[CODE4LIB] Postdoctoral Research Opportunity with HTRC

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is 
funding a postdoctoral position for up to three years at the University of 
Illinois. This position will be located at both at the Center for Informatics 
Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at 
the Graduate School of Library and Information 
Science (GSLIS) and the University 
Library’s Scholarly 
Commons.


The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary group of faculty and 
doctoral students formulating the research agenda and the future of the HTRC 
and will design services within the Scholarly Commons for scholars using the 
HTRC. The successful candidate may also choose to participate in the Council on 
Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship 
Program. Possible areas for 
postdoctoral research include but are not limited to: digital humanities, data 
curation, data modeling, metadata, machine learning, data mining, and text 
analysis.


For the complete job announcement and applications details, please visit 
https://jobs.illinois.edu/search-jobs/job-details?jobID=27892&job=postdoctoral-research-associate-graduate-school-of-library-and-information-science-p137.


To discuss this post informally, candidates may contact J. Stephen Downie, 
Professor and Associate Dean for Research at GSLIS, Co-Director of the 
HathiTrust Research Center (jdow...@illinois.edu).


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Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/

[CODE4LIB] Save the date! HTRC UnCamp, September 8-9, 2013

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

SAVE THE DATE!

HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp
A 1.5 Day Event
September 8-9, 2013
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
I Hotel and Conference Center

Mark your calendars. HTRC is hosting its second annual HTRC UnCamp in September 
2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The UnCamp is 
different: it is part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational 
use-cases, part community building, and a part informational, all structured in 
the dynamic setting of an un-conference programming format. It has visionary 
speakers mixed with boot-camp activities and hands-on sessions with HTRC 
infrastructure and tools. Through the HTRC Data API, attendees will be able to 
browse and run applications (yours or ours) against the full 2.8M volumes of 
the public domain corpus of HathiTrust.

Who should attend? The HTRC UnCamp is targeted to the digital humanities tool 
developers, researchers and librarians of HathiTrust member institutions, and 
graduate students. Attendees will be asked for their input in planning 
sessions, so please plan to register early!

Travel funds and Registration. HTRC anticipates funding a small number of 
travel grants that can be used by an attendee to bring along a graduate 
student, or for a HathiTrust member librarian/technologist to bring along a 
researcher from their organization who is interested in engaging with our 
research center. The UnCamp will have a minimal registration fee so as to make 
the Uncamp as affordable as possible for you to attend.

Additional information about the UnCamp will be posted to 
http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013 as it becomes available.

If you have questions or suggestions regarding the HTRC Uncamp please feel free 
to contact Megan Senseney, HTRC Project Coordinator, at 
mfsen...@illinois.edu or 217-244-5574.

We look forward to seeing you in Champaign!

--

Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/

[CODE4LIB] HathiTrust Research Center Focus Groups at DH 2013 and JCDL 2013

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

Dear colleagues,

The HathiTrust Research Center will conduct hour-long focus groups at the 
upcoming DH 2013 and JCDL 2013 conferences.

If you do research with large-scale, digital text corpora, we invite you to 
participate.

Our goals are to:


Find out how researchers (like you!) collect things together for research 
purposes; and

Brainstorm researcher requirements (like yours!) for collecting HathiTrust 
items together for computational analysis.

If you will be attending the DH or JCDL conferences and you are interested in 
these topics, please email Harriett Green 
(gree...@illinois.edu) by *Monday, July 15, 2013* 
and indicate your preferred time for participation:

Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska

July 16, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
July 16, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana

   July 23, 7:30-9:00 a.m.
   July 24, 7:30-9:00 a.m.

The HTRC enables computational access for nonprofit and educational users to 
the HathiTrust corpus, a digital library of millions of books and other 
materials digitized by the Google Books project and other mass-digitization 
efforts. We are interested in understanding how researchers build and use 
digitized book and serials collections in the course of their research.

