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JOB: Metadata Technologies Librarian, Ohio University

Sep

15

2016

From the announcement: Ohio University Libraries seeks a dynamic and ambitious individual for the position of Metadata Technologies Librarian. The successful candidate will be motivated by metadata challenges in a changing library landscape; will be energized by collaborative efforts; and will work effectively with students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds. Reporting to the Head ...

RECOMMENDED: Trans-ing History on the Web: The Digital Transgender Archive

Sep

8

2016

In a post on AHA Today, Sadie Bergen (American Historical Association) discusses the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) with K.J. Rawson (College of the Holy Cross, DTA). The DTA was established to enable researchers to locate and make use of transgender-related materials in digital and physical collections. The DTA, which continues to grow, currently contains some ...

CFP: ACRL 2017 TechConect Submissions due October 14

Sep

8

2016

From the announcement: ACRL 2017’s TechConnect committee is seeking 20-minute presentations for a session at the ACRL 2017 conference on March 22-25, 2017, in Baltimore, MD. We are interested in presentations that go beyond the technology show-and-tell format, from all sectors of library practice, from presenters who would like to speak and think critically about ...

CFP: IIPC 2017 Web Archiving Conference, Lisbon 29-30 March 2017

Sep

8

2016

From the announcement: Web archiving efforts have now been underway for over twenty years, generating an expanding core of data crucial for present and future explorations of human political, cultural, economic and social activity since the mid 1990s. Practices around both the creation and use of web archives are rapidly evolving. What technical, ethical, and ...

JOB: Grand Challenges Data Administrator, University of California, Los Angeles

Sep

8

2016

From the announcement: As part of UCLA’s Centennial, the University announced a series of Grand Challenges: ambitious research projects that connect hundreds of faculty, students, community members and leading experts across every field to solve society’s toughest problems. These Grand Challenges are the biggest, most collaborative, and potentially most transformative efforts UCLA has undertaken to ...

JOB: Academic Technology Librarian, North Carolina State University

Sep

8

2016

From the announcement: The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Academic Technology Librarian. The Information Technology Department includes 22 staff across four units: Technology Services; Enterprise Operations; Academic Technology; and Discovery Systems and Applications. The department is critical to the Libraries’ success in charting a new path for research libraries, with ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Developer, Columbia University Libraries

Sep

8

2016

From the announcement: Columbia University Libraries seeks a collegial, collaborative, and creative Digital Humanities Developer to join our Libraries IT staff. The Digital Humanities Developer will provide technology support for digital humanities-focused projects by evaluating, implementing and managing relevant platforms and applications; the Developer will also analyze, transform and/or convert existing humanities-related data sets for ...

RECOMMENDED: The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Ted Underwood

Aug

11

2016

The latest installment of Melissa Dinsman‘s series on the digital humanities for the Los Angeles Review of Books is an interview with Ted Underwood (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). In the conversation, Underwood discusses his dislike of the term “digital humanities,” which he takes to simply indicate “a vague interest in technology,” and notes that ...

POST: There’s a New Whale in Town

Aug

11

2016

Hugh Cayless (Duke University) has written a post introducing CETEIcean, a new JavaScript library he developed with Raff Viglianti (MITH) to display unmodified TEI documents using HTML5: Instead of transforming TEI XML into HTML for rendering in a browser, it does a 1::1 conversion of the XML into HTML Custom Elements. In practice what that ...

POST: Critical Work: Archivists as Maintainers

Aug

11

2016

Hillel Arnold (Rockefeller Archive Center) has shared the text of his talk, “Critical Work: Archivists as Maintainers,” given at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) earlier this month. In it, Arnold considers archivists’ “invisibility problem” alongside recent work in maintenance theory to respond to “the imbalance of prestige, power and ...

RESOURCE: Planning a Digital Scholarship Center Report (CNI)

Aug

11

2016

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has posted Planning a Digital Scholarship Center 2016[pdf], the report of the May 2016 workshop by the same name organized by CNI and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Authored by Diane Goldenberg-Hart (CNI), the paper includes summaries of presentations by Alison Armstrong (The Ohio State University), Dale Askey ...