Job Posting: Digital Scholarship Advisor / Web Developer « American Social History Project ·  Center for Media and Learning.

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) is seeking an individual with strong web programming, organizational and advising skills as a full-time Web Developer/New Media Lab Digital Scholarship Advisor.

Deadline: May 8 or until position is filled.

Digitate: Annotating the Visual | josullivan.org.

Digitate (http://digitate.org) is a free application designed for use on iPad devices, which allows scholars and enthusiasts with an interest in the visual and material elements of a cultural artefact to make notes and annotations directly on an image of any such artefact. For example, a literary scholar might use it to annotate the material or bibliographic elements of a rare text or first edition, while an art historian might do the same to an image of a painting.

2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data  (IEEE BigData 2013).

In recent years, “Big Data” has become a new ubiquitous term. Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately society itself. The IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2013 (IEEE BigData 2013) provides a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications.

We solicit high-quality original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity):: big data science and foundations, big data infrastructure, big data management, big data searching and mining, big data privacy/security, and big data applications.

Please submit a full-length paper (upto 9 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system:
http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2013/bigdata13/cbc_index.html.
Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to “formatting instructions” below).

About | Inventing the Future of Games.

Inventing the Future of Games 2013: Interactive Storytelling
Friday, May 10th, 2013
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA.
Hosted by the Center of Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz

We here at Digital Humanities Now invite you to become part of our Editors-at-Large team! We are recruiting new and returning Editors-at-Large for Summer, 2013.

Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, and suggest content for publication in DHNow and the Journal of Digital Humanities.

Editors-at-Large are critical to helping DHNow reflect community interests, ideas, and opportunities. Becoming an Editor-at-Large also is a great way to discover the wide range of material and resources being produced in this diverse field and to gain experience working with RSS feeds and readers.

If you are interested in becoming an Editor-at-Large, please fill out our form.

A Google Custom Search Engine is now available for the entire Digital Scholarship site. Digital Scholarship | Digital Scholarship Publications Overview | Sitemap

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German Court Nixes Selling Used E-books, http://t.co/0hdTsyB6Kt WTF? The University of California Sides with Publishers against the Public, http://t.co/k6TwAssWEX Google Accessibility Improvements, http://t.co/VSS8JqZALU What I Learned Getting Published by Taylor & Francis, http://t.co/RWOwzqRfao Google Glass for Everybody A 'Year-Ish' Away, http://t.co/almS1vcn7E Senate Passes "Online Sales Tax" by 74-20 Vote, http://t.co/jY7SKPm5rA Open Access in Poland: Interview [...]

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Celebrating DigCCurr—Curate Thyself: Defining and Cultivating an Academic Trajectory in Digital Curation and Digital Curation Education Experts Meeting NEW: Learn All about Digital Preservation at State Library, State Archives of North Carolina Web Site Born Digital Archival Materials at NYPL: An Interview with Donald Mennerich "A Systemic Approach to the Preservation of Audio Documents: Methodology [...]

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The Mountain West Digital Library is recruiting a Digital Metadata Librarian (funded through August 31, 2014). Here's an excerpt from the ad: The Digital Metadata Librarian of the Mountain West Digital Library will support the improvement of metadata standards and metadata in digital collections from MWDL partners, including memory institutions in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, [...]

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Dorothy Byatt, Mark Scott, F. Gareth Beale, Simon J. Cox, and Wendy White have self-archived "Developing Researcher Skills in Research Data Management: Training for the Future—A DataPool Project Report" in ePrints Soton. Here's an excerpt: This report will look at the multi-level approach to developing researcher skills in research data management in the University of [...]

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The Mountain West Digital Library is recruiting an Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian (funded through August 31, 2014). Here's an excerpt from the ad: The Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian of the Mountain West Digital Library develops and coordinates the partnership program of the MWDL, including outreach, promotion, and training. Develops partner relationships and facilitates cooperation with other memory [...]

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Federica Bressan and Sergio Canazza have published "A Systemic Approach to the Preservation of Audio Documents: Methodology and Software Tools" in the Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Here's an excerpt: This paper presents a methodology for the preservation of audio documents, the operational protocol that acts as the methodology, and an original open source [...]

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Open Access Repositories, Copyright, and Fair Use at ACRL, http://t.co/l78YrvOk2K The Future of the Past Is Now: Digital Humanities Resource Guide, http://t.co/0ydP8Urtio Order and Liberty: The DPLA Launches, http://t.co/WvGKozOEc0 What Happens When the Cloud Abandons You, http://t.co/K2i1T9hdGn Mixed Reactions among Participants in WIPO Talks on Treaty for the Blind, http://t.co/LBHtkqkkdD Digital Scholarship

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Archiving the Web: How to Support Research of Future Heritage? Digitization Services Awarded a Jefferson Trust Grant to Pursue Multispectral Scanning The Digital Preservation Network: A Report and Discussion on DPN's Emerging Architecture, System Protocol & Service Model [Presentation] Research Data Management in a Collaborative Network CURATEcamp Digital Libraries 2013 Digital Scholarship | DigitalCurationNews

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Syracuse University Library is recruiting a Copyright Librarian/Adviser. Here's an excerpt from the ad: The Copyright Librarian/Adviser is the University Library's chief resource and consultant on issues that span copyright, information policy, and University Library services and initiatives. The Copyright Librarian/Adviser develops the University Library's copyright policies and coordinates their application to the University Library's [...]

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Jun Zhao of the University of Oxford has released the "Research Object for Scholarly Communication (ROSC) Community Group Charter." ROSC is a W3C group. Here's an excerpt: The primary goal of the Community Group is to provide a platform for scholars, librarians, publishers, archivists and policy makers to exchange requirements and expectations for supporting a [...]

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The University of San Diego's Copley Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Reporting to the University Librarian and working under the direction of the University Archivist/Special Collections Librarian, the Digital Initiatives Librarian is responsible for assisting librarians and faculty with digital projects and developing and managing the University's [...]

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Cristobal Cobo and Concepcion Naval have self-archived "Digital Scholarship: Exploration of Strategies and Skills for Knowledge Creation and Dissemination" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: Widespread access to digital technologies has enabled digital scholars to access, create, share, and disseminate academic contents in innovative and diversified ways. Today academic teams in different places can collaborate in [...]

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the University of Michigan Library is recruiting an Interface Designer. Here's an excerpt from the ad: The Interface Designer will focus on interface design but also take part in the full range of departmental duties, including user research/usability, accessibility, and web analytics. The Interface Designer works in a collaborative team environment and participates in all [...]

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The Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the Association of Research Libraries have released "Expanded Public Access: A New Era with New Challenges." Here's an excerpt: During a short six-month period, agencies will develop draft plans for how this long-term preservation and access will occur ["Increasing Access to the [...]

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