Your participation will give you a chance to meet with others working in your 
field or related areas. We hope to use the results to help advance the research 
tools afforded by the HathiTrust Research Center.
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Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/

[CODE4LIB] Registration now open! HTRC UnCamp, Sept. 8-9, 2013

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN - DUE AUG 31st!

HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) UnCamp
A 1.5 Day Event
Sept 8-9, 2013
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
I Hotel and Conference Center

HTRC

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a unique collaborative research center 
launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along 
with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of 
dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by 
developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable 
advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.

HTRC UnCamp
The second annual HTRC UnCamp will be held in September 8-9, 2013 at the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The UnCamp is different: it is part 
hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community 
building, and a part informational, all structured in the dynamic setting of an 
un-conference programming format. UnCamp will feature stellar keynote speakers 
including Matt Wilkens, who specializes in contemporary American fiction, and 
digital and computational literary studies at Notre Dame, and Christopher 
Warren, specialist in Renaissance literature as it relates to politics, law, 
international political thought, and intellectual history, at Carnegie Mellon.  
 New this year is a Scholarly Communication Office Hours.  The office hours is 
a pilot for user services: participants will have the option to sign up for 
individual consultation sessions with members of the UIUC library.

Who should attend?

The HTRC UnCamp is targeted to the digital humanities and informatics tool 
developers, researchers and librarians, and graduate students.

Registration

To make UnCamp as affordable as possible for you to attend, we have set 
registration at $100.00.  Please visit 
https://www.eventville.com/catalog/eventregistration1.asp?eventid=1010536 to 
register. Registration is due by August 31, 2013.

For more information: http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013

If you have questions regarding the HTRC UnCamp please contact Megan Senseney, 
HTRC Project Coordinator:mfsen...@illinois.edu or 
217-244-5574.

Looking forward to seeing you in Champaign!
--

Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/

[CODE4LIB] Now Accepting Application: Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute (Oct. 16-18 @ MITH)

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

Digital Humanities Data Curation, a series of three-day workshops, will provide 
a strong introductory grounding in data curation concepts and practices, 
focusing on the special issues and challenges of data curation in the 
humanities. Workshops are aimed at humanities researchers — whether traditional 
faculty or alternative (alt-ac) professionals — as well as librarians, 
archivists, cultural heritage specialists, other information professionals, and 
advanced graduate students.

Applications are now being accepted for the second Digital Humanities Data 
Curation Institute workshop, to be held at the Maryland Institute for 
Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, October 16-18, 2013. 
Visit the Institute website (http://dhcuration.org/institute) to complete an 
application by August 7.

As the materials and analytical practices of humanities research become 
increasingly digital, the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of 
information science, librarianship, and archival science — which come together 
in the research, and practice of data curation — will become more vital to 
humanists.

Carrying out computational research with digital materials requires that both 
scholars and information professionals understand how to manage and curate data 
over its entire lifetime of interest. At the least, individual scholars must be 
able to document their data curation strategies and evaluate those of 
collaborators and other purveyors of humanities data. More fully integrating 
data curation into digital research involves fluency with topics such as 
disciplinary research cultures, publication, information sharing, and reward 
practices, descriptive standards, metadata formats, and the technical 
characteristics of digital data.

Organized by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), 
the Women Writers Project (WWP) at Brown University, and the Center for 
Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at GSLIS, this workshop 
series is generously funded by an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital 
Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Megan Senseney
Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Phone: 217-244-5574
Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu

Visit the website at http://dhcuration.org/institute

[CODE4LIB] Reminder: Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute Applications Due TOMORROW (8/7)

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

DEADLINE TOMORROW!
Digital Humanities Data Curation Workshop #2
Apply by August 7, 2013


How to apply
Applications are now being accepted for the workshop to be held October 16-18, 
2013, at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. Please visit the 
institute website (http://www.dhcuration.org/institute/apply/) to complete an 
application. The application deadline is August 7, 2013. Workshops are limited 
to 20 participants.

