For this first event, DLF is providing a limited amount of travel support for up to 3 community members to attend as DLF community delegates.

If you are interested in attending as a DLF community delegate, please send your name, contact information, and a brief statement of interest to Jena Winberry.

Delegates will be chosen based on interest and participation in the DPLA and willingness to serve as a bridge between DLF and DPLA communities.

Delegates will be asked to report back to the DLF community about the event via blog post or similar narrative.

Delegates will be notified of travel support by October 26th.

Position Responsibilities:
The Research Assistant’s primary responsibilities will be to support the DPLA Secretariat, which includes working with Berkman staff members to conduct research related to digital library users, content, governance, funding, and related issues; staying abreast of developments in the digital library field (including news related to e-publishing, copyright, linked open data, and other areas); blogging regularly on these issues; and contributing to the DPLA wiki and website. The RAs will also assist with preparations for the DPLA plenary meeting in April 2012 and occasional workshops, including opportunities to create related multimedia. This position represents an ideal opportunity for those interested in digital humanities, intellectual property issues, and access to knowledge and information.

Required education, experience, and skills:
* Advanced writing and editing skills, with the ability to quickly draft and contextualize written materials within the suite of the project outputs;
* Excellent critical reading comprehension, with the ability to absorb material quickly;
* Attention to detail;
* Familiarity with common social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube;
* Prior wiki and HTML editing experience or a willingness to learn.

Additional skills/interests helpful for this position:
* Expertise in fields such as digital humanities, library and information science, law, or journalism;
* Media production, including experience recording and/or editing audio and/or video;
* Prior blogging experience;
* Familiarity with WordPress.

The Research Assistant will have the opportunity to:
* Boost his or her research credentials;
* Creatively bridge research and practice;
* Become a key member of the Digital Public Library of America team;
* Participate in the greater Berkman Center community and engage in ongoing dynamic conversations at the forefront of thought on technology and society.

Time Commitment & Payment:
RAs work approximately 8-12 hours per week. Compensation is the standard Harvard RA/intern rate of $11.50/hour. No other benefits are provided. This position is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and remote participation is not possible for this opportunity. The start date is January 2nd, 2012, or as soon as possible.

To apply:
Please send your current CV or resume and a cover letter summarizing your interest and experience to Rebekah Heacock at rheacock at cyber.law.harvard.edu with “Application for DPLA RA” in the subject line.

To view the original post for this position, please visit: http://dp.la/get-involved/intern/

“It’s something of a dream for many: to digitize and make accessible the vast number of books, documents, artifacts, photos, videos, and other materials housed at thousands of different institutions across the country. The Digital Public Library of America is working on making it a reality. We explore a collaboration between libraries, museums, and archives – including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian – that aims to put it all online.”

To listen to the recording, visit http://thekojonnamdishow.org/ and click “listen” under Digital Public Library of America. Visit the segment page to view related videos and links.

“In one sentence: public libraries need to support information production with the same level of commitment that they’ve always treated information consumption.”

To read more on the NDPL meeting and Nate Hill’s ideas about how public libraries and the DPLA can work together to create new, important services for the public, please read his original post.

A Digital Library for Everyone: Designing for Collaboration and Innovation from CLIR on Vimeo.

To view more resources and engage in ongoing discussions, simply click on the titles of sessions from our schedule page!

To read more about these announcements, please visit the official DPLA news page.

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!