From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Thu Jan 2 10:32:32 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:32:32 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: TRY IT: Fedora 4 Alpha 3 with Extensive Performance Benchmarking and Improvements In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* January 2, 2014 Contact: Andrew Woods Read it online: http://bit.ly/JwimVB *GIVE IT A TRY: Fedora 4 Alpha 3 with Extensive Performance Benchmarking, Improvements, Documentation* *Winchester, MA* The Fedora 4 team is proud to announce the third Alpha release of Fedora 4. In the continuing effort to provide early access to the quickly growing Fedora 4 feature set, this Alpha release is one of several leading up to the feature-complete Fedora 4 Beta release. The Fedora 4 development team and supporting institutions made a strong commitment and pushed to produce the Fedora 4 Alpha 3 Release?'The Holiday Release'?on Dec. 28. The list of features, performance benchmarking and improvements, and associated documentation is extensive. Release Notes: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Alpha+3+Release+Notes The Holiday Release, is a public-facing alpha release with a 'one-click run' download and associated 'Quick Start Guide' to get as much of the Fedora community as possible putting eyes on the current Fedora 4. Quick Start Guide: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Quick+Start *Give it a try*, and Happy New Year! *Complete list of features:* *Authorization* The initial pattern for Fedora 4 Authorization is that a given user request will have already been Authenticated before entering the Fedora 4 application. Authenticated user requests are expected to contain an identity and zero or more additional attributes, such as groups. These combined user attributes (in addition to other attributes which may be mapped to the requesting user) along with the requesting action are compared against configurable rules to determine if the user has the privilege to perform the action on the resource. Administrators can associate "read", "write", and "admin" roles with user principals on repository object and datastream nodes, as well as on hierarchies of nodes using: ? The restricted Access Roles REST API [4] or ? The input form [5] of the Fedora 4 HTML UI Once the access rules have been defined on repository resources, the Basic Roles-based Policy Enforcement Point [6] (if enabled) will restrict requests as described above and in further detail on the wiki [7]. The Fedora 4 authorization feature ensures that: ? Restricted child nodes of a requested node are not visible in API responses ? Deletion of a node will recursively delete its children nodes, unless the requesting user does not have sufficient privileges to delete one or more of the children, in which case the entire deletion operation will fail More details on the design and implementation of the authorization feature can be found on the following wiki page [8] and its sub-pages. *Batch Operations* This release enhances the previous batch operations capability to support a more standardized approach to performing the following actions batched as a single request: ? Retrieve multiple binary resources in a single request ? Create multiple resources in a single request ? Modify multiple resources in a single request ? Delete multiple resources in a single request In addition to batching multiple actions of the same type, create/modify/delete actions can also be mixed in a single request. Examples and feature documentation can be found on the wiki [9], along with the REST API documentation [10]. *Content Modeling* One aspect of Fedora 4 content modeling is the ability to define custom repository node-types including the node's composition (i.e. property types and multiplicity). In addition to the existing "compact node definition" [11] (CND) file, this release adds the ability to define node-types at runtime via the Fedora 4 REST-API [12]. This now allows repository managers to configure repository node-types programmatically after the application has been installed. An example set of configurations [13] have been constructed that represent an initial set of Fedora 3 content models translated into Fedora 4 node-types. *Large Files* One of the long-standing requirements of Fedora is support for the management and serving of large files. The native "projection" or "federation" capability offered by Fedora 4's underlying JCR implementation (ModeShape [14]) allows for content on the filesystem, in a database, web-accessible, etc., to be connected to and exposed through the repository. The results of testing this capability over multi-gigabyte files showed performance bottlenecks. One of the advantages of leveraging the opensource ModeShape under Fedora 4 is that we are able to push improvements upstream to that project. Modifications and enhancements to ModeShape's FileSystemConnecter [15] from the Fedora 4 team have been incorporated into ModeShape 3.6.0. The contributed updates to the ModeShape codebase provide the option to either postpone the most time-intensive "federation" action (i.e. unique internal identifier generation based on content checksum) until the content is requested or to use a faster, surrogate internal identifier in the case where performance would otherwise be unacceptable. See the "Performance Benchmark - Large files" section below for details of the limits and performance of large file support. Additional details of the "large files" approach can be found on the wiki [16]. *Search* Fedora 4 is designed to support two search services: ? External search (i.e. standalone Solr populated by repository event listener) ? Administrative search (i.e. advanced legacy field-search) *External Search* External search went through a significant round of refactoring this release in order to address performance issues discovered in the application profiling effort as well as to establish a flexible pattern for transforming resource properties into indexible fields. In a similar pattern employed by the external triplestore feature, external search relies on repository event messages to trigger index updates. These messages have been refactored to contain minimal, essential event and resource information which now eliminates the previous overhead imposed by the eventing machinery of making additional lookups back into the repository. As for the configurable identification of resources to be indexed and the definition of transformations which the external search component leverages to get a mapping of resource properties to indexible fields, the basic approach is as follows: 1. Set the property on a resource that flags it for indexing 2. Optionally, set the property on a resource that references the properties mapping transformation 3. Optionally, create a new resource that contains the actual LDPath [17] transformation referenced in the previous step More details of the external search feature and its configuration can be found on the wiki [18]. *Administrative Search* This release establishes the administrative search service. If a user-facing, full-featured search service is required of your repository, the external search is ideal. However, if a repository administrator-facing search is needed in support of queries over resource properties, then the new administrative search may suffice. Administrative search exposes both a text search over resource properties as well as a SPARQL endpoint over repository subjects. For more details on the administrative search and its usage, see the wiki [19]. *Simplified Deployment* One of the goals of Fedora 4 is to simplify the application deployment as well as the wiring of optional components and their subsequent configuration. Although there is a significant amount of work remaining towards this goal, one early step in this direction is the ability to deploy Fedora 4 by just dropping the web-application archive (WAR) file into a servlet container without the need for any additional configuration. Leveraging this simple deployment capability, this release produced a "One-Click Run" download [20] which literally enables the user to click on the download to start up a local Fedora 4 repository. A brief introduction to navigating the Fedora 4 web interface is documented on the wiki [21]. Additionally, in support of the devOps users, on-going effort is dedicated to making the deployment and configuration of Fedora 4 as straight-forward and reproducible as possible. In an attempt to eliminate the confusion as to which system properties