OPPORTUNITY: Digital Scholarship 2020 Fellowship, LLILAS Benson

The LLILAS Benson Library released application guidelines for its Digital Scholarship 2020 Fellowship. The Digital Scholarship (LBDS) Fellowship provides a $3,000 stipend for a graduate student or a Masters-level (or above) scholar from outside of the University of Texas at Austin to pursue research interests in Latin American, U.S. Latinx, or African Diaspora Studies using ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (Harvard Medical School)

From the announcement: Job-Specific Responsibilities The individual in this position will assist the Associate Director of Scholarly Communication at the Countway Library in a variety of digital initiatives and open science activities that support students, faculty, and staff at Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, and collaborative projects with colleagues throughout the Harvard ...

JOB: Digital Archivist (Western University)

From the announcement: Under the direction of the University Archivist, the Digital Archivist’s primary focus is to provide leadership and management of existing collections (such as photographs, newspaper articles, year books, videos, and museum items), including the ingestion, annotation, metadata schema and authority control, cataloging, storage, and retrieval of digital assets; and supervise the digitization ...

POST: The Research Data Sharing Business Landscape

Rebecca Springer and Roger C. Schonfeld (both Ithaka S+R) have co-authored a post on The Scholarly Kitchen, “The Research Data Sharing Business Landscape.” Springer and Schonfeld focus on the business of “large-scale generalist data repositories,” focusing on the four they deem “the most significant players in the landscape today”: Dryad, Mendeley Data, figshare, and Zenodo. ...

CFP: RDAP 2020

The Research Data Access & Preservation Association (RDAP) has released a CFP for their 2020 summit, to be held March 11th through 13th in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The theme for RDAP 2020 is “Connecting Through Data”: “We encourage attendees to consider how different communities are impacted by our systems, technology, values, and practices, who ...

CFP: Debates in the Digital Humanities 2021

Editors Matthew K. Gold (CUNY Graduate Center) and Lauren F. Klein (Georgia Tech) have released a CFP for the 2021 biannual volume of Debates in the Digital Humanities. From the call, possible topics include: DH in the present geopolitical moment. What is the role of the field in combating the racism, sexism, xenophobia, and other ...

JOB: Data Management Services, Senior Assistant Librarian (Cal Poly Pomona)

From the announcement: The Data Management Librarian understands the importance of data in relation to academic research and access to information. The person in this position will strategically develop a culture of data management practices from within the library and outward, to help our users engage more broadly in their respective fields. This person will ...

JOB: Archivist, Digital Archives (Canadian Centre for Architecture)

From the announcement: The responsibilities of this job include the supervision, coordination and monitoring of the archival collection and projects, and specifically the born-digital archives. The incumbent oversees and develops local practices for managing born-digital material held and acquired by the CCA and assists in the strategic direction of acquisition, preservation, and access to born-digital ...

JOB: Research Data Services Librarian (University of Kentucky)

From the announcement: In this newly created position, the Librarian will facilitate collaboration across UK Libraries through training to propose, plan, implement, and assess workflows and services for the description, preservation, and utilization of research data. The Librarian will engage campus constituents involved in research, teaching, and learning by offering consultations for acquiring, locating, and ...

JOB: Digital Historian and Archivist (Washington College)

From the announcement: Washington College invites qualified applicants to apply for a three-year grant-funded Digital Historian and Archivist position for the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. The Digital Historian and Archivist will work closely with campus and community partners to conceive, implement, and manage the digital archive and website for Chesapeake ...