March 2024 – Page 4 – DigitalKoans

Research Data Librarian at Cornell University

Reporting to the Director, Research Data and Open Scholarship (RDOS), the Research Data Librarian helps support Cornell University researchers throughout the research data lifecycle to meet their planning, management, analysis, sharing and archival needs. The Research Data Librarian collaborates with peers in RDOS, the Digital Scholarship Services group, and other library and disciplinary units to provide a suite of services related to the stewardship of findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable data. This may include advising researchers on the use of disciplinary repositories, Cornell’s eCommons Institutional Repository, and other data sharing and preservation platforms to facilitate discovery, reproducibility and long-term access.

https://tinyurl.com/ycy2xwhc

"Responsible Artificial Intelligence: A Structured Literature Review"

Our research endeavors to advance the concept of responsible artificial intelligence (AI), a topic of increasing importance within EU policy discussions. The EU has recently issued several publications emphasizing the necessity of trust in AI, underscoring the dual nature of AI as both a beneficial tool and a potential weapon. This dichotomy highlights the urgent need for international regulation. Concurrently, there is a need for frameworks that guide companies in AI development, ensuring compliance with such regulations. Our research aims to assist lawmakers and machine learning practitioners in navigating the evolving landscape of AI regulation, identifying focal areas for future attention. This paper introduces a comprehensive and, to our knowledge, the first unified definition of responsible AI. Through a structured literature review, we elucidate the current understanding of responsible AI. Drawing from this analysis, we propose an approach for developing a future framework centered around this concept. Our findings advocate for a human-centric approach to Responsible AI. This approach encompasses the implementation of AI methods with a strong emphasis on ethics, model explainability, and the pillars of privacy, security, and trust.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06910

Application Analyst I at University of Mississippi

This position supports one or more software applications. The incumbent manages accounts, runs reports, configures applications for departmental use and trains end users.

https://tinyurl.com/2zf697rc

"Supporting Open Access Monographs: Penn State University Libraries’ Participation in the TOME Initiative"

In 2017, Penn State pledged to participate in the then newly established Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) Initiative. TOME was launched by the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) as a five-year pilot with two main types of participants: colleges and universities and university presses. Penn State was one of the first universities to commit funds to participate in TOME, which was designed to support peer-reviewed, open access monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Each participating university committed $225,000 total for the five-year pilot, split out into $45,000 per academic year to support three grants of $15,000 per monograph. This number was established based on the recommendation from the Ithaka S+R Report "The Costs of Publishing Monographs."

https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.85.3.66

Archivist and Manager of Digital Collections at Clyfford Still Museum (Denver)

The successful candidate will be passionate about both physical and digital preservation and access and can organize large, complex, highly interrelated collections. The Archivist and Manager of Digital Collections will join the wider Clyfford Still Archives and Collections Team to build the profile of the Museum’s archival collections by making them more accessible through digital management in the Museum’s collection management system Qi and the implementation of a new Online Collections website.

https://tinyurl.com/5xvsaepv

"An OpenAI Spinoff Has Built an AI Model That Helps Robots Learn Tasks Like Humans"

Now three of OpenAI’s early research scientists say the startup they spun off in 2017, called Covariant, has solved that problem and unveiled a system that combines the reasoning skills of large language models with the physical dexterity of an advanced robot. . . .

This represents a leap forward, Chen told me, in robots that can adapt to their environment using training data rather than the complex, task-specific code that powered the previous generation of industrial robots. It’s also a step toward worksites where managers can issue instructions in human language without concern for the limitations of human labor. ("Pack 600 meal-prep kits for red pepper pasta using the following recipe. Take no breaks!")

https://tinyurl.com/3nek7xx2

User Experience Strategist at The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas Libraries User Experience Strategist is a key member of the Assessment & User Experience team, focused on integrating user needs and experiences in all aspects of the UT Libraries’ current and future online presence and services. The person in this position will act as the Product Owner of the Libraries website, providing strategy and oversight for its content and functionality.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6ncv39

"Are Price, Value, and Openness the Most Important Scholarly Communication Priorities?"

