From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov  Mon Jun  3 20:15:12 2013
From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 20:15:12 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: [ESSI] RDA 2nd Plenary Meeting 16-18 September 2013 -
	Washington DC - SAVE THE DATE
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Parsons, Mark" <parsom3 at rpi.edu>
> Date: June 3, 2013 7:12:22 PM EDT
> To: "esip-all at rtpnet.org" <esip-all at rtpnet.org>, "Earth and Space Science Informatics" <earth-space-science-informatics at lists.nasa.gov>
> Subject: [ESSI] RDA 2nd Plenary Meeting 16-18 September 2013 - Washington DC - SAVE THE DATE
> 
> 
> Open Research Data ... breaking down barriers
> RDA Second Plenary Meeting
> 16-18 September 2013
> National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, US
> 
> Scientists, research data infrastructure providers, research data practitioners, policy-makers and research data stakeholders from all over the world will gather at RDA?s second bi-annual plenary meeting, taking place from 16th to 18th September 2013 in the esteemed National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, US. The meeting will provide existing and new and aspiring RDA community members an opportunity to conduct business and make progress on their plans and deliverables. The plenary will be a forum to demonstrate the value of RDA and to receive feedback from the broader research and policy communities. RDA members and plenary participants will get an update on both the governing and technical (Working & Interest Groups) activities since March 2013 (RDA Launch). RDA will leverage on the plenary to continue to define and build relationships with initiatives and organizations that share the same vision and can mutually benefit from engaging with each     other.
> Plenary sessions will include Keynotes from internationally renowned visionaries, including the US Government, reports from currently active Working and Interest Groups, a forum for affiliate organizations, and general RDA business meetings. All this coupled with parallel breakout sessions for the Working and Interest Groups, other ad-hoc groups and a dedicated session for RDA Newcomers on how to get involved, propose new working or interest groups and interact with the RDA members.
> 
> Save the Date and watch out for updates and registration coming very soon - http://rd-alliance.org/future-events/.
> #RDAPlenary
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -m.
> 
> 
> Mark A. Parsons
> Research Data Alliance/U.S.
> Center for a Digital Society
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> Troy, NY 12180
> USA
> +1 518 276 2829
> Skype: mark.a.parsons
> http://rd-alliance.org  http://rpi.edu
> 




From skonkiel at indiana.edu  Tue Jun  4 12:30:21 2013
From: skonkiel at indiana.edu (Konkiel, Stacy Rose)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:30:21 +0000
Subject: [Rdap] Zenodo - Sharing Research Data across Europe - Making
 Science More Visible
Message-ID: <94D6DEA28A662B43A1AA80EF50E4F62320D93638@IU-MSSG-MBX110.ads.iu.edu>

A new European repository that enables data sharing, citation, and preservation has launched. (See below.)

From: najla [mailto:najla.semple at gmail.com]
Sent: 08 May 2013 15:05
To: Joy Davidson
Subject: Thanks, and if Kevin/you want to add something, go ahead

Zenodo - Sharing Research Data across Europe - Making Science More Visible


Newly launched, Zenodo www.zenodo.org<http://www.zenodo.org> offers a one-stop-store for research output. Created by OpenAIRE and CERN, and supported by the European Commission, this new-generation online repository offers its service from the OpenAIRE pan-European initiative, which expands the linking of research output to datasets and funding information, in European and national contexts.

*Enabling everyone to Share and Cite Data*

Zenodo welcomes multi-disciplinary research data from any individual, scientific community or research institution. Upload allowance is generous (1GB) and can be used by institutions without their own data repository. Based on the same concept as OpenAIRE, which gathers Open Access publications across a variety of funding schemes, Zenodo provides a rich interface to link objects together with funding information.


*Supporting the long-tail of research output*

Any data uploaded, or collections created are harvestable via OAI-PMH by third parties: expose your collection to PubMedCentral or your local institution. For research institutions who don't want the overhead of establishing their own data repository to support their researchers' scientific output, this is a convenient solution. The repository accepts any data without an obvious service at hand, in a variety of formats. Zenodo fully encourages deposition under an open licence, and while it will also accept other licence types, the Zenodo community will take a lead in signalling the benefits of open licenses such as visibility and credit.


*Building Collections for Scientific Communities*

Zenodo adds value in that it enables users to have ownership over their unique community collections. For example, an EC funded project might like to create a collaborative space for all its research output, and can assign a range of licenses, including Creative Commons, and each dataset and publication is assigned a DOI.



Chris Erdmann, Head Librarian at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, says, "This will be of great benefit to the global research community. Institutions, together with scholarly communities, are looking for flexible deposit solutions that allow the living scholarly record to be easily curated, exchanged and cited. For the research community, to have a trustworthy publication and sharing mechanism for their scholarly activities at their fingertips, will be hugely beneficial."

Brian Hole, CEO at Ubiquity Press says "Zenodo is a welcome addition to the options we provide our authors for publishing their data alongside their research articles and data papers. I particularly like the innovative way in which the upload system has been designed to be quick and simple, which directly addresses one of researchers chief complaints about data archiving - that it is time consuming. We will be happy to suggest our authors deposit their underlying datasets at Zenodo."

Florida Estrella, Deputy Director of the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) based at CERN, adds "Science has entered the age of open. EMI connects scientists and will be able to employ Zenodo's services in a transparent and reliable way".


*An easy-to-use workflow*

Sign up now for an account at Zenodo and submit your research in easy steps (e.g. via Dropbox).