Organized by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), 
the Women Writers Project (WWP), and the Center for Informatics Research in 
Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at GSLIS, this workshop series is generously 
funded by an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from 
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Support available
Thanks to the support from the NEH, limited funding will be available to offset 
the cost of attending the institute workshops and will be awarded based on 
need. Subvention of travel and lodging costs will be handled via reimbursement. 
Participant costs include transportation, lodging, and food. There is no 
tuition fee to attend. Up to three people from a single institution may apply.

More information
Questions should be directed to Institute Coordinator Megan Senseney at 
mfsense2 [at] illinois.edu or (217) 244-5574.


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Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/

[CODE4LIB] Register Now for HTRC UnCamp and Tell Us What You'd Like to See!

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

*** Register 
now 
and help shape the agenda for HTRC 
UnCamp***


HTRC UnCamp

The second annual HTRC UnCamp will be held in September 8-9, 2013 at the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The UnCamp is different: it is part 
hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community 
building, and a part informational, all structured in the dynamic setting of an 
un-conference programming format.


Keynote Speakers

-- Matt Wilkens, University of Notre Dame

-- Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon University


What's new from last year?

-- Expanded data API

-- Improved user interface

-- Personal account access

-- Increased workset size

-- New algorithms

-- HTRC-enriched metadata

-- 3.2 million volumes in HTRC Production

-- Developmental access to HTRC Sandbox with a quarter million public domain 
volumes

-- Research consulting through Scholarly Commons Office Hours pilot


What's planned for the coming year?

--Mellon funding for competitive mini-grants for prototyping projects


Registration

To make UnCamp as affordable as possible for you to attend, we have set 
registration at $100.00.  Please visit 
https://www.eventville.com/catalog/eventregistration1.asp?eventid=1010536 to 
register. Registration is due by August 31, 2013.


Agenda

HTRC is seeking participant feedback!  A rough agenda has been posted to 
http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013 to give attendees a sense of what 
we've got planned, but we've kept several spaces open for attendee-driven 
session, birds-of-a-feather meetings, and breakout sessions.  This is your 
event, so please help us finalize the agenda by sending your suggestions to 
htrc-uncam...@list.indiana.edu.


HTRC

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a unique collaborative research center 
launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along 
with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of 
dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by 
developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable 
advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.


For travel information, agenda updates, and a complete lists of confirmed 
attendees, please visit:

 http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013


If you have questions regarding the HTRC UnCamp please contact Megan Senseney, 
HTRC Project Coordinator: mfsen...@illinois.edu 
or 217-244-5574.


Looking forward to seeing you in Champaign!

--

Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/

[CODE4LIB] HathiTrust Research Center awarded grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant in the amount of $437,000 
to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Indiana 
University for an exciting new project in the HathiTrust Research Center. The 
“Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project” (WCSA) project 
will be directed by HTRC Co-director and GSLIS Associate Dean for Research J. 
Stephen Downie, GSLIS-affiliated faculty member and Professor of Library 
Administration Timothy Cole, and Beth Plale of Indiana University.

Requirements for creating scholarly worksets are becoming increasingly 
sophisticated and complex, both as humanities scholarship has become more 
interdisciplinary and as it has become more digital. Developing the ability to 
slice through the massive HathiTrust corpus and to construct the precise set of 
materials needed for a particular scholarly investigation will open exciting 
new opportunities for conducting research with digital content in the 
humanities and beyond. Given the unprecedented size and scope of the HathiTrust 
corpus—in conjunction with the HTRC’s unique computational access to 
copyrighted materials—this project will engage scholars in designing tools for 
exploring, locating, and analyzing content from the HathiTrust so they can 
conduct computational scholarship at scale, based on meaningful worksets.

