Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Digital Asset Manager at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is recruiting a Digital Asset Manager.

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We seek a Digital Asset Manager to manage the day-to-day timeline and establish a continued framework for Carnegie Hall's Digital Archives Project, a comprehensive initiative begun in 2012 to digitize extensive paper and audio-visual holdings documenting the Hall's close to 125-year history, ensuring that they are preserved for future generations and made increasingly accessible to the public. Manage vendor relationships, perform quality control on results of digitization work, and monitor project outcomes. Serve as Archives point person in coordinating plans to create digital repository designed to house both the Hall's legacy collections as well as newly-created digital content.

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"Project to Production: Digital Preservation at the Houses of Parliament, 2010-2020"

Christopher Fryer has published "Project to Production: Digital Preservation at the Houses of Parliament, 2010-2020" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.

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The Parliamentary Archives is responsible for preserving and providing access to the historical records of the UK Parliament, a collection of national, and indeed international, importance which encompasses a wide range of digital content, created and used in an ever changing environment. Since 2010 a staged project has led to the successful implementation of an operational digital repository. The transition from project to production allows the Parliamentary Archives to reflect on the organisation's progress in digital preservation. However, the deployment of a production digital repository also allows the Parliamentary Archives to outline future goals. The project has demonstrated the viability of implementing digital preservation infrastructure. The challenge remains to embed digital preservation as a business as usual activity.

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Digital Repositories & Records Archivist at University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota is recruiting a Digital Repositories & Records Archivist.

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The Digital Repositories & Records Archivist builds the University Libraries' growing digital repository programs that include the University of Minnesota's institutional repository, the University Digital Conservancy (UDC); the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM) for the Libraries' Data Management & Curation Initiative; and the electronic records program of the University of Minnesota Archives within the broader context of the Archives & Special Collections strategic effort in digital archives.

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"Evaluating the Creation and Preservation Challenges of Photogrammetry-based 3D Models"

Michael J. Bennett has self-archived "Evaluating the Creation and Preservation Challenges of Photogrammetry-based 3D Models."

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Though the roots of photogrammetry can be traced back to photography's earliest days, only recent advances in both digital technology and software applications have put the possibilities of 3D modeling from 2D source images in the hands of the greater cultural heritage community. The possibilities of such 3D digital rendering are many. With these possibilities come unique digital preservation challenges. This study explores basic close-range photogrammetry as applied to sample archival objects. Additionally, the latest BagIt and ZIP-based bundling formats along with repository-based solutions are also surveyed as potential 3D data management and archiving aggregators for resulting 3D models.

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Digital Curation News (7/1/2015) #digitalcuration #digitalpreservation #researchdatamanagement

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Associate Director for Technology and Digital Strategies at University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is recruiting an Associate Director for Technology and Digital Strategies.

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Define and articulate vision and strategic directions for UT Libraries information technology to advance UT Libraries' mission and vision in a dynamic environment, participate in executive level decision making processes, oversee budget allocations, and engage with external collaborators

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Curator of Digital Collections at Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is recruiting a Curator of Digital Collections.

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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Oversees all born-digital materials collected by HSC, whether acquired though manuscript acquisitions, Red Set collection development, or other means.
  • Leads and collaborates in acquiring, processing, managing, preserving, and making accessible born-digital materials.
  • Develops, updates and upholds policies and procedures for life-cycle management of born-digital materials.
  • Works with BitCurator to create forensic disk images of media acquired through manuscript donations.
  • Investigates technologies for managing, processing, and facilitating access to born-digital materials.
  • Serves as HSC's liaison for digital archives issues within HLSL, HLS, the Harvard Library, and the broader community.
  • Participates in efforts to implement web and e-mail archiving programs.

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Digital Library Data Curation Developer at University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame is recruiting a Digital Library Data Curation Developer.

