Resource: Guide to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications
The Digital Curation Centre has released Cite Datasets and Link to Publications.
Category: News
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)
Resource: Negative and Slide Digitization: Establishing Spatial Resolution Requirements for Digitizing Transmissive Content
CFP: Radical Histories in Digital Culture (Radical History Review, Number 117)
Radical Histories in Digital Culture (Radical History Review, Number 117)
Call for Proposals, due December 11, 2011
The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue that will explore the political and historical implications of the accelerated proliferation of digital culture in the first decade of the 21st century
Report: Data Management, Preservation, Curation, & Repositories: IL 2011 Session Summary
This session was about data curation and management (and finally we finally heard the term archivist!). Allons-y!
Assessing Data Management Needs at the University of Houston
by Christie Peters and Anita R. Dryden
For more information, they have a forthcoming article in Science & Technology Libraries
Report: Summer Institute docs on Evaluating Digital Scholarship
The first two documents produced during our 2011 NINES / NEH Summer Institute on Evaluating Digital Scholarship have been released: a Statement on Authorship and a set of Recommendations for Chairs of Language and Literature Departments for creating an atmosphere that is conducive to work in new media. We have others in the pipeline and will be releasing them in the coming months.