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CFP: 2017 LITA Forum

Apr

20

2017

The 2017 Forum of the Library Information and Technology Association will be held in Denver, Colorado from November 9-12, 2017. From their call for proposals: The Forum Committee welcomes proposals for full-day preconferences, concurrent sessions, workshops, or poster sessions related to all types of libraries: public, school, academic, government, special, and corporate. Collaborative, hands-on, and ...

OPPORTUNITY: 2017-18 Communications Fellowships at ADHO

Apr

20

2017

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has announced a call for applicants for their 2017-18 Communications Fellowships. Two positions are available, and fellows will: … write news releases, blog posts, and announcements about ADHO, its constituent organizations, and the broader digital humanities community; monitor and update ADHO’s social media presence; maintain its website; help ...

RESOURCE: “What Constitutes Peer Review of Data: A Survey of Published Peer Review Guidelines”

Apr

13

2017

Todd A. Carpenter (National Information Standards Organization) uploaded “What Constitutes Peer Review of Data: A Survey of Published Peer Review Guidelines” to the Cornell University Repository to download. The paper reviews the policies around publication of data sets and how to understand peer review and data sets. Carpenter writes: The process of peer review of articles ...

POST: DIAGRAM Center Provides Guidance on Accessible Images

Apr

13

2017

George Williams (University of South Carolina, Upstate) authored a post on ProfHacker about a resource he recently learned about during his institution’s project “to get all of our digital pedagogical resources to adhere to federal regulations regarding accessibility,” called the DIAGRAM Center (Digital Image and Graphic Resources for Accessible Materials). Williams highlights some of the most ...

POST: MITH Graphs

Apr

13

2017

Ed Summers (University of Maryland) has published a post on his blog about his collaborations with Matt Kirschenbaum’s Critical Topics in Digital Studies course. The goal of the collaboration between Summers and Kirschenbaum is to “provide a gentle introduction to the use of network analysis, aka graphs, in the digital humanities, while providing the students with some hands ...

JOB: Senior Developer, Scholars Lab, University of Virginia

Apr

13

2017

From the announcement: The Senior Developer will consult with faculty and students to advance research projects and training; evaluate scholarly needs and define project goals for research projects; provide input on appropriate deliverables and reasonable schedules for completion; write, test, and debug original software code for applications that enable scholars and library users to collect, ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Kansas State University

Apr

13

2017

From the announcement: This individual will be responsible for leading efforts to advance Kansas State University Libraries’ unique collections with enhanced discovery through digitization. The incumbent will lead and participate in the strategic development of innovative, scalable, and sustainable digital collections. The individual will lead the Digital Initiatives Unit and directly supervise 2 FTE, coordinate ...

POST: The Realities of Research Data Management

Apr

6

2017

In a post on hangingtogether.org, Brian Lavoie (OCLC) announces the release of “A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space”, the first report in a series entitled “The Realities of Research Data Management” produced by OCLC Research. The series “explores the context and choices research universities face in building or acquiring RDM capacity,” ...

POST: Software Carpentry at the Library of Congress

Apr

6

2017

In a post on The Signal, Kate Zwaard (National Digital Initiative, LOC) reports on the recent Software Carpentry workshop held at the Library of Congress, which hosted 40 “librarians, archivists and data wranglers,” who came together for hands-on learning in the management of digital collections. Software Carpentry is a volunteer, non-profit organization that provides short, ...

POST: Make it Work!: Starting a Makerspace in an Academic Library Phase 2

Apr

6

2017

In a post at the ACRLog, Hannah Pope (Appalachian State University) follows up on the Makerspace opened in her library late last year (and covered in a previous post). In this second phase, Pope suggests a variety of ways for librarians to welcome and attract users into a space they may not quite know what ...

EVENT: BitCurator Users Forum 2017

Apr

6

2017

The BitCurator Users Forum 2017, on the theme of Digital Forensics: The Academic Library and Beyond, will take place April 27 and 28 at Northwestern University. The full program has been released and registration is open. More on the event: Day 1 of the Forum will consist of two workshop tracks focusing on digital forensics ...