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POST: A Linked Data Journey: Proof of Concept

Nov

5

2015

The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Blog has published a post by Jacob Shelby (Iowa State University), “A Linked Data Journey: Proof of Concept.” In this second installment of his series aiming to clarify the concept of Linked Data, Shelby walks through the process of how he created a Linked Data catalog record, including hyperlinks to the completed ...

POST: Ghosts in the Machine

Nov

5

2015

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) has published a post on his blog reflecting on the “materiality and cost” of Holocaust remembrance, following a tour of the USC Shoah Foundation. Weingart ties his interest in acting as his family’s historian and genealogist into a larger reflection on the institutional workings of preservation, particularly in a digital ...

RESOURCE: Presentations from Designing Libraries IV Available Online

Nov

5

2015

CNI announced that the presentations from the Designing Libraries IV conference, held in September at North Carolina State University, are now available online through NCSU Libraries. As the news release states, “There is a wealth of information here on trends in library buildings, technologies, services, and organizational issues.” Sessions that might be of particular interest ...

RESOURCE: American Archive of Public Broadcasting Online Reading Room

Nov

5

2015

The Library of Congress’ blog, The Signal: Digital Preservation has published a guest post by Karen Cariani, Alan Gevinson, and Casey Davis (WGBH), on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s (AAPB) Online Reading Room. The AAPB Online Reading Room is a collaboration between WGBH Educational Foundation and the Library of Congress, and is designed to ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACLS Digital Extension Grant Program

Nov

5

2015

The American Historical Association‘s AHA Today blog highlighted a new grant program from the American Council of Learned Societies‘ (ACLS). The ACLS Digital Extension Grant program is designed to provide “flexible support at the level of the digital research project as opposed to the individual scholar.” This funding can cover a range of project activities, such as: ...

JOB: Open Access and Institutional Repository Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nov

5

2015

From the announcement: UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, sits on nearly 1,450-acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The campus provides a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers. As a ...

JOB: Literatures & Digital Humanities Librarian, University of California, Berkeley

Nov

5

2015

From the announcement: The University of California, Berkeley seeks a collaborative and service-oriented librarian to support world-class research and teaching through the development of the Library’s research collections and engagement with faculty and students associated with scholarship and practices in English and American Literature, comparative literature, and digital humanities. Responsibilities Reporting to the Head of ...

POST: Academia, Not Edu

Oct

29

2015

In “Academia, Not Edu,” a post published on the heels of Open Access Week, Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Modern Language Association) argues that scholars should move away from sharing work on proprietary social networks, proposing disciplinary repositories as more ethical, and ultimately, more viable, alternatives. Likening Academia.edu to Facebook, Fitzpatrick writes: The network, in other words, does ...

POST: Your First Twitter Bot, in 20 Minutes

Oct

29

2015

Peter Organisciak (University of Illinois) has written a short tutorial, “Your First Twitter Bot, in 20 Minutes,” taking readers through the process of creating a twitter account that automatically tweets according to programmatic specifications (a “bot”). To implement a bot usually requires some programming, some data wrangling, and a server. However, it can be easier. ...

RESOURCE: Exactly: A New Tool to Safely Transfer Born Digital Material to the Archive

Oct

29

2015

Doug Boyd (Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky) has written a post offering a “sneak peak” of Exactly, a tool under development by the Nunn Center in partnership with AV Preserve, intended to bring digital preservation concepts of fixity directly to researchers working in oral history. Boyd notes: By the time ...

CFP: Personal Digital Archiving 2016

Oct

29

2015

A call for proposals for the Personal Digital Archiving 2016 conference has been posted on CNI. The conference, which typically draws a wide range of archivists, librarians, scholars, activists, and hobbyists, will take place at the University of Michigan on May 12-14, 2016. Suggested topics include: Personal digital archives and why they matter to individuals, ...