From chudson at wustl.edu Thu Apr 2 09:55:57 2015 From: chudson at wustl.edu (Hudson Vitale, Cynthia) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 13:55:57 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Data Specialist at Washington University in St. Louis Message-ID: <1427983272607.22178@wustl.edu> **Please excuse cross-postings** Position Title: Data Specialist The Data Specialist works closely with faculty and Data & GIS Services team (a unit within University Libraries) to translate research models and processes related to data collection, data management, and data visualization specifically focused on research. Daily activities include writing scripts for applications and web delivery of research data needed to meet funding agency requirements Project work includes both funded and unfunded research; Performs administrative tasks related to applications running in an enterprise network environment. Works as a liason with library systems and university wide IT staff on project scoping and installation best practices. Administration on service level applications deployed on university owned and cloud based systems; evelops content and provides instruction (teaches workshops) on data collection, data analysis and curation to faculty, students and staff. Content development for web presence on same topics; Stays informed on new and emerging technologies, methodologies and implementation strategies relating to research data. Recommends and communicates new solutions in professional manner to faculty and staff. Required Qualifications * Bachelor's degree in information science, library systems, math, engineering, or closely related field, plus two years of demonstrated experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience. * Experience in contributing to fast paced teams and working with minimal direction. * Ability to develop big picture ideas to concrete deliverables. * Demonstrated success in complex systems and problem solving * Energy, creativity, strong organizational skills, tolerance for occasional project ambiguity * Ability to work unsupervised or as a member of a team * Demonstrated ability to scope and meet project deadlines * Experience in working with enterprise level database management systems * Working knowledge of Windows, Linux, VMs, XML, Fedora, Python Javascript or similar environments a plus * Desire to work in professional service oriented role interacting with faculty and students on research projects. * Must be willing and able to work directly with faculty and able to work directly with undergraduate and graduate students. * Ability to travel overnight to yearly conferences and training events as needed. * Ability to move computer equipment (less than 50lbs.) 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URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Fri Apr 3 12:39:59 2015 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:39:59 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] STATEMENT: OR2015 Conference Stands Behind Commitment to Ensure All Participants are Treated With Respect Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* April 3, 2015 Read it online: http://www.or2015.net/open-to-all/ Contact: http://www.or2015.net/contact-us/ *Open Repositories, Open to All: OR2015 Conference Stands Behind Commitment to Ensure All Participants are Treated With Respect* Indianapolis, IN The Open Repositories 2015 conference will take place June 8-11 in Indianapolis and is wholly committed to creating an open and inclusive conference environment. As expressed in its Code of Conduct, OR is dedicated to providing a welcoming and positive experience for everyone and to having an environment in which all colleagues are treated with dignity and respect. The three host institutions for OR2015, Indiana University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Virginia Tech, share these values and are likewise committed to diversity and inclusion. OR2015 organizers and OR Steering Committee members share the concerns expressed by many about Indiana's controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), now amended from its original form. We are grateful that the amendments begin to address many but not all of those concerns. With these concerns in mind, we have decided to continue with OR2015 in Indianapolis for several reasons: 1. To continue our goal of providing an international forum for the discussion of important issues confronting the repository community and ensuring that, at a time of significant change in research and scholarly communication practices, open repositories continue to play a key role in supporting, shaping and sharing those changes and an open agenda for research and scholarship 2. To recognise the many members of the OR community who have made a significant investment in time and expense to prepare and review conference submissions and make travel plans to attend the conference in Indianapolis 3. To support the Indianapolis community, which has shown a strong commitment to non-discrimination through its response to RFRA 4. To take the opportunity to work with and support local businesses that oppose discrimination and open their doors to everyone Conference organizers plan to enforce the Open Repositories Code of Conduct that applies to all conference vendors and suppliers: http://www.or2015.net/code-of-conduct/. Here are the steps that conference organizers will take immediately: 1. All associated conference vendors including host institutions, hotel, banquet venue, and service providers will be required to convey written commitments of non-discrimination. 