*More Information*

See more of Zenodo's acquisition, preservation, access and reuse policies: http://www.zenodo.org/policies


*Support and general information*

Email: info at zenodo.org<mailto:info at zenodo.org>
Questions related to European Commission funded research and OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE HelpDesk: http://www.openaire.eu/en/support/helpdesk

*Frequently Asked Questions*

ZENODO: http://www.zenodo.org/faq
OpenAIRE and Open Access in general: http://www.openaire.eu/en/support/faq
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From sshreeve at illinois.edu  Wed Jun  5 11:16:20 2013
From: sshreeve at illinois.edu (Shreeves, Sarah L)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 15:16:20 +0000
Subject: [Rdap] Book now for Open Repositories 2013!
Message-ID: <3E4AAD66A606AE4697FDC3542596BAB464D69271@chimbx2.ad.uillinois.edu>

Open Repositories features a number of papers and a keynote from Victoria Stodden on data reuse and reproducible data. It promises to be a full and engaging conference!
The premiere conference for digital repositories is being held in Charlottetown PEI, July 8-12. I encourage you to register and book your accommodation as soon as possible so you can join your colleagues for a week of stimulating discussion. The full schedule of events is now online and we have 2 great keynotes:

                http://or2013.net/program/session-schedule
                http://or2013.net/content/victoria-stodden-opening-keynote-or2013
                http://or2013.net/content/closing-plenary-jean-claude

Hotels are filling quickly as the July season approaches so please book now. I would recommend the Delta, which is the Conference hotel and in the downtown core where everything is happening.

                http://www.deltahotels.ca/en/hotels/prince-edward-island/delta-prince-edward

You may also want to consider filling out our form for submitting ideas to the OR 2013 Developer's Challenge & Hackfest and join your colleagues in crafting solutions for today's repository challenges:

                http://or2013.net/content/developers-challenge-ideas

I'm looking forward to seeing you all in Charlottetown,


Mark Leggott, Conference Chair
Sarah Shreeves, Program Chair
Jon Dunn, Program Chair


Sarah L. Shreeves
IDEALS Coordinator - http://ideals.illinois.edu/
Scholarly Commons Co-Coordinator - http://library.illinois.edu/sc/
Associate Professor, University Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
sshreeve at illinois.edu<mailto:sshreeve at illinois.edu>
217-244-3877

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From skonkiel at indiana.edu  Thu Jun  6 09:44:29 2013
From: skonkiel at indiana.edu (Konkiel, Stacy Rose)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:44:29 +0000
Subject: [Rdap] FW: Notice of a Workshop
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Many on this list may be interested in the follow workshop:

-----Original Message-----
From: Research data publication: announcements and discussion [mailto:DATA-PUBLICATION at jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jo McEntyre
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:43 AM
To: DATA-PUBLICATION at jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: Notice of a Workshop

[*** Apologies for cross-posting ***]

******************************************************************
First Workshop on "Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets"

Valletta, Malta, September 26th, 2013
Web site: http://lcpd2013.research-infrastructures.eu/
E-mail: lcpd2013 at isti.cnr.it

In conjunction with TPDL 2013 (http://www.tpdl2013.info)

*******************************************************************

###### Workshop Objectives ######

The goal of this workshop is to provide researchers and practitioners in the fields of Digital Libraries, e-Science, and e-Research, with a forum where they can constructively explore foundational, organizational and systemic challenges in contexts having publishing, interlinking, preservation, discovery, access, and reuse of publications and datasets as focal points. It expects to contribute to the actual picture of the state of the art approaches and solutions that researchers and practitioners active in these fields have investigated and realized. 

###### Invited speaker ######

S?ren Auer, Universit?t Leipzig (http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer). Dr. S?ren Auer research interest are in social and semantic web technologies, knowledge engineering, usability, as well as databases and information systems. S?ren is leading the European Union's FP7-ICT flagship project LOD2 comprising 15 partners from 11 countries. He is co-founder of several high-impact research and community projects such as DBpedia, SlideWiki.org, LinkedGeoData and OntoWiki, organiser and co-programme chair of renowned scientific conferences, area editor of the Semantic Web Journal, serves as an expert for industry, EC, W3C and advisory board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

###### Workshop topics ######

The workshop welcomes submissions reporting on theoretical, systemic, and foundational work targeting popular topics of linking and contextualizing datasets and publications. The topics of this workshop are of interest to, but not limited to, the following research avenues:

- Metadata formats for publications and datasets: interlinking or contextualizing research outputs.
- Metadata access services: exporting/discovering metadata to facilitate interlinking or contextualizing research outputs.
- Data models expressing relationships between publications, datasets and other information apt for re-use, contextualization, etc.
- Aggregation services: robust and scalable collection, integration, storage, interlinking, and visualization of heterogeneous objects and metadata from publication, dataset, and contextual content data sources
- Linking and contextualization services: processing/mining interlinked objects and metadata relative for enrichment, disambiguation, annotation
- Future publication models and services: novel concepts and management of "enhanced publications", "research objects", "executable papers".

For more on these topics, please visit the workshop website.

###### Important Dates ######

Research paper submission: June 24th, 2013 Notification of acceptance: July 29th, 2013 Camera ready version: August 31st, 2013

###### Paper Submission ######

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Submitted manuscripts will have to be limited to 8-12 pages, following the guidelines for the LNCS format provided by Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Preferred formats are PDF or Microsoft Word. Submission is on line at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcpd2013 (EasyChair on-line system: you need to register an account to submit).

Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a single-blind peer-review process by Program Committee members. To be published on the proceedings, accepted contributions should be revised according to the reviews and at least one author is required to register and present the paper at the workshop.

Proceedings, including abstracts from the invited speakers and the revised papers, will become a publication (the organisers are in the process of arranging the publication with Springer in CCIS series).

###### Workshop Organisers ######

- Lukasz Bolikowski, Centre for Open Science, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Paolo Manghi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI), National Research Council - (CNR), Pisa, Italy
- Nikos Houssos, EKT, National Documentation Centre, Greece
- Jochen Schirrwagen, Bielefeld University Library, Germany

Sponsored by OpenAIREplus (www.openaire.eu) and EuroCRIS (www.eurocris.org)



From shawn-averkamp at uiowa.edu  Fri Jun  7 09:56:00 2013
From: shawn-averkamp at uiowa.edu (Averkamp, Shawn M)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:56:00 +0000
Subject: [Rdap] ALCTS PARS Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata IG
 Meeting at ALA Annual
Message-ID: <6F75C80426A4D746A568644249439CA221DE0CFE@ITSNT437.iowa.uiowa.edu>

ALCTS PARS Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group
Saturday, June 29, 3-4PM
McCormick Place Convention Center, Room N135
Topic: Building Out Preservation Metadata in Digital Repositories
http://ala13.ala.org/node/10866

Please join us at the ALCTS PARS Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group meeting for two presentations on preservation metadata development in digital and research data repositories.

