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OPPORTUNITY: Nominations Sought for DLF Advisory Committee

Dec

10

2013

From the Digital Library Federation (DLF) blog: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is seeking nominations for appointments to the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Advisory Committee. The committee advises the DLF director on matters relating to program activity and initiatives, budget, and strategy. Members serve three-year terms, with the possible option to renew ...

RESOURCE: Encouraging Digital Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities: White Paper

Nov

5

2013

The University Press of North Georgia has released the final white paper from its NEH-funded project, “Encouraging Digital Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities” [pdf]. In addition to going over the design of the project and the conclusions to be drawn, the paper attends to areas of common interest for “libraries, presses, faculty, and administrators,” and includes ...

RESOURCE: Methods and Models for Building Capacity in Digital Cultural Heritage

Nov

5

2013

Ethan Watrall (Associate Director of Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Michigan State University) recently gave a talk at the HumLab at Umeå University in Sweden, in which he discusses MSU’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative. In “Methods and Models for Building Capacity in Digital Cultural Heritage,” Watrall differentiates the term “cultural heritage informatics” from “digital ...

POST: Authors Guild v. HathiTrust: Oral Argument on Appeal

Nov

5

2013

Kenneth Crews (Director, Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia University) has shared his notes from the October 30th appellate hearing of the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case. As Crews notes in an earlier post on the original ruling, the case has important implications for fair use in libraries: [T]he judge ruled on motions for summary judgment, finding ...

POST: Topic Modeling Archival Materials

Nov

5

2013

Thomas Padilla (Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has written a brief post on using Topic Modeling Tool to aid with archival arrangement and description. Padilla reviews a test application of the popular text analysis technique to the Carl Woese Papers, finding that: The University Archives’ application of topic modeling to the electronic ...

JOB: Open Rank Faculty Position in Digital Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nov

5

2013

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have listed an Open Rank Faculty Position in Digital Humanities. From the announcement: GSLIS seeks to hire an outstanding full-time faculty member to join our iSchool. We are particularly interested in candidates specializing in the digital humanities, but strong ...

POST: Useful Resource on Digital Exhibits

Oct

15

2013

Laurie N. Taylor (Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Florida) calls attention to recent efforts by the Ohio State University Libraries to examine their digital exhibits pilot project (full report available here [docx]). Taylor notes: The report is well worth reading because it details the process, including goals, findings from the process, and next steps; this includes a ...

POST: Why Digital Literacy Should Include Privacy Education

Oct

15

2013

In a new post, Jessamyn West, librarian and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, responds to a recent article, published by the New America Foundation, about incorporating discussions of privacy into digital literacy training. West’s post highlights some of the more salient points of the article, “Joining the Surveillance Society? New Internet Users in ...

POST: Notes from the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary

Oct

15

2013

Inna Kouper has shared her summary from the second bi-annual Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary that took place in September in Washington, D.C. (a meeting we’ve featured previously on dh+lib). In reviewing the keynotes, she observes: This new evidential culture requires better documentation and provenance and more effective techniques of data collection, sharing and re-use. And how ...

CFP: Now Accepting Proposals for CNI Fall Meeting

Oct

15

2013

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is now accepting proposals for project briefings at its next membership meeting, December 9-10 in Washington, D.C. Project briefings are 45-minute or 1-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a hot topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational project related to digital information. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. The ...

JOB: Research/Scholarship Initiatives Manager at Columbia University

Oct

15

2013

From the announcement: The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) (cdrs.columbia.edu), a division of the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS), seeks a full-time Research/Scholarship Initiatives Manager. Reporting to CDRS’ director, this newly created position will be responsible for devising, implementing, and leading outreach activities promoting CDRS’ digital projects, the institutional repository, and scholarly communication ...