2. We will make information available at the conference and via the conference website about restaurants and other local businesses who are opposed to discrimination and open their doors to serve everyone, in connection with the Open for Service initiative: http://openforservice.org/ 3. Conference badges will include the tagline ?Open Repositories, Open to All? to reflect Open Repositories? commitment to its core values of dignity and respect As the 10th annual International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2015 represents a key milestone for the community. We look forward to welcoming participants to Indianapolis to reflect on and celebrate the transformative changes in repositories, scholarly communication and research data that have taken place over the last decade and, more importantly, to look forward and prepare for the challenges of the next one. The OR steering committee and OR2015 organizers would like to hear from you with any questions or concerns. Please feel free to send messages via http://www.or2015.net/contact-us/, via twitter to @OR2015Indy or hashtag #OR2015, or directly to the Open Repositories list: open-repositories at googlegroups.com *Links:* Open Repositories Code of Conduct: http://www.or2015.net/code-of-conduct/ Indiana University Non-Discrimination Policy: http://trustees.iu.edu/resources/non-discrimination-policy.shtml University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Diversity Values Statement: http://inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/mission.html Virginia Tech Principles of Community: http://www.diversity.vt.edu/principles-of-community/principles.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abigailgoben at gmail.com Sat Apr 4 23:49:39 2015 From: abigailgoben at gmail.com (Abigail Goben) Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 22:49:39 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Yes, You Can Video! a LITA webinar Message-ID: Announcing Another new LITA webinar: Yes, You Can Video: A how-to guide for creating high-impact instructional videos without tearing your hair out. Tuesday May 12, 2015 1:00 pm ? 2:30 pm Central Time Register now for this webinar This brand new LITA Webinar promises a fun time learning how to create instructional videos Have you ever wanted to create an engaging and educational instructional video, but felt like you didn?t have the time, ability, or technology? Are you perplexed by all the moving parts that go into creating an effective tutorial? In this session, Anne Burke and Andreas Orphanides will help to demystify the process, breaking it down into easy-to-follow steps, and provide a variety of technical approaches suited to a range of skill sets. They will cover choosing and scoping your topic, scripting and storyboarding, producing the video, and getting it online. They will also address common pitfalls at each stage. Join Anne Burke Undergraduate Instruction & Outreach Librarian North Carolina State University Libraries and Andreas Orphanides Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning North Carolina State University Libraries Then register for the webinar Full details Can?t make the date but still want to join in? Registered participants will have access to the recorded webinar. Cost: LITA Member: $45 Non-Member: $105 Group: $196 Registration Information Register Online page arranged by session date (login required) OR Mail or fax form to ALA Registration OR Call 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 OR email registration at ala.org Questions or Comments? For all other questions or comments related to the course, contact LITA at (312) 280-4269 or Mark Beatty, mbeatty at ala.org. -- Abigail Goben, MLS abigailgoben at gmail.com http://HedgehogLibrarian.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edward.eckel at wmich.edu Tue Apr 7 15:32:31 2015 From: edward.eckel at wmich.edu (Edward Eckel, III) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:32:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Rdap] Registration still OPEN: Great Lakes Science Boot Camp (June 3-5, 2015) In-Reply-To: <1183775579.50882707.1428435055519.JavaMail.root@wmich.edu> Message-ID: <1555975540.50883460.1428435151870.JavaMail.root@wmich.edu> Dear colleagues, Registration is still open for the Great Lakes Science Boot Camp (June 3-5, 2015) at Wayne State University. Please pass this information on to any of your colleagues whom you think might be interested. Thanks, Ed Eckel Western Michigan University Libraries Great Lakes Science Boot Camp 2015 Registration is still open for the Great Lakes Science Boot Camp (June 3-5, 2015) at Wayne State University. Don?t miss this opportunity! What? This immersive 2 1/2 day conference offers librarians an opportunity to learn about current research advancements in science. Three faculty-led sessions on genomics, Great Lakes aquatic ecosystems, and medical chemistry will provide overviews of emerging trends and research methodologies and in-depth descriptions of particular research projects. In addition to these education sessions, the Boot Camp will include lightning talks from attending librarians, a "Librarian's Night Out" for fun and networking, tours of research spaces, a Keynote speaker, and an all-conference reception and banquet dinner. When? June 3-5, 2015 Where? Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Who?s this for? Academic librarians who provide services to science faculty and students, and want to better understand the needs of these library users. Attendees will have the option of earning 14 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credits. What?s the cost? The "Overnighter" conference fee of $225 includes all educational sessions and tours, two nights lodging (June 3 and 4) in private room in Ghafari Hall (private bathroom and linens included), lunch in Towers Cafe (June 3, 4 and 5), breakfast in Towers Cafe (June 4 and 5), Librarians Night Out dinner and activities (June 3), reception and banquet dinner (June 4) and parking in Structure #2. The "Commuter" conference fee of $175 includes all educational sessions and tours, lunch in Towers Cafe (June 3, 4 and 5), breakfast in Towers Cafe (June 4 and 5), Librarians Night Out dinner and activities (June 