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POST: Building a Static Website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages

Apr

21

2016

Amanda Visconti (Purdue University) published a lesson that outlines how to build a static webpage with Jekyll and GitHub Pages along with a robust explanation about the benefits of learning to construct static sites (and what they are in contrast to dynamic sites), understanding Jeykll, and engaging with GitHub. Visconti links to excellent documentation across the ...

POST: RightsStatements.org

Apr

21

2016

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Europeana announced the launch of RightsStatements.org, “a collaborative approach to rights statements that can be used to communicate the copyright status of cultural objects”: In this cooperative effort, we have built a flexible system of rights statements that allows our contributing cultural heritage partners, who hold the ...

CFP: Web Archiving and Digital Libraries

Apr

7

2016

The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) extended its conference proposal deadline to April 17, 2016 with notifications sent on May 2, 2016. The organizers welcome posters+lightning talk, demonstrations + lightning talk, presentations, and panel presentations. Areas of interest include: Archiving (events) Big data Classification, clustering Client/proxy/server side collecting Crawling (focused) Curation, quality control Databases ...

JOB: Digital Projects Coordinator, Hunter College

Apr

7

2016

From the announcement: Responsibilities: • Coordinates the implementation of assigned digital projects • Contributes to the development of digital collections. • Enforce best practices for processing, quality control, content management, and preservation of digital collections according to national standards. • Solve problems, answer questions and provide technical solutions to supervisor and staff. • Oversee training ...

JOB: Head Librarian, Digital Scholarship, Boston College

Apr

7

2016

From the announcement: The Head of Digital Scholarship will lead the team and colleagues across the libraries to envision, plan and deliver innovative and sustainable digital research services in concert with student, faculty, and library needs. Through exploration of new technologies, and engagement with digital scholarship and digital library practices, standards and systems, this individual ...

POST: Learning Git to Share More Free Stuff

Apr

7

2016

Jessamyn West (Open Library) wrote a post that eloquently explains git, GitHub, and how they empower users to work on open source projects: In the past we’ve always said that Open Source was great because if you didn’t like something you could change it. However it’s only been recently that the tools to do this ...

POST: RadTech Meets RadArch: Towards A New Principle for Archives and Archival Description

Apr

7

2016

Jarrett M. Drake (Princeton University) wrote up the talk he gave at the 2016 Radcliffe Workshop on Technology & Archival Processing at the Schlesinger Library, “RadTech Meets RadArch: Towards a New Principle for Archives and Archival Description” where he critiques provenance “from appraisal through access.” Challenging the centrality of provenance in archival description, Drake considers its role in ...

RESOURCE: Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015

Apr

7

2016

Ithaka S+R released the 2015 Faculty survey. Deanna Marcum, Ithaka S+R Managing Director reflects on the findings: We find key shifts in the way faculty members are thinking about teaching and learning, with implications for both the university and the support provided by the academic library. We find evidence of ongoing changes in how faculty ...

RESOURCE: Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage

Mar

31

2016

Recordings of the 2016 Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania, given by Matthew Kirshenbaum (University of Maryland), are now available. Given as a series of three talks collectively titled, Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage, Kirschenbaum’s lectures examine “the prospects for archives, public memory, and scholarship” in literature’s digital age: The Transformissions ...

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities, Digital Hegemony: Exploring Funding Practices and Unequal Access in the Digital Humanities

Mar

31

2016

The March 2016 issue of the online newsletter, Computers and Society, includes an article by John D. Martin, III (University of North Carolina) and Carolyn Runyon (University of Tennessee), “Digital humanities, digital hegemony: exploring funding practices and unequal access in the digital humanities.” The abstract is reproduced here: The digital humanities represent, for many researchers, the ...

JOB: Digital Projects Coordinator, Virginia Polytechnic University

Mar

31

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Coordinator manages projects for the newly launched Digital Imaging Service serving the campus as well as regional museums and archives. This position is a key component in a large initiative to develop unique and compelling digital collections for research and education. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to ...