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JOB: Metadata Description Author (White House Historical Association)

Mar

5

2015

From the announcement: The White House Historical Association is seeking a Metadata Description Author to work as part of the Digital Library team at the David M. Rubenstein Center for White House History. Primary duties will include identifying digital and analog images and researching their provenance and content in order to produce metadata and writing ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship & Publishing Librarian, University of South Florida

Mar

5

2015

From the announcement: Building on the current University of South Florida Library program in open-access publishing, digital scholarship, and data management, this position will coordinate scholarly communications activities across the campus and help guide the campus toward innovative and sustainable methods of dissemination and preservation of scholarly output. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through a ...

CFP: “How did they make that?” Section for DH Commons Journal

Feb

12

2015

The DHCommons journal has announced a new section “dedicated to procedural descriptions of how to launch and/or maintain an exemplary aspect of a stable digital project,” which will be edited by Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University Libraries). The journal seeks submissions of 600-1000 words that will be peer-reviewed and published alongside an interview with the author ...

OPPORTUNITY: DPLA + DFL Cross-Pollinator Travel Grants

Feb

12

2015

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) have announced a new program to “to engage DLF community members and connect them to exciting areas of growth and opportunity at DPLA” by facilitating attendance at the upcoming DPLAfest, which will take place April 17-18, 2015, in Indianapolis. The purpose of ...

RESOURCE: #c4l15 URLs (as mentioned in Twitter)

Feb

12

2015

The Code4Lib conference is wrapping up today in Portland, Oregon. To help keep track of all the tools and projects mentioned in the conference tweets, Ed Summers (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) experimented with making a web app that “will watch the Twitter stream for #c4l15 tweets, and keep track of which URLs people ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Maryland Institute College of Art

Feb

12

2015

From the announcement: Maryland Institute College of Art is currently accepting applications for a full-time Digital Initiatives Librarian. The Digital Initiative Librarian provides expertise in creating and managing library digital collections, such as digital special collections, electronic theses, and other born-digital or retrospectively digitized materials. This librarian participates in the planning, implementation, maintenance, expansion, communication ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Rochester Institute of Technology

Feb

12

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Initiatives Librarian works collaboratively to: assess and implement initiatives related to digital content in the library, archives and special collections; develop and implement digital preservation strategies and policies, develop new digital library offerings; outreach to the campus on the library’s digital and open access projects and services; advance infrastructure supporting ...

RECOMMENDED: State of the Union—and Corpus Comparison

Jan

22

2015

In advance of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, Benjamin Schmidt (Northeastern University) and Mitch Fraas (University of Pennsylvania) created a series of interactive graphics for The Atlantic that allow readers to explore the State of the Union addresses of every U.S. president: The Language of the State of the Union and Mapping the State ...

RESOURCE: Provoke! Digital Sound Studies

Jan

22

2015

Initiated by the Soundbox Project at Duke University, Provoke! is an online collection of digital projects in sound studies that “creates a home for creative-critical projects by makers, documentary artists, and sound scholars whose work presses at the boundaries of scholarship.” Designed to “privilege the auditory experience,” editors Darren Mueller, Mary Caton Lingold, and Whitney Trettien ...

OPPORTUNITY: Scalar Webinars

Jan

22

2015

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture has announced the spring schedule of free webinars for learning Scalar, an open source multimodal publishing platform. Scalar enables authors to incorporate multimedia content from a variety of sources into their own content using a system of “paths” and “tags” to create digital publications: Paths are linear sequences of ...

JOB: English Literature and Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Notre Dame

Jan

22

2015

From the announcement (also available as a pdf): RESPONSIBILITIES: Serves as the primary liaison to faculty, students and researchers in the Department of English. S/he works closely with these scholars and others concerned with the study of English Literature to insure the Libraries have the resources and services needed for successful research and learning. In ...