The digital library community is spread far and wide, as evidenced by the headlines in the sidebar. Here are a few recent stories about DLF Community member activities:
- Announcing DLF/CLIR + ER&L Cross-Pollinator Travel Award
6 February 2013The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is pleased to support a travel grant for the Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference in Austin, March 17-20. The award will go to a cross-pollinator -a library professional who can provide unique perspectives to our work and share a vision of the library world from their perspective. The application deadline ...
- Call for participation: DLF community attendance at DPLA Appfest
16 October 2012Falling fast on the heels of the DLF Forum in Denver, is the first DPLA Appfest. The Appfest is an informal, open call for both ideas and functional examples of creative and engaging ways to use the content and metadata in the DPLA back-end platform. The first Appfest will take place on November 8-9, 2012, ...
- Linked Data: A Personal View from Jerry Persons
18 June 2012This piece inaugurates an occasional series by or about linked data practitioners that will be cross-posted on the DLF site and LOD-LAM.net. The first post in the series is a personal reflection on the linked data landscape written by Jerry Persons, technology analyst at Knowledge Motifs, Chief Information Architect emeritus at Stanford, and author of the ...
- Announcing a LOD-LAM Zotero Group
24 May 2012The Digital Library Federation, together with LITA’s Linked Library Data Interest Group, is pleased to announce an open Zotero group for LOD-LAM tools and resources. The LOD-LAM Zotero group is intended to serve as a space both for practitioners seeking an entry point into the world of cultural heritage linked data and for practitioners seeking ...
- CLIR/DLF Data Curation Postdoctoral Fellowship
4 April 2012The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has received a $679,827 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help launch a new CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellowship Program. The program, an expansion of CLIR’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Academic Libraries, will provide recent Ph.Ds with professional development, education, and training opportunities in data curation ...
