From cmmorris at duraspace.org Tue Nov 7 10:37:24 2017 From: cmmorris at duraspace.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 10:37:24 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] =?utf-8?q?NEWS=3A_Hydra-In-A-Box_Project_Accomplishments_a?= =?utf-8?q?nd_What=E2=80=99s_Next?= Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Nov. 7, 2017 Read it online: http://bit.ly/2zkhtgr; http://bit.ly/2zpdPSa *Hydra-In-A-Box Project Accomplishments and What?s Next* ?Hyku? is the result of a thirty-month project to develop a scalable, performant, and multi-tenant digital content repository solution within the Samvera (previously known as Hydra) framework. This work was announced in 2015 by Stanford University, DuraSpace, and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) through a generous grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The grant project is now drawing to a close. The list of accomplishments over the past two and a half years has exceeded expectations and spurred momentum for Hyku to continue past the grant term. DuraSpace CEO, Debra Hanken Kurtz says, ?I?m heartened by the pledges of continued financial and development support we?ve received for the next phase of Hyku. The mix of participation and ownership we?re seeing is really exciting.? Details of the work complete, pending, and news about next steps for the project are on the DuraSpace and Samvera community blogs. Highlights include results from the HykuDirect Pilot Program and Gap Assessment Report, a new IMLS grant pre-proposal, a pledge program, and news of two service providers launching Hyku services. Hannah Frost, Manager, Digital Library Product and Service Management at Stanford Libraries says ?Clearly there is a great deal of momentum and drive among the community to continue moving Hyku forward.? Frost and Mike Giarlo, Technical Manager on the project, will present at Samvera Connect to share with the Samvera community the outcomes and lessons of the project in order to inform and align the Samvera development roadmap with feedback collected during this project. DPLA?s interim Executive Director Michele Kimpton says ?We believe supporting Hyku,an open source community based platform, that can be run in the cloud, will be of great utility to our network. It will increase access to content by connecting key infrastructural pieces with DPLA hubs, current Samvera partners, and prospective adopters to create a vibrant, participatory community of adopters and contributors.? All granting partners feel the outcomes of this grant period strongly support the objectives of developing a national, digital platform to equip all libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions with a community-based repository system, enabling discovery, interoperability, and reuse of digital resources by people from this country and around the world. If you?re interested in Hyku and its mission of lowering the barrier of entry to open-source digital repository services, please contact contact at hykudirect.org to discuss an investment of staff time or funds to the project. We look forward to working together with you! -- Carol Minton Morris Communications and Marketing Director DuraSpace duraspace.org 607 592-3135 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daureen.nesdill at utah.edu Wed Nov 8 14:50:40 2017 From: daureen.nesdill at utah.edu (Daureen Nesdill) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 19:50:40 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] FW: [dataone] DataONE Webinar: Provenance-enabled Reproducibility: Developments in DataONE Tuesday 11/14 In-Reply-To: <5D87D39B-8B7A-4001-A4F6-0279FE0AE649@dataone.unm.edu> References: <5D87D39B-8B7A-4001-A4F6-0279FE0AE649@dataone.unm.edu> Message-ID: <4BB8E3E08D34034DB9A7D4F285555FB18E82B1F8@X-MB3.xds.umail.utah.edu> In case you have not seen this Daureen Nesdill From: Amber Budden [mailto:aebudden at dataone.unm.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 12:16 PM Subject: [dataone] DataONE Webinar: Provenance-enabled Reproducibility: Developments in DataONE Tuesday 11/14 Dear Community Please be reminded of the upcoming DataONE Webinar ?Provenance-enabled Reproducibility: Developments in DataONE? presented by Chris Jones, Bryce Mecum and Matthew Jones of the National Center for Analysis and Synthesis. The webinar will be held on Tuesday November 14th at 0900 Pacific / 1200 Mountain / 1100 Central / 1200 Eastern. Register at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pIryN10sSZedLZslhjE4vQ Full information and can be found at: https://www.dataone.org/upcoming-webinar. Abstract and bio below. DataONE webinars are recorded and made available online later the same day. You can review previous webinars at: https://www.dataone.org/previous-webinars/2017 Best Amber Abstract Reproducible research is enabled, in part, by provenance metadata that describes the lineage and processing history of data and knowledge artifacts. Provenance plays an important role in many scientific applications and use cases. Yet this information is often not tracked as thoroughly and systematically as science metadata. DataONE has been working on tools to display provenance information and to support recording of provenance metadata through programming languages such as R and Matlab and through an intuitive, user friendly, web-based UI. During this webinar we will describe the history to date, showcasing the tools developed and providing a demonstration of the new web-based provenance editor. We highlight the collaborative efforts in building a community around provenance, and introduce future integration with WholeTale and other community initiatives. Speaker Bio Chris Jones is a Software Engineer at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked on informatics projects for the last fifteen years, focusing on generic solutions to common data management needs in the earth and ecological sciences. Chris has built systems to document and archive data for regional and international consortia, stream data in near real time from arrays of oceanographic sensors deployed across the insular Pacific islands, and has been involved in metadata standards development and ontology development. Chris tries to handle computer systems in stride, despite their frequent tantrums. He lives in Colorado. Bryce Mecum is a scientific software engineer with expertise in data analysis and programming and data management systems, including systems like R, GitHub, repository software, Python, and UNIX. He has a background in fisheries modeling and management, and builds software systems supporting environmental synthesis. Matthew Jones is the Director of Informatics Research at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, and co-PI on DataONE. His research focuses on environmental informatics, and particularly software for management, integration, analysis, and modeling of heterogeneous environmental data. Products have included metadata standards like Ecological Metadata Language, data systems like the KNB Data Repository and DataONE, and scientific workflow systems such as Kepler for tracking the structure and provenance of analysis. Amber E Budden, PhD Director for Community Engagement and Outreach DataONE University of New Mexico 1312 Basehart SE Albuquerque NM 87106 cell: 505.205.7675 aebudden at dataone.unm.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "community at dataone.org" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to community+unsubscribe at dataone.org. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/a/dataone.org/group/community/. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/dataone.org/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ceaker at utk.edu Fri Nov 10 09:52:28 2017 From: ceaker at utk.edu (Eaker, Chris) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:52:28 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] REMINDER! CFP still open! Proposals are due November 30, 2017. Message-ID: REMINDER! CFP still open! Proposals are due November 30, 2017. Registration is now open! Early bird registration is only $35 for great discussions of scholarly communications and research in libraries. Register here: https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs2018/registration/ Do you support faculty researchers or graduate student researchers? Or, do you do your own research? Then we have a conference for you! Please join us for the 4th Empirical Librarians conference, EmpLibs18. EmpLibs18 is a mini-conference on librarians and research, and will be held on February 16, 2018, at the University of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, TN. The keynote speaker will be the incomparable Carol Tenopir. A pre-conference is available on getting started in publishing as a librarian. Concurrent sessions will be offered on scholarly communications and on doing research in libraries. Past feedback on this conference has said how much attendees enjoyed the chance to network with other librarians interested in research and researcher support, and how useful the sessions were on improving the role of libraries in scholarship. Come join us! We are also still seeking presentation proposals from librarians, library professionals, and LIS students on our two conference topic tracks: (1) supporting original research, through faculty and graduate outreach, scholarly communications, etc.; and (2) doing research in libraries. All proposals are subject to double-blind peer review. We are particularly interested in hearing practical ideas for researcher support and concrete discussions of methods for librarian research. Our experience is that the more we learn about doing research the better we are at supporting research, and vice versa. For that reason this conference brings together librarians who are researchers with librarians who support researchers, in order to share all manner of knowledge about research! This would be a great forum for presenters to revisit an already-presented project but focus on the "how to" of techniques you used instead of the findings. Please submit proposals for concurrent sessions, panels, and/or lightning talks at https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs2018/cfp/ by November 30, 2017. Empirical Librarians is a small conference focused on librarians doing research and librarians supporting researchers. EmpLibs18 will be a one-day conference with a half-day preconference. The conference will be held at the University of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Friday, February 16th, 2018, from 9:00am to 4:30pm. An optional writers' preconference will be included for interested librarians on Thursday afternoon from 1-5pm. Empirical Librarians is co-sponsored by the UT University Libraries and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) library. For questions or more information, please contact Nina Exner at ninae at ncat.edu before November 22. Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Tobin.Magle at colostate.edu Mon Nov 13 22:50:06 2017 From: Tobin.Magle at colostate.edu (Magle,Tobin) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 03:50:06 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Job posting: Data Management Specialist, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO In-Reply-To: <719799DA-504C-4EA1-8DBC-2195941749AF@colostate.edu> References: <719799DA-504C-4EA1-8DBC-2195941749AF@colostate.edu> Message-ID: <8A1B7281-6980-45BD-AEBF-AF981A06C47F@colostate.edu> I have recently transitioned into the role of cyberinfrastructure facilitator at Colorado State University, and we?re now filling my old data management specialist position. Please see the listing below, and let me know if you have any questions. * Tobin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Management Specialist, Colorado State University Colorado State University seeks a Data Management Specialist to guide the implementation of data management and curation services at CSU. The position promotes awareness of resources and services among faculty and students through outreach activities, and works closely with campus and CSU Libraries units to ensure that acquired data resources are discoverable and accessible. For more information and to submit an application, please view the full job listing at http://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/51487. CSU is an EO/EA/AA employer and conducts background checks on all final candidates C. Tobin Magle, PhD Cyberinfrastructure Facilitator Associate Professor 1019 Campus Delivery Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1019 (970)-491-0517 orcid.org/0000-0003-3185-7034 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Tobin.Magle at colostate.edu Mon Nov 13 22:55:43 2017 From: Tobin.Magle at colostate.edu (Magle,Tobin) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 03:55:43 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Job posting: Data Management Specialist, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO In-Reply-To: <8A1B7281-6980-45BD-AEBF-AF981A06C47F@colostate.edu> References: <719799DA-504C-4EA1-8DBC-2195941749AF@colostate.edu> <8A1B7281-6980-45BD-AEBF-AF981A06C47F@colostate.edu> Message-ID: <5C95873E-2E8D-41C0-8C79-B1C157DCE8FE@colostate.edu> I have recently transitioned into the role of cyberinfrastructure facilitator at Colorado State University, and we?re now filling my old data management specialist position. Please see the listing below, and let me know if you have any questions. * Tobin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Management Specialist, Colorado State University Colorado State University seeks a Data Management Specialist to guide the implementation of data management and curation services at CSU. The position promotes awareness of resources and services among faculty and students through outreach activities, and works closely with campus and CSU Libraries units to ensure that acquired data resources are discoverable and accessible. For more information and to submit an application, please view the full job listing at http://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/51487. CSU is an EO/EA/AA employer and conducts background checks on all final candidates C. Tobin Magle, PhD Cyberinfrastructure Facilitator Associate Professor 1019 Campus Delivery Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1019 (970)-491-0517 orcid.org/0000-0003-3185-7034 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matthew.j.farrell at duke.edu Tue Nov 14 09:21:06 2017 From: matthew.j.farrell at duke.edu (Matthew Farrell) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:21:06 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] 2017 NDSA Web Archiving Survey: 3 days left! Message-ID: **Please Excuse Cross Postings** [NDSA_Logo.png] [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/52813s9V6XiEV_7Qw-KonSlFckVkdtQ-l4qkT9i4YQI18oMTEcG7npaKRXFZs6GFOjddMFDMLD11KJ4bTsjAKeJgGNJxYfsNWxcHq4OvTtTm0jdPxgf8eFfTKg0meSGvm_H2qiuA] Calling all web archivists, it's that time again! The National Digital Stewardship Alliance is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. The survey is the fourth in a longitudinal study to track the evolution of web archiving programs and activity in the United States, focusing on similarities and differences in programmatic approaches, types of content being archived, tools and services being used, access modes being provided, and emerging best practices and challenges. The results of the survey will be reported to NDSA members and summary results will be shared publicly in 2018. Any United States organization involved in web archiving or in the process of planning a web archive is encouraged to take the survey. The survey will close November 17, 2017. Results and observations from the three previous surveys (2011, 2013, 2016) are available. Thank you, The NDSA Web Archiving Survey Working Group -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 8319 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 244938 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: From aneeser at berkeley.edu Tue Nov 14 20:42:16 2017 From: aneeser at berkeley.edu (Amy Neeser) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:42:16 -0800 Subject: [Rdap] RDAP18 Planning Committee update Message-ID: Hello RDAP community members, We are excited to share an update about the RDAP 2018 planning committee?s hard work to make RDAP 2018 a success! The call for proposals is out and *due by *Friday, November 17. Also check out brief session descriptions with the proposal submission questions. There will be a forthcoming CFP for the poster session and separate oral session (TBD). We are also pleased to announce that we will feature a keynote speaker this year. As we finalize those arrangements we?ll be sure to share more information about that with the community. Our subcommittees have also been hard at work: - The Sponsorship Team has some good news to share: we not only met our goal, we exceeded it! This means that attendees will see similar registration costs in 2018 as 2017. Affordability was one of this year?s goals and the RDAP 2018 Planning Committee would like to take a moment to publicly thank our sponsors for making it possible: - Partners: Purdue Univ. Libraries , Figshare, and Elsevier. - Advocates: DPN. - Contributors: Iowa State Univ. Library and The UW-Madison iSchool. - Sponsors: Univ. of Minnesota Libraries, DLF, Virginia Tech Libraries, PLOS, Northeastern Univ. Libraries, OCLC, University of Illinois Univ. Library (Champaign-Urbana), Northwestern Library, and ICPSR. - Save the date! The Webinar committee is pleased to announce its upcoming webinar on January 23 at 3pm EST. The assembled panel will explore how researchers use new technologies to manage their workflows, facilitate collaboration, and share aspects of their work. More information will be shared soon. - The Marketing committee has been helping spread the word about the call for proposals, the webinar, and our sponsors. Join the conversation on Facebook or Twitter with the hashtag #RDAP18. - This year, RDAP is pleased to announce a partnership with the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) . Selected accepted RDAP proposals will be invited to submit their work for publication in JeSLIB, a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes full-length papers, eScience in Action articles, reviews, and video articles. First time RDAP attendees are also encouraged to submit commentaries for publication in JeSLIB. - RDAP's Future Vision Task Force (FVTF) has been diligently working to review suggested organizations for possible future alignment or as models for standalone professional associations. The FVTF will present on these findings at RDAP 2018 and share a report including recommendations for RDAP's future direction and a suggested timeline for action, with community feedback encouraged. RDAP 2018 registration will open up in early 2018. So get your presentation proposals in and we?ll hope to see many of you in Chicago in late March! Regards, Amy Neeser and Jon Petters RDAP18 co-Chairs aneeser at berkeley.edu; jpetters at vt.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amir3 at umbc.edu Wed Nov 15 12:20:01 2017 From: amir3 at umbc.edu (Amir Karami) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:20:01 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Associate or Full Professor Position at the University of South Carolina Message-ID: ** Apologies for cross-posting ** *Institution* University of South Carolina- College of Information and Communications *Job Title* Associate or Full Professor *Dates* Opening Date: 10/02/2017 Closing Date: 12/04/2017 *Job Description* The University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science in Columbia invites applications and nominations for a tenured faculty position at the Associate or Full Professor level to begin fall 2018. Shape the future of library and information science. Pursue your interests in a diverse, intellectually stimulating, and multi-disciplinary environment that provides support and encouragement as part of a collaborative work culture. Be a strong voice in the shaping of a growing information science undergraduate program. An earned doctorate in library and information science or a related field is preferred. This position requires a clearly articulated research agenda and enthusiasm for and excellence in teaching in both online and face-to-face formats. The School is particularly interested in a candidate with specializations in one or more of the following areas: *Information Science, Academic Libraries Research Methodologies, Information Retrieval, and Archives Digital Repositories* Selected candidates will be expected to help with the school?s commitment to diversity through research, teaching, and service. *Job Duties* Responsibilities: Instruct undergraduate and graduate courses in both face-to-face, as well as online environments, Mentor and advise undergraduate and graduate students Participate in instruction, research, publication, grant writing, and other scholarly activities Provide service to the department, college, university, profession, and community *Experience/Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills:* Required Education and Experience: Doctorate in library and information studies or related field Capacity to teach in undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programs Successful record of research, teaching and service reflective of a tenured professor Capacity to advise at the graduate level Knowledge in creating educational materials for face-to-face and online instruction Understand and appreciate information science?s connection to field of librarianship Preferred Qualifications: Teaching experience in an online or distance education environment Active involvement in one or more professional organizations appropriate to area of expertise Experience in procuring grants or external funding Experience working with doctoral programs *Supplemental Information:* About UofSC The University of South Carolina System is comprised of the state's flagship university in Columbia (founded in 1801 and currently one of the top 50 "Best Colleges" according to U.S. News and World Report), three regional comprehensive universities (USC Aiken, USC Beaufort and USC Upstate), and Palmetto College consisting of four two-year campuses (USC Lancaster, USC Salkehatchie, USC Sumter, USC Union and Fort Jackson/Extended University). Together, the USC System institutions offer more than 450-degree programs on campus and online and are uniquely positioned to meet the state's educational, cultural, health and research needs. The System employs nearly 14,000 people who work daily to improve the lives of students, fellow South Carolinians, and the world. Our diverse engaged faculty and staff enjoy a dynamic and intellectually stimulating work environment. Benefits for FTE Positions The University of South Carolina (UofSC), through the State of SC and Public Employee Benefit Authority (PEBA), offers state employees a valuable benefits package, including health and life insurance, generous paid leave and retirement programs. To learn more about UofSC benefits, access the benefits section on the Applicant Portal. *How to Apply:* All applicants must apply through: https://uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/19787 Application materials include: A letter of application that addresses stated responsibilities and qualifications Current vitae List of three references For further information or questions, send an email to Dr. Dick Kawooya, Committee Chair, at kawooya at sc.edu or call at 803-777-4949 or Mike Corbo, Office and Communication Coordinator, at mcorbo at mailbox.sc.edu, 803-777-3858. The Committee will begin full review of applications and nominations on December 4, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled. -- Warm Wishes, Amir Karami, PhD Assistant Professor College of Information and Communications University of South Carolina Website: https://sites.google.com/site/karamihomepage/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hmdavis4 at ncsu.edu Mon Nov 20 14:22:04 2017 From: hmdavis4 at ncsu.edu (Hilary Davis) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:22:04 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Save the Date - June 4-8, 2018 | Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians Message-ID: [Apologies for duplication] Hi all - We are going to hold another Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians. Please see announcement below and forward to anyone you think will be interested. Thanks, Hilary Save the Date! The Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians will be held June 4 - 8th, 2018 at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Applications for the Institute will be accepted beginning on Dec 12, 2017. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/data-science-and-visualization-institute 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. A final schedule will be available in early December, including topics such as: - Data Exploration and Analysis - Data Visualization - Data Cleaning and Preparation - Web Scraping - Parsing HTML & JSON, Orchestrating APIs, and Gathering Twitter Streams - Bibliometric Network Analysis - Data Description, Sharing, and Reuse Visit our website ( https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/data-science-and-visualization-institute) to stay up-to-date on program details and to apply (beginning December 12, 2017). The Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians is offered through a collaboration between the NCSU Libraries, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Data Science Training for Librarians (DST4L), and Library Carpentry. [image: ncsulib_logo.jpg] -- Hilary Davis Department Head, Collections & Research Strategy NCSU Libraries Raleigh, NC 27695 919-513-0654 hmdavis4 at ncsu.edu ORCID: 0000-0002-2613-1717 @ncsulibresearch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jwd at iu.edu Wed Nov 22 10:02:37 2017 From: jwd at iu.edu (Dunn, Jon William Butcher) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:02:37 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Call for Papers: Open Repositories 2018, June 4-7, Bozeman, Montana, USA Message-ID: The 13th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2018, will be held on June 4th-7th, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, USA. Open Repositories 2018 is now calling for proposals around the theme of Sustaining Open. http://www.or2018.net/call-for-papers/ Research and Cultural Heritage communities have embraced the idea of Open; open communities, open source software, open data, scholarly communications, and open access publications and collections. These projects and communities require different modes of thinking and resourcing than purchasing vended products. While open may be the way forward, mitigating fatigue, finding sustainable funding, and building flexible digital repository platforms is something most of us are striving for. Submissions this year should focus on the how, why, and what it will take to make open sustainable. While not limited to the below topics, we?re focusing our attention on issues around the sustainability of: * Open source software - sustainability of software developed locally and large open source systems, legacy code * Community - reaching out to new audiences, developing a community, governance * Content - research data, digital preservation, persistent urls, archiving * Teams/People - staff and knowledge within the community, contingency planning, training and development, and succession planning * Projects - sustainability of projects beyond the grant, maturing communities * Infrastructure/Integrations - integrations between systems, changing technical environments * Policy - national, international, local and community policy and decisions * Challenges of sustainability - funding, local, technical, community * Rights and Copyright - including Data Protection, sharing and storing of content * Reuse, standards, and reproducibility - for example: software, data, content types * New open technologies and standards Submission Process Accepted proposals in all categories will be made available through the conference?s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in an open repository. Some conference sessions may be live streamed or recorded, then made publicly available. Interest Groups This year there are no separate interest groups for the different repository systems, instead if your 24x7 or presentation submission is related to a specific repository system please indicate so in your proposal. Presentations Presentation proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for submission templates). Successful