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Fellowship: Library Fellow for Digital Curation and Preservation, 2012-2014: Positions Available in the MIT Libraries

Reporting to the Head of Curation and Preservation Services, the activities of this position will span the full life-cycle of digital content management through collaboration with the Institute Archives and Special Collections, Specialized Content and Services, and structured interactions with other key units of the MIT Libraries. Activities include: • Engagement in a range of […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin

Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities Three year contract Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Salary: This appointment will be made on the Department of Education and Skills Lecturer Scale in line with current Government pay policy. Closing Date: 12 noon on Friday, 11th May, 2012 The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Announcement: It’s Preservation Week! How are you celebrating it?

The Library of Congress is holding more educational and informational events this week, including seminars and webinars. If you’re looking for events or activities in your area, ALA’s Preservation Week event mapis a fantastic resource. And if you’re awareness has been raised, you can learn to care for you personal collections at home. Here are some good “starting-out” […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Second NeDiMAH infoviz workshop

Second NeDiMAH infoviz workshop, Call for Participation. Visual Tools and Methods in Digital Humanities: Representing, Reading, and Thinking about Knowledge Creation… 21st of July 2012 in Hamburg alongside the DH conference.   Exploring the shifting intersection between more descriptive and analytical uses of visual components in digital environments and interpretative research tools – we will […]

News, Resources

Resource: Miso: An open source toolkit for data visualisation

Miso: An open source toolkit for data visualisation. Your online visualization options are limited when you don’t know how to program. The Miso Project, a collaboration between The Guardian andBocoup, is an effort to lighten the barrier to entry. While the goal is to build a toolkit that makes visualization easier and faster, the first […]

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Resource: People Mashing: Agile digital preservation and the AQuA Project

People Mashing: Agile digital preservation and the AQuA Project – White Rose Research Online. Manual quality assurance (QA) of digitised content is typically fallible and can result in collections that are marred by a variety of quality and access issues. Poor storage conditions, technology obsolescence and other unforeseen problems can also leave digital objects in […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian, UNC

Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library seeks a knowledgeable, resourceful, and collaborative individual for the position of Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian. The Project Librarian will coordinate activities for the proposed, multi-year grant project, North Carolina Newspapers. In this project, the University Library will lead a collaborative effort […]

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Jobs: Applications Analyst, UNC

APPLICATIONS ANALYST. As a member of the Web Unit in the University Library’s Systems Department, the Applications Analyst provides applications programming, Web development expertise, and technical support for the UNC Library. The primary purpose of this position is to work with content creators to meaningfully express their content in a content management system (CMS). In […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Hurry–Send us Your Ideas for Digital Preservation 2012, July 24-26

Hurry–Send us Your Ideas for Digital Preservation 2012, July 24-26 For the first time we are opening the call for proposals for broad participation.  Any organization with an interest in digital preservation can propose ideas for potential inclusion in the meeting.  We are specifically seeking proposals for posters, 5-minute “lightning talks” and tool demonstrations. Topics of […]

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Resource: How to map with Google Fusion Tables

Google Fusion Tables (GFT) is a freely accessible tool for hosting and managing data tables, as well as creating visualizations and maps online. See the GFT tour and also theGFT Help Page. Requires a free Google account (use a regular Google account; avoid using a limited-access Google Apps account issued by an old school). Goal of this […]