Tag: HathiTrust

JOB: Principal Metadata Analyst, California Digital Library

From the position description:

The Metadata Analyst reports to the Director, Discovery and Delivery Services Group and will work primarily on the HathiTrust Metadata Management and related systems to provide analysis, reporting, planning and coordination. HathiTrust is a collaborative digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries bringing together the immense collections of partner institutions. The Metadata Analyst will work closely with the HathiTrust technical lead, and with other members of the HathiTrust to recommend, design and implement appropriate metadata schemes for the HathiTrust and other digital library projects.

CFP: HTRC UnCamp 2013 | HathiTrust Digital Library

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is hosting its second UnCamp on September 8-9, 2013, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The UnCamp is “targeted to the digital humanities and informatics tool developers, researchers and librarians, and graduate students,” and is “part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part informational, all structured in the dynamic setting of an un-conference programming format.” Keynote speakers will include Matt Wilkens from Notre Dame and Christopher Warren from Carnegie Mellon.

Registration is $100 and is due by August 31.

POST: Of Fences and Defenses

Kevin Smith (Duke University) has written a post exploring what it means to recognize fair use as a “postitive right” as opposed to an “affirmative defense.” Inspired by the language used in one of the amicus briefs filed in the Authors Guild, Inc. v. Hathi Trust case, Smith concludes:

If we understand fair use as a positive right that creates a boundary limiting the control of rights holders, we ought to be less afraid of exercising it.  After all, we do not fear to walk on a public sidewalk just because some landowner might scream “trespass;” we recognize that rights over land have boundaries and do not shirk from exercising our positive right to use public land.  The argument in this amicus brief points us to a similar confidence when exercising our fair use right.