PREMIS: To Be or Not To Be in My METS

Jennifer Eustis, Catalog/Metadata Librarian
David Lowe, Preservation and Data Management Services Librarian
University of Connecticut Libraries

Abstract
    The University of Connecticut Libraries is currently building a Fedora digital repository. At the beginning of this project, we investigated the viability of using Islandora to meet our needs of an administration module on top of Fedora. As our analysis came to end, we found that Islandora meets only some of our needs. On the one hand, Islandora is convenient as an already existing solution with a robust user community. Islandora metadata forms also seamlessly create and update the Dublin Core (DC) and Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) data streams in Fedora Digital Objects. On the other hand, we want a more tailored management system than Islandora can deliver for our digital objects. More importantly, we are striving for a TRAC compliant system that implements PREMIS repository and also facilitates the automated collection of provenance metadata. Because of these concerns, we decided to rely on Islandora in the short term as a presentation layer and, at the same time, find ways to structure incoming metadata that included PREMIS. These decisions led us to what we refer to as our METS Uberset document. Essentially, this METS Uberset document is used to collocate and normalize incoming descriptive, rights, technical and preservation metadata in a METS document to create the individual data streams for each type of metadata. In this presentation, I will describe the process of how the METS Uberset document came to be and its various incarnations including a discussion on the role of PREMIS, its role in the automated collection of data, and the lessons still being learned.


The Purdue University Research Repository: HUBzero customization for dataset publication and digital preservation

Amy Barton, Metadata Specialist and Assistant Professor of Library Science [presenter]
Neal Harmeyer, Digital Archivist
Carly Dearborn, Digital Preservation and Electronic Records Archivist
Purdue University Libraries

Abstract
    In 2011, prompted by the National Science Foundation's mandate to include a data management plan in grant applications, a steering committee made up of Purdue's Dean of Libraries, the Vice President of Information Technology, and Vice President for Research tasked Purdue University Libraries and Purdue University Information Technology with the development of the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR). PURR provides an online, collaborative project space and data-sharing platform to support the data management needs of Purdue researchers and collaborators. Within PURR a publication process makes research results, or datasets, publicly available. Each published dataset is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to support discoverability and data citation.
    PURR is a customized instance of HUBzero(r), an open source software platform that supports scientific discovery, learning, and collaboration. HUBzero was a research project funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) and is a product of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), a multi-university initiative of eight member institutions. PURR is only one instance of a HUBzero's customization; versions have been implemented in many disciplines nation-wide.
    PURR maintains the core functionality of HUBzero, but has been modified to publish datasets and to support their preservation. Long-term access to published data is an essential component of PURR services and Purdue University Libraries' mission.  Preservation in PURR is not only vital to the Purdue University research community, but to the larger digital preservation issues surrounding dynamic datasets and their long-term reuse.
    This case study will discuss the creation of robust preservation functionality within PURR. In particular, we will discuss digital preservation policies, the implementation of the OAIS model, and the weaving of various metadata standards via a dynamic, programmatic process for PURR's unique digital content.

The presentations will be preceded by a brief business meeting.

Shawn Averkamp
Sarah Potvin
Chairs, ALCTS PARS Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group

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Shawn Averkamp
Data Services Librarian
Digital Research & Publishing
University of Iowa Libraries
1015 Main Library
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
shawn-averkamp at uiowa.edu<mailto:shawn-averkamp at uiowa.edu>
319.384.3526<tel:319.384.3526>

Sarah Potvin
Assistant Professor
Metadata Librarian
Digital Services & Scholarly Communication
University Libraries
Texas A&M University
spotvin at library.tamu.edu<mailto:spotvin at library.tamu.edu>
979.458.2662<tel:979.458.2662>
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From rhill at asis.org  Fri Jun  7 10:55:16 2013
From: rhill at asis.org (Dick Hill)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:55:16 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] Stewarding Research Data with Fedora and Islandora - PASIG
	Webinar June 11, 11:30am EST
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[ASIS&T members can attend at no cost.  Dick Hill]?

The next PASIG monthly webinar will be June 11 at 11:30am EST. This webinar
is free to ASIS&T members, $20 for non-members. It will be archived. The
registration website is:

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-6-11-2013-register.ht
ml

Stewarding Research Data with Fedora and Islandora

The interest in stewarding research data is undergoing an exponential
increase, encouraged by funder mandates as well as the recognition by
researchers that data sharing leads to greater discovery and innovation. The
Islandora community is actively working on solutions for managing the
diversity of data in virtually any domain. In one example at the University
of PEI, Islandora tools are being built to sync data from systems like
DropBox and Google Drive to Fedora, providing immediate preservation
services for any arbitrary collection of data. This Physical Data Model is
intended to provide a quick and seamless integration with Islandora where
the researchers can subsequently add enrichment and optionally choose to
share the data with others. In another example the Smithsonian is applying a
set of Intellectual Data Models to steward research output from a variety of
projects. In this case data is ingested into Islandora against a
domain-specific data model that applies specific metadata forms, data
transformations and data viewers to make the data more accessible
immediately on ingest. The Webinar will highlight these and other approaches
to research data management and preservation.

Speaker

Mark Leggott: Mark is the University Librarian at the University of PEI,
President of discoverygarden Inc. and founder of the open source Islandora
project. Mark has been involved with things open and digital for most of his
career, and together with the team at the University of PEI is working on a
digital archive of the complete cultural and heritage history of the Island.
As founder of the Islandora project Mark collaborates with global
institutions interested in stewarding digital information for the long-term.






