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JOB: Digital Archivist, Harry Ransom Center

Feb

4

2015

From the announcement: This full-time, professional archivist position will lead the stewardship of born-digital archival materials as well as collaborate with staff to develop access methods for born digital materials at the Center. The archivist will also process hybrid manuscript collection and create finding aids using EAD and DACS…Leads the Ransom Center’s ongoing development and ...

POST: Google Earth Pro Is Now Free

Feb

4

2015

Jason B. Jones (Trinity College) has written a post on ProfHacker reflecting on the news that Google Earth Pro is now being offered for free. The Pro version of the software “adds several interesting features, some of which might be more widely interesting: it lets you work with ArcGIS data, access different data layers, batch geocode addresses, print ...

POST: Data Librarianship Educational Resources

Feb

4

2015

Jenny Mullenburg (University of Washington) has authored a post recounting her experience with several online courses that relate to data librarianship and data science. The resources she has compiled are aimed at beginners who are interested in “understanding what data management is, how the library can and should be involved, and what it means to be a ...

CFP: Open Repositories 2015

Dec

18

2014

The International Conference on Open Repositories will hold its tenth conference from 8-11 June 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The program theme is “Looking Back, Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads”: The organizers invite you to review the full call for proposals here: http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/, and to submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2015/ by January 30, 2015. There are ...

CFP: Texas Digital Humanities Conference

Dec

18

2014

The second annual Texas Digital Humanities Conference has issued a call for papers for its second annual conference, to be held April 9-11, 2015, in Arlington, Texas. As the call specifies: “This conference encourages submissions from a broad spectrum of communities: university and K-12 educators, graduate students, and undergrads; museum and archives professionals; library professionals; ...

JOB: Project Manager, UCLA

Dec

18

2014

From the announcement: Half the job will focus on the Digital Ephemera Project, a fascinating effort of the Digital Library Program to collect and organize tweets and other digital ephemera related to the Arab Spring and the Green Revolution. The other 50% will focus on projects to deliver innovative applications and services in the Library’s ...

POST: Big and Small Data in the Humanities

Dec

18

2014

The British Library has shared a recording and transcript of the 2014 British Library Labs Symposium keynote by Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex), “Big and Small Data in the Humanities.” Hitchcock opens his keynote with praise for the British Library Labs project: There are any number of research council initiatives, European funding calls, and twitchy ...

RESOURCE: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Preservation

Dec

18

2014

The International Conference on Digital Preservation has shared iPres 2014: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Preservation under a CC BY 3.0 unported license. iPres 2014 was held October 6-10, in Melbourne, Australia. A preface to the proceedings stated that the conference “was structured around two key strands – research and innovative practice. The purpose ...

RESOURCE: Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments

Dec

18

2014

General Editors Rebecca Frost Davis (St. Edward’s University), Matthew K. Gold (CUNY), Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State University), and Jentery Sayers (University of Victoria) have announced Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments. The project is “an open-access, curated collection of downloadable, reusable, and remixable pedagogical resources for humanities scholars interested in the intersections ...

RESOURCE: JLSC Special Issue, Library Publishing

Dec

18

2014

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication has published a special issue: Library Publishing, featuring selected papers from the 2014 Library Publishing Forum and three practice articles. In their editorial, guest editors Stephanie Davis-Kahl (Illinois Wesleyan University) and Melanie Schlosser (Ohio State University) write: “The issue, in its entirety, provides a current picture of the range of programs ...

RECOMMENDED: Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship

Nov

13

2014

Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) has shared a post, “Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies as an Object Lesson,” based on her recent keynote at the ACRL-Delaware Valley Chapter annual meeting. Porter writes: “I … realized that reuse of data is not new. In fact, it is ancient, and thinking in these ...