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JOB: Digital Collections Program Manager, Harvard University

May

11

2017

From the position announcement: Harvard Library seeks a skilled, innovative, and collaborative professional to serve as Digital Collections Program Manager at Houghton Library. The incumbent leads, coordinates, participates in, and/or collaborates on a series of initiatives and activities designed to build digital collections that facilitate access to and discovery of the library’s holdings, as well ...

JOB: Global Digital Humanities Librarian, Ohio State University

May

11

2017

Here’s an excerpt from the position announcement: The Resident will serve as the Global Digital Humanities Librarian for the Research Services and Area Studies programs that lead the Libraries in creating new, engagement-centered research service models based in cross-university partnerships, user-oriented assessment, and long-standing success in advancing information literacy. As a member of the Research ...

POST: Automating Digital Archival Processing at Johns Hopkins University (post updated)

May

11

2017

Elizabeth England and Eric Hanson (both Johns Hopkins University) have authored a guest post on the Signal blog about the project England in working on during her National Digital Stewardship Residency at Johns Hopkins. England manages a digital preservation project focused on “a large backlog (about 50 terabytes) of photographs documenting the university’s born-digital visual history.” ...

POST: High-powered computing: It’s not just for astrophysics anymore

May

11

2017

Compute Canada / Calcul Canada has published,”High-powered computing: It’s not just for astrophysics anymore,” a post reflecting on the use and application of the Voyant tool. The post includes quotations from scholars using Voyant in their research, including Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University) and Susan Brown (University of Guelph; University of Alberta). 200,000 unique visitors a year navigate to Voyant, a free, web-based ...

RESOURCE: Writing an extension to add new GREL functions to OpenRefine

May

11

2017

Owen Stephens (Open University) has authored a post documenting the development of the Google Refine Expression Language (GREL) extension he wrote to add functionality to OpenRefine. [W]hile OpenRefine extensions could be complex, writing one that simply added a new GREL function was quite straightforward with a little boilerplate code and the actual GREL function written in ...

RECOMMENDED: What Libraries Did with Google Books

May

4

2017

Mike Furlough (HathiTrust) has published a storify with his commentary on two recent articles on Google Books, Scott Rosenberg’s “How Google Book Search Got Lost” in Backchannel and James Somers’s “Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria” in The Atlantic. Furlough challenges the articles’ implication that Google Books is a failed project. But we’re still at ...

POST: Open-Access Publishing: What Authors Should Know

May

4

2017

In a post at AHA today, Kritika Agarwal (AHA) interviews William Deverell (Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West) about the publication of his new OA monograph Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900–1941, released in 2016 by the University of California’s Luminos OA imprint. Q. Do you see any clear advantages ...

POST: Zines vs. Google Vision API?—? Part 1: Process

May

4

2017

Matt Miller (Pratt Institute) has written a post on Medium entitled “Zines vs. Google Vision API?—? Part 1: Process,” which details the first phase of a project he has begun with digitized zines from the Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library. Miller discusses the early steps of the project and walks users through the steps of beginning to ...

CFP: Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH)

May

4

2017

The 15th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage will be held in Graz, Austria, September 27-29, 2017. It aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to advance the understanding of critical requirements for processing, managing, and delivering cultural information to a broad audience. A call for papers is currently open. Submission deadlines ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship & UX Design Librarian, Middlebury College

May

4

2017

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship & UX Design Librarian supports and promotes the use of digital research methods within the library and across academic disciplines. The person in this position applies user-centered, universal design principles to digital projects, library web content and printed materials in a team-based work environment. Under the general direction of ...

JOB: Head Curator, Latin American and Caribbean Collection, University of Florida

May

4

2017

From the announcement: The Special and Area Studies Collections Department seeks an experienced leader to provide strategic vision and overall management of a preeminent collection in a dynamic, engaging environment at the University of Florida. The Head Curator of the LACC will contribute to scholarship at the Smathers Libraries in this full-time, tenure-track faculty position. ...