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POST: Parsimony and Elegance as Objectives for Digital Curation Processes

Mar

15

2018

Trevor Owens (Library of Congress) has written a thoughtful post introducing some themes around simplicity and complexity in digital preservation, in the context of maintenance, repair and an ethics of care. In “Parsimony and Elegance as Objectives for Digital Curation Processes,” Owens positions “unnecessary complexity” as a threat to sustainability while framing minimalism as the ...

POST: Reflections on Code4Lib 2018

Mar

15

2018

The ACRL Techconnect blog has published “Reflections on Code4Lib 2018,” featuring contributions from Ashley Blewer, Bohyun Kim, and Eric Phetteplace. The three authors each discuss presentations that resonated with them, and helpfully link out to recordings and slides when available. Brewer, discussing Amy Wickner’s presentation on web archives, notes: Wickner, citing Terry Cook, spoke of ...

POST: Moving Ahead with Support for Digital Humanities

Mar

15

2018

Quinn Dombrowski (University of California, Berkeley) and Joan Lippincott (Coalition for Networked Information) have published an article in the Educause Review introducing ways library and IT departments can develop comprehensive support for digital humanities at the campus level. “Moving Ahead with Support for Digital Humanities” summarizes a recent Educause/CNI whitepaper, Building Capacity for Digital Humanities: ...

RESOURCE: A Digital Humanities Reading List, Part 4 – The Role of Libraries

Mar

15

2018

LIBER‘s (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group closes out their “Digital Humanities Reading List” series with a fourth and final post on the role of libraries: This theme examines a challenging question: what is the role of libraries in digital humanities? ...

PROJECT: Arabic Scientific Manuscripts of the British Library

Mar

15

2018

In a new post on its digital scholarship blog, The British Library has announced a collaborative transcription project that will help “to create a freely available ground truth datataset for anyone wishing to advance the state-of-the-art in optical character recognition (OCR) technology for handwriting.” This project is a proof of concept exploring whether the creation ...

RECOMMENDED: Diversity Work and Digital Carework in Higher Education

Mar

8

2018

Roopika Risam (Salem State University) has published “Diversity Work and Digital Carework in Higher Education” in First Monday, in which shes addresses the under-examined intersections of affective labor in diversity work and digital humanities. These affective dimensions of diversity work, coupled with the emergence of information and communication technologies that facilitate social media have given rise ...

RECOMMENDED: Designing Digital Scholarship Ecologies

Mar

8

2018

This week, the Idealis featured Micah Vandegrift’s (Florida State University -> North Carolina State University) preprint, “Designing Digital Scholarship Ecologies,” in which he offers a holistic view of digital scholarship and outlines how it is changing the academic library landscape. From the abstract: Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication are transforming the practice of librarianship by ...

CFP: 2018 DLF Forum, Learn@DLF, and NDSA’s Digital Preservation

Mar

8

2018

DLF invites proposals for their three conferences taking place in Las Vegas this October: the brand-new Learn@DLF pre-conference (#learnatdlf, October 14); the DLF Forum (#DLFforum, October 15-17); NDSA’s Digital Preservation (#digipres18, October 17-18). Proposals for one conference or all three are being accepted and may include a wide range of formats, including lightning talks, paper and panel presentations, 60-second Minute ...

JOB: Head of Digital Preservation, Harvard Library

Mar

8

2018

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Preservation Services, the Head of Digital Preservation develops, leads, and administers programs and services that meet and anticipate the digital preservation needs of Harvard’s library community. The incumbent provides strategic leadership to the Harvard community to preserve current and future scholarly assets and acts as a thought ...

JOB: Assistant/Associate Professor, Scholarly Services Librarian

Mar

8

2018

From the announcement: The Oklahoma State University Library is recruiting for an Assistant or Associate Professor to serve as the Scholarly Services Librarian. This is a full-time, 12-month, tenure-track position which reports to the Head of the Academic Library Liaison Group within the Research and Learning Services Division. Initial appointment will be at the assistant ...

POST: Engaging Absence

Mar

1

2018

In a new post on his website, Thomas Padilla (University of Nevada Las Vegas) probes questions of how to “engage absence” within data, using his experience spearheading Collections as Data as a lens: Where the data exhibit significant informational paucity, indeterminate values, inordinate biasing, or limited scope it is common to cast them aside in pursuit ...