3), reception and banquet dinner (June 4) and parking in Structure #2. Additional Night Lodging - June 2 an extra night of lodging in Ghafari Hall (private bathroom and linens included) and parking in Structure #2 may be purchased for an additional $35. When will registration open? IT IS OPEN!!! (https://specialevents.wayne.edu/2015-great-lakes-science-boot-camp-for-librarians/ ) Registration is limited to 100 attendees (librarians and library students) on a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations will be taken until May 18, 2015. Sponsors: Elsevier, IOP Publishing, National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) - Greater Midwest Region, SPIE Digital Library, Springer, Wiley Check the Great Lakes Science Boot Camp website - http://libguides.wmich.edu/GL-science-boot-camp/schedule for further details! See you there! -- Edward J. Eckel Associate Professor and Engineering and Applied Sciences Librarian University Libraries Email: edward.eckel at wmich.edu Phone: 269-387-5140 Fax: 269-387-5180 Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5353 "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." - Jacob Bronowski From swright at uw.edu Tue Apr 7 18:28:41 2015 From: swright at uw.edu (Stephanie Wright) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 15:28:41 -0700 Subject: [Rdap] Upcoming DataONE Webinar: Make Data Count: Measuring Data Use and Reach Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Please do encourage your colleagues/researchers/grad students to attend. -- Stephanie Wright ------------------------------------------------------------------ Data ServicesCoordinator | University of Washington Libraries | 206-685-1540 | Suzzallo Library, Room G051 ORCID: 0000-0003-3829-318X | http://guides.lib.washington.edu/dmg ----------------------------- Dear DataONE Community We are pleased to open registration for the third event in the DataONE Webinar Series (www.dataone.org/webinars) focussed on open science, the role of the data lifecycle, and achieving innovative science through shared data and ground-breaking tools. This webinar will be held on Tuesday April 14th at 12 noon Eastern time. Our webinar will be a panel presentation by *Jennifer Lin, Martin Fenner, Matt Jones & John Kratz *from the Public Library of Science, DataONE and the California Digital Library. The webinar is focussed on the outcome of a recent collaborative NSF grant and is titled: *"**Make Data Count: Measuring Data Use and Reach"*. The abstract for the talk is detailed below and you may register at: www.dataone.org/upcoming-webinar. Please circulate widely in your communities; registration is free. Webinars are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 12 noon Eastern Time. They will be recorded and made available for viewing latter the same day. A Q&A forum will also be available to attendees and later viewers alike. We welcome you to join us for this and future webinars in the series. More information on the DataONE WebinarSeries can be found at: www.dataone.org/webinars and we welcome suggestions for speakers and topics. Best Amber *Abstract* California Digital Libraries, PLOS, and DataONE are partners in Make Data Count (http://articlemetrics.github.io/MDC/), an NSF-funded project to design and develop metrics that track and measure data use, i.e. ?data-level metrics? (DLMs). DLMs are a multi-dimensional suite of indicators, measuring the broad range of activity surrounding the reach and use of data as a research output. In the webinar, we will discuss the findings from Phase 1 in which we gathered information about the needs of researchers? how do they want to get credit for the data they produce? What do they want to know about how their data is used? What do they want to know about others? data to evaluate quality? We connected with the community to determine requirements and understand use cases for the data-level metrics prototype. We will also demo the latest from our working prototype and share the initial results (usage, citations, scholarly references and mentions, social media, etc.) collected on datasets from DataONE member repositories. -- Amber E Budden, PhD Director for Community Engagement and Outreach DataONE University of New Mexico 1312 Basehart SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 Tel: 505-814-1112 Cell: 505-205-7675 Fax: 505-246-6007 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Wed Apr 8 11:22:40 2015 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 11:22:40 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] JOIN the DuraSpace team as the VIVO Technical Lead Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* April 8, 2015 Read it online: http://duraspace.org/jobs Contact: jobs at duraspace.org *VIVO Project Seeks a Dynamic, Creative, and Innovative Technical Lead* Are you ready to join an open source software community that?s transforming the landscape for open scholarship? VIVO?s mission is to provide world-class open source software, standard data ontologies, linked open data, and services to our world-wide member institutions. VIVO is at the forefront of a rapidly emerging infrastructure for integrating and sharing information about researchers and scholars and their activities and outputs so as to promote data sharing, attribution, and teamwork within and across institutions. The outcome is a platform that enables discovery across a distributed network of institutions worldwide. VIVO seeks a dynamic, creative, and innovative Technical Lead for the project. The VIVO Technical Lead will play a major role in a movement that will shape the future of scholarly discovery and collaboration. The VIVO Technical Lead is a full-time position. Working collaboratively with the VIVO Project Director, accountable to the VIVO Steering Group, and employed by the non-profit DuraSpace organization, the Technical Lead will enable the VIVO community to accomplish its goals by fulfilling