Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), in partnership with the OpenGLAM initiative, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Wikimedia NYC, is now accepting 

applications for an Open Data Fellowship for Summer 2013. This paid, 8-week fellowship will serve two roles:

• Wikipedian-in-Residence for member institutions in the METRO consortium
• Facilitator for institutions interested in pursuing broader open data initiatives

METRO is a non-profit consortium of over 250 libraries, archives, museums, cultural heritage institutions, and non-profits in New York City. The fellowship position will also collaborate with OpenGLAM, OKF, and Wikimedia NYC as part of their work.

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland is seeking an experienced project manager who will provide coordination and management for research projects and initiatives in the digital humanities.

The Project Manager will work with senior MITH staff to conceptualize, implement, and manage digital humanities research work in a collaborative, team-driven environment. The successful candidate will have experience developing and administering collaborative research projects and events; strong oral and written communications skills; experience writing for, and working with, academic and public audiences; and an interest in digital research methods and tools.

In my last post, “Definitions that Matter (Of Digital Humanities),” I did some analysis of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowships offered through its Office of Digital Humanities (ODH), in which I tried to show that these grants have largely focused on what I’ve been calling “narrow” Digital Humanities. In the comments to that piece, Brett Bobley, Director of ODH, pointed me and other readers toward a recentannouncement that explicitly addresses this point, and encourages applications from what many of us have been calling “big tent” DH. In particular, that announcement notes the addition of a new rubric for projects funded by ODH Start-Up Grants:

• scholarship that focuses on the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society

The Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital Historyis sponsored jointly by the AHA and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. It was developed by friends and colleagues of Roy Rosenzweig (1950–2007), the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at George Mason University, to honor his life and work as a pioneer in the field of digital history.

This Prize will be awarded annually to honor and support work on an innovative and freely available new media project, and in particular for work that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement with technology and the practice of history.

Deadline is May 15.

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Planning for Digital Preservation: 20 Questions for Providers of Digital Storage Services DMPTool Webinar Series Talk on LOCKSS Metadata Extraction at IIPC 2013 E-Records Forum 2013: Audits of Trustworthy Digital Repositories Research Data Management Funding: Is Europe Up for the Challenge? [Presentations] LIASA Webinar [Report and presentation link] No Thing is Preserved in Digital Preservation [...]

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Glasgow Caledonian University is recruiting a Digital Assets Manager. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Library Services at Glasgow Caledonian University wishes to appoint a Digital Assets Manager. The role holder will have responsibility for the maintenance, development and promotion of GCUStore, our multimedia repository, and will assist in the work of the Digital Development [...]

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Phillip Lord and Lindsay Marshall have self-archived "Twenty-Five Shades of Greycite: Semantics for Referencing and Preservation" in arXiv.org . Here's an excerpt: Semantic publishing can enable richer documents with clearer, computationally interpretable properties. For this vision to become reality, however, authors must benefit from this process, so that they are incentivised to add these semantics. [...]

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Georgia Perimeter College Libraries are recruiting a Systems/Web Services Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: The Systems/Web Services Librarian is responsible for maintenance, management, support and training for the Ex Libris Voyager integrated library system in a multi-campus and statewide consortial environment. Runs Voyager maintenance and statistical reports on a regular schedule. Administers and [...]

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Science Europe has released "Science Europe Position Statement: Principles on the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications." Science Europe is an "association of 51 European national research organisations." Here's an excerpt: Therefore the Science Europe Member Organisations: will continue to support any valid approaches to achieve Open Access, including those commonly referred to as [...]

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Talk on Harvesting the Future Web at IIPC2013 Archive Journal Special Issue on "Publishing the Archive"—Call For Papers Video Games, Take II: The Problems of Preservation Hack to Preserve: Increasing Your Organisational Competence Brewster's Trillions: Internet Archive Strives to Keep Web History Alive Software Obsolescence Doesn't Imply Format Obsolescence Digital Curation Webinar Digital Scholarship | [...]

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Asking Authors to Buy 'Memberships' for Open Access, http://t.co/JIUfWAysa5 Controversial CISPA "Cyber-Security" Bill is DOA in the Senate, http://t.co/Q7eZMJgnsv 21 Tips for Supercharging Your Cloud Storage, http://t.co/0L9l1aomPs Open Access Spreads, http://t.co/OAJoIBE0ng Court Backs Artist in Rasta Case: Less Copyright Control for Image Owners?, http://t.co/ywLorh3Z3V More New Things for the Omeka family of Products!, http://t.co/7P2b2GdfB6 New [...]

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Harvard University Information Technology is recruiting a Systems Engineer, Library Technology . Here's an excerpt from the ad: Harvard University IT Library Technology Services (LTS) is seeking an Applications Platform Analyst to build, manage, and maintain scalable and robust application server environments for central library systems used in the academic and research mission of the [...]

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The Library Copyright Alliance has filed a brief in the Cambridge U. Press et al. v. Mark P. Becker et al. e-reserves copyright case that was prepared by the EFF and Jonathan Band. Here's an excerpt from the EFF announcement: In the amicus brief filed today, EFF urges the appeals court to see what the [...]

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Pratt Institute Libraries are recruiting a Library Systems Administrator. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Under moderate supervision, with a high degree of independent judgment, implements and maintains systems and networks in support of Libraries' computer information systems, including the ILS and web services. Individual will be responsible for the development, design, installation, maintenance and [...]

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Archive-It has released the The Web Archiving Life Cycle Model. Here's an excerpt: In order to address the lack of best practices and to increase awareness of the importance of web archiving as fundamental to digital preservation, the Archive-It team developed the Web Archiving Life Cycle Model (WALCM). This model is based on the team's [...]

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Bureau of Economic Analysis Shows Why Copyright Terms Should Be Greatly Diminished, https://t.co/fqhdoZtwb2 American Photographic Artists Join the Lawsuit against Google Books, http://t.co/Kz8McgrYpJ On Open Access, #AltAc and the Future of the Academic Press: A Conversation with Duke University Press, Part Three, http://t.co/r0zznmRaMn Support California's New Open Access Bill, https://t.co/a58M4pefTx Judge Appears Poised to Toss [...]

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Preservation Metadata: An Overview [Presentation] Digital Preservation Metadata–Hands-On Exercise [Presentation] METS Is the Answer (What Was the Question?) [Presentation] PREMIS Deep Dive—Personal View [Presentation] PREMIS, METS and Preservation Metadata: Emerging Trends and Future Directions [Presentation] Digital Scholarship | DigitalCurationNews

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The James Madison University Libraries & Educational Technologies are recruiting a Digital Collections Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: The Digital Collections Librarian manages JMU Libraries' locally created digital materials, taking a lead role in the creation, maintenance and stewardship of digital collections, including the digitization of special collections. This position provides strategies for [...]

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Robert Sanderson, Paolo Ciccarese, and Herbert Van de Sompel have self-archived "Designing the W3C Open Annotation Data Model" in arXiv.org. Here's an excerpt: The Open Annotation Core Data Model specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, called annotations, using a methodology that conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open [...]

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