[CODE4LIB] Job opportunity: Yale University seeks Digital Preservation Librarian

[Douglas, Kelly]

Digital Preservation Librarian

Yale University Library
New Haven, CT
Requisition:  46205BR
http://bit.ly/2z55u3L

Yale University offers exciting opportunities for achievement and growth in New 
Haven, Connecticut.  Conveniently located between Boston and New York, New 
Haven is the creative capital of Connecticut with cultural resources that 
include two major art museums, a critically-acclaimed repertory theater, 
state-of-the-art concert hall, and world-renowned schools of Architecture, Art, 
Drama, and Music.

Position Focus: The incumbent will report to the digital preservation manager 
and will work within the digital preservation team to preserve the Library's 
digital content. The Digital Preservation Librarian will be an expert in the 
Library's Digital Preservation Systems and processes and a first point of 
contact for users of digital preservation services. The Digital Preservation 
Librarian will work with prospective content depositors and stewards of 
preserved content to ensure depositors can ingest content into the digital 
preservation systems, to ensure their content is appropriately preserved, and 
to ensure their content is appropriately accessible when requested.  The 
librarian will troubleshoot any workflow issues and work closely with the 
content stewards to ensure they have the resources and training necessary to 
ingest, manage and access their content. The librarian will use system 
reporting capabilities and risk identification tools to identify at risk 
digital content and develop, test, and implement approaches for ensuring 
continued access to that content, and will develop additional reporting 
capabilities. The Digital Preservation Librarian will also work with the 
digital preservation team and other stakeholders to document policies and 
procedures related to the digital preservation services we offer and work to 
ensure the system can pass regular audits.

Required Education, Skills and Experience:

  *   Master's degree for an ALA-accredited library school or related 
post-graduate degree. Librarians new to the profession are encouraged to apply.
  *   Demonstrable analytical skills and aptitude for desk-based research 
including the ability to reason insightfully when presented with a technical 
problem and present coherent argument for chosen way forward.
  *   Demonstrated technical understanding of digital preservation challenges 
and solutions. Knowledge and experience of managing and/or preserving digital 
content, or working in a related area.
  *   Ability to write simple programs/scripts and XML stylesheets and 
understand basic program code and XML.
  *   Excellent oral and written communication skills; demonstrated analytical 
and organizational skills.
  *   Demonstrated record of designing projects and bringing them to a 
conclusion in a timely fashion.
  *   Experience working collegially and cooperatively within and across 
organizations.
  *   Experience working collaboratively and independently with varied groups 
within a complex organization and rapidly changing, team environment.
Yale University assigns ranks to librarian positions based on a combination of 
professional experience and accomplishments. Librarian ranking information can 
be found at: http://www.library.yale.edu/about/departments/lhr/rank.html.

Preferred Education, Skills and Experience: Experience working with the 
Preservica digital preservation system software. An understanding of file 
formats regarding long-term sustainability. Ability to write complex programs 
and a thorough understanding of a programming language. Experience of working 
on digital preservation research projects, and working in a research library, 
archive or research data center. Experience in software testing

The University and the Library
The Yale University Library, as one of the world's leading research libraries, 
collects, organizes, preserves, and provides access to and services for a rich 
and unique record of human thought and creativity. It fosters intellectual 
growth and supports the teaching and research missions of Yale University and 
scholarly communities worldwide. A distinctive strength is its rich spectrum of 
resources, including around 15 million volumes and information in all media, 
ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases. The 
Library is engaging in numerous projects to expand access to its physical and 
digital collections. Housed in eighteen buildings including the Sterling 
Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Center for 
Science and Social Science Information, and the Bass Library, it employs a 
dynamic and diverse staff of approximately five hundred who offer innovative 
and flexible services to library readers.  For additional information on the 
Yale University Library, please visit the Library's web site at 
www.library.yale.edu.

The Preservation Department:
Yale University 

[CODE4LIB] Job: IIIF Community & Communications Officer at IIIF

[Code4Lib Jobs]

The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium seeks a 
dedicated staff member to help facilitate the growing activities of the 
Consortium and the community it both represents and supports. The person in 
this role will serve as a coordinator, communicator, and facilitator, working 
with the experts and adopters of IIIF to help advance the framework and its 
utility.  The role will liaise with IIIF editorial and community groups to 
ensure consistency and continuous improvement.

