February 2024 – Page 5

Digital Asset Metadata Librarian at Washington University in St Louis

Under the supervision of the Head of Metadata Services, the Digital Asset Metadata Librarian will lead creation, enrichment, and maintenance of metadata representing digitized materials in the (Digital Asset Metadata System) DAM system. This position will work closely with the Digital Initiatives Metadata Librarian to define and implement metadata schemas and standards for digital assets, create and sustain controlled vocabularies, and oversee maintenance activities.

http://tinyurl.com/4cfrd6z4

White Paper: AI Perceptions at the University of Baltimore

This white paper, produced by the UBalt AI team, explores the perceptions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and generative AI within the UBalt community. It aims to uncover how students, faculty, and staff view AI’s role and implications in the educational landscape. The university collaborated with Ithaka S+R to acquire established, reliable and valid surveys from the AI literature, which was then adapted by the UBalt AI team to meet the needs of our academic community. This survey included a blend of both quantitative and qualitative questions, ensuring a deep understanding of the respondents’ views. . . . The responses obtained were then analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, as well as an exploratory qualitative analysis to extract meaningful insights, setting the stage for informed discussions and decision-making around AI in education.

http://tinyurl.com/mr47zx3j

Integrated Library Systems Specialist at University of Northern Iowa

Specific duties include: Manages the Integrated Library System (ILS) and serves as library’s Ex Libris specialist; works with appropriate staff to recommend and implement procedures, configurations, and workflows for effective and efficient use of and interoperability between the ILS’ Alma repository and the PrimoVE discovery layer to provide a positive user experience; manages and oversees the Alma repository in support of cataloging and metadata operations; serves as coordinator of the Ex Libris Management Group and its three sub-groups, supporting the activities of the group in meeting its charge; and provides leadership in the use of Ex Libris Analytics to improve workflows, documentation, quality, and efficiency of work and to inform the management of enhancements.

https://jobs.uni.edu/pands/view/53202

Paywall: "Open Educational Resources on Preservation: An Overview"

This article aims to provide an overview of the available open educational resources on preservation through an investigation of open educational resource platforms, finding open educational resources on preservation, and analysing them according to the theoretical background on preservation. This provides an understanding of what kinds of open educational resources exist in the field of preservation and also informs the way a new open educational resource should be created.

https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352231219660

Ex Libris Product Manager at Northeastern University

The Northeastern University Library seeks an enthusiastic and creative individual to serve as the Library’s primary contact with Ex Libris and coordinates use of various Ex Libris platforms (Alma, Primo, and Leganto) throughout the Library. Reporting to the Head of Library Technology Services, the ExLibris Product Manager serves as the Library’s expert on system configurations, analytics, and provides instruction for and assists in the creation of custom reports, as well as co-chairs the Alma and Primo operations committees.

http://tinyurl.com/587nybzk

"Deepfake Scammer Walks off with $25 Million in First-of-Its-Kind AI Heist"

The scam featured a digitally recreated version of the company’s chief financial officer, along with other employees, who appeared in a video conference call instructing an employee to transfer funds.

http://tinyurl.com/9aspy8u7

Open Publishing Coordinator at Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech Publishing launched in 2017 and currently publishes open access books, journals, digital scholarship, and audiovisual media. Reporting to the Publishing Director, the Open Publishing Coordinator will manage book publishing projects, consult with researchers on campus, and build awareness for the program. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a firm grasp of the changing landscape of academic publishing, particularly with respect to emerging digital publication initiatives within libraries and university presses.

http://tinyurl.com/5bpwu6yu

"Is Gold Open Access Helpful for Academic Purification? A Causal Inference Analysis Based on Retracted Articles in Biochemistry"

The results showed that compared to non-OA, Gold OA is advantageous in reducing the retraction time of flawed articles, but does not demonstrate a significant advantage in reducing citations after retraction. This indicates that Gold OA may help expedite the detection and retraction of flawed articles, ultimately promoting the practice of responsible research.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103640

Web Developer at Yiddish Book Center

The Center seeks a full-time in-house web developer to support the Center’s extensive digital projects and programs. The primary initial responsibility is to support the development of the Universal Yiddish Library, a groundbreaking project to digitize nearly all Yiddish books ever published and make them searchable with OCR. This project, already in development, will include opportunities for the candidate to work in the fields of digital humanities, library archiving and cataloging, machine learning and OCR using a wide variety of web technologies and programming languages, such as Python, Java, Drupal, PHP, HTML/SCSS, JavaScript, and other web development tools. T

http://tinyurl.com/6narck8a

"Enhancing the FAIRness of Arctic Research Data Through Semantic Annotation"