In an effort to increase community participation in HTRC and engagement with 
the HathiTrust corpus, the HTRC will release an open, competitive Request for 
Proposals in November 2013 with the intent to fund four prototyping projects 
that will build tools for enriching and augmenting metadata for the HathiTrust 
corpus. Throughout the project, the HTRC will also work closely with the Center 
for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) to develop a set of 
formal data models that will be used to capture and integrate the outputs of 
the funded prototyping projects with the larger HathiTrust corpus.

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Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/

[CODE4LIB] The iSchool at Illinois is recruiting

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science 
(GSLIS), the iSchool at Illinois, is actively recruiting high quality doctoral 
students who want to design, develop, and evaluate informatics solutions to the 
grand challenges of the twenty-first century. Admitted candidates typically 
receive up to 4 years of funding in the form of research, teaching and service 
assistantships, including tuition waivers and stipends.

Massive changes in how large collections of data are created, disseminated, 
analyzed, and used have increased the role that information plays in industry, 
science, scholarship, government, and our every-day lives.  The flexible 
program ensures that each student receives the intellectual guidance and 
experiences necessary to prepare them for vibrant research careers in a wide 
range of academic, business, and government settings. Students receive 
one-on-one mentorship from faculty with a global reputation for excellence in 
scholarship and high impact science.
Faculty work on data from many domains including science (MEDLINE, EPA, STAR 
METRICS), business (health, energy, media), humanities (HathiTrust, Google 
Books), and everyday life (social media) and develop new methods in:

  *   Text and Data Mining
  *   Informetrics and Data Analytics
  *   Information Retrieval
  *   Social Computing
  *   Digital Humanities
  *   Social Network Analysis
  *   Digital Libraries
  *   Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  *   Data Curation and Linked Data
  *   Information Trust and Privacy
  *   Digital Youth

GSLIS supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research in areas such as 
youth services, user services and outreach, information history and policy, 
social and community informatics, data curation and information organization. 
Additional information about research at GSLIS is available at 
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/projects. For specific information about 
the PhD program, please visit 
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/phd/recruit or contact 
lis-ap...@illinois.edu. Students from historically underrepresented groups are 
particularly encouraged to apply.

Deadline for PhD applications is December 15, 2013.

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Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/

[CODE4LIB] Digital Collections Contexts Workshop at iConference 2014

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

Digital Collection Contexts:

Intellectual and Organizational Functions at Scale

Full-day workshop at iConference

Berlin, Germany

March 4, 2014


Registration is now open for a full-day workshop that examines conceptual and 
practical aspects of collections and the context they provide in the digital 
environment, especially in large-scale cultural heritage aggregations. 
Collections will be considered in relation to the information needs of 
scholars, roles of cultural institutions, and international interoperability. 
The workshop aims to:

  *   Broaden the conversation across an international community
  *   Further the research and development agenda for digital aggregations
  *   Relate conceptual advances to implementation goals
  *   Identify realistic approaches for collection representation, 
contextualization, and interoperability at scale


Sessions will be led by European and North American experts from iSchools and 
projects developing large-scale digital cultural heritage collections.

  *   Morning session: Conceptual Foundations of Digital Collections
 *   Carole L. Palmer and Karen Wickett (CIRSS, University of Illinois)
 *   Hur-li Lee (School of Information Studies, University of 
Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
 *   Martin Doerr (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research 
and Technology – Hellas)
 *   Carlo Meghini (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, 
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche).
  *   Afternoon session: Practical Implications for Digital Collections
 *   Antoine Isaac (Europeana Foundation)
 *   Emily Gore and Amy Rudersdorf (Digital Public Library of America)
 *   Sheila Anderson (Centre for e-Research, King’s College London)
 *   Shenghui Wang (OCLC Research)
 *   Mark Stevenson and Paul Clough (Department of Computer Science, 
University of Sheffield)


For a complete program and additional information about the workshop, please 
visit http://bit.ly/collectionsworkshop2014.


Early bird registration deadline is Sunday, December 15, 2013.  Workshops are 
included in the cost of conference registration. For more details, please see 
http://ischools.org/the-iconference/registration/.


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Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/