From jwd at indiana.edu  Thu Jun 13 18:16:21 2013
From: jwd at indiana.edu (Dunn, Jon William Butcher)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:16:21 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] OR 2013 Hackfest, Dev Challenge and Workshops - Sign up Now
Message-ID: <130c01ce6883$a2b21f70$e8165e50$@indiana.edu>

Open Repositories 2013 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada is
less than a month away (July 8-12) and is shaping up to provide a packed
week of presentations, panels, posters, demos, and user group sessions that
should interest anyone working with repositories and the digital information
lifecycle.

 

OR Workshops

------------

 

The first day of the OR conference, Monday, July 8, is dedicated to  the
Hackfest and workshops aimed at a wide variety of audiences. The available
workshops include tutorials on repository platforms, updates on technologies
of interest to repository managers and developers, and discussions of
current topics in repositories and digital content management. 

 

For a full list of workshops, see the conference schedule at:
http://or2013.net/program/session-schedule

 

Participation in OR2013 workshops is free with conference registration, but
you?ll need to sign up in advance to ensure a seat in the workshops you
want. Once you?ve registered for the conference, be sure to visit
http://or2013.net/content/workshop-signup to sign up for the workshops
you?re interested in. 

 

And if you haven?t already registered or booked your accommodation, be sure
to visit http://or2013.net/ to do so.

 

 

OR Hackfest and Developer's Challenge

-------------------------------------

 

We are pleased to announce that the Hackfest and Dev Challenge planning for
OR 2013 is also in full swing. We have already received 3 great challenge
ideas that will stimulate your repository spirit and generate a creative
sprint that you and your Challenge colleagues will not soon forget. If that
isn't enough to get you to sign-up, then the over $8,000 in prizes to be
awarded by our panel of judges may provide some extra sauce. Prizes for this
year's Challenge has been generously provided by the Digital Library
Federation [1], JISC [2], the SPRUCE Project [3] and the Fedora Futures
Project [4] - and we are expecting some extra surprises on top of that.

 

How do I participate in the great Hackfest and Dev Challenge? We're glad you
asked, just follow these simple steps:

 

1. Register for the OR Conference [5], or if you've already done that get
your friends to do the same.

 

2. Sign-up for the Hackfest (taking place on Monday, July 8) and Dev
Challenge [6] so we can make sure we have enough beer and pizza to help get
you started.

 

3. Read the Dev Challenge description and manifesto [7] and get ready to
participate.

 

4. Practice eating oysters [8] while you wax poetic [9] on your laptop to
get your repository elbow ready for the big event [10].

 

5. Watch for the release of the OR 2013 Hackfest and Dev Challenge Ideas
[11].

 

6. Do your best to attend the all-day Hackfest on Monday, which will kick
off the Challenge and help build a creative team that will stay with you for
the rest of your career.

 

7. Take lots of pictures at the Challenge with you and your buds so you can
send them to you mom and dad. This is the most important part, but must be
preceded by steps 1-6 above to be the most effective.

 

[1] http://www.diglib.org/

[2] http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

[3] http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/spruce

[4] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF

[5] http://or2013.net/registration

[6] http://or2013.net/content/workshop-signup

[7] http://or2013.net/content/or-2013-dev-challenge-event

[8] http://www.tourismpei.com/pei-oysters

[9] http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/wax-poetic. html 

[10] http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/developer-challenges/

[11] Coming soon...

 

We look forward to seeing you in Charlottetown!

 

 

Mark Leggott, OR2013 Conference Chair

Sarah Shreeves, OR2013 Program Co-Chair 

Jon Dunn, OR2013 Program Co-Chair

 

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From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov  Tue Jun 18 12:51:02 2013
From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:51:02 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Version 3,
	Research Data Curation Bibliography
References: <51BF15BE.9030104@digital-scholarship.com>
Message-ID: <3B8A5AD7-6E98-412D-886D-F21E8724E6A5@grace.nascom.nasa.gov>


I apologize to those on the code4lib mailing list who are
seeing this twice, but I thought it might be of interest
to this group, too.

-Joe


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cwbailey at DIGITAL-SCHOLARSHIP.COM>
> Date: June 17, 2013 9:57:18 AM EDT
> To: CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Version 3, Research Data Curation Bibliography
> Reply-To: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> 
> Digital Scholarship  has released version 3 of the Research
> Data Curation Bibliography. This selective  bibliography
> includes over 230 English-language articles and technical
> reports that are useful in understanding the curation of
> digital research data in academic and other research
> institutions.
> 
> http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm
> 
> Most sources have been published from January 2000 through
> June 2012; however, a limited number of earlier key sources
> are also included.
> 
> The bibliography includes links to freely available versions
> of included works. If such versions are unavailable,
> italicized links to the publishers' descriptions are
> provided.
> 
> It is available under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
> 
> Digital Scholarship has also released "A Look Back at 24
> Years as an Open Access Publisher":
> 
> http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/24/24years.pdf
> 
> For a list of all Digital Scholarship publications, see:
> 
> http://digital-scholarship.org/about/overview.htm
> 
> Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir,
> traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message:
> 
> http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/rcdb3.htm
> 
> -- 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Charles
> 
> Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
> Publisher, Digital Scholarship
> http://digital-scholarship.org/cwbprofile.htm
> http://digital-scholarship.org/about/overview.htm



From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org  Wed Jun 19 12:24:44 2013
From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:24:44 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] NEWS RELEASE: VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization as
	Incubated Project
Message-ID: <CAKX24frb7hbwAm6CmjgYKxSUyec_998G=-2PsQgkaScxMtKxAw@mail.gmail.com>

*F**OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
*
*
June 19, 2013
*
*
Contact: Carol Minton Morris <cmmorris at duraspace.org>; Kristi Holmes <
kristi at vivoweb.org>
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1290LUN
*
*
*VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization as Incubated Project*
*VIVO is a one-stop network of researchers, projects, and results that
enables collaborative research discovery and interdisciplinary scholarship.*

*Winchester, MA*  The DuraSpace organization and the VIVO Project are
pleased to announce that after initial fundraising and planning, VIVO is
entering an incubation period with DuraSpace. The incubation process will
focus on assisting VIVO in becoming a sustainable, community-driven
project; on continuing to develop new releases of the VIVO software and
ontology; and on expanding the VIVO community beyond the over 100
organizations currently engaged with the project.

