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Digital Scholarship Initiatives Coordinator, Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services – 18333

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The University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service is seeking an Assistant Librarian Video Content Management Specialist.

The University Library seeks a dynamic and innovative librarian to play a supporting role in the establishment of a new campus-wide video content management system (VCM), and to aid with the migration of content from the Library’s existing digital asset management system to the new system. This position is a two-year term appointment.

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ORCID has two positions open: Lead Developer and Technical Support Specialist.

ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, open and not-for-profit organization. We are working with the research community to address the name ambiguity problem. Our goal is to create a registry of persistent unique researcher identifiers, and using an open and transparent mechanism to automate the linkage to other ID schemes and research objects such as publications, grants and patents. If you like the excitement of a start-up and the public service orientation of a non-profit, come join us as we gear up for the launch of the ORCID registry. Read the rest of this entry »

Reporting to the Director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) (http://cdrs.columbia.edu/), a division of the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, the Research Data Manager will work closely with the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, staff within CDRS (particularly the Digital Repository Manager and the Head of the Scholarly Communication Program), data librarians and librarian subject specialists, and others within the Columbia University community on planning, outreach, and policy development to address the data life cycle needs of researchers at Columbia University and its affiliates. S/he will also work closely with the Libraries Digital Program Division staff and the Metadata Librarian on implementation of best practices in data curation, storage, archiving, and preservation. Read the rest of this entry »

Job Summary: Provides support for the Libraries’ extensive technical infrastructure supporting digital content storage and access; Technical infrastructure includes a Digital Library Repository Service based on the open source Fedora digital repository system to support the storage and management of digital images, text, audio, video, and other content, plus a set of tools and services to support ingestion, search and discovery, digital object delivery and presentation, and preservation of digital content. Read the rest of this entry »

New York University’s Digital Studio supports the digital scholarship, research, and teaching of the NYU community. Technology Specialists from NYU Libraries and NYU Information Technology Services work together at the Digital Studio to provide consultation, training, and tools for multimedia production and sharing, file storage and management, digital scholarship, digital project planning and management, copyright and fair use, digital publishing, teaching and learning projects, and learning management tools. In this dynamic, client-oriented environment, we keep abreast of research, teaching, and learning technology developments in higher education and implement services to benefit the global NYU community. Read the rest of this entry »