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Report: The 2012 State of America’s Libraries: A Report from the American Library Association

Academic libraries find themselves embracing new roles in at least two key areas: Publishing. More academic libraries are entering the world of scholarly publishing by creating or expanding services. About half the respondents in a recent survey had (or were developing) library publishing services in order to support change in scholarly publication. Three quarters of […]

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Job: Librarian for Digital Humanities Research – Yale University

Yale University librarians work in libraries across the Central, West, Medical, and Science campuses, to build, manage, and provide access to a rich and unique record of human thought and creativity. They demonstrate flexibility, creativity, and imagination in their work and adapt to and help shape a continuously evolving work environment. Yale librarians provide consistently […]

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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 […]