the following responsibilities: *Overview of Responsibilities* The VIVO Technical Lead will be responsible for providing leadership, technical guidance, coordination, and support to the open source community in its work to maintain, enhance, and evolve the VIVO software and ontology, and to integrate community-produced apps and tools. The Technical Lead will ensure that the VIVO software products fulfill the mission and strategic direction of the project and the needs of community members. Additionally, the Technical Lead will lead the effort to ensure that VIVO implementation tools and application interfaces are made user-friendly and provide value ?out of the box.? The Technical Lead will foster an inclusive, welcoming, and open team environment, based on a meritocracy of committers, contributors, ontologists, documentation specialists, technical trainers, and other volunteer contributors. S/he will recruit new members to the team from the larger community of volunteers. S/he will organize events such as hackathons, training sessions, implementation fests, and the like to provide multiple on-ramps for new contributors. The Technical Lead will organize development sprints and team meetings that are oriented towards incorporating all the work of the project ? core development, apps and tools creation, ontology work, documentation, etc. ? into an established release schedule. S/he will attend VIVO Steering Group, Leadership Group, and Management Team meetings. The Technical Lead, working in partnership with the Project Director, will oversee a process of eliciting and documenting new use cases that will be gathered from the VIVO membership. The process will include steps for surveying the community on feature priorities and will culminate in a published, evolving roadmap of future work that aligns with the VIVO strategic plan and value proposition. S/he will coordinate technology activities among the Implementation, Development, Applications and Tools, Ontology, and Community Engagement Working Groups; identify, document, and communicate dependencies between working groups; and identify solutions to enhance cross-working group collaborations. The Technical Lead will provide support to technology Task Forces and will monitor their progress. S/he will provide oversight and coordination of VIVO architecture work and ensure that VIVO core code, ontology, and applications and tools meet open standards; will work with the community to support ontology improvements, integrate community extensions and deliver applications and tools as tested optional extensions to VIVO; maintain code base infrastructure; and coordinate release management and testing activities. S/he will work collaboratively with developers and stakeholders to create and maintain a technical roadmap and will collaborate on strategic planning. S/he will develop an understanding of the impact of technical decisions on budgets, timelines, and the sustainability of the VIVO open source project. The Technical Lead will act as a technology spokesperson for VIVO, speaking and giving presentations at meetings, conferences, and other events. *The VIVO Technical Lead will coordinate project work by:* - Facilitating scoping of project efforts, soliciting and approving technology Task Forces, and soliciting community participation; - Tracking the progress of Task Force deliverables within defined scope and time; - Tracking, reporting, and communicating project status, progress, and deliverables among technology teams; - Identifying, addressing, and/or escalating issues that pose risks to the project; - Coordinating user acceptance testing within the community. The VIVO Technical Lead will provide technical leadership, guidance, and support to VIVO Working Group leads and technology Task Forces in the following areas: - Software engineering; - Performance tuning; - Code refactoring; - Pull requests; - Ontology management; - System architecture; - Test writing; - Continuous integration testing; - Code documentation; - Release management; - Technical discussion on project email ; - Project infrastructure (email lists, blog, vivoweb.org website, IRC, issue tracking, continuous integration, GitHub code repository, SourceForge file repository, VIVO wiki resources). *Skills and Competencies* Required: - Bachelors degree, preferably in computer science, or equivalent work experience; - Minimum of five years technical work experience; - Demonstrated leadership experience within a distributed open source team environment; - Demonstrated success in mentoring, developing, and empowering staff with a collaborative and open approach; successful collaborations within and across organizations; - Positive leadership style and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment; demonstrated initiative and flexibility; - Familiarity with academic institutions, research programs, and scholarly communication; - Ability to document processes and specifications; use of modern documentation strategies that are coupled to the code and services; - Fluency in the full stack of web-based technologies and architectures; - Experience with current and emerging data architectures and technologies; - Experience with linked-data technologies; - Proficiency with Java and web scripting languages; - Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, including the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse group of technologists, researchers, managers, funders, and peers; - Demonstrated ability to manage expectations and priorities diplomatically among various stakeholders. *Desired:* - Past experience with and knowledge of best practices and current trends and issues in the application of technology to libraries, research programs, and academic institutions; - Experience working with a diverse and international community; - Experience in a startup environment; - Knowledge of semantic web and linked data technologies, SPARQL, RDF, OWL, relevant tools and APIs, and experience managing semantically annotated data, triple stores, and/or graph databases. To Apply: Send a cover letter and resume to jobs at duraspace.org. Screening of applications will commence immediately and continue until the position is filled. DuraSpace 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 scholarly, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting open source projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. DuraSpace is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, a work-from-home lifestyle, and a supportive peer group. Significant travel is expected. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Wed Apr 15 08:32:14 2015 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 08:32:14 -0400 Subject: [Rdap] =?utf-8?b?TkVXUzog4oCcSHlkcmEtaW4tYS1Cb3jigJ0gRFBMQSwgU3Rh?= =?utf-8?q?nford_University=2C_and_DuraSpace_Initiative_Funded?= Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* April 15, 2015 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1OwQQU7 Contact: Dan Cohen (dan at dp.la), Tom Cramer (tcramer at stanford.edu) or Debra Hanken Kurtz (dkurtz at duraspace.org) *Far-reaching ?Hydra-in-a-Box? Joint Initiative Funded by IMLS* *A tripartite DPLA, Stanford University, and DuraSpace partnership will produce a turnkey, Hydra-based solution that can be widely and easily adopted by institutions nationwide.* *Boston, MA * The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Stanford University, and the DuraSpace organization are pleased to announce that their joint initiative has been awarded a $2M National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Nicknamed Hydra-in-a-Box, the project aims foster a new, national, library network through a community-based repository system, enabling discovery, interoperability and reuse of digital resources by people from this country and around the world. This transformative network is based on advanced repositories that not only empower local institutions with new asset management capabilities, but also interconnect their data and collections through a shared platform. ?At the core of the Digital Public Library of America is our national network of hubs, and they need the systems envisioned by this project,? said Dan Cohen, DPLA?s executive director. ?By combining contemporary technologies for aggregating, storing, enhancing, and serving cultural heritage content, we expect this new stack will be a huge boon to DPLA and to the broader digital library community. In addition, I?m thrilled that the project brings together the expertise of DuraSpace, Stanford, and DPLA.? Each of the partners will fulfill specific roles in the joint initiative. Stanford will use its existing leadership in the Hydra Project to develop core components, in concert with the broader Hydra community. DPLA will focus on the connective tissue between hubs, mapping, and crosswalks to DPLA?s metadata application profile, and infrastructure to support metadata enhancement and remediation. DuraSpace will use its expertise in building and serving repositories, and doing so at scale, to construct the back-end systems for Hydra hosting. ?DuraSpace is excited to provide the infrastructure for this project,? said Debra Hanken Kurtz, DuraSpace CEO. ?It aligns perfectly with our mission to steward the scholarly and cultural heritage records and make them accessible for current and future generations. We look forward to working with DPLA and Stanford to support their work and that of the community to ensure a robust and sustainable future for ?Hydra-in-a-Box.?? Over the project?s 30-month time frame, the partners will engage with libraries, archives, and museums nationwide, especially current and prospective DPLA hubs and the Hydra community, to systematically capture the needs for a next-generation, open source, digital repository. They will collaboratively extend the existing Hydra project codebase to build, bundle, and promote a feature-complete, robust digital repository that is easy to install, configure, and maintain?in short, a next-generation digital repository that will work for institutions large and small, and is capable of running as a hosted service. Finally, starting with DPLA?s own metadata aggregation services, the partners will work to ensure that these repositories have the necessary affordances to support networked aggregation, discovery, management and access to these resources, producing a shared, sustainable, nationwide platform. ?The Hydra Project has already demonstrated enormous traction and value as a best-in-class digital repository for institutions like Stanford,? said Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist at the Stanford University Libraries. ?And yet there is so much more to do. This grant will provide the means to rapidly accelerate Hydra?s rate of development and adoption--expanding its community, features and value all at once.? To find out more about the Hydra-in-a-Box initiative contact Dan Cohen ( dan at dp.la), Tom Cramer (tcramer at stanford.edu) or Debra Hanken Kurtz ( dkurtz at duraspace.org). An information page is available here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Hydra+in+a+Box. *About DPLA* The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la) strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America?s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. Since launching in April 2013, it has aggregated over 8.5 million items from over 1,700 institutions. The DPLA is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit. *About DuraSpace* DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org), 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 , VIVO ) and creating services (DuraCloud , DSpaceDirect , ArchivesDirect ) 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." *About Stanford University Libraries* The Stanford University Libraries (http://library.stanford.edu) is