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“Coding Early Naturalists’ Accounts into Long-Term Fish Community Changes in the Adriatic Sea (1800–2000)” is a new article in PLoS One by researchers who mined historical data from materials found in archives to understand “fish communities’ changes over the past centuries” which “has important implications for conservation policy and marine resource management” (Abstract).  The article explains the difficulty in integrating qualitative and anecdotal historical data with modern data, and their methodology for coding historical data. This article is a great example of how historical materials from archives support all research areas, including current and future scientific research. With so many archives and cultural heritage institutionsRead More →

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Digital Applications Librarian, Oregon State University Libraries Oregon State University Libraries seeks a collaborative, innovative and service-oriented Librarian to develop and implement next generation digital access and storage systems. The incumbent joins an agile and innovative library that is responsible for the development of ScholarsArchive@OSU (the 6th ranked U.S. university digital repository), internationally recognized digital collections, the Oregon Explorer Natural Resources Digital Library, the LibraryFind Metasearch Application, the Library à la Carte Content Management System and other digital initiatives. The Digital Applications Librarian is part of the Libraries’ new Center for Digital Scholarship and Services and reports to the head of the center. The centerRead More →

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The Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library (http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab) seeks a Humanities Design Architect who can create and guide exciting, professional user experiences, who possesses broad, synthetic knowledge of humanities and social science scholarship, who is passionate about the quality of his or her code and who wants to be part of a team that does great work in the rapidly-expanding digital humanities. As Humanities Design Architect in the Scholars’ Lab, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of effective and inspiring digital resources for teaching and scholarship. We are looking for someone who is highly technically skilled and a talented designer,Read More →

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University of Florida journals can now easily take advantage of hosting using Open Journal Systems (OJS).  The Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) has a hosted instance of OJS. FCLA hosts and supports OJS for UF and all State Universities. Several journals are already using OJS and all can be seen from the main OJS page: http://journals.fcla.edu. Open Journal Systems is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License. The system facilitates the entire peer review and publishing process, and the work flow support is shown here. Many have alreadyRead More →

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A MADS/RDF ontology developed at the Library of Congress is available for a public review period until Jan. 14, 2011.  The MADS/RDF (Metadata Authority Description Schema in RDF) vocabulary is a data model for authority and vocabulary data used within the library and information science (LIS) community, which is inclusive of museums, archives, and other cultural institutions. It is presented as an OWL ontology. Documentation and the ontology are available at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/rdf/ Based on the MADS/XML schema, MADS/RDF provides a means to record data from the Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) Authorities format in RDF for use in semantic applications and Linked Data projects. MADS/RDF isRead More →

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The new FSU E-Science librarian visited UF recently. I mentioned this in conversation to a friend who hadn’t heard of E-Science. I explained it simply as the Science parallel to the Digital Humanities. In thinking this over later, it’s a very easy explanation for the Digital Humanities and is explained in various publications and presentations. However, I haven’t yet seen this explanation from a scientific venue. I’ll be discussing this with colleagues soon and these are my notes in thinking about the discussion. As ARL’s “E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of ARL Member Institutions” defines E-Science as: those new methods that are large-scale,Read More →

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We’ve frequently heard requests from internal users and patrons for a flipbook style view. In researching options, the Gnubook’s javascript-based page turner looked best and the Library of Congress came out with a clean implementation in October that was easy to emulate. Mark Sullivan, programmer for SobekCM, reviewed it and added the view in under a day. The new view is enabled within SobekCM so all collections, including the UF Digital Collections and the Digital Library of the Caribbean, have it enabled. The flipbook view is active for the entire Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Digital Collection and this is an example: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00089012/00001/pageturner TheRead More →

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The position announcement is a re-posting for a position in the University of Florida Libraries, which is where I work and it’s a great place to be. This is the Scholarly Communications Librarian position and I’ll likely get to work very closely with this person – especially as so many Digital Library units are reborn into Scholarly & Digital Initiatives units. I highly encourage anyone who might be interested to apply. UF is incredible – amazing library collections, awesome faculty, being in the great city of Gainesville, Gator sports (and even those who are, sadly like me, sports-clueless love Gator sports because of the teamRead More →

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The University of Virginia Library seeks a Metadata Librarian for Cataloging and Metadata Services. We are looking for high energy, innovative professionals with integrity and a strong work ethic. We seek individuals who are not afraid of taking risk and have the proven ability and/or potential to get positive results, manage change, and collaborate with others effectively. We want creative professionals who possess a keen and deep understanding of what it takes to continuously improve and maintain a major academic research library. We are seeking an individual who can provide metadata expertise and serve as the primary resource on non-MARC metadata design, structure and standardsRead More →

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Digital Projects Librarian Clemson University Libraries is seeking a technology-savvy, flexible and enthusiastic Digital Projects Librarian to join its Digital Initiatives & Information Technology unit. This is a 12-month tenure-track permanent position with faculty rank and status.  Clemson library faculty participate in library-wide planning and governance, work in a shared decision-making environment, and are encouraged to be active in university service and professional organizations. Clemson University pursues an ambitious plan to become one of the nation’s top-20 public universities and is actively engaged in a University wide strategic planning process to establish priorities and strategies for the next decade.  The Libraries are an integral partRead More →