From rinehart.64 at osu.edu Mon Dec 5 15:33:45 2016 From: rinehart.64 at osu.edu (Rinehart, Amanda K.) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 20:33:45 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Data positions open at Ohio State University! Message-ID: Looking for a Data Services Specialist and a Data Visualization Specialist to join the OSU libraries! These are both two-year term positions that will offer services through the Research Commons. Please feel free to share these job postings far and wide! I'm including a brief summary of duties for the positions below. Applications are being accepted through Dec. 18, 2016. The Data Services Specialist for Outreach and Education will join the Data Management Librarian to develop instructional programming and documentation to assist faculty and students in managing the lifecycle of data resulting from research projects of all types. The successful candidate will work with colleagues, engage the campus in broader conversations around e-science and e-scholarship and will contribute to the Libraries' initiatives to adapt, design and develop tools and services for organizing, storing and sharing research data. The specialist will collaborate with colleagues in the library to articulate and execute an integrated set of data services supporting individual researchers and scholars as well as departmental or cross-institutional research teams. This position reports to the Data Management Services Librarian. Complete posting is available online at: https://www.jobsatosu.com/postings/75092 The Data Visualization Specialist will help researchers and project teams understand and use data visualization techniques to support their work; support the research agendas of faculty and students, enhance curricula, and encourage research innovation across the University relating to data visualization and visual thinking; provide consulting services to faculty and students and collaborate with other campus units already providing visualization and design services; work closely with the Data Management Services Librarian, the Digital Humanities Librarian, the GIS Specialist, the Head of Digital Initiatives, and others in both the Research Commons and elsewhere in University Libraries to increase understanding of visual data issues, ranging from preparing data for visualization to limitations of data visualization; responsible for leveraging research software and technology resources to enhance course development and research innovation; reports to the Manager of the Research Commons. Complete posting is available online at: https://www.jobsatosu.com/postings/75012 Thank you so much! Amanda Rinehart Data Management Services Librarian Rinehart.64 at osu.edu 614-292-3336 18th Avenue Library 175 W 18th Ave Room 490 Columbus, OH 43210 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rvanduinen at clir.org Tue Dec 6 12:15:01 2016 From: rvanduinen at clir.org (Rita Van Duinen) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 17:15:01 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] 2017-2019 CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowships Message-ID: Dear RDAP Community, There are now a total of 12 postdoctoral fellowships available through the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Eight are Academic Library fellowships including one at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the other four are fellowships in data curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The application period is open through December 30. Please hep us spread the word about these amazing opportunities! 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Also, new this year, we invite attendees to "bring your current data challenge" to RDAP and discuss with other attendees to address, or begin to address, your challenge! This is described in more detail in the form. Please submit proposals via https://goo.gl/forms/lf1kFcC2eIj6Ft4H2 by January 13th. All submissions will receive notification by January 27th. To view proposal submission form questions prior to submission go to https://goo.gl/7Lz1JH Questions can be directed to the RDAP Program Chairs, Brianna Marshall (brianna.marshall at wisc.edu) and Yasmeen Shorish (shorisyl at jmu.edu). Andrew Johnson | Research Data Librarian/Assistant Professor | University Libraries | University of Colorado Boulder | 303-492-6102 | ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7952-6536 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at duraspace.org Mon Dec 12 10:41:38 2016 From: cmmorris at duraspace.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:41:38 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] NEWS: Institutional Treasures Preserved with DPN and DuraCloud Vault Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* December 12, 2016 Contact: Mary Molinaro, DPN COO & Service Manager, (859) 608-6310 mary at dpn.org; Heather Greer Klein, DuraSpace Services Coordinator, hklein at duraspace.org Institutional Treasures Preserved with DPN and DuraCloud Vault In January of 2016 the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) began accepting collections to a vital corpus of digital scholarly resources through DuraCloud Vault. DPN and DuraSpace, developer of DuraCloud Vault with Chronopolis, are pleased to report that member deposits into DPN through DuraCloud Vault are well underway. Numerous notable collections are now permanently preserved and will last beyond the life spans of individuals, technological systems, and organizations. The 60+ members of DPN have come together around a commitment to preserve vital scholarly, historic and cultural digital collections as the basis for a transformative understanding of how and why we are who we are as a nation far into the future. DPN is focused on developing tools and services to ensure that the cultural and research assets of today are available to scholars in the future. The following overviews offer insights into the critically important digital content that institutions have chosen to preserve in DPN through DuraCloud Vault. Tufts University Library: Edward R. Murrow Papers The impact of current journalistic practices in reporting news accurately is being felt all over the world. The historic significance of permanently preserving a record of how and why early broadcast investigative journalism became a part of our national persona is reflected in the Tufts University Edward R. Murrow Papers. The corpus includes documents, correspondence, personal materials, work and activities-related files, and over 320 photographs, about 1700 books, memorabilia as well as audiovisual material. ?Over the decades, numerous