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Job Posting: Innovator Collaborator at Mary Couts Burnett Library at Texas Christian University

The Mary Couts Burnett Library at TCU is seeking applications for an Innovator Collaborator position.  Please see attachment above

Texas Christian University is a private, doctoral granting university with an enrollment of about 10,000 students. The Mary Couts Burnett Library has a full time staff of 60, and a collection that includes over 2 million books and audio-visual materials and over 75,000 current journals, electronically and in paper. Located 45 miles west of Dallas, Fort Worth has a population of over half a million and is home to internationally recognized museums, numerous performing arts organizations, a vibrant downtown with an active night life, and two national historic districts.

Information on benefits is available on the TCU Human Resources web site at: http://www.hr.tcu.edu/

To apply, please visit : https://tcu.iGreentree.com/CSS_External/CSSPage_Referred.ASP?Req=2015-172

More information available here: Innovation Collaborator PUBLIC POSTING

Job Posting: Instructors for Digital Cultures Program at Seattle University

The School of New and Continuing Studies at Seattle University is seeking applications for two full-time non-tenure track instructors for its new Digital Cultures program. The position description is attached.
Please apply at: https://jobs.seattleu.edu/postings/17787. Information provided below.

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Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup adds Short Talks

SYMPOSIUM ON CULTURAL HERITAGE MARKUP ADDS SHORT TALKS

With the addition of six short talks, the program for the symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup is now complete.

The short talks are:

To those who startle at innovation…
Laura Randall, NCBI/NLM/NIH

EAGLE and EUROPEANA: architecture problems for aggregation and harmonization
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

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DCMI Webinar: “OpenAIRE Guidelines: Promoting Repositories Interoperability and Supporting Open Access Funder Mandates”

OpenAIRE Guidelines: Promoting Repositories Interoperability and Supporting Open Access Funder Mandates
DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar
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:: Time: 10:00am EDT (World Clock: 14:00 UTC http://bit.ly/pprincipe)
:: Presenters: Pedro Antonio Príncipe & Jochen Schirrwagen
:: Date: Wednesday, 1 July 2015
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ABOUT THE WEBINAR:
The OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Source Managers provide recommendations and best practices for encoding of bibliographic information in OAI metadata. The Guidelines have adopted established standards for different classes of content providers: (1) Dublin Core for textual publications in institutional and thematic repositories; (2) DataCite Metadata Kernel for research data repositories; and (3) CERIF-XML for Current Research Information Systems.

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Job Posting: Associate Director for Technology and Digital Strategies

The University of Texas at Austin Libraries is seeking an Associate Director for Technology and Digital Strategies.

Purpose

Define and articulate vision and strategic directions for UT Libraries information technology to advance UT Libraries’ mission and vision in a dynamic environment, participate in executive level decision making processes, oversee budget allocations, and engage with external collaborators.

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AIUCD 2015 Conference CFP

[Link to announcement on the AIUCD web site: http://www.umanisticadigitale.it/digital-humanities-e-beni-culturali-quale-relazione-quarto-convegno-annuale-dellaiucd/]

Digital humanities and cultural heritage: what relationship?
Fourth AIUCD annual conference
1719 December 2015
Campus Einaudi – Lungo Dora Siena 100 – 10153 Torino

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Balisage Program adds Late-breaking News

When the regular (peer-reviewed) part of the Balisage 2015 program was scheduled, a few slots were reserved for presentation of “Late breaking” material.  These presentations have now been selected and added to the program:
– Tomos Hillman on “XSLT Pipelines in XSLT”
– David A. Lee on “Multi Markup Language – When one markup language
just isn’t enough”
– Chris Maloney, Alf Eaton, & Jeff Beck on “A client-side JATS4R validator using Saxon-CE”
– David RR Webber on “The Semantics of self-assembling user apps”
– Joseph Wicentowski & Wolfgang Meier on “Publishing TEI documents
with TEI Simple: a case study at the U.S. Department of
State’s Office of the Historian”

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JTEI issue 8: more articles now published

A third batch of articles for the issue 8 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (Selected Papers from the 2013 TEI Conference) just appeared:
Monica Berti, Bridget Almas, David Dubin, Greta Franzini, Simona Stoyanova, Gregory R. Crane: The Linked Fragment: TEI and the encoding of text reuses of lost authors
<https://jtei.revues.org/1218>

Stefan Dumont, Martin Fechner: Bridging the Gap: Greater Usability for TEI encoding

<https://jtei.revues.org/1242>

Martin de la Iglesia, Mathias Göbel: From Entity Description to Semantic Analysis: The Case of Theodor Fontane’s Notebooks