We are seeking an innovative and forward-looking leader to advance the mission and strategic objectives of HathiTrust, a growing partnership of research and academic libraries that are working together to ensure permanent access to the record of human knowledge. The Executive Director serves as the chief executive officer of HathiTrust and is responsible for the […]
To design, develop, maintain and enhance the systems that support the activities of the Texas Digital Library (TDL). TDL provides digital repository software to academic libraries, manages, maintains codebase for the Thesis and Dissertation Management Systems, and develops code toward digital asset preservation. View job here.
The one-covers-all approach in current metadata standards for scientific data has serious limitations in keeping up with the ever-growing data. This paper reports the findings from a survey to metadata standards in the scientific data domain and argues for the need for a metadata infrastructure. The survey collected 4400+ unique elements from 16 standards and […]
Summary: in this post I talk about an experimental semantic website for describing what I’m calling ‘research context’, wondering if such as site can be used as a ‘source of truth’ for metadata entry, for example when someone is uploading a file into a research data repository. The post assumes some knowledge of linked data […]
By gathering scholars experienced on digital research, the first goal of this conference is examining the use of databases, Geographical Information Systems, sound recordings, online storage, and other digital tools to maximize collaborative research, education, and outreach for African Diaspora Studies.
Proposals are encouraged on any topic related to museums creating, facilitating, delivering or participating in culture, science and heritage through networked technologies – wherever the network may reach.
The Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADP) II Action Assembly will align digital preservation efforts internationally between communities—including national libraries, academic libraries, public libraries, research centers, archives, corporations, and funding agencies.
Using a Slashdot-style system of user engagement, DHThis gives registered users the opportunity to upvote and downvote articles and provide karma points that reward commenters that are helpful towards the community’s needs.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries are recruiting a Digital Projects Specialist. The successful candidate will have experience working with digital collections and digital tool development in an academic library setting, and have a familiarity with common programming, web development and/or database languages such as PHP, MySQL, XSLT, JSON, and Javascrip.
Coordinates development of content, writes web pages on a range of historical topics, edits text, identifies digitization priorities, and advances website priorities throughout the Research and Historical Interpretation Division.