publications have portrayed Murrow as one of the architects of U.S. broadcast news, but in the political climate of recent years, he is increasingly viewed as a defender of rights against McCarthy-type witch hunts.? ?From The Life and Work of Edward R. Murrow, An Archives Exhibit University of Kentucky Libraries Nunn Center: Civil Rights Hall of Fame Oral History Project The University of Kentucky Library Civil Rights Hall of Fame Oral History Project web site states that the purpose of the Collection is, ?To educate and inspire viewers on the power of the human spirit and how it is moving our nation towards greatness.? These video recordings of first-hand accounts of individuals? civil rights struggles and achievements are significantly powerful messages that bring history alive in a personal way. Their availability far into the future provides our nation with permanent evidence for how far we have come, how much was sacrificed, and how much farther we have to go in advancing civil rights for all. IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) Library: Speedway Racing Collection Indianapolis and fast cars are intertwined by the highly unique and important history of motorsports sometimes called ?Greatest Spectacle in Racing? since its brickyard beginnings in 1908 through modern day race of 2016. The Speedway collection consists of image resources that reflect the Speedway?s rich physical photographic collection along with other materials. The documented history of motorsports in Indiana is also the history of advances in auto design, testing and related engineering advances. The IUPUI Library sought to preserve, but equally important, to freely share this immensely important resource with the Indianapolis citizenry and beyond. Because of its significance in the civic, cultural and economic life of the state, The Speedway Collection required a robust preservation option. DPN has provided deep and long lasting preservation for this unique and prized collection. We are pleased that the heritage of The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is now preserved via DPN. About DPN The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) is the only large-scale digital preservation service that is built to last beyond the life spans of individuals, technological systems, and organizations. DPN provides members of the academy and their successors with assurance that future access to their scholarly resources will be available in the event of disruptive change in administrative or physical institutional environments. By establishing a redundant and varied technical and legal infrastructure, the survival, ownership and management of preserved digital content in the future are assured for DPN members. DPN?s heterogeneous network is currently comprised of the following five nodes: HathiTrust , Academic Preservation Trust , Texas Preservation Node , DuraCloud Vault , and Stanford Digital Repository . Membership in DPN is open to any organization interested in or in need of long-term digital preservation. About DuraSpace 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. They collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hmdavis4 at ncsu.edu Mon Dec 12 21:43:36 2016 From: hmdavis4 at ncsu.edu (Hilary Davis) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:43:36 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Now Accepting Applications - Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians Message-ID: [image: updated_logo.png] Apply now! The Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians is accepting applications from December 12, 2016 through January 27, 2017. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance status no later than February 17, 2017. The Institute will be held April 24 - 28, 2017 at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information and to apply, visit: https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/datavizinstitute The Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians is a week-long course providing the opportunity for librarians passionate about research and scholarship to immerse themselves in learning about data science and visualization in collaboration with academic peers. Participants will develop knowledge, skills, and confidence to communicate effectively with faculty and student researchers about their data and be able to provide initial consultancy on the course topics. Led by expert instructors, sessions will be interactive and will focus on mastery of core concepts, with hands-on exposure to select open source and highly used commercial tools. Sharing of practices and experiences across institutions will be encouraged. The Institute will include topics such as: - Data Exploration and Statistical Analysis - Bibliometric Analysis - Data Visualization - Version Control with Git and GitHub - Data Description, Sharing, and Reuse - Data Cleaning and Preparation - Web Scraping - Analyzing Textual Data - Mapping and Geospatial Visualization - Publisher and Funder Data Use Agreements Visit our website (https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/datavizinstitute) to stay up-to-date on program details. The Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians is offered through a collaboration between the NCSU Libraries and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). [image: ncsulib_logo.jpg] [image: Inline image 1] -- Hilary Davis Head of Collections & Research Strategy NCSU Libraries Raleigh, NC 27695 919-513-0654 hmdavis4 at ncsu.edu ORCID: 0000-0002-2613-1717 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Full details and application instructions can be found here: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF01302 David. ********************************************* Scholarly Communications Librarian The University of California San Diego Library seeks applications from highly motivated, innovative, collaborative, and service-oriented professionals to join the Library as our Scholarly Communications Librarian (Assistant, Associate, or Full Librarian). Responsibilities of the Position: The Scholarly Communications Librarian provides leadership and develops strategies for the effective promulgation of information about scholarly communications and open access publishing issues to campus user communities. Responsibilities will include: - Providing faculty and graduate student support for the UC Open Access (OA) Policies (Faculty and Presidential) - Leading UC San Diego Library outreach efforts to faculty, graduate students, and other campus constituencies in support of scholarly communication innovations. Serving as a resource on the UC Open Access