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jwinberry on 31 October 2011 / 1 Comment
During the public Plenary Meeting for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) at the National Archives and Records Administration on October 21, 2011, a few very exciting announcements were made that will contribute to the foundation and future of the DPLA.
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jwinberry on 25 October 2011 / Comments Off
In a recent post at danbri.org, Dan Brinkley documents some of his work on NoTube (a European research project exploring Semantic Web and TV), reflects on the possibilities of linking bibliographic data with other web content, and calls for a contest to engage researchers in linked TV and bibliographic data.
Responding to Brinkley’s call via the DPLA listserv, Karen Coyle observes:
“A big and powerful chunk of knowledge organization that is just begging for exploitation is the fact that library records have classification numbers and subject headings from thesauri. All of this could now be correlated with an analysis of the full text. It’s only another step to associate this same information with non-library materials. The classifications have the advantage of being organized knowledge with implicit class membership and lots of interesting sibling relationships. What libraries have is not complete nor perfect, but it’s a seed to be built on, something that doesn’t exist when you do keyword indexing without any semantics.”
Join the conversation by commenting on Brinkley’s post or chiming in on the listserv thread!
Chelcie on 17 October 2011 / Comments Off
The Digital Library Federation and the 2011 Forum Planning Committee are proud to announce the 2011 DLF Fall Forum Fellows! Each of the Forum Fellows will receive complimentary hotel, travel, board, and registration (up to $1,000) for the 2011 DLF Fall Forum in Baltimore, MD. Fellowships are awarded to a librarian or LIS student new to the profession, based on strength of application essay, nomination, and resume.
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jwinberry on 17 October 2011 / Comments Off
The California Digital Library’s Access Group is seeking a programmer analyst to help build and provide access to a world-class collection of scholarly publications and datasets, and historical and primary source materials. We need your expertise to develop platforms and tools for distributing the scholarly work generated by the UC academic community and for surfacing the remarkable, one-of-a-kind collections held in the University of California’s campus libraries and California’s cultural institutions.
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jwinberry on 12 October 2011 / Comment
The University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor, is seeking an innovative, and talented user experience professional to join our User Experience (UX) Department. We are looking for someone with a passion for better understanding users, the ability to use creative problem solving skills to design engaging interfaces, and an investment in improving the library web experience.
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jwinberry on 11 October 2011 / Comment
The official website for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) went live on Tuesday, October 4, 2011. Read about this exciting project, and listen to Robert Darnton, director of Harvard University’s library and one of the DPLA’s steering-committee members, explain the mission and goals of the DPLA, at The Atlantic online. Remember, the DPLA Plenary Meeting is open to the public and coming up soon on October 21 at the National Archives in Washington, DC!
jwinberry on 7 October 2011 / 1 Comment
Stanford University Libraries seeks talented software developers to fill two open positions, Infrastructure Developer and Web Developer, as part of the Revs Program (http://revs.stanford.edu). Both are four year grant-funded positions.
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jwinberry on 7 October 2011 / Comment
Position Vacancy Listing: http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_071438.html
Working title: Library Application Developer
Official title: INFORM PROCESS CONSLT(S44DN) or ASSOC INF PROC CONSLT(S44FN)
jwinberry on 5 October 2011 / Comment
The Digital Project Manager will have key responsibility for managing all technical and operational aspects of digitization and/or digital reformatting projects undertaken by GWU’s Cyberinfrastructure Center (CIC). The DP Manager will oversee projects from design through final project deliverables.
jwinberry on 5 October 2011 / Comment
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