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Resource: Guidelines for a long-term preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata

Guidelines for a long time preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata Authors: Sofie Laier Henriksen, Wiel Seuskens & Gaby Wijers (NIMk)External reviewer: Robert Gillesse (DEN)These Guidelines for a long-term preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata explains how to preserve digital materials such as text, images and video. It gives a theoretical introduction to […]

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Job: Data Visualization Coordinator, Brown University Library

In the fall 2012, the Brown University Library will open a state-of-the-art Digital Scholarship Lab, which will feature a high-resolution tiled video display wall, surround sound, and the ability to interact with the wall using peripheral devices. The Digital Scholarship Lab will provide the facilities for scholars across the disciplines to engage with research data […]

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Report: Value and Benefits of Text Mining

Our friends at the UK JISC have just issued a very useful new report titled “Value and Benefits of Text Mining” which looks at some of the early applications of text mining, particularly in the context of the scholarly literature, and the technical, economic, and legal barriers to large scale use of text mining technologies. […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Seminar: NITLE Seminar on Digital Pedagogy

Tuesday, March 27th, at 10 am PDT / 1 pm EDT You can register here. “As new digital methods of critical analysis reshape academic practices in profound ways, scholars have begun to use digital tools and platforms to rethink their assumptions about what can or should happen in the college classroom. From work in the online […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Making Things in the Digital Humanities

When Off Paper invited me to write a piece on why I make things, I forwarded that same question to people in my field. Marked by my use of “DH,” my field is digital humanities; and in a moment I’ll point to some example work. For now, I should mention that digital humanities (or, for […]

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Job: Digital Project Librarian at University of Texas–Pan American Library

Responsible in managing daily operations related to the digitization, cataloging, classification, and access of archival materials. Creates, manages and organizes digitization projects. Catalogs and classifies digitized print, audio-visual and oral history. Creates and maintains a website for the digitized items. Seeks permission for copyrighted material for digitizing. Works in collaboration with other area libraries and […]

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Resource: Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription

Whenever I talk about crowd-sourced transcription–actually whenever I talk about crowdsourced anything–the first question people ask is about accuracy. Nobody trusts the public add to an institution’s data/meta-data, nor especially to correct it. However, quality control over data entry is a well-explored problem, and while I’m not familiar with the literature from industry regarding commercial […]

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CFP: mLearn 2012: Call for Workshops and Tutorials

Mobile technologies are a vibrantly developing and constantly create new challenges for education and learning in a wide range of contexts and settings. In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2012) in Helsinki, Finland we are delighted to announce the unique opportunity for holding a limited number of scientific […]

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Job: Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Digital Media and Digital Cultures at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts is seeking applicants for a unique Tier I Canada Research Chair position. The successful candidate will pursue outstanding research exploring impacts of human and social factors on the design, development, distribution, and/or reception of digital media technologies. While excelling in his/her own particular field of expertise, the successful […]

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Resource: Over 100 Incredible Infographic Tools and Resources

I love a good infographic! After all, knowledge is power and the visualization of data makes absorbing information all the easier. Well-designed infographics have a way of pulling me into a subject I’d normally never care to know about. As a designer I can attest to the crazy amount of time it takes to make […]