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Job: Manager of Digital Initiatives at New School Libraries & Archives

By the Editors | June 6, 2013

The Manager of Digital Initiatives (MDI) will oversee the TNSLA’s (The New School Libraries & Archives) rapidly-expanding collections of unique digital material. Reporting to the director of the Archives & Special Collections unit, the MDI’s responsibilities will include: Manage TNSLA’s digital materials, including digitization projects, metadata capture and creation, and preservation of special digital collections. [...]

Job: Digital Repository Specialist at Purdue University Libraries

By the Editors | June 6, 2013

Purdue University Libraries seeks a highly motivated, intellectually curious, and reliable Digital Repository Specialist to support the creation of unique digital collections in Purdue University Libraries. Responsibilities of the Digital Repository Specialist will be split between the development of Human-Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) Central, (a grant-funded online resource focused on the health benefits of [...]

Resource: GitHub for Academics: the open-source way to host, create and curate knowledge

By the Editors | June 6, 2013

One of the chief goals of liberal education is the creation and curation of human knowledge. As I discussed in my previous article, this necessarily involves critiquing and building on the work of others, and doing so publicly and accessibly. How can we as a community of scholars facilitate this work? How can a scholar or [...]

Job: Digital Content Specialist at National Archives and Records Administration

By the Editors | June 6, 2013

This position is responsible for assignments designed to manage and extend NARA’s collaborations with Wikipedia/Wikimedia and related projects. There may also be involvement in activity on other social media and online access platforms depending on NARA’s participation, collaborations, and projects as directed. To support these efforts, the Office of Innovation develops, maintains and coordinates: the [...]

Resource: Crowdsourcing + Machine Learning: Nicholas Woodward at TCDL

By the Editors | June 4, 2013

Hi. My name is Nicholas Woodward, and I am a Software Developer for the University of Texas Libraries. Ben Brumfield has been so kind as to offer me an opportunity to write a guest post on his blog about my approach for transcribing large scanned document collections that combines crowdsourcing and computer vision. I presented [...]

Job: Director, Digital Humanities Seed Lab, Arizona State U.

By the Editors | June 4, 2013

The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) seeks an Administrative Professional to serve as Director of the Digital Humanities Seed Lab. The successful candidate will work closely with the IHR Director, Digital Humanities Advisory Board, and staff to conceptualize and implement an ASU-wide initiative on digital humanities research. The successful candidate will draw upon previous training/ [...]

Conference: CURATEcamp Exhibition: Exhibition in and of the Digital Age

By the Editors | June 4, 2013

Alongside this year’s Digital Preservation 2013 meeting, I am excited to announce that we will also be playing host to a CURATEcamp unconference focused on exploring the idea of exhibition. For those unfamiliar with unconferences, the key idea is that the participants define the agenda and that there are no spectators, everyone who comes should plan on actively participating in and [...]

Job: Lead Academic Programmer position available at UCLA

By the Editors | June 4, 2013

Reporting to the Academic Technology Manager, the Lead Academic Programmer architects and writes code for humanities and digital humanities projects, and provides project management and development team oversight for designated projects. This includes three primary areas: web development, instructional programming, and faculty-driven digital research projects. The incumbent works with faculty and other campus partners to [...]

Conference: Digital Preservation 2013

By the Editors | June 4, 2013

Registration is now open for Digital Preservation 2013, the annual meeting of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). Taking place on July 23-25 in Alexandria, VA, the conference is free but seats are limited. The first two days feature a great lineup of speakers, including [...]

Report: “The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer: The Effect of Open Access on Cites to Science Journals Across the Quality Spectrum”

By the Editors | June 4, 2013

An open-access journal allows free online access to its articles, obtaining revenue from fees charged to submitting authors. Using panel data on science journals, we are able to circumvent some problems plaguing previous studies of the impact of open access on citations. We find that moving from paid to open access increases cites by 8% [...]

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