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The Hesburgh Libraries is seeking a passionate software developer to join our Digital Library Technology Unit in support of digital library and research data curation services. With an emphasis on data curation, the individual will design and develop digital library frameworks and applications in areas such as controlled vocabularies, digital collections, digital content harvesting. Within science, engineering, and the social sciences, the individual will work with librarians, campus partners, and researchers to embed research data curation tools and workflows into active research projects for archiving and sharing data in our institutional repository CurateND (http://curate.nd.edu), or other relevant community repositories.

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Research Data Curation Bibliography, Version 5

Digital Scholarship has released Version 5 of the Research Data Curation Bibliography. This selective bibliography includes over 350 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions.

The "digital curation" concept is still evolving. In "Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories: Steps toward Success," Christopher A. Lee and Helen R. Tibbo define digital curation as follows:

Digital curation involves selection and appraisal by creators and archivists; evolving provision of intellectual access; redundant storage; data transformations; and, for some materials, a commitment to long-term preservation. Digital curation is stewardship that provides for the reproducibility and re-use of authentic digital data and other digital assets. Development of trustworthy and durable digital repositories; principles of sound metadata creation and capture; use of open standards for file formats and data encoding; and the promotion of information management literacy are all essential to the longevity of digital resources and the success of curation efforts.

Most sources have been published from January 2009 through December 2014; however, a limited number of earlier key sources are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. If such versions are unavailable, links to the publishers' descriptions are provided.

Abstracts are included in this bibliography if a work is under a Creative Commons Attribution License (BY and national/international variations), a Creative Commons public domain dedication (CC0), or a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark and this is clearly indicated in the work (see the "Note on the Inclusion of Abstracts" for more details).

It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Data Analytics / Visualization Specialist at Northeastern University

Northeastern University is recruiting a Data Analytics / Visualization Specialist.

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You are: A Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist who will help mobilize and design Library services supporting statistics and information visualization activities across the University. You are excited to work with diverse groups within the Library and across campus, and proactive in outreach and communication. You are comfortable with providing many forms of education, from developing curricula and teaching classes to providing high-level research support in one-on-one consultations. You are a collegial team member who will work closely with other departments within the Library, serving as a resource for statistics and visualization tools, services, and systems. You're enthusiastic about the role of statistics and visualization in scholarship across the disciplines, and will develop both this position and the Library into focal points for statistics- and visualization-related activities across the University.

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Data Technology Lead at University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is recruiting a Data Technology Lead.

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The Data Technology Lead will:

  • Support the Library's data applications, including GIS, and other digital library programs.
  • Adopt, adapt, develop and maintain software to provide a web-based geospatial discovery and access portal using open source technologies in an inter-institutional, community-based, development effort.
  • Work with server and database administrators to provision the necessary computing systems to support data services.
  • Implement and manage spatial data infrastructure, including administration of specialized GIS application including geoserver, geohydra, geoblacklight.
  • Develop software for the import and management of UCB's GIS data collections.
  • Manage data services, e.g., OAI, SOLR API, data set management and access.

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Emerging Technologies Librarian at Marquette University

Marquette University is recruiting an Emerging Technologies Librarian.

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The Emerging Technologies Librarian supports the exploration, integration and management of new and emerging technologies and the integration and improvement of existing systems and applications to deliver information and services to library users in support of the mission, vision and values of Raynor Memorial Libraries and Marquette University.

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"The Impact of Open Access on Collection Management"

Adelia Grabowsky has published "The Impact of Open Access on Collection Management" in Virginia Libraries.

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This article examines if and how the integration of OA materials has changed collection and/or access management activities within academic libraries.

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Digital Curation News (4/27/2015) #digitalcuration #digitalpreservation #researchdatamanagement

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Application Developer at Columbia University

Columbia University is recruiting an Application Developer.

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The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services seeks a motivated, collaborative and creative full-time Application Developer to join our team of in-house developers and other professional staff supporting the strategic goals of the organization, with particular attention to the university's institutional repository program, Academic Commons (academiccommons.columbia.edu). Responsibilities of the Application Developer may span multiple projects and will include regular interactions and collaboration with the team of developers, designers, and project managers among the library's Digital Programs and Technology Services areas.

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"A System for Distributed Minting and Management of Persistent Identifiers"

Lukasz Bolikowski, et al. have published "A System for Distributed Minting and Management of Persistent Identifiers" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.

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Minting persistent identifiers and managing their metadata is typically governed by a single organization. Such a single point of failure poses a risk to longevity and long-term preservation of identifiers. In this paper we address the risk by proposing a radically different approach, in which minting and management of persistent identifiers is distributed, and the integrity of the distributed system is guaranteed by public-key cryptography. We describe the general architecture of the system, analyse its robustness and discuss potential deployment scenarios

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Digital Humanities Specialist at Purdue University

Purdue University is recruiting a Digital Humanities Specialist.

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The DH Specialist will establish a dynamic multifaceted digital humanities program in the Libraries' Division of Humanities, Social Science, Education and Business (HSSEB) and collaborate with other Purdue faculty to meet the growing demand for digital scholarshi p at Purdue. Working closely with the Libraries' GIS specialist, archivists, and Research Data unit, the successful candidate will consult and collaborate with faculty and students on techniques and methodologies supporting the digital humanities and prov ide instruction in their use.

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"’Stay With Me’: ISPs Head to Court to Fight New Net Neutrality Rules"

Meredith Filak Rose has published "Stay With Me': ISPs Head to Court to Fight New Net Neutrality Rules" in Public Knowledge's Net Neutrality Blog.

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It's been almost three months since the FCC issued its order reclassifying Internet Service Providers as Title II telecommunications carriers and establishing strong net neutrality rules. No one was surprised when the ISPs cried foul and sued to overturn the ruling. . . .

Earlier this week, the ISPs attempted to stop the clock by arguing that the regulations should be delayed until after the lawsuit has worked its way completely through the courts-a process that will, in all likelihood, take years.

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"Data Literacy Instruction in Academic Libraries: Best Practices for Librarians"

Amanda Wanner has published "Data Literacy Instruction in Academic Libraries: Best Practices for Librarians" in See Also:.

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This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities of bringing data literacy instruction to academic libraries. Information literacy and digital literacy in libraries has been widely discussed in the library sciences and education literature, but until recently very little focus has been given to data literacy. However, new e-government and open data initiatives over the past decade have created widely available public data that is of great interest to students and academics. Increased technological capabilities to process "big data" have also created new opportunities for the layperson and researcher alike. One popular article claims, "Ensuring that big data creates big value calls for a reskilling effort that is at least as much about fostering a data-driven mindset and analytical culture as it is about adopting new technology" (Harris, 2012). The influx of available data presents unique challenges for librarians. How can libraries play a role, for example, in this "reskilling effort" to develop a "data-driven mindset"?

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Web Coordinator at John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation is recruiting a Web Coordinator.

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Reporting to the VP of Communications and Digital Media, the Web Coordinator will be responsible for maintaining and updating the content, visual appearance, accessibility, consistency and usability of the JFK Presidential Library website, and play a key role in its upcoming major refresh.

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DSpace@MIT Tops 3 Million Downloads

MIT's DSpace@MIT repository has had over 3 million downloads as of the end of April.

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The Open Access Articles Collection in DSpace@MIT now contains over 16,600 articles, which collectively were downloaded over 90,000 times in April.

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Director of Scholarly Information Resources at Wheaton College

Wheaton College is recruiting a Director of Scholarly Information Resources.

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This position supports teaching and learning by managing services focused around the identification, acquisition, creation, curation, and publication of scholarly information resources. The successful candidate will have a firm grasp of current scholarly information available via print or e-publishing options while also focusing on new models of discovery, creation, curation, and access beyond ownership, including digitization, open access research, digital humanities archives, institutional repositories, institutional publishing, data mining initiatives, open educational resources (OERs), and consortial collaborations. This position works closely with faculty to encourage the use of traditional and evolving scholarly information resources.

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