Educause Live Session on Kuali OLE 1.18.12

Just in case you are like me and can not get enough on the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE), please join us tomorrow Wed Jan 18, 2012 at 1pm eastern - http://net.educause.edu/LIVE1202 for a current update on the project. I will be joined by Molly Tamarkin from Duke University and Mike Winkler from the University of Pennsylvania. Our session will be hosted by NCState CIO Mark Hoit. I hope you can join us.

HathiTrust Research Center Announced

On Monday of this week Indiana University and the University of Illinois announced the creation of the HathiTrust Research Center. Our press release states that:

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) will enable open access for nonprofit and educational users to published works in the public domain stored within HathiTrust, an extensive collaborative digital library of more than 8 million volumes and 2 billion pages of archived material maintained by major research institutions and libraries worldwide.

Leveraging data storage infrastructure at Indiana University and computational resources at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the HTRC will provision a secure computational and data environment for scholars to perform research using the HathiTrust Digital Repository. The center will break new ground in the areas of text mining and non-consumptive research, allowing scholars to fully utilize content of the HathiTrust Library while preventing intellectual property misuse within the confines of current U.S. copyright law.

For more information please see: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/18245.html

We also got some coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Also listed in Marshall Breeding's Library Technology Blog.

Also listed in Roy Tennant's Digital Libraries Blog.

IU and Project Bamboo

I am in the Republic of Berkeley today at Cal in a Project Bamboo kickoff meeting. I am very excited to hear how the corpora space is thinking about engaging the digital humanities community. They are looking to use simpler visualization tools that can help form a context around smaller sets of documents in order to inform how larger sets of documents could be used with tools like google's n-gram service or possibly for future bamboo services. IU is working on components of workspaces and collection interoperability, namely working on hubzero and alfresco interop.

Kuali OLE and IU Libraries are Hiring

So of late we have lots of activity going on here in Bloomington for those interested in working on library software development projects. Within the Kuali OLE core team we have three positions open right now - Business Analyst, Quality Assurance Manager, and Configuration Manager. Within the LTDL group at the IU Libraries we are looking for an Associate Director for Digital Library Software Development. If you are interested in any of these positions please apply online or contact me for more info.

Bamboo Project Partners Meeting

I am at the Bamboo Project Partners Meeting today in Chicago at the Big 10 Conference Center in Park Ridge, IL. This meeting has been a great discussion about joining efforts in humanities computing and services. I think this project will do alot for everyone in digital humanities, not just the Bamboo Project Partners.