internationally recognized as a leader among research libraries, and in leveraging digital technology to support scholarship in the age of information. It is a founder of both the Hydra Project and the Fedora 4 repository effort, and a leading institution in the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) (http://iiif.io). *About the Hydra Project* The Hydra Project (http://projecthydra.org) is both an open source community and a suite of software that provides a flexible and robust framework for managing, preserving, and providing access to digital assets. The project motto, ?One body, many heads,? speaks to the flexibility provided by Hydra?s modern, modular architecture, and the power of combining a robust repository backend (the ?body?) with flexible, tailored, user interfaces (?heads?). Co-designed and developed in concert with Fedora 4, the extensible, durable, and widely used repository software, the Hydra/Fedora stack is centerpiece of a thriving and rapidly expanding open source community poised to easy-to-implement solution. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have accepted 6 panels, 21 24x7?s (including Rants and Raves), 37 papers and 60 posters which will all give an exciting snapshot of work in the open repositories community. The Program Committee would like to take this opportunity to again thank all of our reviewers who took time to review workshops, papers, panels, 24x7?s and posters. Please stay tuned for more information on the schedule and interest group presentations, which we will post later in April. *Reminder: Register and reserve your hotel room * Online registration for OR2015 is currently open, and participants can save $50 by registering by May 8. Special negotiated room rates at the conference hotel are available until May 16. For more information, please visit the conference website: http://www.or2015.net/ We look forward to seeing you at OR2015! 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VIVO is at the forefront of a rapidly emerging infrastructure for integrating and sharing information about researchers and scholars and their activities and outputs so as to promote data sharing, attribution, and teamwork within and across institutions. The outcome is a platform that enables discovery across a distributed network of institutions worldwide. VIVO seeks a dynamic, creative, and innovative Technical Lead for the project. The VIVO Technical Lead will play a major role in a movement that will shape the future of scholarly discovery and collaboration. The VIVO Technical Lead is a full-time position. Working collaboratively with the VIVO Project Director, accountable to the VIVO Steering Group, and employed by the non-profit DuraSpace organization, the Technical Lead will enable the VIVO community to accomplish its goals by fulfilling the following responsibilities: *Overview of Responsibilities* The VIVO Technical Lead will be responsible for providing leadership, technical guidance, coordination, and support to the open source community in its work to maintain, enhance, and evolve the VIVO software and ontology, and to integrate community-produced apps and tools. The Technical Lead will ensure that the VIVO software products fulfill the mission and strategic direction of the project and the needs of community members. Additionally, the Technical Lead will lead the effort to ensure that VIVO implementation tools and application interfaces are made user-friendly and provide value ?out of the box.? The Technical Lead will foster an inclusive, welcoming, and open team environment, based on a meritocracy of committers, contributors, ontologists, documentation specialists, technical trainers, and other volunteer contributors. S/he will recruit new members to the team from the larger community of volunteers. S/he will organize events such as hackathons, training sessions, implementation fests, and the like to provide multiple on-ramps for new contributors. The Technical Lead will organize development sprints and team meetings that are oriented towards incorporating all the work of the project ? core development, apps and tools creation, ontology work, documentation, etc. ? into an established release schedule. S/he will attend VIVO Steering Group, Leadership Group, and Management Team meetings. The Technical Lead, working in partnership with the Project Director, will oversee a process of eliciting and documenting new use cases that will be gathered from the VIVO membership. The process will include steps for surveying the community on feature priorities and will culminate in a published, evolving roadmap of future work that aligns with the VIVO strategic plan and value proposition. S/he will coordinate technology activities among the Implementation, Development, Applications and Tools, Ontology, and Community Engagement Working Groups; identify, document, and communicate dependencies between working groups; and identify solutions to enhance cross-working group collaborations. The Technical Lead will provide support to technology Task Forces and will monitor their progress. S/he will provide oversight and coordination of VIVO architecture work and ensure that VIVO core code, ontology, and applications and tools meet open standards; will work with the community to support ontology improvements, integrate community extensions and deliver applications and tools as tested optional extensions to VIVO; maintain code base infrastructure; and coordinate release management and testing activities. S/he will work collaboratively with developers and stakeholders to create and maintain a technical roadmap and will collaborate on strategic planning. S/he will develop an understanding of the impact of technical decisions on budgets, timelines, and the sustainability of the VIVO open source project. The Technical Lead will act as a technology spokesperson for VIVO, speaking and giving presentations at meetings, conferences, and other