From Peter.McKinney at dia.govt.nz Tue Apr 1 20:03:07 2014 From: Peter.McKinney at dia.govt.nz (Peter McKinney) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 00:03:07 +0000 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Digital Preservation Manager - Permanent - Wellington Message-ID: <0CA52C64325BBA4299A0BF2C810F2A677B558A39@WLGPRDMBX01.dia.govt.nz> The National Library of New Zealand is looking for an experienced Digital Preservation Manager to lead its digital preservation programme. You will be responsible for the operational management of the Library's digital preservation programme. This is a formative role in the context of developing a long term digital preservation programme for the ongoing safekeeping of the Library's digital collections and New Zealand's digital patrimony. You will lead a team of 6 staff within the Preservation Research & Consultancy team and be responsible for: * championing digital preservation issues in the Department as well as nationally and internationally. * contributing to the development of the strategic direction of the National Library with particular emphasis on the Library's digital collection building, preservation and access roles. * working closely with digital preservation teams in the National Library and Archives New Zealand, with related teams within the department and with vendors responsible for infrastructure (hardware and software), storage and systems. You will have substantial practical experience with digital preservation (with particular emphasis on digital collections in libraries, museums, archives or special collections). You will be an experienced people manager and ideally you will have a tertiary qualification in information technology, computer science or information science or its equivalent. Applications close: 5pm, Friday 11 April 2014 For more information please contact: Steve Knight (Programme Director Preservation Research) on Steve.Knight at dia.govt.nz> Job description: To review the full job description, please click here Peter McKinney | Digital Preservation Policy Analyst | Information and Knowledge Services National Library of New Zealand Te Puna M?tauranga o Aotearoa Direct Dial: +64 4 462 3931 | Extn: 3931 Cnr Molesworth and Aitken Streets | PO Box 1467, Wellington 6140 | The National Library is part of the Department of Internal Affairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Tue Apr 8 08:27:01 2014 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 08:27:01 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Fedora 4 Call to Action-Test Your Favorite Feature! Message-ID: *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* April 8, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1hUQw2G *Fedora 4 Call to Action-Test Your Favorite Feature!* *Winchester, MA * A Fedora 4.0 beta will be released in time for Open Repositories 2014. The full list of features to be included in the 4.0 beta and the release is *available here *. One of the primary goals of Fedora 4 is to produce stable, production-ready software that can be used by the entire repository community. The objective of the 4.0 release is to give the development team an opportunity to receive feedback from early adopters and improve the stability of the software before recommending it for existing Fedora 3 repositories. To this end, the initial Fedora 4.0 release is targeted at new installations, not migrations from existing Fedora installations. There are a number of desirable features, including support for migrations from earlier versions of Fedora, that are not scheduled to appear in the 4.0 release. Instead, these features will be scheduled, based on priority and available development resources, for upcoming releases in the 4.x line. Migration support is a particularly important feature, so this is likely to be included in the 4.1 release. All planned features, along with their associated use cases, can be found on the *wiki *. The timeline for the 4.0 release, along with further releases in the 4.x line, is subject to the level of community engagement. Fedora 4 is designed, developed, tested, and documented entirely based on community contributions. For Fedora 4 to be a successful project these contributions need to continue. *There are at least three ways to contribute:* *Acceptance Testing* Fedora 4.0 features are tied to use cases submitted by members of the community. Once a use case is considered to be satisfied by the development team, it goes back to the community for acceptance testing. No use case or feature is considered complete until it has been validated by the community. The 4.0 feature set, with associated use cases, can be found in the wiki. Acceptance testing can be as simple as loading up the one-click installer, testing a specific feature, and providing feedback. More information can be found on the Acceptance Testing page in the wiki. If you are interested in testing a use case or feature, please contact David Wilcox ( dwilcox at duraspace.org). *Beta Pilots* In addition to acceptance testing, we also need more in-depth testing in the form of Beta Pilots. Institutions participating as Beta Pilots will sign a letter of agreement to commit to a 4-6 month testing phase where they will install the Fedora 4.0 beta, ingest a variety of content, and test the software as extensively as possible. The Fedora Product Manager and Fedora Tech Lead will work with these institutions to hold regular update meetings and to produce a detailed report at the end of the six month Beta Pilot period. Participating institutions will have access to support from the Fedora 4 developer community, including the Fedora mailing lists, IRC channel, and regular meetings. They will also be referenced in press releases and other materials relating to the launch of Fedora 4.0. *Developer Commitments* Fedora 4 is developed entirely by volunteers from the community. The current set of volunteer commitments extends until the end of June, so we need to line up the following six months of commitments soon. These commitments are essential to Fedora 4 development; without them, we will be unable to deliver a 4.0 release or subsequent releases in the 4.x line. The Fedora 4 development team follows an Agile "Scrum" methodology; developers sign up for a number of two-week code sprints, and they are expected to be fully committed to the development team for the length of each scheduled sprint. Any institution that commits a developer for at least 0.5 FTE over the six month period is eligible to sit on the Leadership Group, which helps guide the software in the right direction. Please contact Andrew Woods (awoods at duraspace.org) to sign up and join the team! -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Her research involves the integration of experimental and computational approaches to solve diverse problems in epidemiology, physiology, and neuroscience. She is an advocate for open access, open data, and open source. She received her Ph.D. in Physiological Sciences in 2010 from the University of Arizona. She has written about open access for international media outlets such as The Conversation, and blogs about her experiences with open science at http://emckiernan.wordpress.com. You can follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/emckiernan13. *MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM AVAILABLE* A complete overview of OR2014 including times and locations for workshops, main conference presentations, panels, developer challenge, 24/7s and minute madness poster session is available online: https://www.conftool.com/or2014/sessions.php. Click on any day or session to see all scheduled talks. From the session view you can see related abstracts. *NOW IT'S TIME TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LOW EARLY REGISTRATION PRICES?UNTIL MAY 4!* Please register for OR2014 as soon as possible using this online form; the early bird rate ends on May 4. All reservations should be made on the same registration form, including the social program and all the items that are included in the registration fee. If you have any questions concerning the registration form or procedure, please contact TAVI Congress Bureau by e-mail at or-2014[AT]tavicon.fi or by telephone: +358 3 233 0430, Ms Auri Ollanketo (Project Manager). -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From walsh.260 at gmail.com Thu Apr 17 12:08:29 2014 From: walsh.260 at gmail.com (Maureen P. Walsh) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:08:29 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Call for Volunteers: ALCTS Metadata Interest Group offices open for election Message-ID: **Please excuse cross postings** The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group has the following offices open for election: * Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (Vice-Chair 2014-2015, Chair 2015-2016) * Program Co-Chair * Blog Coordinator Terms are two years and begin following ALA Annual 2014. Officers must be able to commit to attending ALA Midwinter and ALA Annual during their terms. Elections will be held during the Metadata Interest Group meeting on Sunday, June 29th, 8:30 am to 10:00 am, Las Vegas Convention Center, room N263. Anyone interested in standing for election to one of these offices is invited to get in touch with me, Maureen Walsh (walsh.260 at osu.edu), by June 20th. I look forward to hearing from you. Maureen P. 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In his role as VIVO project director, Layne will work closely with the community and steering group to set the vision and long term roadmap for VIVO , the open source semantic web platform that enables research discovery. Layne is formally trained as a scientist and has worked in the pharmaceutical research industry, most recently at Pfizer where he served as Global Head, Information Management. During 2009-2013, Layne was at the University of Minnesota where he served as Translational Science Information Specialist in the Health Sciences Libraries, and as a Library Fellow in the Institute for Health Informatics where he coordinated the implementation of the University?s first research networking system. His scholarly interest in open source research networking and ontologies began in 2009. His academic interests include e-science, research networking systems, ontologies and the semantic web, and he supported biomedical informatics and community engagement efforts for the University of Minnesota?s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Dr. Johnson received a BA from Dana College. He holds an MS in bacteriology and a Ph.D in microbiology from Iowa State University. The DuraSpace and VIVO project teams would like to extend a warm welcome to Layne in his new role as the VIVO project director, and look forward to his contributions to the broad, collaborative VIVO movement that will shape the future of research. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To submit a proposal for presentation, please email an abstract to Maureen Walsh ( walsh.260 at osu.edu) and Doug Way (dway at library.wisc.edu) by Wednesday, May 14, 2014. We look forward to hearing from you! Maureen P. Walsh Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group Associate Professor / Institutional Repository Services Librarian The Ohio State University Libraries walsh.260 at osu.edu Doug Way Vice-Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group Associate University Librarian for Collections and Research Services General Library System University of Wisconsin-Madison dway at library.wisc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As institutional demands for management and storage increase, finding the right place at the right price to store burgeoning data just got more economical with lower DuraCloud prices. *Prices for all DuraCloud subscription plans have been cut in half.*Additional terabytes of storage are now available for 50% of their original cost. See DuraCloud prices here. DuraCloud is the only managed archiving and preservation service that offers customers multiple cloud storage options?Amazon, Rackspace or SDSC?along with easy drag and drop content upload and download, automatic content health checks and more. DuraCloud ensures your content's long term and low cost accessibility. Learn more about DuraCloud on the web site or get a quote on a DuraCloud subscription planthat meets your needs. About DuraSpace DuraCloud is a service from DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org), an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting projects (DSpace , Fedora ) and creating services (DuraCloud, DSpaceDirect ) to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. Our values are expressed in our organizational byline, "Committed to our digital future." -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: