From the announcement: The workshops will be taught by experienced XML instructors and developers Matthew Gibson, director of digital initiatives at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Christine Ruotolo, digital services manager for humanities and social sciences at the University of Virginia Library. Source: Workshops on XML and Library…
From the Report: The NMC Horizon Report > 2015 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 12th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative…
From the job announcement: The Digital Learning & Scholarship Librarian (DLSL) position is a non-supervisory position that reports to the Digital Learning & Scholarship Team Leader. The DLSL will vision and execute the future for the digital initiatives of the Library, including the institutional repository, data management and digitization best practices. The candidate is expected…
MicroMappers combines crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to make sense of “Big Data” for Social Good. Why artificial intelligence (AI)? Because regular crowdsourcing alone is no match for Big Data. The MicroMappers platform can already be used to crowdsource the search for relevant tweets as well as pictures, videos, text messages, aerial imagery and soon satellite imagery. The next step is therefore to add…
Hoping to remedy pervasive and often crippling uncertainty among artists and art professionals over how and when to invoke fair use when dealing with copyrighted materials, the College Art Association (CAA) has released a “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use.” Spearheaded by American University professors and copyright law experts Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi,…
From the job announcement: The University of Georgia Libraries seeks a University Archives and Electronic Records Archivist who will be responsible for the development and management of the University Archives, the historical records of the University of Georgia, and the University Records Management program, which handles official university records as prescribed by state-wide guidelines. This…
From the announcement: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland is seeking two PhD students for its new international research project “Fragmentarium –laboratory for digital manuscript research.“ The successful candidates will have a degree in medieval history, auxiliary historical sciences, medieval Latin or medieval philosophy; will have experience in manuscriptresearch; will have a good command of Latin;…
From the announcement: The CrossRef Taxonomy Interest Group is a collaboration among publishers, and sponsored by CrossRef, to share the Knowledge Models they are using, creating opportunities for standardization, collaboration and interoperability. Please join the webinar to get an introduction to the work this group is doing, use cases for the information collected and learn…
From the announcement: The University of St. Thomas is recruiting a Libraries Web Developer. The incumbent serves as the chief technical expert in developing and maintaining the Libraries’ digital presence, including the website and associated applications; formatting of the e-resource management and discovery tools; database, subject guide, and scheduling applications; institutional repositories and finding aids; interlibrary…
From the CFP: Deadline for Submissions – March 9, 2015 The DHCommons Journal seeks submissions for a section dedicated to procedural descriptions of how to launch and/or maintain an exemplary aspect of a stable digital project. We encourage you to emphasize in your submission a component of the project that came out particularly well and/or…