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RESOURCE: DHCommons Journal, 2016

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2016

DHCommons has released their second publication, and announced an expanded remit that can include completed as well as mid-stage projects, and that future publications will be published on a rolling schedule: We have also reconsidered our publishing schedule as we felt that the digital-only nature of DHCommons meant it no longer needed to be tied ...

RESOURCE: Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of Libraries

Oct

27

2016

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released their Institute-wide Task Force On the Future of Libraries report. The task force, comprised of 30 people representing faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff were divided into three working groups: Community and Relationships, Discovery and Use, and Stewardship and Sustainability. Collectively, they offer a vision for the libraries, “using the ...

POST: Data and Humanism Shape Library of Congress Conference

Oct

27

2016

Mike Ashenfelder (Library of Congress) has published a write-up of the Library of Congress’ Collections As Data conference on the LOC blog The Signal. Ashenfelder notes that the conference “coalesced into two main themes: 1) digital collections are composed of data that can be acquired, processed and displayed in countless scientific and creative ways and 2) ...

JOB: Research Data Curation Metadata Librarian, UC San Diego

Oct

27

2016

From the announcement: The successful candidate for Research Data Curation Metadata Librarian will be a part of the Research Data Curation Program, working integratively with the Digital Object Metadata Management unit within Metadata Services. They will provide consultation services to researchers and other data owners, assisting in analysis of their materials, modeling their collections, advising ...

CFP: Discussion Topics-DLF Digital Pedagogy Interest Group Working Lunch

Oct

27

2016

The DLF Digital Pedagogy Interest Group issued a call for discussion topics for the Working lunch at the DLF Forum on November 8, 2016 from noon-1:30pm. Potential participants can add topics to this Google Document.

POST: Alternate Futures, Usable Pasts

Oct

26

2016

Bethany Nowviskie posted the text of the talk she gave at the Marquette University Digital Scholarship Symposium in September, 2016 where she explores “the temporal orientation of the next generation of digital libraries and digital scholarly projects.” Citing Jarrett Drake’s essay “#Archives for Black Lives: Building Community Archives of Police Violence in Cleveland,” Nowviskie asks, “can we ...

POST: Police-Worn Body Camera Footage: A Public Record?

Oct

20

2016

In a two–part series on the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Issues and Advocacy Roundtable blog, Rachel Mattson (Archives of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club) addresses a contemporary debate surrounding police-worn body camera footage. Body-worn cameras (BWCs for short) began raising a range of legal and archival questions that municipalities and police departments were woefully ...

RESOURCE: The Printing Press as Metaphor

Oct

20

2016

Digital Humanities Quarterly has released a preview version of Elyse Graham’s (SUNY Stony Brook) article “The Printing Press as Metaphor,” which examines the popular use of historical technologies of print as metaphors for making sense of our changing media and information landscape. Situating an examination of this rhetoric within a larger discussion of the market ...

RESOURCE: Lexington’s Early Marriage Indexes of African Americans Available Online

Oct

20

2016

The University of Kentucky News points to the release of a new digital collection developed in partnership with the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center and the Fayette County Clerk’s Office. The project provides “access to the Colored Marriage Indexes dated 1866-1882 and 1958-1968. The purpose of the project is to provide researchers with ...

CFP: 17th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

Oct

20

2016

The Association for Computing Machinery / IEEE Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries has issued a call for papers for their 2017 conference, to be held June 19-23, 2017, in Toronto. From the call: The field of digital libraries has undergone dramatic changes as digital collections grow in scale and diversity. These changes call ...

JOB: Process Manager, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, KU Leuven University Library

Oct

20

2016

From the announcement: As process manager ‘Digital Scholarship in the Humanities’, you are dedicated to supporting faculty and student use of digital information and computer-based methods to achieve research, teaching and learning goals. You are responsible for the support of digital projects initiated by researchers and teaching staff in the Arts and Humanities. You collaborate ...