The National Science Foundation’s Arctic Data Center is the primary data repository for NSF-funded research conducted in the Arctic. There are major challenges in discovering and interpreting resources in a repository containing data as heterogeneous and interdisciplinary as those in the Arctic Data Center. This paper reports on advances in cyberinfrastructure at the Arctic Data Center that help address these issues by leveraging semantic technologies that enhance the repository’s adherence to the FAIR data principles and improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability of digital resources in the repository. We describe the Arctic Data Center’s improvements. We use semantic annotation to bind metadata about Arctic data sets with concepts in web-accessible ontologies. The Arctic Data Center’s implementation of a semantic annotation mechanism is accompanied by the development of an extended search interface that increases the findability of data by allowing users to search for specific, broader, and narrower meanings of measurement descriptions, as well as through their potential synonyms. Based on research carried out by the DataONE project, we evaluated the potential impact of this approach, regarding the accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of measurement data. Arctic research often benefits from having additional data, typically from multiple, heterogeneous sources, that complement and extend the bases – spatially, temporally, or thematically – for understanding Arctic phenomena. These relevant data resources must be ‘found’, and ‘harmonized’ prior to integration and analysis. The findings of a case study indicated that the semantic annotation of measurement data enhances the capabilities of researchers to accomplish these tasks.

https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-002

Unit Manager — Digital Archives at Texas Tech University

Developing processes and specifications for collecting, preserving, arranging, describing, and providing access to born digital and hybrid archival collections.

Creating digital archiving workflows, procedures, and policies.

Arranging, describing, and providing access to born-digital archival collections and describing them into finding aids.

Ingesting and migrating digital items from a variety of current and legacy media formats.

http://tinyurl.com/4femj7rp

"Google Will No Longer Back Up the Internet: Cached Webpages Are Dead"

Google will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. Google Search’s "cached" links have long been an alternative way to load a website that was down or had changed, but now the company is killing them off. Google "Search Liaison" Danny Sullivan confirmed the feature removal in an X post, saying the feature "was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved."

http://tinyurl.com/uznbyacn

Open Knowledge and Research Impact Librarian at University of North Carolina Wilmington

Randall Library at the University of North Carolina Wilmington seeks an Open Knowledge and Research Impact Librarian to serve as the campus expert on open access, research impact, scholarly publishing, copyright and fair use, author rights, and open education.

https://jobs.uncw.edu/postings/31172

"HERITRACE: Tracing Evolution and Bridging Data for Streamlined Curatorial Work in the GLAM Domain"

HERITRACE is a semantic data management system tailored for the GLAM sector. It is engineered to streamline data curation for non-technical users while also offering an efficient administrative interface for technical staff. The paper compares HERITRACE with other established platforms such as OmekaS, Semantic MediaWiki, Research Space, and CLEF, emphasizing its advantages in user friendliness, provenance management, change tracking, customization capabilities, and data integration. The system leverages SHACL for data modeling and employs the OpenCitations Data Model (OCDM) for provenance and change tracking, ensuring a harmonious blend of advanced technical features and user accessibility. Future developments include the integration of a robust authentication system and the expansion of data compatibility via the RDF Mapping Language (RML), enhancing HERITRACE’s utility in digital heritage management.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00477

Online Services Librarian at Walsh University

Maintains the linking system which provides seamless access to journals through the databases.

Maintains the library’s online discovery layer (Search Everything), EBSCO databases, and the e-book collections.

Serve as lead librarian in maintaining the library’s Springshare services (i.e. LibAnswer, LibChat, and LibGuides).

Maintains the library’s home page.

Serves as lead implementer for updates to OhioLINK electronic resources and eResources liaison for all OhioLINK online resources.

http://tinyurl.com/3573upfv

"Data Management in Distributed, Federated Research Infrastructures: The Case of EPOS"

Data management is a key activity when Open Data stewardship through services complying with the FAIR principles is required, as it happens in many National and European initiatives. Existing guidelines and tools facilitate the drafting of Data Management Plans by focusing on a set of common parameters or questions. In this paper we describe how data management is carried out in EPOS, the European Research Infrastructure for providing access to integrated data and services in the solid Earth domain. EPOS relies on a federated model and is committed to remain operational in the long term. In EPOS, five key dimensions were identified for the Federated Data Management, namely the management of: thematic data; e-infrastructure for data integration; community of data providers committed to data provision processes; sustainability; and policies. On the basis of the EPOS experience, which is to some extent applicable to other research infrastructures, we propose additional components that may extend the EU Horizon 2020 Data Management Guidelines template, thus comprehensively addressing the Federated Data Management in the context of distributed Research Infrastructures.