submissions in past years have typically described work relevant to a wide audience and applicable beyond a single software system. Presentations are 30 minutes long including questions. Panels Panel proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for submission templates). Successful submissions in past years have typically described work relevant to a wide audience and applicable beyond a single software system. All panels are expected to include at least some degree of diversity in viewpoints and personal background of the panelists. Panel sessions are expected to include a short presentation from each panel member followed by a discussion. Panels may take an entire session or may be combined with another submission. Panels can be 45 or 90 minutes long. Discussion Question and Answer Discussion Q&A proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for submission templates). This is your opportunity to suggest members of the community to join in a Q&A discussion on various proposed topics. This is meant to be a deep-dive into why a decision was made, how projects got started, where an idea came from, or anything else that you want to know more about. Imagine this as a 45 - 90 minute grilling at a cocktail party but on a stage in front of your peers. Q&As may take an entire session or may be combined with another submission. This session will not be video recorded. Discussion Q&A can be 45 or 90 minutes long. 24?7 Presentations 24?7 presentations are 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Successful 24x7 presentations have a clear focus on one or a few ideas and a narrower focus than a 25 minute presentation. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24?7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated question and answer session involving the audience and all block presenters. This format will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions. Proposals for 24?7 presentations should be one to two pages (see below for submission templates). 24x7 presentations are 7 minutes long. Posters We invite one-page proposals for posters that showcase current work (see below for submission templates). OR2018 will feature physical posters only. Posters will be on display throughout the conference. Instructions for preparing the posters will be distributed to authors of accepted poster proposals prior to the conference. Poster submitters will be expected to give a one-minute teaser to encourage visitors to their poster during the conference. Posters presentations will be 1 minute. Developer Track: Top Tips, Cunning Code and Imaginative Innovation Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services. OR2018 will feature a Developer Track that will provide a focus for showcasing work and exchanging ideas. Building on the success of previous Developer Tracks, where we encouraged live hacking and audience participation, we invite members of the technical community to share the features, systems, tools and best practices that are important to you (see below for submission templates). The 15 minute presentations can be as informal as you like, but we encourage live demonstrations, tours of code repositories, examples of cool features, and the unique viewpoints that so many members of our community possess. Proposals should be one to two pages, including a title, a brief outline of what will be shared with the community, and technologies covered. Developers are also encouraged to contribute to the other tracks. Developer Track presentations are 15 minutes including questions. Ideas Challenge OR2018 will also again include the popular Ideas Challenge. Taking part in this competition provides an opportunity to take an active role in repository innovation, in collaboration with your peers and in pursuit of prizes. The Ideas Challenge is open to all conference attendees. Further details and guidance on the Ideas Challenge will be forthcoming closer to the conference. Workshops and tutorials The first day of Open Repositories will be dedicated to workshops and tutorials. One to two-page proposals addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. See below for Proposal Templates; please address the following in your proposal: * The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey * Length of session (90 minutes, 3 hours or a whole day) * A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session * The target audience for your session and how many attendees you plan to accommodate * Technology and facility requirements * Any other supplies or support required * Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session Please note, the program committee may consider submissions for other tracks and formats, as appropriate. Submission System The submission system will be available at the start of December, when a link will be added to http://www.or2018.net/call-for-papers/ Review Process All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated according to the criteria outlined in the call for proposals, including quality of content, significance, originality, and thematic fit. Code of Conduct The OR2018 Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy are available at http://or2018.net/code-of-conduct/ Scholarship Programme OR2018 will again run a Scholarship Programme which will enable us to provide support for a small number of full registered places (including the poster reception and conference dinner) for the conference in Bozeman. The programme is open to librarians, repository managers, developers and researchers in digital libraries and related fields. Applicants submitting a proposal for the conference will be given priority consideration for funding. Please note that the programme does not cover costs such as accommodation, travel