VIVO is an open source semantic web application for integrating and sharing
information about researchers and their activities and outputs at a single
institution, while supporting discovery of related work and expertise
across a distributed network of linked data profiles. VIVO is fundamentally
interdisciplinary in nature and enables collaboration across traditional
boundaries of geography, organizational structure, and type. Through the
discovery of researchers and their common interests, expertise, and
achievements, VIVO enables the identification of collaborative teams to
work across academic research, clinical, and applied domains.

There are diverse activities associated with the VIVO project, across
federal agencies, academic institutions, professional societies, for-profit
publishers, and data providers, as well as a variety of efforts with the
semantic web and ontology development communities. Significant partners
include CASRAI (Consortium Advancing Standards in Research Administration
Information), EuroCRIS (Current Research Information Systems) and the ORCID
(Open Researcher and Contributor ID) Initiative.  Adopters of the VIVO
platform include: the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, the American Psychological Association and
the Publish Trust Project, the Australian-based ANDS VIVO project, and a
growing number of universities around the world. Producers of
VIVO-compliant data also include: Clinical and Translational Science Award
(CTSA) Consortium institutions, Harvard Profiles, and Elements from
Symplectic Limited, and Elsevier's SciVal Experts. For more information
about VIVO, please visit: http://vivoweb.org.

*Connecting VIVO With the DuraSpace Community*

The DuraSpace Incubation Program assists open source projects that wish to
become part of the DuraSpace organization in order to become sustainable,
community-driven projects without having to establish a new not-for-profit
organization. By taking advantage of DuraSpace support services that
include executive leadership, technical leadership, community outreach,
communications, business development, and administration, (
http://duraspace.org/whatwedoprojects) projects minimize start-up and
administrative costs while connecting with well-established open source
development communities. VIVO and DuraSpace began efforts towards
establishing VIVO as a formal incubated project in July of 2012 (VIVO to
Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator
Initiative<http://duraspace.org/vivo-join-duraspace-organization-incubator-initiative>).
A list of sponsoring institutions and organizations can be found at
http://vivoweb.org/sponsorship.

Speaking for a founding VIVO sponsor with a significant institutional
presence in the VIVO community, Carton Rogers, Vice Provost and Director of
Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania said, *?Penn strongly supports
VIVO?s alliance with DuraSpace.  It ensures the sustainability of the VIVO
effort, and it signals the growing maturity of this exciting collaborative
enterprise. But most important, the connection with DuraSpace will drive
innovation that libraries and other campus services concerned with
knowledge management can offer their communities."*

Dean Krafft, Chief Technology Strategist at Cornell University Library and
Chair of the VIVO-DuraSpace Incubator Project Management Committee curated
a DuraSpace Hot Topics Community Webinar Series, VIVO?Research Discovery
and Networking, to introduce DuraSpace community to VIVO. The series of
three web seminars was held in May and June and offered diverse topics and
perspectives: ?Overview of VIVO,? ?Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown,
Duke, and Weill Cornell Medical College,? and wrapped up with ?A VIVO
Technical Deep Dive.? A recording of these presentations along with the
presentation slides is now available at http://duraspace.org/hot-topics.

*The Fourth Annual VIVO Conference*

This year the 4th International VIVO Conference will be held in St. Louis,
MO from Aug. 14-16, 2013 and features a unique program of presentations,
panels, posters, renowned invited speakers, an apps contest, and
collaboration opportunities.  The 2013 VIVO conference will explore how to
participate in and best take advantage of the emerging Linked Open Data
world encompassing and expanding our understanding of the rapidly growing
network of information describing and interlinking researchers and
research. More information is available at http://www.vivoweb.org/conference
.

*About DuraSpace*

DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org) is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that
promote durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with
academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting
projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future
generations have access to our collective digital heritage. Our values are
expressed in our organizational byline, "Committed to our digital future."

DuraSpace supports open technology projects and provides long-term, durable
access to and discovery of digital assets. DSpace and Fedora are two of the
most widely-used digital repository solutions in the world with more than
fifteen hundred institutions that use and help develop these open source
software repository platforms.

DuraSpace also provides innovative solutions for the digital preservation
community to meet today?s access and preservation challenges with
subscription services that include DuraCloud, an easy and cost effective
way to archive, share and manage content in the cloud and DSpaceDirect, a
low-cost, hosted repository service due to launch in 2013.

-- 
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
Twitter at DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
Twitter at DuraCloud <http://twitter.com/duracloud>
http://DuraSpace.org
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From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov  Fri Jun 21 13:36:53 2013
From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:36:53 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Job: Research Associate in Data Provenance,
	Citation and Archiving at University of Edinburgh
References: <20130621172851.19644.83336@li144-162.members.linode.com>
Message-ID: <D6B13A55-4395-455E-BDBC-A369C9F67ED4@grace.nascom.nasa.gov>

I've probably missed other job postings on code4lib that would be appropriate for this community, but this one jumped out at me.