Reporting Lines: The incumbent will be an employee of CLIR (the Council on 
Library and Information Resources), while his or her work supporting IIIF will 
be directed by the Chair of the IIIF-C Executive Committee or the Chair’s 
designate, who will provide both high level and week-to-week direction 
regarding maintaining and expanding the IIIF Consortium and other activities. 
Administrative support and general working conditions will be provided by the 
Council on Library and Information Resources.

Specific duties include:

Community and Communication Management 

Communication support, including website content management, newsletters, 
social media, etc.
Event planning. Currently 4-6 events of differing sizes are held per year, with 
the larger ones requiring event management.
Liaison with  coordination of different IIIF community groups.
Establishing and helping maintain communication channels (documentation, 
presentations, training materials, email lists, ticketing systems, etc.) for 
community-based activities; support for documentation  knowledge 
management of IIIF-related artifacts.

Training and Outreach

Outreach and IIIF advocacy: represent IIIF at relevant conferences and meetings.
Training for IIIF adopters (in conjunction with the IIIF Technology Coordinator 
and community members): help define and deliver training curricula for various 
stakeholders in both online and in person. 
Consulting on IIIF strategies and standards for grants and projects seeking to 
become interoperable (including possibly being written into grants and 
projects).
Outreach and communication to industry and trade groups with a IIIF-interest 
(including possible vendors with products or content that might be made 
IIIF-compatible).

IIIF-C Administration  Project Management

Invoicing  reporting.
Marketing  outreach for consortium expansion  maintenance.
Member communication. 
Project management of IIIF-specific efforts directly supported by the IIIF 
Consortium (such as the development or maintenance of the IIIF.io website, 
validators, utiltiies, etc.)

Required and Desired Skills  Experience

The ideal candidate:

will be self-directed and highly organized
will possess well documented, demonstrated, and effective communication skills 
including oral, written, and presentation capabilities;
will have sufficient and demonstrated technical depth to gain a conceptual 
understanding of the different components in interoperable image delivery, and 
to  work with IIIF community members of all technical abilities
will be able to use or learn GitHub
will be familiar with or will be a quick study to learn web technologies and 
web-based image delivery
will have previous experience in libraries, archives or museums (desired)
will be comfortable and thrive in an open community
will be adept fostering contributions and participation from a growing member 
and adopter base. 


Travel is required. Candidates may be located anywhere in North America or 
Western Europe. Salary dependent upon qualifications; benefits included.


The position description is available at: 
https://www.clir.org/about/positions/iiif
An online application form is available at: 
https://app.wizehive.com/appform/login/cliriiif
For questions and comments, please contact email: w...@clir.org 


Please apply online, or send a letter of application and a c.v. to:

IIIF Community and Communications Officer Search
Council on Library and Information Resources
1707 L Street NW, Suite 650
Washington, DC 20036
USA


The posting will be open until filled; the search committee expects to review 
resumes as early as December, and given a sufficient pool of candidates, 
progress with interviewing in January of 2018. 



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[CODE4LIB] Call for Papers: Open Repositories 2018, June 4-7, Bozeman, Montana, USA

[Dunn, Jon William Butcher]

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 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 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 may take an entire session or
may be combined with another submission. This session will not be video
recorded. 

 

Discussion Q 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 

[CODE4LIB] Call for proposals - Catalog and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS)

[Jeanette C Sewell]

The ALCTS Catalog and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS) Catalog 
Management Interest Group invites proposals for presentations or topics 
of discussion on the theme of Next Generation Discovery Systems at its 
2018 ALA Midwinter meeting in Denver.


We are seeking presentations on implementations of discovery layers that 
address issues related to the following questions:


·Did you choose an out-of-the-box solution, or did you develop your own 
discovery layer, either in house or with a vendor?


·How are you incorporating and leveraging linked data and/or 
other advanced features in your discovery layer?
·What strategies do you employ to ensure that your discovery 
layer best reflects your ILS data?


