July 2012 Archives

DuraSpace Incubator to help VIVO sustain technologies and communities for linking information about researchers and research

Winchester, MA VIVO Project leaders and the DuraSpace organization announced today the intention for VIVO to join DuraSpace as an Incubator project, the first step towards establishing the VIVO project as part of a sustainable 501(c)(3) organization. DuraSpace leads the development and improvement of open technologies that provide long-term, durable access to digital assets and is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit born from a vision to help save our shared scholarly, scientific and cultural record. DuraSpace will provide VIVO with infrastructure and guidance to continue support for a diverse array of project efforts while continuing to develop the core VIVO software and expand the VIVO community. Read the rest of this entry »

California Digital Library – University of California
Oakland, California

Digitization & Services Coordinator

To apply: jobs.ucop.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=55524
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The Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University seeks a Software Engineer for its new Digitization Services Unit. This position will perform a major role in the design, software development, and implementation of the University Libraries and Museums’ digital collections discovery and presentation interfaces as well as associated backend workflows. The position will be responsible for formulating, developing and implementing technological solutions to expose some of the Libraries and Museums’ rare and unique special collections via the web. In addition, the position will be responsible for developing and supporting software to support the digitization of this content. The position is located in the Scholarly Resources and Special Collections department but will interact with library and museum staff from many different departments.

Please visit https://hrnt.jhu.edu/jhujobs/job_view.cfm?view_req_id=53229&view=sch for more information.

The Digital Library Federation is committed to community involvement and input for all of our projects and events, especially the DLF Forums.

There are a lot of exciting projects and ideas in our community right now and we received a great bunch of proposals for the 2012 DLF Forum. We’re asking the DLF community to vote on which sessions you would most like to see on the 2012 DLF Forum schedule.

The Program Planning Committee will use the community votes to guide final program selection and craft a Forum informed by the community’s interests.

Please visit our community poll and cast your votes! Please only one ballot per person.

Thanks for your help in shaping the 2012 DLF Forum schedule.