-Joe


Begin forwarded message:

> From: jobs at CODE4LIB.ORG
> Date: June 21, 2013 1:28:51 PM EDT
> To: CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Job: Research Associate in Data Provenance, Citation and Archiving at University of Edinburgh
> Reply-To: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> 
> We are seeking a research associate to work on a number of problems associated
> with the representation and capture of evolving data. The ideal person will
> have both theoretical and practical knowledge of databases and of data on the
> Web. The primary development work will be the development of a citation system
> for curated databases. In addition, the position involves related and
> fundamental research into provenance and preservation for both databases and
> linked data. The Database Group at the University of Edinburgh leads research
> into provenance and related topics such as archiving, annotation and citation
> of evolving data. While there has been substantial progress on these topics
> for traditional databases (relational and hierarchical), dealing with linked
> open data presents new research challenges. The ideal candidate will have a
> strong background in both theory and implementation, and will have some
> knowledge of database and Web technology. The post is being funded as part of
> the EU DIACHRON project and is available from 1 September 2013 for 24 months
> with a possible extension. It is on the UE07 scale (?30,424 - ?36,298) Vacancy
> Ref: 015193 Closing Date: 19 July 2013 at 5pm GMT
> 
> 
> 
> Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/8606/




From cmrauber at umn.edu  Mon Jun 24 15:16:04 2013
From: cmrauber at umn.edu (Carolyn Rauber)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:16:04 -0500
Subject: [Rdap] Positions at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences
	Library
Message-ID: <CAEt4hDkWU3LNKb2bi6v0N0DuKuWTAY+3SQi_vzbXYvBwwPnWhw@mail.gmail.com>

*
University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries*

***Two Positions Available: *

*Informatics/Data Services Specialist and Biomedical/Research Services
Specialist*

The University of Minnesota Libraries invites applications for two
innovative, tech savvy and proactive health science library specialists. We
seek applicants who have subject expertise and technology skills, and who
possess an understanding of research processes in the sciences to provide
leadership and help shape the future of library services.

Both positions will be part of the Health Sciences Libraries (HSL) division
of the University Libraries.  The positions will report to the Associate
Director for Liaison Services and will collaborate with eight other subject
librarians in HSL as well as other science librarians across the University
Libraries.

The specialists will serve as library liaisons to designated academic
departments and research centers affiliated with the University?s Academic
Health Center (AHC, (http://www.ahc.umn.edu/), including the Medical
School, the Biomedical Discovery District, and the Clinical and
Translational Science Institute, supporting the instructional, research and
outreach activities of these units. Both positions will provide specialized
leadership for HSL: one in data management and curation, and the other in
the development and coordination of research support services.  Areas of
focus will include identifying and supporting research needs, such as data
management, research networking and personal information management, and
collaborating with faculty and library colleagues to create innovative
tools for fostering and managing disciplinary and interdisciplinary
research processes.



Required Qualifications include an American Library Association accredited
Master?s degree in Library/Information Science  or equivalent combination
of advanced degree and relevant experience; and facility with technology
(e.g., basic programming, web applications, APIs) and its application in
academic contexts. Preferred qualifications include a degree in the
physical, life, health, computer or related sciences, with a demonstrated
understanding of the scientific research process, experience in health
informatics, and knowledge of digital repository software and systems.



*For a complete description and list of qualifications and to apply, go to:*
https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=112011 .



*The University of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Educator and **
Employer.*
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From jqin at syr.edu  Fri Jun 28 07:23:02 2013
From: jqin at syr.edu (Jian Qin)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:23:02 +0000
Subject: [Rdap] FW: extended deadline/CAMP-4-DATA Workshop
 (Cyber-infrastructure & Metadata Protocols) - 6 September 2013 @ DC-2013 in
 Lisbon, Portugal
In-Reply-To: <672DA93E2CFAE64AA033720211A2617F30235E01@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu>
Message-ID: <CDF2EA41.153B4%jqin@syr.edu>


From: Jane Greenberg <janeg at email.unc.edu<mailto:janeg at email.unc.edu>>
Reply-To: DCMI Community <DC-SCIENCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:DC-SCIENCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:43:11 +0000
To: DCMI Community <DC-SCIENCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:DC-SCIENCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>>
Subject: extended deadline/CAMP-4-DATA Workshop (Cyber-infrastructure & Metadata Protocols) - 6 September 2013 @ DC-2013 in Lisbon, Portugal


EXTENDED DEADLINE for the CAMP-4-DATA Workshop

The full, updated call for participation follows.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CAMP-4-DATA WORKSHOP
(Cyber-infrastructure & Metadata Protocols)

Full-day Workshop: 6 September 2013 @ DC-2013 in Lisbon, Portugal

Web announcement:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data-cfp.

A joint Dublin Core-Science and Metadata Community (DC-SAM) <http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Science_And_Metadata> / Research Data Alliance (RDA) <http://rd-alliance.org/> Metadata Interest Group workshop

Metadata is vital to the discovery and management of scientific data. The Dublin Core-Science and Metadata Community (DC-SAM), Research Data Alliance (RDA), and related communities advocate for access to, and shared knowledge about, metadata standards that support data life-cycle management. CAMP-4-DATA participants will explore infrastructure design, applications, and policies that can advance the support of open, collective and sustainable access to metadata standards used for managing scientific data.

PARTICIPATION

Participation is open to 1.) workshop presenters, and 2.) general participants/viewers interested in attending the CAMP-4-DATA. Workshop registration is required.

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

CAMP-4-DATA seeks contributions in three categories:

1.) Short Papers (1 to 3 pages). A short paper cogently addressing CAMP-4-DATA goals. Papers may define current challenges, propose a solution, or report on research underway to advance efforts toward developing a collective and sustainable metadata directory.

2.) Abstracts about metadata tools and technologies (200 words, maximum).
An abstract summarizing a metadata application or technology that can address the CAMP-4-DATA goals. Metadata tools and technologies will be demonstrated during the workshop exhibition period.

3.) Position Statements (250 word/1 page--maximum). A statement defining a specific infrastructure challenge or policy need that can be discussed during the CAMP-4-DATA breakout session. Policy statement authors will be expected to facilitate a discussion on their stated issue and report discussion results during the workshop synthesis session.

REVISED DEADLINES & IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission Deadline: Friday, 12 July 2013
* Author Notification: Friday, 26 July 2013
* Final Copy: Friday, 9 August 2013


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Short Papers, Abstracts, and Position Statements will be peer reviewed by the Workshop Advisory Committee. At least one author from each accepted submission must be registered for the CAMP-4-Data Workshop on Friday, 6 September 2013 and in attendance for the duration of the Workshop.