policies, copyright compliance, federal public access policies and open data funding mandates. - Convening and directing the work of the Library Scholarly Communications Working Group, which supports subject liaison librarians in facilitating effective communications regarding scholarly publishing, UC Open Access Policies, and related topics with their academic communities. - Actively engaging in outreach and sustaining strong, consistent, and effective communication channels between the Library and campus user groups. Promoting widespread awareness and use of OA resources and of OA publishing avenues/options for authors, researchers, and grad students. - Initiating and supporting ongoing scholarly communication education via workshops, information sessions, events, and resources in a range of formats. - Advising faculty, researchers and students on copyright, author rights, and publishing agreements. - Serving on UC-wide scholarly communication and related groups and ad hoc committees as needed. - Staying current with developments in scholarly communication, open access, academic publishing, copyright, research data curation, and related areas. - Monitoring scholarly communication trends, developments and services as one of the campus liaisons to national or international efforts in this area, such as SPARC, HathiTrust, or Force11. Advising and keeping Library administration and academic liaisons apprised of emerging issues. Closing Date: Consideration begins January, 23, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled. For more Information: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/jobs/index.html To Apply: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF01302 AA-EOE: UCSD is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong institutional commitment to excellence through diversity. From rjulian at fsu.edu Wed Dec 21 11:12:18 2016 From: rjulian at fsu.edu (Julian, Renaine) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 16:12:18 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Love Your Data Week - Save the Date Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Love Your Data week is right around the corner on February 13-17, 2017! This year's theme is emphasizing data quality for researchers at any stage in their career. [cid:image002.png at 01D25791.FA6B5BE0] Visit our website: https://loveyourdata.wordpress.com/ or follow us on Twitter #LYD17 or #loveyourdata to gain inspiration, share ideas, and find new ways to promote data services and resources at your library and beyond! Please tell us if you plan to participate and we will list your institution's name on the site so we can continue to grow the community of data lovers. More details will be available soon! Sincerely, the LYD Week Planning Committee: Thea Atwood Michelle Bass Heather Coates Patti Condon Erin Foster Carla Graebner Cinthya Ippoliti Renaine Julian Sebastian Karcher Inna Kouper Amy Neeser Melissa Ratajeski -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 66383 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Accepted proposals will be due by August 1, 2017, and can be submitted directly to the Emerald ScholarOne system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.co m/dlp. If you have any questions, please contact the editor directly. Thanks. Brad Bradford Lee Eden, Ph.D. Editor, *Digital Library Perspectives* Dean of Library Services Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources Valparaiso University Valparaiso, Indiana 46383 brad.eden at valpo.edu 219-464-5099 ___________________________________________________ *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP)* Journal history Previously published as *OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives* *Aims & Scope* *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) *is a peer-reviewed journal concerned with digital content collections. It publishes research related to the curation and web-based delivery of digital objects collected for the advancement of scholarship, teaching and learning. And which advance the digital information environment as it relates to global knowledge, communication and world memory. The journal aims to keep readers informed about current trends, initiatives, and developments. Including those in digital libraries and digital repositories, along with their standards and technologies. The editor invites contributions on the following, as well as other related topics: - ? Digitization - ? Data as information - ? Archives and manuscripts - ? Digital preservation and digital archiving - ? Digital cultural memory initiatives - ? Usability studies - ? K-12 and higher education uses of digital collections -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Researchers will need to be assured of the integrity of the data on which their work depends. This will become particularly crucial if the original copies are no longer available through government sources. One way to do this is to involve librarians who are professionally committed to maintaining accessible and trustworthy collections. As a data librarian, there are several ways you can get involved: 1. Plan a #DataRescue event at your institution. We are currently developing a toolkit to help plan and orchestrate such events. Check out http://www.ppehlab.org/ or get in touch if you would like to learn more. Also let us know if you're organizing an event at http://tinyurl.com/datarefuge 2. Reach out to your users to see what concerns they have. You may be able to help them back up vulnerable data yourself or you may want to connect them to us. You can also direct them to our surveys about valuable datasets: http://www.ppehlab.org/datarefugesurvey 3. Nominate datasets to the End of Term Harvest project using this webform: http://digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/eth2016/add/ 4. Use the End of Term Harvest as an inspiration for data literacy workshops and teach-ins. 5. Tell us other ways you'd like to help at http://tinyurl.com/datarefuge This project is complex and massive but we are very encouraged by the tremendous outpouring of support from scientists, librarians, archivists as well as the private sector. With your help, we can make valuable and trustworthy data available to researchers doing vital work. Best, Margaret Janz, on behalf of #DataRefuge Scholarly Communication & Data Curation Librarian University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library Room 131 215-898-4836 [1477946592446_iDicon.png] http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-6089 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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