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POST: Creating Themes in Omeka 2.0

Sep

3

2013

Margaret Heller (Digital Services Librarian, Loyola University) has written a brief introduction to creating custom themes in Omeka 2.0 on the ACRL TechConnect blog. For libraries that already have Omeka installed, have access to the code, and have multiple groups requesting Omeka sites, creating a theme template can be a useful way to scale what your library ...

EVENT: 2013 NFAIS Annual Humanities Roundtable

Sep

3

2013

A meeting of the National Federation of Advanced Information Studies (NFAIS) Humanities Roundtable will take place in Chicago on September 30th. According to the organizers, this year’s event “offers a chance to learn from active leaders in the field about projects in the digital humanities, content enrichment and linked data, assessing usage and user behavior ...

POST: Crowdsourcing Best Practices for Experimental Journals: Transparency

Sep

3

2013

Drawing on her recent experience working with the Journal of Digital Humanities, Adeline Koh (Assistant Professor of Literature, Stockton College) has invited input on best practices for increasing transparency in the publication process for academic journals. Starting with ideas offered by Roopika Risam and Scott Weingart, Koh seeks to develop practices that take into consideration ...

CFP: Help to Pick Panels for the 2014 South By Southwest Conference

Sep

3

2013

As Butch Lazorchak (Library of Congress) points out in a recent post on The Signal: SXSW has now become so popular that the jockeying for presentation slots now commences months before the conference. The process of choosing panels includes a crowd-sourced aspect called the Panelpicker that engages the public to vote on the panels they’d be more interested in ...

POST: How Did They Make That?

Sep

3

2013

Miriam Posner has crafted a useful introduction to some exemplary digital humanities projects, outlining the tools and technology used to create each and giving helpful pointers to resources for getting started with them. She writes: Many students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of ...

JOB: Digital Projects Specialist, UWM Libraries

Sep

3

2013

From the announcement: UWM Libraries seeks an energetic, knowledgeable, and technologically capable individual to serve as a Digital Projects Specialist. This position supports resource and digital collection development in the Library’s Digitization Department. The department has been building digital collections drawn from the Library’s unique collections in Archives, Special Collections and the American Geographical Society Library ...

JOB: Technology Specialist, Digital Public Library of America

Aug

27

2013

The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la) seeks a Technology Specialist to join its growing team and to further DPLA’s mission to bring together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to all. A belief in this mission and the drive to accomplish it over time in a collaborative ...

JOB: Director of Technology, Digital Public Library of America

Aug

27

2013

The Digital Public Library of America seeks a Director of Technology to lead its digital infrastructure and technology staff, and to further DPLA’s mission to bring together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to all. A belief in this mission and the drive to accomplish it over time in ...

CFP: Call for Papers: International Data Curation Conference

Aug

27

2013

From the announcement: “The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) brings together data and information creators, managers, users, researchers, and teachers. The IDCC14 Programme Committee invites submissions to the 9th International Digital Curation Conference that reflect our conference theme.This year the IDCC will focus on how data-driven developments are changing the world around us, recognising that ...

RESOURCE: NCSU Harvests Instagram Photos of Their Library with Open Source Tool

Aug

26

2013

North Carolina State University released a new, open source tool that harvests Instagram images that use the hashtag #HuntLibrary. Initially created to collect images for a Library Journal supplement about Library by Design, the project evolved into a larger community building effort that resulted in more than 2500 images added to the collection. “NCSU Libraries ...

POST: No Holds Barred Advice from Tom Scheinfeldt

Aug

26

2013

Tom Scheinfeldt shares some thoughts about how he evaluated a “venerable cultural heritage institution’s” digital program. Scheinfeldt’s appraisal offers cultural heritage institutions a useful roadmap for considering what digital programs need to be successful and relevant, such as an integrated social strategy and mobile strategies. Above all, Scheinfeldt reminds us that “Digital is not a revenue ...