events. *The VIVO Technical Lead will coordinate project work by:* - Facilitating scoping of project efforts, soliciting and approving technology Task Forces, and soliciting community participation; - Tracking the progress of Task Force deliverables within defined scope and time; - Tracking, reporting, and communicating project status, progress, and deliverables among technology teams; - Identifying, addressing, and/or escalating issues that pose risks to the project; - Coordinating user acceptance testing within the community. The VIVO Technical Lead will provide technical leadership, guidance, and support to VIVO Working Group leads and technology Task Forces in the following areas: - Software engineering; - Performance tuning; - Code refactoring; - Pull requests; - Ontology management; - System architecture; - Test writing; - Continuous integration testing; - Code documentation; - Release management; - Technical discussion on project email ; - Project infrastructure (email lists, blog, vivoweb.org website, IRC, issue tracking, continuous integration, GitHub code repository, SourceForge file repository, VIVO wiki resources). *Skills and Competencies* Required: - Bachelors degree, preferably in computer science, or equivalent work experience; - Minimum of five years technical work experience; - Demonstrated leadership experience within a distributed open source team environment; - Demonstrated success in mentoring, developing, and empowering staff with a collaborative and open approach; successful collaborations within and across organizations; - Positive leadership style and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment; demonstrated initiative and flexibility; - Familiarity with academic institutions, research programs, and scholarly communication; - Ability to document processes and specifications; use of modern documentation strategies that are coupled to the code and services; - Fluency in the full stack of web-based technologies and architectures; - Experience with current and emerging data architectures and technologies; - Experience with linked-data technologies; - Proficiency with Java and web scripting languages; - Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, including the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse group of technologists, researchers, managers, funders, and peers; - Demonstrated ability to manage expectations and priorities diplomatically among various stakeholders. *Desired:* - Past experience with and knowledge of best practices and current trends and issues in the application of technology to libraries, research programs, and academic institutions; - Experience working with a diverse and international community; - Experience in a startup environment; - Knowledge of semantic web and linked data technologies, SPARQL, RDF, OWL, relevant tools and APIs, and experience managing semantically annotated data, triple stores, and/or graph databases. To Apply: Send a cover letter and resume to jobs at duraspace.org. Screening of applications will commence immediately and continue until the position is filled. DuraSpace 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 scholarly, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting open source projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. DuraSpace is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, a work-from-home lifestyle, and a supportive peer group. Significant travel is expected. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here's how the session will go down (in theory!): - RDAPers submit short responses to these questions on Wednesday morning. - A blind vote is held over lunch on the first day: attendees will vote on which responses they'd like to hear more about, and the panel will be organized that afternoon. - All responses will be collected in a document and shared, so you can follow up with an individual later even if their response wasn't selected. - Thursday morning, we will invite the panelists to expand on their responses and engage in a short discussion of each of these three questions. This is meant to kick off the discussion and connect people and resources. There won't be enough time to explore everything, but we're hoping it's a start! See you in Minneapolis, Carolyn & Margaret RDAP Summit 2015 co-chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It also offers an open and collaborative environment to share ideas and discuss topics related to adoption and implementation of research information systems, VIVO-based tools, and the opportunities created by advancing data sharing and team science. Follow the conversation on Twitter at #vivo15 - http://cts.vresp.com/c/?DoodleDesignInc./78ac6aa6df/TEST/03c67098e2/q=#vivo15&src=typd 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN! Authors are invited to submit abstracts for poster, panel, and paper presentations related to the Topics of Interest for the Sixth Annual VIVO Conference in August. For a copy of the full Call for Papers, please click here - http://cts.vresp.com/c/?DoodleDesignInc./78ac6aa6df/TEST/9948619ff1 . All submissions must be submitted through EasyChair ( http://cts.vresp.com/c/?DoodleDesignInc./78ac6aa6df/TEST/4e325680ab/conf=vivo15 ) by* Friday, April 24th 5:00 PM PST.* EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN ? Registration is now open ( http://cts.vresp.com/c/?DoodleDesignInc./78ac6aa6df/TEST/4f6b7b520a/eventid=104955& ) for the Sixth Annual VIVO Conference. The $375 Early Bird registration rate is only available through June 19th. ? Register early ( http://cts.vresp.com/c/?DoodleDesignInc./78ac6aa6df/TEST/84920dbb16/eventid=104955& ) to get the lowest rate! ? Early Bird (Now through June 19th): $375 Regular (June 20th - July 17th): $475 Late (July 18th - August 5th): $575 Onsite: $625 JUST ANNOUNCED: 2015 VIVO CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS All Workshops take place on Wednesday, August 12, 2015 and are just $225 each. Click Here for workshop descriptions - http://cts.vresp.com/c/?DoodleDesignInc./78ac6aa6df/TEST/ccfe776260 . Morning Sessions (8:30am - 12:00pm) Workshop 1: *Ontology Editing and Creating Semantic Applications* Presenters: Rebecca Younes, Jon Corson-Rikert and Jim Blake, Cornell University Workshop 2: *Getting More From Your VIVO: Generating Reports and Functional Datasets For Analysis* Presenters: Mike Conlon, University of Florida; Shahim Essaid, OHSU; Melissa Haendel, OHSU; Kristi Holmes, Northwestern Workshop 3: *Introduction to VIVO: Planning, Policy, and Implementation* Presenters: Julia Trimmer, Duke University; Liz Tomich, University of Colorado-Boulder; Michaleen Trimarchi, Scripps Research Institute; Robert McDonald, Indiana University; Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College Afternoon Sessions (1:00pm - 4:30pm) Workshop 4: * Altmetrics 101 - Hands on Introduction to Altmetrics* Presenters: Andrea Michalek, Plum Analytics; Stacy Konkiel, Altmetric Workshop 5: * Awesome Apps to Enhance Your VIVO* Presenters: Violeta Ilik, Northwestern University; Alexandre Rademaker, Funda??o Getulio Vargas & IBM Research; Chris Barnes, University of Florida; Ted Lawless, Brown University; and Jim Blake, Cornell University Workshop 6: *Managing Your Data Flows: Architecture and Data Provenance for Your Institution* Presenters: John Fereira, Cornell University; Violeta Ilik, Northwestern University; Alex Viggio, Symplectic Ltd. *Register now* ( http://cts.vresp.com/c/?DoodleDesignInc./78ac6aa6df/TEST/e17b77e6c7/eventid=104955& ) and plan to join us in Cambridge, MA! 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It serves as a resource and catalyst among digital library developers, project managers, and all who are invested in digital library issues. The 2015 DLF Forum will be held in Vancouver, BC, October 26-28. We are currently seeking proposals for the 2015 DLF Forum program. The Program Planning Committee requests proposals within the broad framework of digital collections, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities. You do not need to be part of a member organization in order to submit a proposal. The Forum traditionally has no overarching theme so that we can craft a program that speaks to current issues of interest to our community. We depend on contributors to focus proposals on action-oriented topics targeted towards a practitioner audience, considering the aspects of design, management, implementation, assessment, and collaboration. Suggested topical areas for 2015 include: ? Linked data implementations ? Collaborative digital projects across GLAM institutions ? Innovative approaches to engaging users and reusing data and collections (e.g., data visualization, mapping, crowdsourcing, citizen science) ? Systems architecture, both hardware and code ? Open data, open access, or open educational resources This is not a prescriptive list; we encourage you to be creative, collaborative, and collegial. Proposals are due June 22. For more information and to submit your proposal, please visit http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/cfp/ The call for proposals for the DLF Liberal Arts Colleges Preconference is also open until June 22. If you have questions about the Digital Library Federation or the upcoming DLF Forum, please contact Louisa Kwasigroch, Director of Development & Outreach at CLIR/DLF, at lkwasigroch at clir.org. Hope to see you in Vancouver! 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URL: From priya.shenoy at drake.edu Tue Apr 28 16:40:22 2015 From: priya.shenoy at drake.edu (Priya Shenoy) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:40:22 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Data and Business Librarian job Message-ID: <1430253621939.54808@drake.edu> Drake University Cowles Library Data and Business Librarian Drake University's Cowles Library invites applications for a 12-month, tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor with the role of Data and Business Librarian available July 1, 2015. The Data and Business Librarian will enhance knowledge and awareness of data literacy on campus, which includes the discovery, management and curation of data, as well as instruction in appropriate methodologies. This position would support the data management needs of both student and faculty research. The successful candidate will hold a Master of Library Science (MLS) or equivalent from an ALA-accredited program. The position entails additional library faculty responsibilities, including teaching information literacy skills and helping build the Library's collections in appropriate areas. Salary is competitive and dependent on qualifications and experience, with a range from the low- to mid-sixties. Please submit an application letter addressing qualifications, current vita, and contact information including email addresses of references to Hire Touch at https://drake.HireTouch.com/ Select Cowles Library - Data and Business Librarian and follow the instructions to apply and upload requested materials. Review of applications will begin April 27, 2015 and will continue until the position is filled. Drake University is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks applicants who reflect the diversity of the nation. No applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, religion, age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status. More details (including full job description) are available: http://bit.ly/datalibrarian More information about Drake University's work environment, employee benefits, faculty development opportunities, and the greater Des Moines area can be accessed at http://www.drake.edu/hr/? ________________________________ Priya Shenoy, MLIS, BSN Pharmacy and Science Librarian Cowles Library, Drake University e: priya.shenoy at drake.edu p: 515-271-2879 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: