[CODE4LIB] Fwd: IT Specialist-Internet Programmer Federal Grade 11 - Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Of possible interest, via semantic archives... -Jodi (Apologies -- I misdirected this to the con list first!) -- Forwarded message -- From: Loren lo...@claymaven.com Date: Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:54 PM Subject: IT Specialist-Internet Programmer Federal Grade 11 - Smithsonian Archives of American Art To: Archives and the Semantic Web semantic-archi...@googlegroups.com Hi all, The Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution is offering a rare, Federal Grade 11 programming position. We are a Coldfusion 9 shop with a lot of creative opportunities to work with XML. We only have one dedicated programmer position, but this position gets to work with a great team comprising a web/usability specialist, a metadata specialist, and a database administrator. The Archives is in the forefront of the archival community in using library catalog data (MARC) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD XML) to describe fully digitized collections on our website. I can talk with anyone at great length about our work, but I want to get this announcement out to as many people as possible as we have a very short window for the job opening. The application is due by Dec. 3rd. http://cot.ag/h7MFf1 Please forward this to anyone, or any list, you think would be interested in it. Thanks a lot! Loren Scherbak Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution 202-633-7968 scherb...@si.edu
[CODE4LIB] Job at UVA: Humanities Design (UX) Architect
Hi all, The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library (http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab) seeks a Humanities Design Architect who can create and guide exciting, professional user experiences, who possesses broad, synthetic knowledge of humanities and social science scholarship, who is passionate about the quality of his or her code and who wants to be part of a team that does great work in the rapidly-expanding digital humanities. As Humanities Design Architect in the Scholars' Lab, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of effective and inspiring digital resources for teaching and scholarship. We are looking for someone who is highly technically skilled and a talented designer, and who has a deep background in humanities or social science scholarship. This position is for a true hybrid or alternative academic someone who can communicate effectively with faculty and graduate students. Not only should you enjoy designing functional interpretive scholarly interfaces, but you should enjoy working in close collegial partnership with teammates and scholarly stake holders to solve problems in software engineering and the digital humanities. You will need to fit into a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment where technology enables creative vision and where you can take good advantage of the time that all Scholars' Lab and Department of Digital Research Scholarship faculty and staff are granted to pursue professional development and their own (often collaborative) RD projects. The Scholars' Lab has been awarded major funding for a two-year project related to work on geospatial and archival information. There is a possibility that this position will be funded beyond the initial 2 year period. Primary Responsibilities: - Conduct UX/UI research for user models - Drive the functional requirements - Create wireframes and prototypes - Conduct informal usability tests - Work closely with RD Team Specialized Knowledge and Skills: - Experience with interaction across a variety of media (web, mobile) with a strong desire for innovation - Experience as a project manager or technical team leader on scholarly projects - Experience with user-centered design patterns and methodologies - Experience running user testing and conducting accessibility testing - Comfort with complexity and ambiguity, and the challenges of the humanities and social sciences - Advanced understanding of UI client technologies such as Javascript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, etc. - Creation of standard UX deliverables: Site maps, Process flows, Personas, Use Cases, Concept Models - Strong presentation and communication skills - Expertise in current design tools - A research agenda related to the user experience of digital humanities and social science projects. Education: Masters Degree in Humanities or Social Sciences Experience: 3 years experience. Salary and Benefits: Salary is commensurate with experience and competitive depending on qualifications. This position has general faculty status with excellent benefits, including 22 days of vacation; TIAA/CREF and other retirement plans. To Apply: Please visit http://jobs.virginia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=62775 Consideration of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Applicants must apply through the University of Virginia's j...@uva online employment website at https://jobs.virginia.edu/ Search by posting number 0606774, complete application, and attach cover letter and resume, with contact information for three current, professional references. For assistance with this process contact Al Sapienza, Director Library Human Resources at (434) 243-8636. The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer strongly committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The University actively encourages applications and nominations from members of underrepresented groups. As a reminder, the Scholars' Lab also is accepting applications for our Senior Developer position: http://jobs.virginia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=62652 http://www.scholarslab.org/announcements/senior-developer-position/ Joseph Gilbert Head, Scholars' Lab Digital Research Scholarship University of Virginia Library 434.243.2324 | joe.gilb...@virginia.edu
