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POST: Visualize It: Uncertainty

Mar

22

2018

In a post at Hack Library School entitled “Visualize It: Uncertainty,” Sarah Davis discusses Alberto Cairo’s work in representing uncertainty in data visualization. Davis highlights Cairo’s treatment of “graphicacy,” and what creators of visualizations might assume about their audiences and the skills and attention they bring. It is easy it is to jump to conclusions in ...

POST: DLF Joins Library Publishing Coalition as Strategic Affiliate

Mar

22

2018

The Digital Library Foundation announced last week that it will become a Strategic Affiliate to the Library Publishing Coalition. DLF is pleased to join the Library Publishing Coalition in promoting research and supporting vibrant digital publishing practices as a strategic affiliate. Central to DLF’s mission is advancing research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative ...

CFP: BitCurator Users Forum 2018

Mar

22

2018

The BitCurator Consortium will hold its BitCurator Users Forum 2018, Living on the Edge: Extending Digital Forensics into New Sectors September 13-14 at the University of California, Los Angeles. From the call for proposals: As cultural heritage institutions borrow and adapt forensic techniques from criminal investigation, repurposing these context-specific forensic tools raises new questions and possibilities ...

CFP: Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018)

Mar

22

2018

Department of Language and Information Sciences (SLI) at the University of Lausanne is organizing a Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities to take place June 4-5, 2018. From the call: The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers involved with computational approaches in the humanities with the objective of stimulating the research ...

OPPORTUNITY: Mentors Needed for Spectrum Scholars

Mar

22

2018

In a post on the ACRL Insider, David Connolly (ACRL) announced an opportunity for librarians to mentor a member of this year’s major cohort ALA Spectrum Scholar through the ACRL Dr. E.J. Josey Spectrum Scholar Mentor Program. Mentors will be responsible for: contacting the Spectrum Scholar on a regular basis (averaging at least once a month is ...

JOB: Head of Preservation and Digitization, Washington University in St. Louis

Mar

22

2018

From the announcement: Under the direction of the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections Services Division, is responsible for the development and operation of a library-wide, comprehensive preservation and digitization program. Leads and manages all preservation/conservation and digitization efforts, including the management of general and special collection care and digitization activities, preservation/digitization lab and services, ...

JOB: Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Albany

Mar

22

2018

From the announcement: The University at Albany Libraries seek an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, creative librarian to serve as Scholarly Communication Librarian. This position reports to the Director of Scholarly Communication/Head, Dewey Graduate Library. Responsibilities: Develops and implements a program and policies to provide data management plan consultation services and coordinate data curation Provides outreach to faculty ...

POST: Parsimony and Elegance as Objectives for Digital Curation Processes

Mar

15

2018

Trevor Owens (Library of Congress) has written a thoughtful post introducing some themes around simplicity and complexity in digital preservation, in the context of maintenance, repair and an ethics of care. In “Parsimony and Elegance as Objectives for Digital Curation Processes,” Owens positions “unnecessary complexity” as a threat to sustainability while framing minimalism as the ...

POST: Reflections on Code4Lib 2018

Mar

15

2018

The ACRL Techconnect blog has published “Reflections on Code4Lib 2018,” featuring contributions from Ashley Blewer, Bohyun Kim, and Eric Phetteplace. The three authors each discuss presentations that resonated with them, and helpfully link out to recordings and slides when available. Brewer, discussing Amy Wickner’s presentation on web archives, notes: Wickner, citing Terry Cook, spoke of ...

POST: Moving Ahead with Support for Digital Humanities

Mar

15

2018

Quinn Dombrowski (University of California, Berkeley) and Joan Lippincott (Coalition for Networked Information) have published an article in the Educause Review introducing ways library and IT departments can develop comprehensive support for digital humanities at the campus level. “Moving Ahead with Support for Digital Humanities” summarizes a recent Educause/CNI whitepaper, Building Capacity for Digital Humanities: ...

RESOURCE: A Digital Humanities Reading List, Part 4 – The Role of Libraries

Mar

15

2018

LIBER‘s (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group closes out their “Digital Humanities Reading List” series with a fourth and final post on the role of libraries: This theme examines a challenging question: what is the role of libraries in digital humanities? ...