSL’s historical mapping projects.

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"A Free Toolkit to Foster Open Access Agreements"

In November 2021, with the support of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and cOAlition S, four ‘task and finish’ working groups were established. The authors facilitated and supported these groups. Each group was responsible for producing tools that will enable library consortia and small independent publishers to negotiate transformative agreements, which is to say, agreements that will enable the publisher to fully transition to open access. The first task and finish group developed shared principles for transformative agreements. The second developed a data template to enable smaller independent publishers to reach agreements with library consortia and libraries, while the third developed example licence agreements. These groups recognized that the implementation of a transformative agreement crosses a complex ecosystem of technology, processes, policies, automated functions and manual functions that relate to contract management, article submission and peer review, content hosting and dissemination as well as financial management. For this reason, a fourth group produced a workflow framework that describes the process in all its phases. The members of these four groups were volunteers from stakeholder communities including libraries, library consortia, smaller independent publishers and intermediaries. This article explains why these tools are needed and the process behind their creation. The authors have combined these tools into a freely available toolkit, available under a CC BY licence.

http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.585

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