should be set for configuring Fedora 4 persistence locations, a single system property (fcrepo.home) allows a Fedora 4 installation to specify the base directory under which all other application data will be written. Details of the deployment and configuration of Fedora 4 is described in the wiki [22]. *Storage Durability* The fundamental principles of Fedora have always included a commitment to a non-proprietary, transparent, persistence format. Within the Fedora 4 architecture, there are several available approaches to defining the backend persistence store. The two backend stores that have primarily been used so far in development are the filesystem and LevelDB [23] implementations. In both cases, Fedora 4 persists the binary content in a tree of directories and the resource properties as binary JSON. Details of the format of the JSON and nested fields is described in the wiki [24]. *Versioning* This release introduces the first implementation of the versioning [25] capability within Fedora 4. Versions can be created for a specific repository resource via the REST API [26], with the option to associate a label with the version. Additionally, auto-versioning can be enabled by setting a property on a resource that indicates the activation of auto-versioning [27]. This property can either be set at runtime by the repository user, or more globally as a default property defined in the Fedora 4 node-type definitions [28]. Resource versions are returned via the REST API and HTML interfaces. *Performance* It often goes without saying that Fedora 4 must be performant under a range of use cases and scenarios. A very specific theme of this release was ensuring those assumptions hold true, and in the cases where they do not, surface and address the reasons. The following performance-related topics received attention this release. *Profiling* Profiling was employed as an initial means of inspecting the hotspots within the codebase. In general, it was determined that the greatest sources of slowdown relate to: ? Extraneous creation of JCR sessions ? JCR node lookups ? Synchronous internal index updates *Benchmarking* In parallel to the profiling work, significant effort was put towards painting a clear picture of the current performance status of Fedora 4 across a variety of hardware, configurations, and scenarios. Tests were performed with consistent and documented setups across test servers at the following institutions: ? FIZ Karlsruhe ? Stanford University ? University of California, San Diego ? University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ? University of Wisconsin ? Yale University Tests are defined by their union of the following four variables [29]: ? Platform Profile - the hardware and networking used to conduct the tests ? Repository Profile - the Fedora-specific configuration options ? Setup Profile - the data loaded into the repository as a baseline before testing ? Workflow Profile - the specific tests performed, what tools were used, and what was measured Of particular interest are the results [30] of ingest/read/update/delete workflows with Fedora 4 single-node installation. *Performance Benchmark - Authorization* An additional set of benchmarks were collected to determine the effect of authorization on performance [31]. As expected, there is a performance penalty with authorization enabled; however, these tests tend to indicate the impact to be less than 10% across the ingest/read/update/delete functions. *Performance Benchmark - Fedora 3 vs. 4* Defining the goals for acceptable performance levels for a repository is an ambiguous task. There are many variables that come into play, and generating test cases that simulate production scenarios is not always effective. That said, one concrete measure of performance is the relative behavior of Fedora 4 in comparison to Fedora 3. Significant work remains in this comparison [32], but some initial numbers show favorably for Fedora 4's ingest capability. *Performance Benchmark - Large files* In terms of performance related to large files, this release tested the limits and performance of: ? Ingest and retrieval via the Fedora 4 REST API ? Retrieval via Fedora 4 filesystem projection In both cases, content as large as 1-TB was successfully tested with documented [33] throughput. *Documentation* As we move closer to a Beta release of Fedora 4, it is vital that there exist developer and administrator documentation for the application. An initial structuring of this documentation can be found on the wiki [34]. The following sections contain user-facing documentation: ? Administrator Guide [35] ? Developers Guide [36] ? Feature Tour [37] ? Features [38] ? Glossary [39] *Acknowledgements* This release is due to the commitment of the Fedora sponsors [40] and the effort of the following Fedora community developers: ? Benjamin Armintor - Columbia University ? Nigel Banks - Discovery Garden ? Frank Asseg - FIZ Karlsruhe ? Ye Cao - Max Planck Digital Library ? Chris Beer - Stanford University ? Esme Cowles - University of California, San Diego ? Greg Jansen - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ? Michael Durbin - University of Virginia ? Scott Prater - University of Wisconsin ? Osman Din - Yale University ? Eric James - Yale University *References* [1] https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/releases/tag/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-3 [2] https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/releases/download/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-3/fcrepo-webapp-4.0.0-alpha-3-jetty-console.war [3] https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/releases/download/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-3/fcrepo-webapp-4.0.0-alpha-3.war [4] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Access+Roles+Module[5] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Feature+Tour+-+Action+-+Access+Roles [6] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Basic+Role-based+PEP [7] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Design+Guide+-+Policy+Enforcement+Points [8] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Authorization [9] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Batch+Operations [10] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/REST+API+-+Batch+Operations [11] https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/MODE/Compact+Node+Type+(CND)+files [12] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/REST+API+-+Node+Types [13] https://github.com/futures/fcrepo-content-model-examples [14] https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/MODE/Federation [15] https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/MODE/File+system+connector [16] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Federation [17] http://wiki.apache.org/marmotta/LDPath [18] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/External+Search [19] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Admin+Search [20] https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/releases/download/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-3/fcrepo-webapp-4.0.0-alpha-3-jetty-console.war [21] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Feature+Tour [22] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Deploying+Fedora+4 [23] https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/ [24] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/ModeShape+Artifacts+Layout [25] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Versioning [26] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/REST+API+-+Versioning [27] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/How+to+set+repository-wide+auto-versioning [28] https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/blob/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-3/fcrepo-kernel/src/main/resources/fedora-node-types.cnd [29] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Performance+Testing [30] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Single-Node+Test+Results [31] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/AuthZ+-+No+AuthZ+Fedora+4+Comparison+Performance+Testing [32] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Single-Node+Test+Results#Single-NodeTestResults-Fedora3/4Comparison [33] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Large+File+Ingest+and+Retrieval [34] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Documentation [35] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Administrator+Guide [36] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Developers+Guide [37] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Feature+Tour [38] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Features [39] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Glossary [40] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Sponsors -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gulliford at uta.edu Wed Jan 8 11:44:24 2014 From: gulliford at uta.edu (Gulliford, Bradley) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:44:24 -0600 Subject: [Rdap] Getting into data hosting Message-ID: <2EA599FC682D6F4684DC0DF501E209E7A005417164@MAVMAIL2.uta.edu> Hello all (and please excuse the cross-posting to IASSIST-L)-- My library wants to start providing data hosting--acquiring hardware and inviting departments (student and faculty) to store their research data with us (saving them cost, managing format migration, preservation, etc.) Up to now we have avoided that, like most libraries, and concentrated on providing navigation (finding or linking to data stored elsewhere) and general advice. Now we want to buy (collocate or purchase cloud capacity) actual computer systems on a much larger scale than we have ever done. (Even servers were handled mostly by our university IT department.) If you have coordinated a major installation (or you have knowledge of how it's done), could I trouble you for some suggestions? Specifically my questions at this time are: 1. How did you estimate capacity required (number of bytes)? Did you just start with a number and revise it with experience, or did you do a comprehensive data census, or did you ask a few departments what they had on their PCs? 2. Did you make any arrangements for access (availability or control) other than logging regularly into your servers/hosts? 3. What kind of relationship do you have with your university IT department? Do they provide services you use? Obviously we have many more issues to consider (organizational politics, retention and versioning policies, and preservation among others) but right now we're looking at capital assets. You can reply to me and I will summarize for the list. Thank you. Brad Gulliford Data Management and Curation University of Texas at Arlington Library Arlington, Texas, USA 817 272-7156 From rhill at asis.org Wed Jan 8 14:13:00 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:13:00 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] January 23 PASIG Webinar Reminder - Policy-basedData Management Message-ID: ASIST members attend at no cost thorugh our partnership with PASIG. Dick Hill __________ Richard Hill ASIS&T Executive Director 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill at asis.org _____ From: Pasig-announce [mailto:pasig-announce-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Pasquinelli Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:54 PM To: pasig-announce at mail.asis.org Subject: [Pasig-announce] January 23 PASIG Webinar Reminder - Policy-basedData Management PASIG Webinar: Policy-based Data Management Webinar Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 11:30am-12:30pm (EST) To register, go to; http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-1-23-2014-register.ht ml The DataNet Federation Consortium (DFC) is an NSF funded project to assemble national data cyberinfrastructure through the federation of existing data management systems. The DFC uses the iRODS data grid middleware to implement the interoperability mechanisms needed to federate heterogeneous data repositories, information catalogs, and workflow systems. The DFC provides a collaboration environment that enables researchers to share their data products and workflows, while managing both publication and preservation of research results. A specific intent is support for reproducible data-driven research. The DFC is collaborating with the iRODS Consortium on the implementation of iRODS version 4.0. This provides a pluggable architecture for production environments, enabling the addition of new storage systems, micro-services, and authentication systems to a running system. The expectation is that data products developed in a research project will be first shared, then analyzed through processing pipelines, then published, and then preserved. At each stage, the resources used to manage the data may change, the policies used to control the environment will change, and the user community will broaden. Viable data cyberinfrastructure gracefully handles the evolution of a data collection. Presenter: Dr. Reagan W. Moore Director, Data Intensive Cyber-Environments Center Chief Scientist, Data Intensive Cyber-Environments at RENCI Professor, School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 22 Manning Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Telephone: 919 962 9548 Fax: 919 962 8071 Reagan Moore is the Director of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, professor in the School of Information and Library Science, and Chief Scientist at the Renaissance Computing Institute. Moore coordinates research efforts in development of policy-based data management systems that are used to support data grids, digital libraries, processing pipelines and persistent archives. Moore is the co-principal investigator for the development of the integrated Rule Oriented Data System (iRODS). The iRODS technology automates the application of management policies, automates validation of assessment criteria, and minimizes the labor required to manage massive distributed data collections. The iRODS software is available as an open source distribution at http://irods.diceresearch.org. Moore has a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (1967), and a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego (1978). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00811.txt URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Thu Jan 9 10:26:01 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 10:26:01 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] ALERT: Time to Get Ready to Submit Your OR2014 Proposal! Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* January 9, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1ghYi3Q *GET READY to Submit Your OR2014 Proposal* *A message from the Open Repositories 2014 Conference organizers* As the year turns it's time to look forward to the Ninth International Conference on Open Repositories , OR2014 (#or2014). The conference will take place June 9-13 in Helsinki, Finland hosted by University of Helsinki?s twin libraries: Helsinki University Library and the National Library of Finland . The theme this year is "Towards Repository Ecosystems" emphasizing the interconnected nature of repositories, institutions, technologies, data and the people who make it all work together. There are several different formats (see below) provided to encourage your participation in this year's conference. With the deadline for submissions fast approaching the organizers invite you to review the call for proposals here: http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=281, and to submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2014/ by Feb. 3, 2014. KEY DATES ? 3 February 2014: Deadline for submissions ? 4 April 2014: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference ? 17 April 2014: Submitters notified of acceptance to interest groups ? 9-13 June 2014: OR2014 conference SUBMISSION PROCESS *Conference Papers and Panels* We welcome proposals that are at least two pages and no more than four pages in length for presentations or panels that deal with digital repositories and repository services. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made available through the conference?s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, as appropriate, as an Interest Group presentation. *Interest Group Presentations* One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (DSpace, ePrints, Fedora and Invenio) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms. *24x7 Presentation Proposals* We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24x7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated discussion / question and answer session involving the audience and whole block of presenters. This format will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions, and presenters the chance to disseminate their work in more depth and context than a traditional poster. *"Repository Rants" 24x7 Block* One block of 24x7's at OR14 will revolve around "repository rants": brief expos?s that challenge the conventional wisdom or practice, and highlight what the repository community is doing that is misguided, or perhaps just missing altogether. The top proposals will be incorporated into a track meant to provoke unconventional approaches to repository services. *Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"* We invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters, demonstrations, technical how-tos and technology briefings. Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn?t appropriate for a paper; you?ll have the chance to do a 60-second pitch for your poster or demo during a plenary session at the conference. Developer "How-To's" will provide a forum for running a mini-tutorial or demonstration in the developer lounge, if there are enough interested parties. *Developer Challenge* Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services, and once again OR2014 will feature a Developer Challenge. An announcement will be made in the future with more details on the Challenge. Developers are also encouraged to make submissions to the other tracks--including posters, demonstrations, and 24x7 presentations--to present on recently completed work and works-in-progress. *Workshops and Tutorials* One- to two-page proposals for Workshops and Tutorials addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. Please address the following in your proposal: ? The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey ? Length of session (e.g., 1-hour, 2-hour? half a day? whole day?) ? How many attendees you plan to accommodate ? Technology and facility requirements ? Any other supplies or support required ? A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session ? Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session Submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal through the conference system. PDF format is preferred. Please include presentation title, authors? names and affiliations in the submission. The conference system is now open and is linked from the conference web site: http://or2014.helsinki.fi/ See you in Helsinki! -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From regina.avila at nist.gov Fri Jan 10 09:36:10 2014 From: regina.avila at nist.gov (Avila, Regina L.) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:36:10 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] ** Job Announcement ** Scientific Research Data Librarian Position at the NIST Message-ID: <4a05a66f364f4f7d89a972e05c0c3fa7@BY2PR09MB030.namprd09.prod.outlook.com> ** Job Announcement ** Scientific Research Data Librarian Position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Announcement Number: ADMR-2014-0005 Position Title: Librarian ZA-1410-III (GS-11/12 equivalent) Salary: $62467.00 - $97333.00 Position Information: Term Appointment, not to exceed 2 years Hiring Agency: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY Duty Locations: Gaithersburg, MD, US Open Period: 01/10/2014 - 01/31/2014 The Information Services Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking an experienced individual to help accelerate the development of the Office's research data management services. ISO is a team-based environment, which emphasize knowledge sharing and collaboration to provide services to NIST scientific and technical staff throughout their research and publishing cycles. The selectee will serve as a Scientific Research Data Librarian to identify strategies for understanding and responding to the evolving research data service needs of NIST researchers. In partnership with ISO's Digital Services Librarian, the selectee will assist NIST researchers formulate data management plans, and prepare data for publication, reporting, and repository ingest. The selectee will identify and recommend tools, techniques, and practices for management of research data throughout its lifecycle. The selectee will also monitor, investigate, and report on emerging trends, best practices, and technologies in digital data stewardship, e-science, scholarly publishing, and open access. Education This position has an education requirement. You must submit a copy of your transcripts to document that you have met the education requirement. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. Official transcripts will be required prior to a final offer of employment. The job requires the following knowledge, skills and abilities/competencies: * Knowledge of the life cycle of research data in the context of scholarly publishing and digital preservation. * Skill in applying methods to curate research data. * Skill in using tools for managing digital data. * Ability to communicate orally and in writing with all levels of stakeholders and customers. * Ability to plan and deliver training on research data management to all levels of stakeholders and customers. * Knowledge of current issues in eScience/eResearch. * Ability to analyze and synthesize complex concepts and issues, draw conclusions, and make recommendations. Qualifications In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities, as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing you experience. Basic Requirements for Librarian ZA-1410: (Transcripts must be submitted) Successful completion of one full academic year of graduate study in library science in an accredited college or university, in addition to completion of all work required for a Bachelor's degree. OR Successful completion of a total of at least five years of a combination of college-level education, training, and experience. To qualify on this basis, the applicant must establish conclusively that the education, training, and experience provided a knowledge and understanding of the theories, principles, and techniques of professional librarianship; knowledge of literature resources; and the knowledge and abilities essential for providing effective library and information services. In addition to meeting the educational requirements above, applicants must have specialized experience and/or directly related education. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE (GS-11 OR ZA-III at NIST): Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-09) or pay band (ZA-II) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience providing scientific research data management services. Specialized experience can include experience in a college or university library which demonstrates professional knowledge and experience with research data life cycle; applying methods to curate research data; skill in using tools for managing digital data. SUBSTITUTE FOR SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE (GS-11 or ZA-III at NIST): Successful completion of three full years of progressively higher level graduate education in library science or doctoral degree related to the position Or A combination of education and experience as described above that equates to one year of experience. To Apply, go to USAJobs.gov: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/358805300 ____________________________________ Regina Avila Digital Services Librarian National Institute of Standards and Technology 301-975-3575 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Donna.Kafel at umassmed.edu Mon Jan 13 10:41:37 2014 From: Donna.Kafel at umassmed.edu (Kafel, Donna) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:41:37 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] New England e-Science Symposium: registration still open Message-ID: <796428EE4BB0764AB85A62F1BE459CE50E3D15@ummscsmbx02.ad.umassmed.edu> Dear Colleagues, Registration is still open for the April 9th University of Massachusetts and New England Librarian e-Science Symposium. Now in its sixth year, the 2014 symposium will feature presentations focusing on the theme "Librarians Working with Data" and will be held at the University of Massachusetts Medical School at its university campus in Worcester, MA. For further details about the day's program and registration link, please see the 2014 e-Science Symposium conference page at http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium/2014/ Are you interested in sharing your e-Science projects and activities? Consider submitting a proposal for the symposium's poster session! Symposium posters will be judged on the following categories: Most Effective in Communicating e-Science Librarianship, Best Example of e-Science in Action, and Best Poster Overall. The deadline for submitting poster proposals is Feb. 1, 2014. Details can be found on the e-Science Symposium's Poster Proposal submission page at