Resource: Digital Preservation, SPEC Kit 325
The Association of Research Libraries has released Digital Preservation, SPEC Kit 325. The table of contents and executive summary are freely available
Category: News
Report: Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies
Note: This is the first in a series of blog posts about Japanese Game Culture and Game Studies. Thanks go to the support of GRAND, The Ritsumeikan Art Research Center and the Japan Foundation.
Job: Digital Humanities Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries
Rutgers University Libraries – Newark Campus RESPONSIBILITIES: The Rutgers University Libraries seek an experienced, innovative, and service-oriented …sla-divisions.typepad.com/…/digital-humanities-librarian-john-…
Resource: Guide to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications
The Digital Curation Centre has released Cite Datasets and Link to Publications.
Report: Decoded Conference 2011: in Review
After last year’s big success, expectations were high for this year’s edition of the decoded conference in Munich, Germany.
Job: Digital Projects Library Manager Position at University of Kentucky Libraries
Job responsibilities include: develop and implement workflow for digital content creation & born digital content acquisition & preservation; facilitate connections and partnerships of faculty and students with librarians & technologists in supporting digital scholarship; collaborate to establish digitization project priorities.
Job: Data Management Librarian at Oregon State University Library
Reporting to the Head of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services, the Data Management Librarian plays a central role in developing services and guidelines in support of scientific data management at Oregon State University.
Resource: Geocoding your data
In many projects, the collection of data results in a list of items whose distribution can be shown spatially. The process of Geocoding assigns a location (or set of locations) to an item of data; perhaps the site of a battle, the source of a text or the home of notable person. Such visualisations allow for new perspectives on the relationships of data , spatial or otherwise
Report: Notes on current issues in Digital Humanities
In July 2011, the Open University held a colloquium called ‘Digital technologies: help or hindrance for the humanities?’, in part to celebrate the launch of the Thematic Research Network for Digital Humanities at the OU. … a workshop was also held at the OU’s Milton Keynes campus on Thursday to discuss some of the key ideas that came from the colloquium and to consider the agenda for the thematic research network. I was invited to present in the workshop, and I’ve shared my notes and some comments below (though of course the spoken version varied slightly)