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Resource: Software Studies: Guide to visualizing image and video collections

The guide describes the techniques used in our Software Studies Lab to explore large image and video sets. The guide covers the following operations (software used is in brackets): – Download and setup free ImageJ software used to prepare images and video for visualizations, and create visualizations. – Automatically detect shots in a video (shotdetect). […]

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Job: Sr. Prof. Research Assistant in Digital Curation, U. of Colorado

We are seeking to hire a Sr. Professional Research Assistant (research fellow) with a degree in Library and/or Information Science, or an arts, humanities or social science discipline in which the candidate has acquired significant research and practical expertise in the area of digital curation. The ideal candidate should provide evidence of past practical experience […]

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Resource: Nature Publishing Group release Linked Data Platform

The Linked Data Platform provides access to datasets from NPG published as linked data and made available through SPARQL services. The data are queryable interactively through a form interface and remotely through a service endpoint. NPG is making available a number of datasets for public access as linked data. These include data about articles published […]

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Report: Towards a Dynamic Linked Data Observatory (PDF)

We describe work-in-progress on the design and methodology of the Dynamic Linked Data Observatory : a framework to monitor Linked Data over an extended period of time. The core goal of our work is to collect frequent, continuous snapshots of a subset of the Web of Data that is interesting for further study and experimentation, […]

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Job: Digital Library Programmer at Brown University

The Brown University Library is recruiting a Digital Library Programmer. The Digital Library Programmer manages the library’s Fedora implementation and other digital collection management tools; develops the digital repository environment in accordance with the Open Archive Information System reference model; administers the repository’s overall architecture; develops, maintains and integrates Institutional Repository tools with Fedora; implements […]

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Resource: Tooling Up for Digital Humanities

This web site is designed to be a starting place, an entryway for scholars interested in beginning to explore the possibilities for digital tools, programs, and methods to empower and enhance their scholarship in the humanities. These essays and links are only a brief glimpse into the vast field of potential in the digital humanities, […]