and subsistence. It is anticipated that the applicant?s home institution will provide financial support to supplement the OR Scholarship Award. Full details and an application form will shortly be available on the conference website. Key Dates * 5 January 2018: Deadline for submissions * 5 January 2018: Deadline for Scholarship Programme applications * 09 February 2018: Submitters notified of acceptance to Workshops * 12 February 2018: Registration opens * 21 February 2018: Submitters notified of acceptance to other tracks * 21 February 2018: Scholarship Programme winners notified * 23 February 2018: Submitters notified of acceptance of 24x7, posters, and developer track * 20 April 2018: All presenters are encouraged to register by the close of Early Bird * 25 May 2018: Presenter registration deadline * 4-7 June 2018: OR2018 conference Program Co-Chairs Claire Knowles and Evviva Weinraub -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5640 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ceaker at utk.edu Tue Nov 28 12:29:59 2017 From: ceaker at utk.edu (Eaker, Chris) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:29:59 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] REMINDER: Empirical Librarians proposals due November 30! Message-ID: REMINDER! CFP still open! Proposals are due November 30, 2017. Registration is now open! Early bird registration is only $35 for great discussions of scholarly communications and research in libraries. Register here: https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs2018/registration/ Do you support faculty researchers or graduate student researchers? Or, do you do your own research? Then we have a conference for you! Please join us for the 4th Empirical Librarians conference, EmpLibs18. EmpLibs18 is a mini-conference on librarians and research, and will be held on February 16, 2018, at the University of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, TN. The keynote speaker will be the incomparable Carol Tenopir. A pre-conference is available on getting started in publishing as a librarian. Concurrent sessions will be offered on scholarly communications and on doing research in libraries. Past feedback on this conference has said how much attendees enjoyed the chance to network with other librarians interested in research and researcher support, and how useful the sessions were on improving the role of libraries in scholarship. Come join us! We are also still seeking presentation proposals from librarians, library professionals, and LIS students on our two conference topic tracks: (1) supporting original research, through faculty and graduate outreach, scholarly communications, etc.; and (2) doing research in libraries. All proposals are subject to double-blind peer review. We are particularly interested in hearing practical ideas for researcher support and concrete discussions of methods for librarian research. Our experience is that the more we learn about doing research the better we are at supporting research, and vice versa. For that reason this conference brings together librarians who are researchers with librarians who support researchers, in order to share all manner of knowledge about research! This would be a great forum for presenters to revisit an already-presented project but focus on the "how to" of techniques you used instead of the findings. Please submit proposals for concurrent sessions, panels, and/or lightning talks at https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs2018/cfp/ by November 30, 2017. Empirical Librarians is a small conference focused on librarians doing research and librarians supporting researchers. EmpLibs18 will be a one-day conference with a half-day preconference. The conference will be held at the University of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Friday, February 16th, 2018, from 9:00am to 4:30pm. An optional writers' preconference will be included for interested librarians on Thursday afternoon from 1-5pm. Empirical Librarians is co-sponsored by the UT University Libraries and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) library. For questions or more information, please contact Chris Eaker at ceaker at utk.edu. Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dminor at ucsd.edu Thu Nov 30 12:20:18 2017 From: dminor at ucsd.edu (Minor, David) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:20:18 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Job posting: Research Data Metadata Librarian Message-ID: <5B7A2277-089B-42FA-92C1-FDFE0956259B@ucsd.edu> Hi folks. I'm passing along announcement of a great position in our Library: Research Data Metadata Librarian. Reporting primarily to the Director of the Research Data Curation Program (me!), the Research Data Metadata Librarian works collaboratively with the Digital Object Metadata Management unit of the Metadata Services Program to provide metadata support and advice to researchers and other data owners in preparing and submitting their data collections for ingest into the Library?s digital repository. The successful candidate will also play a large role in developing and conducting training on metadata and data management best practices. For instance, the Library is focused on developing instructional programs utilizing Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry. Finally, the person will also have the opportunity to provide community leadership, as metadata for digital materials is actively shared between the a number of other national systems and services. Applications are now being accepted at https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF01633 . Don't hesitate to ask me any questions. David. David Minor Program Director for Research Data Curation UC San Diego Library