JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Data Quality Assurance Assistant

Department: Web Continuity

Reports to: Government Data Manager

Salary: £20,450 + excellent benefits

Job purpose:

You will play an important role in a dynamic team supporting the government’s initiative to encourage departments to publish more of its non-personal data to facilitate the re-use of public sector information. [read more...]

THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION:
A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape

PRESENTED BY the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)

HOSTED BY the MIT Libraries

THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION explores the sustainability of cultural collections created for and maintained on the Web. At this two-day symposium, a diverse faculty of national experts will examine
the forces at play in our increasingly networked society. [read more...]

A few places are available for the following free workshop on Tuesday 23rd March.

The London Museums Hub Information and Records Management Project is pleased to offer a series of workshops on different aspects of information management. The workshops are designed to take participants
through the stages involved in implementing information polices, and are based on the Information Management Toolkit released in January 2010 (see: http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/Manage_Info)

The training is free to museum staff (paid and unpaid) working in London. [read more...]

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES
DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts
Sunday 5th September - Wednesday 8th September 2010
Brunel University, West London
www.drha2010.org.uk

CONFERENCE THEME: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity [read more...]

The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new approaches and methodologies for the study of traditional and new corpora of Arts and Humanities materials, sometimes called the Digital Humanities. This new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti). [read more...]

Get real. Stay relevant. The reality of the current economic climate means that it's imperative to provide pertinent services, utilise the most appropriate tools, and explore alternative approaches, regardless of your information environment. Even if you’re managing information outside a traditional library setting - as web designer, content evaluator, portal creator, systems professional or independent researcher - you must continue to offer services that are relevant and cost-efficient. [read more...]

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VISUALIZATION, COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING 2010

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).

* Best Papers [read more...]

http://www.euromed2010.eu [read more...]

Dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries

November 8 - 13th, 2010
Limassol, Cyprus

http://www.euromed2010.eu

The EUROMED2010 joint conference will provide an opportunity to exchange research results, opinions, experiences and proposals on the best practice and hi-tech tools from Information and Communications Technology to document, archive, preserve, manage and communicate Cultural Heritage (CH). [read more...]

The Alpheios Project has released the first beta version of a set of free reading aids and learning tools for Classical Greek and Latin. The source code is also freely available to developers. [read more...]

The Program Committee of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but
not exclusively, on digital texts, language resources and any topic that applies TEI to its research.

Submission Topics
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Topics might include but are not restricted to:
* TEI and natural language processing
* TEI and language resources
* Analyzing and quantifying encoded texts
* Aggregation and compilation
* Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards [read more...]

The TEI 2010 conference will be held at the University of Zadar. The pages are updated frequently.

Workshops: 8-10 of November
Main conference: 11-14 of November

http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/

ICDEM 2010: Second International Conference on Data Engineering and Management, Organized by National Institute of Informatics-Japan and Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, India. 29-31/July/2010 [read more...]

The ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage is organizing the:

International Summer School
"Digital Methods and Techniques in Cartographic Heritage"

http://xeee.web.auth.gr/ICA-Heritage/Summer_School.htm

Evangelos Livieratos
Commission Chair
http://cartography.web.auth.gr/Livieratos

Registration is now open for the final Planets training and outreach event, which takes place in Rome with the support of the Pontificia Università Gregoriana.

This is the final event in the series of five.

Day 1 will address the case for digital preservation, digital preservation as a risk management activity, the action that needs to be taken and introduce the Planets framework, tools and services as an integrated approach to digital preservation. Local organisations will present two case studies to show how they are preserving digital collections. [read more...]

Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information. [read more...]

Nearly everywhere, people who create, store, query, or serve XML expect it to live a very long time. XML is platform- and application-independent, and by and large it is platforms and applications that vanish. If by encoding information in XML we have freed it from dependency on specific platforms or applications, have we succeeded in ensuring that the XML can live long into the future?

Or is there more to it than using XML? How can we best ensure that our data, all our data, and its semantics survive this year, next year, ten years? into the next millennium? Commercial information [read more...]

www.drha2010.org.uk

CONFERENCE THEME: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity

The conference's overall theme will be the exploration of the collaborative relationship between the body and sensual/sensing technologies across various disciplines. In this respect it will offer an interrogation of practices that are indebted to the innovative exchange between the sensual, visceral and new technologies. [read more...]

If you are interested in learning about open source GIS for the .NET platform, please consider coming to MapWindow 2010 in Orlando,Florida, 31 March - 2 April, 2010.
(http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2010/) [read more...]

As well as presenting the results of the HESTIA project, it is intended to develop a more general dialogue between classicists (and classical archaeologists), computer scientists and geographers. Submissions from researchers working in any of these fields are therefore welcome. There is a (limited) budget to cover speakers expenses.

More information about the HESTIA project (Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) and conference can be found on the website:

http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/

Please feel free to direct any questions to Elton Barker at
e.t.e.barker@open.ac.uk.

[TESLA@UCL] Scientist Dr. Dolores Steinman:: Investigating the body: Current Medical Visual Culture:: Tuesday, 09 March, 18:00 – 19:00
http://tesla-ucl.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, 09 March; 18:00 – 19:00
University College London
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing
(Details how to get there at the bottom of the page)

Abstract [read more...]

How do we encourage links between data repositories such as museums, broadcasters and the wider community like data.gov.uk or the "London Datastore"? How do we ensure that the exciting work already underway in
a number of organizations is shared more generally, so even smaller bodies and SMEs can learn from best practice and find workable routes to market? What are the cultural content business models for the 21st
century? How do creators, curators, developers and entrepreneurs work together? [read more...]

exeGesIS, a well respected environmental and IT consultancy, is currently appointing an IT Consultant to work within the HBSMR (Historic Building Sites & Monuments Records).

Salary: negotiable but likely to be in the range £25,000 - £35,000.
This is a permanent, full time position.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 17th March.

For more information please see: http://www.esdm.co.uk/jobs.asp

The Erasmus AcademyNY is now offering courses online. [read more...]

The Summer School in Open Source GIS is organized jointly by the Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Centre (SIGTE) of the University of Girona (Spain), the Lahti Center of Aalto University School of Science and Technology of the Aalto University (Finland), the Center for Geospatial Science (CGS) of the University of Nottingham (UK) and the Institute for Research on Urban Sciences and Techniques (IRSTV) from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France).

The key aims of the Open Source GIS Summer School are: [read more...]

UCL Department / Division
Bentham Project
Grade: 7
Hours: Full Time
Salary (inclusive of London allowance): £31,778 - £36,395 per annum

Duties and Responsibilities [read more...]

UCL Department / Division
Bentham Project
Grade: 7
Hours: Full Time
Salary (inclusive of London allowance): £31,778 - £36,395 per annum

Duties and Responsibilities

The Bentham Project is a vibrant research centre, whose purpose is to produce the new authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. [read more...]

The benefits of online access to scholarly journal content are now taken for granted but there are threats to continuity of such access. Clarity is needed on who is doing what, what has been agreed, and what mechanisms exist for continued access, with shared responsibility for the material support and sustainability of archiving and access schemes. [read more...]

The 18th annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) conference will be held at UCL, from Wednesday 14 April to Friday 16 April 2009. [read more...]

The Academy of Finland research unit ‘Ancient Greek written sources’ (CoE) is organizing a symposium "Digital Imaging of Ancient Textual Heritage: Technological Challenges and Solutions".

The programme comprises of two plenary sessions that are open for public, two workshops that are intended for the speakers only, and one open session on end-user perspective.

Participation in the symposium is free of charge (however, registration is compulsory). For the accepted speakers the CoE will be covering the travel and accommodation costs. [read more...]

Fifth international Summit on the documentation and conservation of the media arts heritage.

The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance presents the 2010 DOCAM Summit, which will mark the end of five years of research. DOCAM is an international research alliance initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. Its main objective is to develop new methodologies and tools to address the issues of preserving and documenting digital, technological, and electronic works of art. [read more...]

VACANCY
There is a vacancy for the position of Digital Preservation Project Manager in the Parliamentary Archives, on a fixed term appointment to 31 March 2012, with the possibility of extension or permanency.

BACKGROUND
The Parliamentary Archives provides a records management and archives service for Houses of Parliament, and assists compliance of the House of Lords administration with Freedom of Information and Data Protection legislation. It supports the corporate aims of Parliament in the areas of effective information [read more...]

Applications are invited for a full-time 12 month fixed term post of
Applications Developer, available immediately. ADS has been awarded funding
by AHRC to migrate its digital archive system to a fedora-based repository,
and the post holder will be required to take the Java programming lead for
this project. Applicants should have a computing or software engineering
qualification, and a high level of java programming expertise. Experience
with Oracle and the implementation and configuration of fedora would be an
advantage. [read more...]

This conference invites a re-evaluation of the role of maps and mapping practices in cultural explorations of urban space and memory. We invite contributions from across a broad interdisciplinary field, drawing together scholars and practitioners working in film and cultural studies, architecture, geography, urban studies, as well as those with interests in social and cultural memory, archival practice and urban heritage. Of special interest are contributions addressing the role of film and film historiography in relation to place, landscape and urban memory. [read more...]

"There’s so much [to preserve / conserve / digitize] … people need skills in how you select the right materials … how you make the decisions and what you have to bear in mind" Focus group research into preservation training needs, June 2009. [read more...]

A key part of improving information management is to know what information you hold. Information audits enable you to identify what information you organisation has, where it is and who is responsible for it. This practical one day session covers the different approaches that can be taken to audit your information and how to analyse and present the results.

The workshop will cover:
* Purpose & use of an information audit

* Options for carrying out an audit

- Scalability for large & small museums

- Quantitative & qualitative results) [read more...]

Increasingly, we see new forms of culture being born in the variety of online environments. Users have become producers taking over production of online content and traditional hierarchies of users and producers are collapsing. At the same time, traditional memory institutions like museums, archives, libraries and acknowledged artists struggle to make sense of the transformations that are coming together with new technologies. [read more...]

We are pleased to invite you to:

High Throughput Humanities

A satellite meeting at the European Conference on Complex Systems
Lisbon University Institute ISCTE in Lisbon, Portugal
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

http://hth.eccs2010.eu

Abstract: [read more...]

High Throughput Humanities

A satellite meeting at the European Conference on Complex Systems
Lisbon University Institute ISCTE in Lisbon, Portugal
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

http://hth.eccs2010.eu

Abstract: [read more...]

Call for Abstract for the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) 2010 conference, being held
September 6-9, in beautiful Barcelona, Spain.

Held annually, FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a full-immersion experience in established and leading edge geospatial technologies for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial.

http://2010.foss4g.org [read more...]

Web 2.0 and the Social Web are terms which are now being used widely. But what do these terms mean? And what, if anything, can Web 2.0 and the Social Web offer to museums, libraries and archives, especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise?

This workshop will attempt to answer these questions. As well as demystifying the terms and the technologies, the workshop will also address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users.

Learning Objectives [read more...]

Managing projects is now a core role for many cultural and heritage professionals but it can seem a daunting prospect. This one day course, delivered by established heritage professional, Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowen, introduces delegates to the fundamental concepts and tools to enable them to start managing small projects effectively and confidently.

The day will cover:
· What is a project?

Defining when something is or is not a project.

· How to define success for your project [read more...]

The Maps and the Internet Commission http://maps.unomaha.edu/ica/ along
with the Working Group on Open Source Geospatial Technologies
http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/ of the International Cartographic
Association are pleased to announce Online Maps with APIs and
Mapservices symposium on Friday, November 19, 2010 at the end of the
AutoCarto 2010 http://www.cartogis.org/autocarto in Orlando, USA.

More details at http://orlando2010.eventbrite.com/

Please contact Professor Michael P. Peterson (University of
Nebraska, Omaha) for any information needed.

Call for Papers: Development of systems for long-term storage and preservation of library collections IFLA 2010

Libraries are dealing with growing quantities of digital content that need to be processed, stored, preserved and delivered. Large-scale repository systems are needed to perform these services. These systems will offer libraries the capability of managing their collections and keep them accessible for the long-term. [read more...]

The theme chosen for the World Library and Information Congress in Gothenburg energizes and supports the Presidential Theme of IFLA President, Ellen Tise: Libraries driving access to knowledge.

The 2010 theme is therefore centered around the following:

* Free access to knowledge, as important as freedom of speech
* Accessible for all, including the visually impaired and others with reading difficulties
* Open and inclusive, no matter who you are or where you come from [read more...]

Dear colleagues,

We would like to inform you about a job advertisement at Goettingen State and University Library. The advertisement (German language) is available at http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/aktuell/stellen/wissgrid2.html

The Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) is one of the leading academic libraries in Germany. It actively contributes to research and development in all areas pertaining to digital libraries, information management, and virtual research environments. [read more...]

FOSS4G is "the conference" for Open Source Geospatial Software and in year 2010 will meet in Barcelona, Spain.

FOSS4G is heralded as the international "gathering of tribes" of open source geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest software and projects. [read more...]

Authentic assessment refers both to the alignment of assessment with the actual outcomes of students' learning, and to the utilisation in assessment of approximations of real-world situations within which knowledgeable activity might take place. In both cases, student learning is assumed to be intimately connected with the manner in which they are assessed, and that students will be more highly motivated to learn if their assessment is authentic. [read more...]

The period from the advent of the compact disc in 1982 to the first significant file-sharing system in 1999 saw the greatest period of profitability in the history of recorded music. The decade since 1999 has seen an equally radical collapse. What seems obvious in hindsight was largely ignored at the time. The very efficiency of digital reproduction and distribution promised or threatened to eliminate scarcity, and hence threaten the possibility of market exchange in informational goods. [read more...]