The Information Technology Specialist (Data Specialist) provides technical support to the Office of Strategic Initiatives in a wide variety of activities related both to the transfer of digital data from sources outside and inside the Library, and to the movement of data across multiple applications and data stores within the Library.
Ross Mounce, Community Coordinator for Open Science at the Open Knowledge Foundation, presents the best ways to ensure discoverable access to research outputs. He highlights the metadata power of institutional repositories and other services like Zenodo. With a combination of preprint & postprint postings, it is easy to make your research freely available.
The Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and ARL have released a draft of the Shared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) proposal (PDF).
THATCamp Publishing is an opportunity for the publishing community to discuss the practice and trajectory of scholarly communication. Both publishers and readers face the challenges of balancing print and digital methods of development, dissemination, and consumption. Everyone is experimenting new tools, structures, and services. Let’s get together to ask questions, discuss new approaches, share experiences, […]
Prism is a tool for “crowdsourcing interpretation.” Users are invited to provide an interpretation of a text by highlighting words according to different categories, or “facets.” Each individual interpretation then contributes to the generation of a visualization which demonstrates the combined interpretation of all the users. We envision Prism as a tool for both pedagogical […]
OpenDAHT is an initiative aimed at the development, maintenance and provision of digital tools and resources for use within various fields of arts and humanities scholarship. All software supported by OpenDAHT is released as freeware, and in some cases, under open source licensing. OpenDAHT always welcomes new contributors. http://dhnow.org/168zVkH
What is CHORUS? The Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) is a framework for a possible public-private partnership to increase public access to peer-reviewed publications that report on federally-funded research.http://dhnow.org/ZHbCsC
In liaison with the Virtual Mappa Project Team, the Research Associate will work within the Cartographic and Topographical Materials section towards development of content and tools as related to medieval maps and geographic texts. Job Details.
Lots of active historians do digital work, and we should be doing more to connect with one another so that we know about ongoing work and can foster collaboration. So, register yourself, and you can tell us about your work, your ideas, and the ways that you are interacting with other digital historians. Join a […]
The Manager of Digital Initiatives (MDI) will oversee the TNSLA’s (The New School Libraries & Archives) rapidly-expanding collections of unique digital material. Reporting to the director of the Archives & Special Collections unit, the MDI’s responsibilities will include: Manage TNSLA’s digital materials, including digitization projects, metadata capture and creation, and preservation of special digital collections. […]