http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium/posters.html Sincerely, Donna Kafel, MLIS Project Coordinator for e-Science Lamar Soutter Library University of Massachusetts Medical School 55 Lake Ave. North Worcester, MA 01655 e-Science Symposium on YouTube The e-Science Portal for New England Librarians -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu Thu Jan 16 12:53:06 2014 From: Andrew.M.Johnson at colorado.edu (Andrew Johnson) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:53:06 -0700 Subject: [Rdap] RDAP14 Program Announced! Message-ID: <52753C28B6A57A4A8E08C9FFEC98A016538AB3EBD0@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2014 (RDAP14) March 26-28, Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA http://www.asis.org/rdap/ The RDAP14 program is now available here!: http://www.asis.org/rdap/program/ The RDAP14 Program Committee is very excited to present a fantastic lineup of speakers, panels, posters, and lightning talks offering a wide range of perspectives on research data access and preservation issues. With over 40 universities, funding agencies, data centers, and other institutions represented on the program, this year's RDAP will provide a unique opportunity for our community to come together to share our progress to date, lessons learned, and strategies for the challenges ahead. In addition to the regular programming, we are offering two hands-on workshops that will allow attendees to develop skills necessary for building and growing crucial components of institutional efforts to support research data. Workshop descriptions and registration information are available here: http://www.asis.org/rdap/workshops/ Early Bird registration for RDAP14 is offered until February 14th: https://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP14/rdap14regform.php Links to hotel information, social media channels, and more are available on the RDAP14 website: http://www.asis.org/rdap/ Additional program details will be announced soon. We hope that you will join us in San Diego for RDAP14! Andrew Johnson RDAP14 Program Chair http://www.asis.org/rdap/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Working with the University Libraries, the Data Management Services Group (www.cmu.edu/research/data-management), and one of the Colleges/Schools at CMU, the CLIR Fellow will: 1) Audit the research data management practices at one or more of the colleges/schools at the university (e.g. Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Institute of Technology) in order to estimate current and potential future data sharing practices and to contextualize the results of the audit in the interdisciplinary and highly computational research environment of Carnegie Mellon 2) Design data management workflows, policies, and strategies based on targeted research datasets from the audit, including metadata creation and repository deposit 3) Participate in the development of university-level research data management policies 4) Build education, training, and outreach programs for the data management services at Carnegie Mellon For more information about Carnegie Mellon and about this position, please see the full position description: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/cmu2014 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Steve Van Tuyl Data Services Librarian Carnegie Mellon University - University Libraries Pittsburgh, PA 15213 www.cmu.edu/research/data-management p| 412.268.6107 e| svantuyl at andrew.cmu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This month, D-Lib features DataVis.ca, courtesy of Michael Friendly, Professor of Psychology, Chair of the graduate program in Quantitative Methods at York University. The guest editorial is: Building Global Infrastructure for Data Sharing and Exchange Through the Research Data Alliance by Fran Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ross Wilkinson, Australian National Data Service; John Wood, The Association of Commonwealth Universities The articles include: Synthesis of Working Group and Interest Group Activity One Year into the Research Data Alliance by Beth Plale, Indiana University Data Type Registries: A Research Data Alliance Working Group by Daan Broeder, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Improving Access to Recorded Language Data by Simon Musgrave, Monash University, Australian National Corpus Opening and Linking Agricultural Research Data by Esther Dzale Yeumo Kabore, French National Institute for Agricultural Research; Devika Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute; Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Office of the United Nations Organizational Status of RDA by Mark A. Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The conference reports are: Data Identification and Citation - The Key to Unlocking the Promise of Data Sharing and Reuse by Adam Farquhar, British Library and DataCite; Jan Brase, DataCite Big Humanities Data Workshop at IEEE Big Data 2013 by Tobias Blanke, Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities, Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College London; Mark Hedges, King's College London; Richard Marciano, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the January/February 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. Each mirror site has its own schedule for replicating D-Lib Magazine and, while most sites are quite responsive, on occasion there could be a delay of as much as 24 hours between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers at dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From tdzuba at gmail.com Tue Jan 21 23:44:07 2014 From: tdzuba at gmail.com (Tyler Dzuba) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:44:07 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] How to Get Things Done: A Guide for Librarians (ACRL New Members DG at Midwinter) Message-ID: Hello, all, I hope you will join the ACRL New Members Discussion Group at ALA Midwinter for a roundtable discussion on where collegiality meets productivity in libraries. More info below: *Title: How to Get Things Done: A Guide for Librarians**When: *Sunday, January 26, 2014, 10:30 am to 11:30 am*Where:* PCC 121A*Scheduler Link:* http://alamw14.ala.org/node/12564 #GTDlibraries Summary: Many librarians, especially those in the early part of their career, struggle to identify opportunities for change in their workplaces while also maintaining a good relationship with colleagues. This session will cover how to pick your battles, how to identify opportunities for change, and when to accept things as they are. We will have four panelists at this event: Aaron Dobbs, Heather McNabb, Michelle S. Millet, and Sha Towers. This session is sponsored by the ACRL New Member Discussion Group, but will be appropriate for librarians of all types. *Panelist Bios:* *Sha Towers *is the Director of Liaison Services at the Baylor University Libraries, where he leads a team of nine liaison librarians and twenty three public services staff members across five service points. Prior to that he served as the head of Baylor's Fine Arts Library for nine years. He holds an MLIS from University of Texas at Austin. He lives in the tension between being a procrastinator and productivity junky. You can find him online at about.me/shatowers. *Heather McNabb* is a Branch Manager at Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library. She was previously the Director at the Poseyville Carnegie Public Library for over 3 years. Ms. McNabb serves on the Indiana Library Federation Board, the Indiana State Library?s Professional Development Committee, and was a member of the inaugural 2012 cohort for the Indiana Librarians Leadership Academy. By speaking up and speaking out McNabb likes to shake things up and challenge the status quo at the libraries where she works. *Aaron Dobbs* is the Systems Librarian at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. After working in both public and special libraries, he transitioned to academic librarianship at Austin Peay State University. In this position, he found improvements easier to explore and advocate, which led to his current role at Shippensburg. His experiences with overcoming obstacles to change and passive resistance have served him well both in his day job and within ALA. Aaron carries an illustrious record in ALA, including longstanding service on ALA Council and work on the Board of Directors of LITA. *Michelle S. Millet *is the Library Director at John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH. She's