Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Library Access Engineer at Stanford University Libraries

This is a 4-year, fixed-term position in the library’s Digital Library Systems and Services group, with the possibility for renewal. . . .This position will be a key contributor to a dynamic team of technologists, architects and information professionals defining the library of the future. Come work in an agile-inspired, test-driven, team environment, balancing the […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Computational Culture

CFP: Special Issue of Computational Culture on Rhetoric and Computation Rhetoric has historically been a discipline concerned with the ways that spoken and written language shape human activity. Similarly, emerging work in digital media studies (in areas such as software studies, critical code studies, and platform studies) seeks to describe the ways that computation shapes […]

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Job: Digital Humanist (Data Analyst / Web Developer)

The Digital Repository Analyst will assess and compare the capacity of various systems to provide long-term access to digitized news.  Based on this assessment, he/she will play a key role in developing a rational methodology and process for libraries and publishers to collaborate on digitizing newspaper content to ensure broad access, interoperability, and persistence. See […]

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Job: Programmer/Analyst 2 at University of Chicago Library

The University of Chicago Library is recruiting a Programmer/Analyst 2. Programmer/Analyst 2: Works with customers to analyze workflows, develop design specifications, create, modify, implement, customize, test, document and maintain software solutions to support the University of Chicago Library’s digital collections and other library systems for which the DLDC is responsible. See the job ad for […]

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Job: Digital Repository Analyst at Center for Research Libraries

The Digital Repository Analyst will assess and compare the capacity of various systems to provide long-term access to digitized news. Based on this assessment, he/she will play a key role in developing a rational methodology and process for libraries and publishers to collaborate on digitizing newspaper content to ensure broad access, interoperability, and persistence. See […]

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Job: Head of Digital Initiatives at Utah State Univ. Libraries

Utah State University Libraries seeks an innovative, collaborative, and highly organized Head of Digital Initiatives to lead digital collection and scholarly communication services that support the research and teaching needs of the University. Reporting to the Director for Digital and Information Technology, the successful candidate will direct the Libraries’ digital initiatives programs, including the Digital […]

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Announcement: “Emerging Trends in Digital Stewardship” Speakers

As previously announced, the inaugural cohort of National Digital Stewardship Residents will present a symposium titled “Emerging Trends in Digital Stewardship” on April 8, 2014. This event, hosted by the Library of Congress, IMLS, and the National Library of Medicine will be located at the National Library of Medicine’s Lister Hill Auditorium and will consist […]

News, Resources

Resource: Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness

The Educopia Institute has released Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness. (PDF) These Guidelines are an effort to distill preservation-readiness steps into incremental processes that an institution of almost any size or type can deploy to begin maturing its digital newspaper content management practices. Digital Scholarship Overview | DigitalKoans  

News, Resources

Resource: Web Scraping: Working with APIs

APIs present researchers with a diverse set of data sources through a standardised access mechanism: send a pasted together HTTP request, receive JSON or XML in return. Today we tap into a range of APIs to get comfortable sending queries and processing responses. These are the slides from the final class in Web Scraping through […]

News, Resources

Resource: Semantic Web application

This posting outlines the implementation of a Semantic Web application. It is a sort of inference engine feed with a URI and integer, both supplied by a person. Its ultimate goal is to find relationships between URIs that were not immediately or readily apparent. Source: Morgan, Eric Lease: Semantic Web application