The charge of the Catalog Management IG is to discuss the various issues 
involved with cataloging, classification, authority control, and 
metadata application after the initial cataloging has been performed, 
including its impact on discovery.  The group will provide a forum for 
exchanging information and discussing techniques, new developments, and 
problems in managing the data integrity of library catalogs and related 
discovery tools.


Presentation or discussion proposals should include:

·Title

·A brief (300 words or less) summary of the topic
·Suggested amount of time needed to present or discuss topic
·Name(s), position(s) title(s), and email address(es) of 
presenter(s)


Please email proposals or discussion topics by Friday, December 1, 2017 
to the IG co-chairs, Amber Seely (amber.se...@hcpl.net 
) and Victoria Troemel 
(victoria.troe...@gmail.com ). 
Proposals should not be sent in reply to this post. Please contact us if 
you have any questions. More information about the CaMMS Catalog 
Management IG is also available at 
http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/camms/grps/ats-ccsdgcm


We look forward to hearing from you!

(Please excuse cross posting)

[CODE4LIB] Call for Papers - Linked Data

[Wang, Yongming]

Dear all,

*Call for Papers (Issue Featuring on Linked Data)*

*The International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL)* is a peer-reviewed and
open access journal in library and information science, published
biannually by the Chinese American Librarians Association, an affiliate of
the American Library Association. *IJoL* is dedicated to sharing ideas and
developments in librarianship across borders.

In the past decade, the growth of Linked Data on the Web is significant.
Libraries, archives, and museums around the world have been experimenting
with Linked Data that opens up opportunities to enhance and further improve
services they provide. New models, standards, and applications are inspired
by Linked Data. Although Linked Data technology is becoming mature, there
are still many issues that prevent library communities from moving forward
with this technology. It is time to share lessons learnt, to demonstrate
benefits of Linked Data, and to discuss the future of Linked Data in
libraries, archives, and museums.

*IJoL* invites both practitioners and researchers to share their
experiences and strategies. While *IJoL* continues to accept submissions on
any aspects of librarianship, articles about Linked Data are particularly
welcomed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

· Deploying linked data

· Linked data and authority control

· Linked data and big data;

· Linked data and smart data;

· Linked data applications

· Linked data in digital projects;

· Linked data in knowledge organization systems (e.g. controlled
vocabularies, taxonomy, thesaurus)

· Linked data publication

· Linked data quality

· Linked data query builders

· Publishing linked data

· Visualization of linked data

Articles are generally 3000 - 5000 words in length, and should be in APA
(American Psychological Association) 6th ed. format. Shorter or longer
articles may be accepted if deemed to be of high quality. Papers submitted
to this special issue must be original and must not be under consideration
for publication in any other journal or conference.

This issue will be published in the summer of 2018. The manuscript
submission deadline is April 1, 2018.

To submit your manuscript, please go to our website:
http://journal.calaijol.org. If this is your first time submitting a paper
to us, click the login button and then click the “Register with this site”
link to create your account. Please check the Author Guidelines section by
going to About -> Submissions for detailed instructions on how to prepare
your manuscript before submission. Please address any questions or concerns
to the editor-in-chief, Grace Liu at g...@uwindsor.ca.

*IJoL* also invites book reviews for the following of books to be included
in the Book Review section of the summer 2018 issue:

· Linked Data for Cultural Heritage (An ALCTS Monograph); Ed Jones
and Michele Seikel, editors; 2016; ISBN: 978-0-8389-1439-7

· Library Linked Data in the Cloud; Carol Jean Godby, Shenghui
Wang, Jeffrey K. Mixter; 2015; ISBN: 978-1-6270-5219-1

· Linked Data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums: How to Clean,
Link and Publish Your Metadata; Seth Van Hooland and Ruben Verborgh; 2014;
ISBN: 978-0-8389-1251-5

· Linked Data: Structured data on the web; David Wood, Marsha
Zaidman, Luke Ruth; 2014; ISBN: 978-1-6172-9039-8





Editorial Board

*International Journal of Librarianship*



-- 
Yongming Wang
The College of New Jersey
tel: 609-771-3337
email: wan...@tcnj.edu