Prepare your submission using the document template available <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/public/dc-docs/DC-1col.dot
>. Detailed formatting information is available at <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/doc-format>.

Upload the submission file to the electronic submissions system <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=camp4data>.

If you have any problems using the submissions system, you can email the chairs at <camp4data2013 at gmail.com<mailto:camp4data2013 at gmail.com>>.

Submissions must be accompanied by the following submission metadata for each contributing author: (a) full name, (b) institution of professional affiliation, (c) preferred email address; and (d) home country. This author information will be made publicly available for all accepted submissions.


PUBLICATION

Accepted Short Papers, Abstracts, and Position Statements will be published and made permanently and freely available on the conference website for DC-2013 at <http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013>.


Sincerely, CAMP-4-DATA DC-SAM and RDA Representatives,

Jane Greenberg, Alex Ball, Keith Jeffery, Rebecca Koskela, & Jian Qin

http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data-cfp

Full conference:  International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DC-2013, Lisbon, Portugal :
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2013


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From dotyjb at gmail.com  Fri Jun 28 12:15:42 2013
From: dotyjb at gmail.com (Jennifer Doty)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:15:42 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] Job posting: Metadata Analyst, Emory University
Message-ID: <CAGLVTpqXf=7aKe8gDB=p4UsJ-iGYO58e4OufL=MV-B=QHk5OKg@mail.gmail.com>

*Apologies for cross-posting*

Metadata Analyst, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

http://web.library.emory.edu/about/employment-opportunities/librarian-positions

The Emory University Libraries seek an energetic, service-oriented and
collaborative professional to serve as the Metadata Analyst for the Content
Division in the Robert W. Woodruff Library. The ideal candidate will
support initiatives that relate to digital scholarship, digitization,
special collections access, and other metadata-dependent efforts to
describe, manage, expose and share collections with users.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Senior Director of the Content Division, the Metadata
Analyst supports initiatives that relate to digital scholarship,
digitization, special collections access, and other metadata-dependent
efforts to describe, manage, expose and share collections with users.
Acting as an individual contributor, the incumbent may alternately lead
projects or serve as a member of a project team and provide metadata
expertise. The Metadata Analyst will interact with curators, archivists,
librarians, technologists, researchers and students to learn about and
deliver metadata solutions for projects and programs. The Metadata Analyst
focuses on creating and normalizing metadata, optimizing the
interoperability of metadata among systems, and leveraging metadata to
increase discoverability and use of collections and monitors emerging
technologies and recommends their adoption if they meet project or
long-term organizational goals. Specific duties of the incumbent include:


   -

   Provides and anticipates metadata solutions for a wide variety projects,
   services, and stakeholders, chiefly in special collections, digital
   scholarship, and IT units.
   -

   Identifies, designs, and develops schemas, ontologies, taxonomies,
   vocabularies, etc. for images, sound, video, text, realia, graphics, data,
   geospatial data, etc.
   -

   Prototypes and develops automated services and applications for metadata
   extraction, creation, normalization, analysis, transformation, syndication,
   and ingest.
   -

   Integrates semantic, linked data, and other metadata analytical
   technologies with various existing digital asset management and discovery
   platforms.
   -

   Contributes to research and development of other metadata projects and
   initiatives.
   -

   Develops training and documentation in support of metadata encoding and
   transformation for metadata librarians and catalogers.
   -

   Shares results of work with other staff through presentation and written
   documentation.
   -

   Facilitates meetings to learn about needs and to develop agreement and
   consensus.
   -

   Acts as chair of the University Libraries Metadata Working Group (MWG),
   providing leadership and direction developing and implementing best
   practices for metadata creation and management across the Emory Libraries.
   -

   Schedules meetings and sets agendas. Builds consensus through dialog and
   group problem-solving, working with individuals and groups, to reach
   agreement.
   -

   Provides updates to Library Cabinet, the senior management group.
   -

   Oversees and guides the work of the Cataloging and Authorities Working
   Group, a subgroup of the University Libraries Metadata Working Group, which
   includes the cataloging department heads from all Emory University
   libraries.


Required Qualifications

   -

   ALA-accredited master?s degree in Library and Information Science OR
   equivalent education and experience (subject expertise combined with
   appropriate industry experience and/or library experience).
   -

   Knowledge of basic administration, management and automation of various
   Content Management Systems and installed software packages.
   -

   Technical expertise including:
   -

      2+ years related experience with metadata schemas, XML, and XSLT.
      -

      Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies (RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL).
      -

      Familiarity with semantic web W3C standards and ongoing efforts.
      -

      Experience with Internet architecture and services, including HTTP,
      HTML, Web Services, JSON, JavaScript, and AJAX techniques.
      -

      Experience coding in a scripting language, such as PHP, Python, or
      Ruby.
      -

      Experience with database technologies and retrieval systems, such as
      Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres.
      -

      Experience working with APIs and in Linux/Unix server environments.
      -

   Ability to build and sustain effective interpersonal relationships with
   library staff, faculty and students, off campus faculty and administrators,
   campus administrators, etc.; ability to work productively on cross-cultural
   teams.
   -

   Evidence of analytical, organizational, communication, project, and time
   management skills and demonstrated ability to set priorities, meet
   deadlines, and complete tasks and projects on time and within budget and in
   accordance with task/project parameters.
   -

   Capacity to respond effectively to changing needs and priorities.
   -

   Demonstrated proficiency and capabilities with personal computers and
   software, the Web, and library-relevant information technology
   applications. Working knowledge of standard computer office applications
   such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint or other
   productivity software.
   -

   Demonstrated knowledge of current trends and issues in academic
   libraries or higher education.
   -

   Commitment to fostering a diverse educational environment and workplace
   and an ability to work effectively with a diverse faculty and student
   population.
   -

   Evidence of active participation, involvement, and leadership in local,
   state, regional, national, or international professional or scholarly
   associations.


Preferred Qualifications

   -

   Bachelor's degree or extensive coursework in in computer science or
   related field.
   -

   At least 2 years of professional experience working with metadata in an
   academic library setting.
   -

   Experience with Ex Libris products (Primo, Aleph, Metalib, SFX).
   -

   Knowledge of library technology protocols such as OpenURL, OAI-PMH, and
   Z39.50.


Application Procedures

Applications and nominations for the position are welcome and must be sent
to Linda Nodine via email (eul-libjobs at emory.edu). Applications may be
submitted as Word or PDF attachments and must include:

1) letter of application describing qualifications and experience;

2) current resume/vita detailing education and relevant experience; and

3) on a separate document list the names, email addresses, and telephone
numbers of 3 professional references including a current or previous
supervisor.

Candidates applying by July 10 will receive priority consideration. Review
of applications will continue until position is successfully filled. Emory
is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that welcomes and
encourages diversity and seeks applications and nominations from women and
minorities.

For complete posting, visit this website:
http://web.library.emory.edu/about/employment-opportunities/librarian-positions

--

Jennifer Doty

Data Management Specialist

Emory University | Woodruff Library

540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322

jennifer.doty at emory.edu
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From kim.patten at azgs.az.gov  Fri Jun 28 12:19:19 2013
From: kim.patten at azgs.az.gov (Kim Patten)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:19:19 -0700
Subject: [Rdap] Job Posting: Project Coordinator in Geoscience
	Cyberinfrastructure at AZGS
Message-ID: <024a01ce741b$3ebdfae0$bc39f0a0$@azgs.az.gov>

Hello and Happy Friday RDAP community!  We have just posted a few positions
that might be of interest to this listserv for project coordinators at the
Arizona Geological Survey in beautiful Tucson, AZ.  Please see below for
more information.

 

Thank you and feel free to contact me if there are any questions.

 

Kim Patten

Associate Director for Planning and Development

Arizona Geological Survey

416 W. Congress Street #100

Tucson, AZ 85701

520.209.4125

 

 

A full description is available here:
http://www.azgs.az.gov/employment_proj_coord.shtml 

Title: Project Coordinator

Location: Tucson, AZ

Salary Range: $33,535 to $41,995 DOE

 

Description: The Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) is seeking to hire Project
Coordinators to assist with a community building process, designed to
identify, test, and evaluate scenarios for governance for
cyberinfrastructure of the Geosciences as part of the EarthCube initiative.
More information on EarthCube is available at  <http://earthcube.ning.com/>
http://earthcube.ning.com and  <http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/>
http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/. Governance Project Coordinators will be
assigned to work with and support a number of project members and
constituency groups, representing a diverse set of organizations and people
from across the country, in order to handle communication, meetings and
workshop organization, researching and preparation of reports), and other
tasks as assigned. In addition, Project Coordinators will assist in a large
crowd-sourced review of the governance scenarios and models developed within
this project. This will be a fast-paced environment, requiring flexibility,
team work, and innovation. The project has been described as having the
potential to change the way scientific bodies are organized. 

 

Coordinators will report to the Project Manager and Principal Investigator.
Employment is grant-funded and contingent upon the award of a two-year
National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement to the University of
Arizona, for which the AZGS is a subawardee. The position is benefits
eligible with the State of Arizona as an uncovered, time-specified
(temporary) employee at the Arizona Geological Survey, an agency of the
State of Arizona. Continued employment beyond the project completion is
dependent upon additional grant or contract funds. Expected start date is
September 1, 2013.

 

Responsibilities Include:

1.	Provide coordination and support for a diverse set of organizations
and individuals spanning the geosciences, computer and information sciences,
and social sciences
2.	Assist with the development of a prototype governance framework for
cyberinfrastructure in the geosciences by helping evaluate and test a
variety of governance models, charters, and scenarios with a range of
stakeholder groups
3.	Develop strategic objectives in coordination with the assigned team
members and groups
4.	Prepare and assist with the evaluation of the project progress and
lessons learned
5.	Organize and facilitate workshops and meetings, both virtual
(web-based) and in-person 
6.	Monitor and evaluate contract and project objectives compliance

 

Candidates should possess the following qualifications:

*	Education or experience relevant to carrying out the project duties
successfully  
*	Excellent written and verbal communications, with the ability to
establish and maintain working relationships with  project members and
stakeholder groups
*	Facilitation of diverse groups in workshops, conference calls, and
online forums
*	Ability to synthesize results from work groups, meetings, and
reports
*	Experience with  virtual communications, social media, and 
*	Expertise with MS Office is strongly desired

 

Travel: Candidates must be willing to travel nationally; between four and
seven trips per year are expected.

 

Submit applications to: 

Please send resumes and a cover letter to
<mailto:resumes at azgs.az.gov?subject=ProjectCoordinator-LASTNAME>
resumes at azgs.az.gov with the following heading:
"ProjectCoordinator-LASTNAME"; indicate whether you are interested in
full-time employment or part-time employment within the email. Resumes will
be reviewed beginning July 15, 2013, with an expected start date of
September 1, 2013. The positions are contingent upon receipt of the
Cooperative Agreement with NSF. 

 

Location: Tucson, Arizona 

 

About AZGS & the State of Arizona:
AZGS is Arizona's Earth Science agency ( <http://www.azgs.az.gov/>
http://azgs.az.gov). Based in Tucson, AZ, we are responsible for identifying
the state's natural resources and natural hazards and communicating the
results broadly. In order to meet these challenges, we employ an
interdisciplinary team of professionals including geologists,
geomorphologists, economic geologists, natural hazard specialists, GIS
specialists, Web developers, and science outreach and administrative
personnel. AZGS is an international leader in Geoinformatics as the lead
organization on the U.S. Geoscience Information Network (USGIN) and systems
architect on the National Geothermal Data System (NGDS).

Arizona State Government is an EOE/ADA Reasonable Accommodation Employer.

All newly hired employees will be subject to the E-Verify Employment
Eligibility Verification Program.

 

 

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