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POST: Saving Historic Radio Before It’s Too Late

Mar

24

2016

In an article entitled “Saving Historic Radio Before It’s Too Late,” Adrienne LeFrance (The Atlantic) details the Library of Congress’s audio preservation efforts and the National Recording Registry, drawing particular attention to the difficulties of preserving access to broadcast media. But serious discussion of how to preserve early audio collections, and what to preserve, didn’t ...

RESOURCE: Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries

Mar

24

2016

Purdue University Press has announced the publication of the open access monograph Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries, edited by John H. White (College of Charleston) and Heather Gilbert (College of Charleston). Inspired by a conference held at the College of Charleston in June 2014, the volume “examines the library’s role in the development, implementation, ...

JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services – Vassar College

Mar

24

2016

From the announcement: Vassar College Libraries seeks collaborative and entrepreneurial candidates for the position of Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services. The incumbent will work closely with colleagues to advance the Libraries’ efforts to work with faculty and students pursuing digitally-enhanced modes of learning and research. Along with partners in the Libraries as well ...

JOB: Network Manager – Digital Public Library of America

Mar

24

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Public Library of America is growing our Hubs Network. DPLA Hubs include Content and Service Hubs, and represent almost 2,000 cultural heritage institutions throughout the country. Over the next several years, we have the goal for cultural heritage institutions in every state to have an on-ramp to DPLA. This position ...

JOB: Digital Project Librarian at Ohio University

Mar

24

2016

From the announcement: In this two year term appointment the Digital Projects Librarian (Digital Initiatives) will report to the Digital Initiatives Coordinator, and focus on the technical aspects of digital project production such as managing imaging, metadata creation, and ingest. The successful candidate will work to advance the Ohio University Libraries’ expanding digital presence and ...

Community Oriented Research Data Curation and Reuse

Mar

23

2016

Ixchel Faniel is a Research Scientist at OCLC Research. Faniel has conducted extensive research into how various disciplinary communities approach research data reuse. Faniel served as Principal Investigator on the Institute for Museum and Library Services funded DIPIR (Dissemination Information Packages for Information Reuse). Thomas: Believe it or not, I think you may be the first ...

RECOMMENDED: Money and Time

Mar

17

2016

This week, Miriam Posner (UCLA) posted an edited version of a talk she recently gave at UC Irvine’s Data Science and Digital Humanities symposium on her blog. Posner’s talk focuses on sustainability of digital humanities centers and initiatives, pointing out major concerns about staffing models, grant-funded projects, and a perceived “immateriality of digital labor”: I ...

POST: Data fluidity in DARIAH — pushing the agenda forward

Mar

17

2016

Laurent Romary (DARIAH and INRIA), Mike Mertens (DARIAH), and Anne Baillot (Centre Marc Bloch and INRIA) have released a new paper, “Data fluidity in DARIAH — pushing the agenda forward.” Romary, Mertens, and Baillot’s paper details the establishment of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), an overview of the infrastructure’s current membership, ...

RESOURCE: UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the Selection of Digital Heritage for Long-Term Preservation

Mar

17

2016

UNESCO has released The UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the Selection of Digital Heritage for Long-Term Preservation, a document created to: “provide an overarching starting point for libraries, archives, museums and other heritage institutions when drafting their own policies on the selection of digital heritage for long-term sustainable digital preservation.” Recognizing that “Heritage institutions – libraries, archives, ...

OPPORTUNITY: NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication

Mar

17

2016

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have announced a jointly funded program to “support individual scholars pursuing research projects that require digital expression and digital publication,” the NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication. Projects funded through this fellowship program: … must be conceived as digital because the nature of the ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer, Boston College (2 positions)

Mar

17

2016

From the announcement: These Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer positions advance digital scholarship by providing research services, technical support, and project management assistance for members of the BC community engaged in technology-rich scholarly projects. Both librarians maintain deep knowledge and practical expertise in an evolving interdisciplinary landscape of digital scholarship tools and methods, including but ...