[CODE4LIB] CFP: Personal Digital Archiving 2011
-- Forwarded message -- From: Smiljana Antonijevic smilj...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Personal Digital Archiving 2011 To: ai...@listserv.aoir.org Call for Participation Personal Digital Archiving 2011 February 24 25, 2011 The Internet Archive, San Francisco http://personalarchiving.com We are pleased to announce that the Personal Digital Archiving 2011 Conference is now open for participation. We welcome proposals for session topics and speakers, as well as volunteers to help us organize and serve on site. Conference sessions will be selected by an international peer review panel that includes: Ben Gross, Highlands Group Brewster Kahle, The Internet Archive Cal Lee, University of North Carolina Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Research Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information Elizabeth Churchill, Yahoo! Research Jeff Ubois, The Bassetti Foundation Jeremy John, The British Library Relevant themes include but are not limited to family photographs and home movies; personal health and financial data; interface design for archives; scrap booking; social network data; institutional practices; genealogy; email, blogs and other correspondence; and funding models. Conference presentations will be 15-20 minutes in length. If you wish to submit an abstract for the conference, please email top...@personalarchiving.com with: * title of your project, paper or presentation * a 150-300 word abstract * a brief biography (a few sentences) Deadline for abstracts: 24 December, 2010. Notification of acceptance: 5 January, 2011. Late submissions will be considered on an individual basis. Topics for discussion From family photographs and personal papers to health and financial information, vital personal records are becoming digital. Creation and capture of digital information has become a part of the daily routine for hundreds of millions of people. But what are the long-term prospects for this data? The combination of new capture devices (more than 1 billion camera phones will be sold in 2010) and new types of media are reshaping both our personal and collective memories. Personal collections are growing in size and complexity. As these collections spread across different media (including film and paper!), we are redrawing the lines between personal and professional data, and published and unpublished information. For individuals, institutions, investors, entrepreneurs, and funding agencies thinking about how best to address these issues, Personal Digital Archiving 2011 will clarify the technical, social, economic questions around personal archiving. Presentations will include contemporary solutions to archiving problems that attendees may replicate for their own collections, and address questions such as • What new social norms around preservation, access, and disclosure are emerging? • Do libraries, museums, and archives have a new responsibility to collect digital personal materials? • What is the relationship of personal health information and quantified self data to personal archives? • How can we cope with the intersection between personal data and collective or social data that is personal? • How can we manage the shift from simple text-based data to rich media such as movies in personal collections? • What tools and services are needed to better enable self-archiving? • What are viable existing economic models that can support personal archives? What new economic models should we evaluate? • What are the long-term rights management issues? Are there unrecognized stakeholders we should begin to account for now? • Can we better anticipate (and measure) losses of personal material? • What are the options for cultural heritage institutions that want to preserve the personal collections of citizens and scholars, creators and actors? • What are the projects we can commit to in the coming year? Whether the answers to these questions are framed in terms of personal archiving, lifestreams, personal digital heritage, preserving digital lives, scrapbooking, or managing intellectual estates, they present major challenges for both individuals and institutions: data loss is a nearly universal experience, whether it is due to hardware failure, obsolescence, user error, lack of institutional support, or any one of many other reasons. Some of these losses may not matter; but the early work of the Nobel prize winners of the 2030s is likely to be digital today, and therefore at risk in ways that previous scientific and literary creations were not. And it isn’t just Nobel winners that matter: the lives of all of us will be preserved in ways not previously possible. Background In February, 2010, more than 60 people met at the Internet Archive to explore common concerns about personal digital archiving. Attendees included representatives from UC Berkeley, Stanford, UNC, UT Austin, the
