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JOB: Digital Library Software Engineer, Arizona State University

Apr

6

2017

From the announcement: The Center for Digital Antiquity (Digital Antiquity) seeks a creative and innovative Software Engineer to help build and maintain core.tdar.org, an international digital repository for archaeological and cultural heritage data. This is a unique opportunity to leverage and expand your skills while preserving information crucial to describing and understanding the past by ...

POST: Formulating Ambiguity in a Database

Mar

30

2017

“Formulating Ambiguity in a Database” is one of two posts published on the nodegoat blog to help illuminate the process of data modeling in the humanities. Drawing on insights learned through their workshops, the post aims to cover more fundamental questions that get to the heard of humanist’s concerns regarding structured data: As soon as ...

CFP: DLF Forum 2017

Mar

30

2017

The Digital Library Federation has issued a call for proposals for the 2017 DLF Forum, taking place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from Oct 23-35, 2017. This year’s conference will once again align with a Digital Liberal Arts Colleges Pre-Conference (October 22) and the Digital Preservation 2017 conference (October 25-26). The Forum traditionally has no set theme ...

CFP: Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives

Mar

30

2017

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), in cooperation with the Andrew Mellon Foundation, has issued a call for proposals for Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives: Working together, the Cooperatives will develop technical and human infrastructures to support the digital publication of documentary and scholarly editions and to provide for their long-term preservation, discovery, and ...

RESOURCE: NMC Horizon Report, 2017 Library Edition

Mar

30

2017

The New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report > 2017 Library Edition was jointly released by the NMC, University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), ETH Library, and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) at the ACRL 2017 Conference last week. The report identifies “trends and technology developments” that drive the five-year ...

JOB: Head, Digital Scholarship Services, University of Oregon

Mar

30

2017

From the announcement: The Head of Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) is charged with developing DSS policies and procedures; coordination and management of DSS projects, budgets, and departmental workflow; and supervision of DSS personnel and Digital Scholarship Center (DSC) operations. The Head collaborates with others to strengthen library programs related to: digital scholarship services, digital collections, ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Trinity College

Mar

30

2017

From the announcement: Trinity College, located in Hartford CT, seeks to hire a Digital Scholarship Coordinator with expertise in digital methods, concepts, web-based tools, and project development across the divisions. The Coordinator will work with faculty and students to amplify excellent recent work in digital scholarship, and to develop new research projects. The ideal candidate ...

RECOMMENDED: Statement on US Administration Budget Proposal by DLF Leadership

Mar

23

2017

Bethany Nowviskie (Digital Library Federation) has written a post on the new federal budget blueprint, published both on the Digital Library Federation site and her personal website. Nowviskie opens by describing the many agencies and offices “germane to the goals of the Digital Library Federation and its mission to ‘advance research, learning, social justice, and ...

POST: What happens to libraries and librarians when machines can read all the books?

Mar

23

2017

In a post sharing the text of a talk given at the Harvard Library Leadership in a Digital Age program, Chris Bourg (MIT) asks, “What happens to libraries and librarians when machines can read all the books?” Bourg posits that machine learning could play a key role in the future development of digital libraries. She ...

POST: Collecting Digital Content at the Library of Congress

Mar

23

2017

In a guest post on The Signal, the Library of Congress’ digital stewardship blog, Joe Puccio (LOC) describes the current status of digital collecting at LOC, as well as their future goals: The adopted strategy is based on a vision in which the Library’s universal collection will continue to be built by selectively acquiring materials ...

CFP: Remaking Collections

Mar

23

2017

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) has released a call for papers for a special collection of articles that “will address emerging creative practices around digital collections” and “document current practice and theory through diverse case studies and articulate multidisciplinary understandings of the art, design, computing, heritage and humanities practices.” Potential topics include: Experimental and ...