From anthi at isast.org Wed Nov 29 11:48:01 2017 From: anthi at isast.org (Anthi) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:48:01 +0200 Subject: [Rdap] FW: 10th QQML INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Message-ID: <03ac01d36931$d2fe9510$78fbbf30$@isast.org> Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to invite you in Chania, Crete, Greece ((22-25 May 2018) for the 10th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2018, http://qqml.org) which is organized under the umbrella of ISAST (International Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology). A lot of QQML friends asked us to organize the Anniversary of the 10 years of QQML Conference in Chania and we accepted the challenge. The conference invites Special and Contributed Sessions, Oral Papers, Best Practices, Workshops and Posters. Details about the types of distribution please visit: http://qqml.org/description-of-the-contribution/ Target Group The target group and the audience are library professionals in a more general sense: professors, researchers, students, administrators, stakeholders, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers, information scientists, librarians, records managers, web developers, IT specialists, taxonomists, statisticians, marketing managers, philologist, subject and reference librarians et al. Main topics The emphasis is given to the Future of the Library and Information Science The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: 1. The effect of Humanities on the LIS, 2. The Effect of Library on Learning and Research 3. The effect of LIS on personalities. 4. The effect of LIS on Society 5. The effect of the ICTS on LIS, 6. Application of innovative ideas in the library 7. Best Practices in the library 8. Communication of R&D projects 9. Development of Information and Knowledge Services 10. Human resources and competencies for the 21st century 11. Library and Information Science and Research 12. LIS Education, Research and Training 13. Preparing Library for Tomorrow 14. Going Digital 15. Going Open 16. Information and Knowledge Management 17. Information Behavior and Use 18. Information Literacy 19. Intercultural Information Ethics 20. Knowledge networking and consortia 21. Library design 22. Library management and marketing, 23. Scholarly communication 24. Methods and techniques 25. Metrics Research (Altmetrics, Bibliometrics, Cybermetrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics) 26. Qualitative and Quantitative methods in libraries, museums, archives and information centres 27. Tools for Organizational Performance Measurement Special Sessions - Workshops You may send proposals for Special Saessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 1-3 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretar at isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://qqml.org/call-of-proposals/ You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the proposed sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://qqml.org/call-of-proposals/ Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; b. full papers (not exceeding 9,000 words); c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference: http://qqml.org/registration/. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://qqml.org/call-of-proposals/ The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines that are located in the above link. All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the QQML e- journal after the permission of the author(s). The QQML e- journal moved to http://www.qqml-journal.net Doctoral and Postgraduate Sessions Professors and Supervisors are recommended to encourage the contribution of Postgraduate theses and dissertations of their students. In the Doctoral and Postgraduate Sessions the contributors resent their research, the topic, the objectives, the methodology and the ongoing work. Post Graduate Student sessions for research are especially organized. Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2018 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretar at isast.org QQML 2018 Important Dates Abstract submissions: December 20, 2017 Notification of acceptance two weeks after submission. Deadline Paper Submission: 1st of May 2018 Deadline Presentation Submission: 1st of May 2018 Early bird Registration: up to 30th of March 2018 Submit a Proposal or a session to secretar at isast.org Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar at isast.org. Please refer to the Session Number, as they are referred at the conference website to help the secretariat to classify the submissions. For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://qqml.org/ or contact the secretary of the conference at : secretar at isast.org Paper contributors have the opportunity to be published in the QQML e- Journal, which continues to retain the right of first choice, however in addition they have the chance to be published in other scientific journals. QQML e- Journal is included in EBSCOhost Looking forward to welcoming you in Chania, Crete, With our best regards, On behalf of the Conference Committee Anthi Katsirikou, PhD Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi at asmda.com __________________________ If you don't like to receive messages regarding the QQML2018 Conference, please click here: Unsubscribe See you in Chania, Crete, Kind regards, Anthi Katsirikou (Ms) Librarian, PhD, MSc QQML Conference co-chair Adjunct Professor, Hellenic Open University Director, University of Piraeus Library Coordinator of European Documentation Centers in Greece Member of the Board of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Professionals IFLA Member ALA/ ACRL Member http://www.qqml.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: