Interview of Bryan Alexander by Howard Rheingold What does it mean to read on a Kindle, to read on an iPad, to read on a phone? Are we in the era of social reading, where you and I can read the same book, and then share annotations through the web or through mutual devices? Trying […]
DIGITAL LIBRARY DEVELOPER · Human Resources · Lafayette College. This position requires strong web programming experience, preferably in a Linux environment (including Mac OSX). Applicants should be comfortable working with technologies like Apache, Tomcat, PHP, Java, JavaScript, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL. Experience with some of the following required: Database architecture and design Agile and text-driven software […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition. The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative have released the NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition.
Yale University Library News: Library Job Opportunity: Head, Digital Projects & Metadata Archives. Head, Digital Projects & Metadata Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University Library Rank: Librarian I-III
Call for Articles: “The History and Future of the 19th-Century Book,” GRAMMA Special Issue (2013) « The Hoarding. For the 2013 volume of Gramma on the history and future of the book with a focus on British and American 19th-century literary materials, papers are invited on the following or related areas: book production and publishing […]
Weave for visualization development. Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment, or Weave for short, is open source software intended for flexible visualization. Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency […]
Maintaining the ability of an organisation or user to be able to “open” or “render” a file or set of files is one of the core digital preservation challenges. This report outlines the results of research investigating whether changes are introduced to the information that is presented to users when files are rendered in different […]
The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) has a vacancy for a Digital Archivist for a fixed term of two years, commencing immediately. The post will involve accessioning, mounting, and indexing of data collections, validation of data and conversion into preferred formats; curation and migration of digital collections; design and development of user interfaces; and discussion and […]
EEBO Interactions offers a unique venue for scholarly dialogue about bibliographical matters. Though it describes itself as a “social network for Early English Books Online,” it might be more accurate to think of it as a site for asynchronous conferencing about bibliographical matters. A broad range of readers–Proquest editors, graduate students, theologians, literary scholars, historians, […]
“Landscape turns” and “spatial turns” are referred to throughout the academic disciplines, often with reference to GIS and the neogeography revolution that puts mapping within the grasp of every high-school student. By “turning” we propose a backwards glance at the reasons why travelers from so many disciplines came to be here, fixated upon landscape, together. […]