https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-005

Educational Technologies Librarian at University of Virginia

This position will join a team responsible for the creation and delivery of instructional programming that develops students’ digital literacy and maker mindsets. The successful candidate will develop and deliver media production classes and workshops; create asynchronous teaching and training materials; assess curricular needs for audio visual production; consult with students and faculty; and collaborate with fellow Library staff on the operation of and training for the 3D Printing Studio.

https://apply.interfolio.com/139269

"Do Disappearing Data Repositories Pose a Threat to Open Science and the Scholarly Record? "

Only little more than half of the research data repositories in the sample have detailed strategies they use to mitigate data loss. It is important to note that none of the strategies analysed offers a permanent solution; instead, infrastructure maintenance requires continuous efforts. The burden of infrastructure maintenance and data preservation is currently placed on individual repositories alone; preservation systems comparable to those for scholarly texts, such as CLOCKSS, are not widely spread and can be difficult to realise.

http://tinyurl.com/3snrhxpk

Librarian for Geospatial Systems and Data at Vanderbilt University

The Librarian for Geospatial Systems and Data advances GIS services broadly through a combination of training, consultation, project management, and management of a newly created GIS lab. The incumbent manages hardware, software, data resources and user support to facilitate geospatial analysis, research and teaching activities within the GIS lab, and in partnership with units across campus. Working closely with the Assistant Director of Geospatial Initiatives, the Librarian for Geospatial Systems and Data actively contributes to the Libraries’ and University’s strategic priorities by promoting and fostering the use of GIS technology in research and learning.

http://tinyurl.com/pmyak67e

Paywall: "The Scientific Periphery and New Flows of Knowledge: The Case of Regional Preprint Servers"

It is unclear whether regional rather than global or discipline-focussed preprint platforms as an innovation in the communication of science are removing any of the barriers faced by researchers in the scientific periphery or whether they are increasing access to and visibility of science from the periphery. In response, this paper focusses on the uptake, visibility and academic impact of regional preprint publishing platforms in two peripheral regions (Africa and Latin America) to gain insights into the use and possible impact of regional preprint servers.

https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-04-2023-0153

Digital Resources Librarian at Howard University

The Digital Resources Librarian, under the general direction of the Assistant Director of Operations, manages the Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library digital resource collection, including databases, e-Journals, and eBooks, and oversees access to these resources. Support of the digital holdings includes recording collection-related budgetary spending and facilitating the digital subscription renewal and purchasing process.

http://tinyurl.com/39x579az

"DataCite Launches First Release of the Data Citation Corpus"

DataCite, in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), is delighted to announce the first release of the Data Citation Corpus. A major milestone in the Make Data Count initiative, the release makes eight million data citations openly available and usable for the first time via an interactive dashboard and public data file.

https://makedatacount.org/first-release-of-the-open-global-data-citation-corpus/

Digitization Project Manager at Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library (Term)

The Digitization Project Manager will coordinate and implement in-house digitization, metadata creation and online access of a range of unique and original archival materials including but not limited to, photographs, documents, publications and audio and video formats from HBCU Libraries located around the U.S. The incumbent will also provide support for participating libraries as they prepare collections for digitization including basic archival processing and preservation techniques. The incumbent will coordinate outsourced digitization of audiovisual formats including working with commercial vendors as needed. The Digitization Project Manager will report to the Assistant Director for Digital Services throughout the four-year project and will oversee the work of project staff and students and will coordinate with Archivists and HBCU Digital Library Trust staff.

http://tinyurl.com/5dbcjsux

"DIAMAS Results: Institutional Publishing Landscape Survey"

The publication of the survey results marks a significant milestone for DIAMAS and for Diamond Open Access. There is now a clear and intelligible picture of the European landscape of institutional publishing activities, with clear pathways to strengthen and support their operations. Our findings show how institutional publishers work, the scale of and nature of their operations, the ways finances and funding are managed, how open science practices are managed, and the nature of their challenges.

http://tinyurl.com/y3crvx8p

Director, Collections and Open Strategies at Emory University

Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Research, Engagement, and Scholarly Communications, and collaborating with colleagues across the organization, the Director of Collections and Open Strategies provides leadership, vision, and strategic direction for the Emory Libraries crucial role in the life cycle of research and scholarship, transforming the processes of creating, disseminating, collecting, storing, managing, and preserving scholarship.

The Director will directly supervise the Head of Collection Management, Head of Scholarly Communications, and the Research Data Program Manager, as well as work collaboratively with other divisions and libraries across the organization, to foster shared initiatives enhancing information access, research support, and scholarly output.

https://apply.interfolio.com/140093