Specifically, academia has an enormous stake in imperatives like ensuring the trustworthiness of the scholarly record, providing for the platforms through which humans and machines will engage with scholarship, and addressing the atomization of the scholarly article. These topics demand collaboration by academia and research publishers. The current investments in developing AI-powered tools that support scholarly communication — and in resisting some of the challenges posed by the use of AI — makes these kinds of partnerships only more important and urgent. But how can academia and publishers build the basis for stronger collaboration when so much of the relationship in recent decades has been adversarial?

https://tinyurl.com/ppmucwn5

Affordable Learning Librarian at Georgia Tech

The Affordable Learning Librarian will work collaboratively with teaching faculty, library staff, and other campus partners to promote the adoption of open and affordable learning materials and provide students and instructors with seamless access to library collections and course readings. The Affordable Learning Librarian will be excited about the future of classroom affordability and the role libraries play in promoting equitable and fair access to course materials.

https://tinyurl.com/29bmhfyd

Paywall: "The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I."

It’s been estimated that ChatGPT is responding to something like two hundred million requests per day, and, in so doing, is consuming more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity. (For comparison;s sake, the average U.S. household consumes twenty-nine kilowatt-hours a day.)

https://tinyurl.com/ynrd4k4p

Systems Administrator II at Lawrence University

The System Administrator II position is responsible for critical campus servers and systems. The system administrator’s responsibilities include system installation and updates, administering both local and cloud hosted services, troubleshooting hardware, software, and networking issues, as well as ensuring that all system operations run with optimal performance and security. The position requires a professional level of service and a commitment to customer service.

https://tinyurl.com/msudbrxy

"The ‘Must Stock’ Challenge in Academic Publishing: Pricing Implications of Transformative Agreements"

While several contract designs exist, the ‘publish-and-read’ (PAR) scheme is the one that comes closest to the ideal of an entirely open access environment: Publishers are paid a fixed case-by-case rate for each publication, which includes a fee for their extensive libraries. In turn, all subscription payments are waived. I theoretically derive that this contract design benefits the included publishers regardless of whether the number of publications in these publishers’ journals grows or declines. Consequently, widespread PAR contracts are likely to raise entry barriers for new (open-access) competitors even further.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03597

Intellectual Property (IP) Librarian at Georgia Tech

This position contributes to and supports a culture of entrepreneurship and commercialization at Georgia Tech by collaborating with stakeholders such as the VentureLab, CreateX, and the Office of Technology Licensing. This person provides IP programming and outreach for the patent, trademark, tangible property, and licensing needs of the Georgia Tech community. Individuals will plan and provide course-integrated instruction, workshops, and one-on-one consultations on intellectual property.

https://tinyurl.com/29bmhfyd

"Wiley Sees Light at the End of the Tunnel"

The Research group had more mixed results. Revenue rose 1%, to $256 million, but EBITDA fell 1% due to higher editorial and marketing costs and the continuing impact of the reorganization of its Hindawi unit. (Last year, Wiley suspended Hindawi’s open access publishing operations after its discovered a number of "compromised" articles; the company is in the processing of “sunsetting” the Hindawi brand and merging its operations into other Wiley groups).

https://tinyurl.com/mwkzw4xa

Electronic and Continuing Resources Librarian at Middlebury College

Oversees the library’s electronic and continuing resources, ensuring that they are widely accessible to the College community; helps promote the use of these resources; and coordinates the library’s response to access problems. This staff member plays a major supportive role in library systems functions, particularly those related to electronic resources and library collections.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6ywz6t

"CACM [Communications of the ACM] Is Now Open Access"

For almost 65 years, the contents of CACM have been exclusively accessible to ACM members and individuals affiliated with institutions that subscribe to either CACM or the ACM Digital Library. In 2020, ACM announced its intention to transition to a fully Open Access publisher within a roughly five-year timeframe (January 2026) under a financially sustainable model. The transition is going well: By the end of 2023, approximately 40% of the ~26,000 articles ACM publishes annually were being published Open Access utilizing the ACM Open model. As ACM has progressed toward this goal, it has increasingly opened large parts of the ACM Digital Library, including more than 100,000 articles published between 1951–2000. It is ACM’s plan to open its entire archive of over 600,000 articles when the transition to full Open Access is complete.

https://tinyurl.com/yuph6ec3

Electronic Resources Librarian at Bridgewater State University

The Maxwell Library at Bridgewater State University seeks an experienced librarian to oversee all e-resources and related systems. The incumbent will provide leadership and expertise in acquiring and integrating electronic resources into the library’s collections. In addition, the successful candidate will work closely with liaison librarians, as well as systems and collection development librarians to ensure that the library’s digital collections and related policies and services are up to date, well managed, and positioned to support the University’s overarching goals of student success, and excellence in teaching, learning, and research.

https://jobs.bridgew.edu/postings/26948

Generative AI in Higher Education: The Product Landscape

Since last fall, Ithaka S+R has been partnering with 19 colleges and universities from the US and Canada to assess GAI’s impact on higher education and make evidence-based, proactive decisions about how to manage the far-ranging effects of GAI.[3] As part of this project, Ithaka S+R has been cataloging GAI applications geared towards teaching, learning, and research in the higher education context. Today, we are excited to make our Product Tracking tool (https://sr.ithaka.org/our-work/generative-ai-product-tracker/) publicly available. . . .

