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Announcement: Far-reaching “Hydra-in-a-Box” Joint Initiative Funded by IMLS

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Stanford University, and the DuraSpace organization are pleased to announce that their joint initiative has been awarded a $2M National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Nicknamed Hydra-in-a-Box, the project aims foster a new, national, library network through a community-based repository system, enabling discovery, interoperability and reuse of digital […]

By: DPLA
News, Resources

Resource: Text Data from the Archive

During graduate school I visited my fair share of archives. Living on funds dispensed from the FAFSA gods in combination with whatever part-time job I had, I often found myself hard-pressed to pony up money for photocopies. Somewhere along the line I got smarter and started using a point and shoot camera to gather as much primary […]

By: Thomas
News, Reports

Report: Authors Alliance Guide to Rights Reversion

Yesterday I was fortunate to be able to attend a session offered by the Authors Alliance that was hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. As part of this session the Alliance announced the availability of a new guide that covers issues around rights reversion for authors who have published books. The presentation placed this […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Library Programmer, Librarian I at Michigan State University

Michigan State University is recruiting a Digital Library Programmer, Librarian I. Reporting to the Head of the Digital and Multimedia Center, we are looking for a creative Librarian who will plan, code, test, and implement technologies and systems that promote and advance the Library’s mission of preservation, creation, transmission and application of knowledge. As part […]

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Resource: Extracting Structured Data From Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields

[…]Until recently, the collection and maintenance of this structured data was a completely manual process. For years, overnight contractors have entered recipes, dropdown by dropdown, into a gray and white web form that lives in our content management system (CMS). Since the database breaks down each ingredient by name, unit, quantity and comment, an average […]

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Report: CSDH/SCHN Cyberinfrastructure Conversations Summary

From the report: We are posting here a high-level summary of the outcome of a series of conversations regarding the CFI Cyberinfrastructure Initiative among Canadian Digital Humanists. The conversations emerged from CSDH/SCHN consultations that began in the Spring of 2014. The document tries to reflect the priorities and areas of emphasis that have emerged from these […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Production Coordinator at Northeastern University

From the announcement: The Digital Production Coordinator works closely with the Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Publishing to support the growth and success of the library’s new digital publishing program. S/he manages a variety of projects, working both with born-digital objects and with physical materials, to produce high-quality digital publications in multiple formats. S/he […]

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Resource: GIS and Geospatial Data Tools

From the post: A little bit of knowledge about GIS and geospatial visualization goes a long way, and is useful across a variety of disciplines, including social sciences, business, humanities and environmental studies and sciences.   If you are into open data (who isn’t?) and you like maps and / or data visualization (who doesn’t?!) […]