been in her position since August 2012. Previously, she's worked at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Trinity University, and The University of Montana. She likes to ask questions about why we do what we do in libraries and encourages librarians and staff to take risks and sometimes fail. Her research interests include information literacy across the curriculum, the role of the library in student success and retention, and library and campus assessment. -td Tyler Dzuba | Head, Physics-Optics-Astronomy Library | University of Rochester 585-275-7659 (main) | 585-275-5965 (secondary) | @silent_d -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Users will be able to ingest and manage their content in DuraCloud for easy-to-use offsite cloud backup and archiving, and also push a copy of their content into the Digital Preservation Network for long-term preservation. The DuraCloud software enables users to upload their content and create a snapshot of that content at any point by simply clicking a button in the user interface. The snapshot created in DuraCloud is transferred to Chronopolis, where checksums for each content item are verified, a manifest is generated, and the snapshot is moved into Chronopolis storage. Chronopolis is a preservation node in the DPN network. Once content is in Chronopolis, copies are replicated to a minimum of two other nodes in the network and monitored for life. As an added benefit, a listing of the content that comprises each snapshot is accessible in the DuraCloud interface. Users can retrieve content from Chronopolis by requesting a stored snapshot in DuraCloud. Content can then be transferred out of Chronopolis storage and restored to the DuraCloud content staging area in DuraCloud. DuraCloud also provides the option of keeping snapshotted content to Chronopolis available for immediate download using another DuraCloud storage provider. *About Chronopolis* The Chronopolis digital preservation network (https://chronopolis.sdsc.edu) has the capacity to preserve hundreds of terabytes of digital data-data of any type or size, with minimal requirements on the data provider. Chronopolis comprises several partner organizations that provide a wide range of services. The partners include the UC San Diego Library, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). The project leverages high-speed networks, mass-scale storage capabilities, and the expertise of the partners in order to provide a geographically distributed, heterogeneous, and highly redundant archive system. Features of the project include: three geographically distributed copies of the data; curatorial audit reporting; and the development of best practices for data packaging and sharing. A Center for Research Libraries (CRL) audit has certified Chronopolis as a "trustworthy digital repository" that meets accepted best practices in the management of digital repositories. The TRAC criteria includes organizational infrastructure, digital object management, technologies, technical infrastructure, and security. These criteria represent best current practices and thinking about the organizational and technological needs of trustworthy digital repositories. *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 (DSpace, Fedora) and creating services (DuraCloud, DSpaceDirect) 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." -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From John.Kratz at ucop.edu Wed Jan 22 14:50:03 2014 From: John.Kratz at ucop.edu (John Kratz) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:50:03 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Data Publication Survey (Corrected) Message-ID: Apologies for sending another email about the same thing. It seems that auto text wrapping broke the URLs in my previous email. Here is the whole thing again, with shortened links: Dear colleague, The California Digital Library (CDL) is conducting a survey of researcher practices and perceptions around data publication. Our aim is to learn what a "data publication" should look like? what is needed to make a dataset reuseable and to properly credit its creator(s). In addition to informing our efforts at the CDL, the results will be published for use by the library community. The survey is anonymous (although University of California researchers have the option of providing contact information for followup). Would you be willing to ask the researchers at your institution to participate? We are interested in responses from researchers at any level in any branch of the Sciences or Social Sciences. Email text directed at researchers with the survey link follows. The survey will be open from now until the end of February. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. More information can be found here: http://goo.gl/RcN1XF The survey is here: http://goo.gl/PuIVoC Thank you, John Kratz, Ph.D. CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation California Digital Library 415 20th St., 4th Floor Oakland, CA 94612 john.kratz at ucop.edu -------------------------------------------------------------- Distributable email: Greetings, The California Digital Library (CDL) is conducting a survey of researcher practices and perceptions around data publication. Our aim is to learn what a "data publication" should look like? what should accompany a dataset to make it re-useable and to properly credit its creator(s). The results will help to shape our efforts at the CDL, and form the basis of a publication available to anyone. If you are involved in research in any branch of the Sciences or Social Sciences, we would be grateful for your response. Your response is valuable even if you have never shared/published data or given much thought to the issues involved. In addition, please consider sharing this email with any of your colleagues who might be interested. The survey can be taken anonymously in 5-10 minutes. It is available through the following link: http://goo.gl/PuIVoC Thank you, John Kratz, Ph.D. CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation California Digital Library 415 20th St., 4th Floor Oakland, CA 94612 john.kratz at ucop.edu From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov Thu Jan 23 09:26:33 2014 From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:26:33 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: Call for SciDataCon 2014 International Scientific Programme Committee Candidates References: <51AD3023-BB6F-4009-A648-73F366307219@codata.org> Message-ID: I don't what people's travel funds are looking like for the year, but I thought I'd pass this along. -Joe Begin forwarded message: > From: CODATA ED > Date: January 23, 2014 6:10:21 AM EST > To: DATA-PUBLICATION at JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Call for SciDataCon 2014 International Scientific Programme Committee Candidates > Reply-To: CODATA ED > > CODATA (ICSU's Committee on Data for Science and Technology) http://www.codata.org and the ICSU World Data System http://www.icsu-wds.org are collaborating to organise a joint conference, SciDataCon 2014 http://www.scidatacon2014.org in New Delhi on 2-5 November 2014. > > Highlighting the theme of 'Data Sharing and Integration for Global Sustainability', this will be a major international conference addressing various issues relating to data and international research. > > CODATA and WDS invite applications for expert members of the International Scientific Programme Committee. Further details are below and in a pdf attachment. Please submit applications no later than 14 February 2014 using the online form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hie81RpuLZZLK-9V1MR9fanSr7d1MxcnXyvNNdWVgaA/viewform > > With very best wishes, > > Simon Hodson, Executive Director CODATA, and Mustapha Mokrane, Executive Director WDS. > > http://codata.org/blog/2014/01/23/call-for-scidatacon-2014-international-scientific-programme-committee-candidates/ > > > > SciDataCon 2014: Invitation for International Scientific Programme Committee Candidates > > Below is the text of the Call for Candidates issued jointly by CODATA and ICSU-WDS. > > Dear Colleagues, > > Data are essential to all scientific endeavours. The emerging cultures of data sharing and publication, open access to, and reuse of data are positive signs of an evolving research environment. Nevertheless, several cultural and technological challenges are still preventing the scientific and research community from realizing the full benefits of these trends. > > The Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) http://www.codata.org