This issue brief is designed to enrich the descriptive data captured in the Product Tracker. In the brief’s first section, we provide a typology of existing products and value propositions. In the second, we offer observations about what the product landscape suggests about the future of teaching, learning, and research practices, and speculations on the near-term future of the academic GAI market.

https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.320394

Full Stack Applications Developer at Cornell University

The Software Development department within Cornell University Library IT creates and supports applications that focus on library cataloging and discovery systems, digital preservation, online exhibits, publication repositories, websites, and collaborative use of linked data. Our work impacts a broad audience of academic users.

https://tinyurl.com/29dabr7f

"Innovative Open Research Publisher PeerJ Joins Taylor & Francis"

PeerJ is best known for its multidisciplinary flagship title PeerJ Life & Environment serving the Biological, Medical and Environmental Sciences and PeerJ Computer Science (covering all areas of computer science, including AI, quantum, and robotics). In addition, PeerJ offers five titles in the Chemical Sciences, meaning that in total Taylor & Francis will welcome 7 new journals to its open research program.

All PeerJ journals offer high-quality peer review and rapid publication, supported by PeerJ’s own submission and peer review platform, and dedicated contributor support. Articles are selected on scientific value and methodological soundness, providing a forum for world-class research addressing many of the globe’s current challenges. PeerJ also hosts a digital hub for the International Association for Biological Oceanography, promoting the advancement of knowledge of the biology of the sea.

https://tinyurl.com/ms2unw2b

Digital Archivist at LAC Federal

LAC Federal is seeking a remote Digital Archivist to assist with enhancing metadata for digital collections to improve the discoverability of archival materials pertaining to women’s history. The Archivist will work collaboratively with museum, library, and archives staff to evaluate existing digital collections and make recommendations for enhanced or additional metadata to describe women using recognized metadata standards for libraries, archives, and museums including MARC, Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families, Encoded Archival Description, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/yj43xtfr

"Guest Post — Shared Print & Sustainability through the Looking Glass"

The collective tolerance of decision-makers for investing significant resources in retaining collections of potential rather than immediate value is decreasing. The solution is to encourage a diversity of organizations to design services that increase or release the value of the print we steward. As long as print continues to be published, there will be opportunities to link authors, ideas, and publishing aesthetic trends as well as libraries and users. Transforming print collections at academic libraries identifies ways in which print collections can serve as learning tools, literacy aids, and opportunities for using print in new ways collections that aren’t on the fast track to digitization. The library community needs to investigate even more ways to innovate with print.

https://tinyurl.com/5byncjun

Digital Preservation Manager at the IFI Irish Film Archive

The Digital Preservation Manager (DPM) is a senior manager position and responsible for the management and ongoing preservation of the digital collections, leading the Digital Collections Team to achieve this. The DPM is also has responsibility responsible for overseeing the Archive digital network and maintaining digital systems, equipment and infrastructure to ensure efficiency & productivity; this requires liaising with vendors, consultants and other relevant parties to make sure all systems work.

https://ifi.ie/about/jobs/

Paywall: "I Used Generative AI to Turn My Story into a Comic—and You Can Too"

After more than a year in development, Lore Machine is now available to the public for the first time. For $10 a month, you can upload 100,000 words of text (up to 30,000 words at a time) and generate 80 images for short stories, scripts, podcast transcripts, and more. There are price points for power users too, including an enterprise plan costing $160 a month that covers 2.24 million words and 1,792 images. The illustrations come in a range of preset styles, from manga to watercolor to pulp ’80s TV show.

https://tinyurl.com/54mj6t77

Data Visualization Analyst at Duke University

The Data Visualization Analyst is responsible for providing consultation, instruction and project support to faculty, students, and campus groups across Duke University supporting individual, class, and team visualization projects. The Data Visualization Analyst participates in the data science community at Duke and assists in developing and refining visualization services in concert with researcher needs.

https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27281