News, Resources

Resource: National Library of Medicine Releases Extensible Markup Language XML for IndexCat™ Data

Data Includes More than 3.7 Million Bibliographic Items Spanning Five Centuries The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, announces that Extensible Markup Language (XML) data from the IndexCat™ database is now available for free download. NLM Releases Extensible Markup Language XML for IndexCat™ Data.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Archive Journal Special Issue “Publishing the Archive”

Archive Journal is now accepting project and essay proposals for the “Archives, Remixed” section of its upcoming fourth issue, “Publishing the Archive.” This issue will examine how technological developments—from discrete digitization projects and databases to linked data and APIs for extensible machine-readability—are changing how we produce and publish archives and archival research. http://www.archivejournal.net/home/submit-to-archive/#CFP Archive Journal – Issue […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Academic Web Developer at Yale University

The Academic Web Developer will work as part of a team of developers and designers with a strong reputation for producing leading edge platforms, websites, and software for digital scholarly projects. DigitalKoans » Blog Archive Academic Web Developer at Yale University » DigitalKoans.

Job Announcements, News

Jobs: Historypin Project Officer Positions (1 in SF, 1 in London)

Historypin Project Officers (POs) work under the leadership of the Operations Director (London), and are supported by our creative team (London) and Strategic Partnerships Director (San Francisco). We take an entrepreneurial approach to our programs and POs have the opportunity to grow and expand their programs based on their own ideas and insights. http://wearewhatwedo.org/vacancies/

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Change Computer History Forever: Well, Here We Are

The Internet Archive is the largest collection of historical software online in the world….  a fully-accessible, worldwide-reachable, massive-bandwidth and completely unrestricted collection of computer history up right now, in these [Internet Archive collections] I’ve just mentioned. Some are mirrors of incredible projects that have been around long before this moment, and let me not diminish […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “From the Version of Record to a Version of the Record”

The opening plenary from CNI’s spring 2013 membership meeting by Herbert Van de Sompel, From the Version of Record to a Version of the Record, is now available on CNI’s two video channels: In the past two decades, scholarly communication has evolved significantly to become mainly digital and network-based. This transition has brought along changes in the […]

News, Reports

Report: Blog Archive “Drowning in Research Data: Addressing Data Management Literacy of Graduate Students” » DigitalKoans

In this paper we will discuss findings from our research study of social sciences and science graduate students’ levels of research data management literacy, which include attitudes and behaviours, and formal and informal education experiences. Using an online survey of Canadian graduate students in the social sciences and science, we were able to reach a […]

News, Resources

Resource: Blog Archive ACRL Makes Entire College & Research Libraries Archive Freely Available » DigitalKoans

“Digitizing the archives of the premier research journal for academic librarianship provides a tremendous new asset for our profession,” said ACRL President Steven J. Bell of Temple University. “Creating and sharing this rich resource demonstrates ACRL’s ongoing commitment to promote and deliver on the promise of open access. It is a treasure trove of content […]