and the World Data System (WDS) http://www.icsu-wds.org, interdisciplinary bodies of the International Council for Science (ICSU) http://www.icsu.org are supporting and encouraging these positive changes by actively promoting effective data policies and good data management practices in the scientific and research community, to produce better science, which ultimately benefits society. Likewise, the challenges and opportunities of ?Big Data? may have ramifications for the conduct of science: the value and importance of data are being recognized more than ever before. > > As a major contribution to this effort, the two organizations are co-sponsoring and organizing a high profile international biennial conference on scientific research data. SciDataCon will provide a unique platform bringing together international experts and practitioners in data sciences, technologies and management; researchers from the natural, social, health and computer sciences, and from the humanities; research funders; policy makers and advisors. > > The sustainability challenges facing society today cannot be solved without multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on global sustainability that requires the use, sharing and integration of data across scientific disciplines and domains and from international sources. The effectiveness and credibility of this research will rely on the availability to the scientific and research community of quality-assessed and interoperable datasets. > > To facilitate the work of international research undertakings?including the Future Earth international research programme on global sustainability launched by ICSU and its partners in 2014?and amplify the message of like-minded global data initiatives promoting data sharing and interoperability?including the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the recently established Research Data Alliance (RDA)?SciDataCon 2014 http://www.scidatacon2014.org will highlight the theme of Data Sharing and Integration for Global Sustainability. > > The conference will take place on 2?5 November 2014 in New Delhi, India and will be hosted by the Indian National Science Academy. With high-level keynotes, a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, and a stimulating poster session, SciDataCon is conceived as a focussed?yet inclusive?conference to address the issues most important to the global scientific and research community as they pertain to data and information. The International Scientific Programme Committee will play a key role in implementing the scientific programme with innovative online consultation and input from research and data science communities worldwide. > > We invite applications for expert members of the International Scientific Programme Committee. Please submit applications no later than 14 February 2014 using the online form available here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hie81RpuLZZLK-9V1MR9fanSr7d1MxcnXyvNNdWVgaA/viewform > > Sent on behalf of Huadong GUO, President, CODATA and Bernard Minster, Chair, ICSU World Data System > > > ___________________________ > Dr Simon Hodson | Executive Director CODATA | http://www.codata.org > > E-Mail: execdir at codata.org | Twitter: @simonhodson99 | Skype: simonhodson99 > Blog: http://www.codata.org/blog > Diary: http://bit.ly/simonhodson99-calendar > Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96 | Tel (Cell): +33 6 86 30 42 59 > > CODATA (ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE > > From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Thu Jan 23 10:14:44 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:14:44 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Fwd: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository Introduces Mobile-Friendly Design In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: January 23, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1aMd6qP *World Bank Open Knowledge Repository Introduces Mobile-Friendly Design* *Washington, DC* In keeping up with the rapid growth in mobile usage worldwide, the World Bank just relaunched the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)?its open access portal to its publications and research?on an upgraded platform specifically optimized for mobile use. The relaunched OKR website, at www.openknowledge.worldbank.org, features a ?responsive web design? that automatically adapts to the screen size of any device?whether desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. ?Knowing that nearly half of OKR users are in developing countries where mobile devices are increasingly being used to access the internet, relaunching the OKR with responsive design was a no-brainer,? said Carlos Rossel, World Bank Publisher. ?Now, when users access the OKR from their smartphones or tablets, they will have a greatly improved user experience.? The benefits of this change will ultimately extend well beyond users of the OKR. The World Bank and @mire? the DSpace service provider supporting the development of the OKR?are applying the same responsive design principles in the development of Mirage 2, a theme for DSpace that will be freely available. DSpace is the open source platform on which the OKR is built, and it is used by more than 1,500 organizations worldwide for their institutional repositories. The OKR upgrade brings other user enhancements such as improved search, related title recommendations, enhanced author profiles, and the adoption of a new Creative Commons license specifically adapted for use by International Governmental Organizations (CC BY IGO). Currently, more than 13,000 publications are available in the OKR in PDF and text formats. In the future, more file formats will be added, making the mobile experience even more convenient for users. Since the OKR's launch in April 2012, there have been more than 2.6 million downloads of World Bank Group publications from 231* countries and territories around the world. The OKR was recently described by Creative Commons as ??one of the most important hubs for economic scholarship in the world." It was also selected by the American Library Association as one of the ?Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2013.? In coming weeks, the World Bank will also be launching a mobile version of the World Bank eLibrary ?a subscription-based website with special features designed to meet the specific needs of researchers and libraries. Like the standard eLibrary website, the mobile version will supply search results at the chapter-level for its most recent titles, along with several user tools and features, such as individual accounts for saving searches and favorites, and customized content alerts. *According to Google Analytics -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Visitors to the site can view or download: - DIL Scenario Exercises - Presentations and Discussions - Posters - DIL Competencies Exercise - DIL Program Assessment Exercise We hope you find this resource useful and encourage you to share it with others who might be interested. The DIL Project team More information about the Data Information Project can be found on our website: http://datainfolit.org. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lisa Johnston Research Data Management/Curation Lead and Co-Director of the University Digital Conservancy University of Minnesota Libraries 108 Walter Library, Minneapolis, MN 55455 p: 612.624.4216 F: 612.625.5583 http://lib.umn.edu/datamanagement | http://conservancy.umn.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He joins the DuraSpace team after serving as the program manager at DiscoveryGarden since 2012. His responsibilities included managing the delivery of all client projects and presenting on Islandora and Fedora topics at workshops and conferences around the world. He was formerly the training and support coordinator at the University of Prince Edward Island where he wrote and maintained Islandora project documentation. He provided support for the online community through the users and developers mailing lists. David graduated with a Master of Library and Information Studies degree from Dalhousie University in 2010. He earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Philosophy from St. Thomas University in 2005. The DuraSpace and Fedora project teams would like to extend a warm welcome to David in his new role as the Fedora product manager, and look forward to his contributions towards Fedora's continued growth and success. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From regina.avila at nist.gov Wed Jan 29 15:20:36 2014 From: regina.avila at nist.gov (Avila, Regina L.) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:20:36 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Job Application Deadline Extended -- Scientific Research Data Librarian Position at the NIST Message-ID: Please excuse the cross-post This job application deadline has been extended to Feb. 14, 2014 ** Job Announcement ** Scientific Research Data Librarian Position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Announcement Number: ADMR-2014-0005 Position Title: Librarian ZA-1410-III (GS-11/12 equivalent) Salary: $62467.00 - $97333.00 Position Information: Term Appointment, not to exceed 2 years Hiring Agency: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY Duty Locations: Gaithersburg, MD, US Open Period: 01/10/2014 - 02/14/2014 The Information Services Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking an experienced individual to help accelerate the development of the Office's research data management services. ISO is a team-based environment, which emphasize knowledge sharing and collaboration to provide services to NIST scientific and technical staff throughout their research and publishing cycles. The selectee will serve as a Scientific Research Data Librarian to identify strategies for understanding and responding to the evolving research data service needs of NIST researchers. In partnership with ISO's Digital Services Librarian, the selectee will assist NIST researchers formulate data management plans, and prepare data for publication, reporting, and repository ingest. The selectee will identify and recommend tools, techniques, and practices for management of research data throughout its lifecycle. The selectee will also monitor, investigate, and report on emerging trends, best practices, and technologies in digital data stewardship, e-science, scholarly publishing, and open access. Education This position has an education requirement. You must submit a copy of your transcripts to document that you have met the education requirement. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. Official transcripts will be required prior to a final offer of employment. The job requires the following knowledge, skills and abilities/competencies: * Knowledge of the life cycle of research data in the context of scholarly publishing and digital preservation. * Skill in applying methods to curate research data. * Skill in using tools for managing digital data. * Ability to communicate orally and in writing with all levels of stakeholders and customers. * Ability to plan and deliver training on research data management to all levels of stakeholders and customers. * Knowledge of current issues in eScience/eResearch. * Ability to analyze and synthesize complex concepts and issues, draw conclusions, and make recommendations. Qualifications In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities, as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing you experience. Basic Requirements for Librarian ZA-1410: (Transcripts must be submitted) Successful completion of one full academic year of graduate study in library science in an accredited college or university, in addition to completion of all work required for a Bachelor's degree. OR Successful completion of a total of at least five years of a combination of college-level education, training, and experience. To qualify on this basis, the applicant must establish conclusively that the education, training, and experience provided a knowledge and understanding of the theories, principles, and techniques of professional librarianship; knowledge of literature resources; and the knowledge and abilities essential for providing effective library and information services. In addition to meeting the educational requirements above, applicants must have specialized experience and/or directly related education. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE (GS-11 OR ZA-III at NIST): Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-09) or pay band (ZA-II) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience providing scientific research data management services. Specialized experience can include experience in a college or university library which demonstrates professional knowledge and experience with research data life cycle; applying methods to curate research data; skill in using tools for managing digital data. SUBSTITUTE FOR SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE (GS-11 or ZA-III at NIST): Successful completion of three full years of progressively higher level graduate education in library science or doctoral degree related to the position Or A combination of education and experience as described above that equates to one year of experience. To Apply, go to USAJobs.gov: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/358805300 ____________________________________ Regina Avila Digital Services Librarian National Institute of Standards and Technology 301-975-3575 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.lease.morgan at gmail.com Wed Jan 29 09:57:48 2014 From: eric.lease.morgan at gmail.com (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:57:48 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] DIL Symposium Materials now available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Jan 28, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Lisa Johnston wrote: > Our team is pleased to announce that video and content from the Data Information Literacy Symposium held at Purdue University in September 2013 has been fully archived and is now available for viewing at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dilsymposium/. I attended this Symposium and it was well worth my time. From my travelogue: Data Information Literacy @ Purdue By this time last week I had come and gone to the Data Information Literacy (DIL) Symposium at Purdue University. It was a very well-organized event, and I learned a number of things. First of all, I believe the twelve DIL Competencies were well-founded and articulated: * conversion & interoperability * cultures of practice * curation & re-use * databases & formats * discovery & acquisition * ethics & attribution * management & organization * metadata & description * preservation * processing & analytics * quality & documentation * visualization & representation For more detail of what these competencies mean and how they were originally articulated, see: Carlson, Jake R.; Fosmire, Michael; Miller, Chris; and Sapp Nelson, Megan, "Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study of Students and Research Faculty" (2011). Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research. Paper 23. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_fsdocs/23 I also learned about Bloom's Taxonomy, a classification of learning objectives. At the bottom of this hierarchy/classification is remembering. The next level up is understanding. The third level is application. At the top of the hierarchy/classification is analysis, evaluation, and creation. According to the model, a person needs to move from remembering through to analysis, evaluation, and creation in order to really say they have learned something. Some of my additional take-aways included: spend time teaching graduate students about data information literacy, and it is almost necessary to be imbedded or directly involved in the data collection process in order to have a real effect ? get into the lab. About 100 people attended the event. It was two days long. Time was not wasted. There were plenty of opportunities for discussion & interaction. Hat's off to Purdue. From my point of view, y'all did a good job. "Thank you.? http://blogs.nd.edu/emorgan/2013/10/dil/ ? 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The theme this year is "Towards Repository Ecosystems" emphasizing the interconnected nature of repositories, institutions, technologies, data and the people who make it all work together. You may review the call for proposals here: http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=281. This year the Open Repositories team will be operating a pilot programme to offer a small number of 'registration fee only' scholarships for this conference. Details will be announced on the conference website when registration opens. *Submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2014/ by Feb. 10, 2014.* We look forward to seeing you at OR2014! -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: