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My team at Oxford is recruiting three new Senior Research Software Engineers.
If you can see yourself working with researchers & innovative methods to build & implement digital tools to explore culture & ideas, this may be for you!
More information:
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=174201
Work with a collections institution? How well is digitisation is supported? What gets in the way? Oxford colleagues are surveying training provision for collections digitisation in the UK: Could you help by filling in their survey?
Over the next 9 months, Ex Nihilo will work with partners at the University of Oxford to assess the current UK landscape of training provisions for digital collections within Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) settings. This is with the aim of producing practical tools and resources that can have an immediate impact to help both small and medium-sized GLAM institutions to begin or continue their digitisation journeys. If you have experience within a GLAM or related organisation, it would be great to hear your thoughts on how well you feel the sector is currently supported and seek input from you into the design of new material we are planning to create. Many thanks for taking the time to read / partake in this questionnaire. If you require any further information please contact Damon Strange, Project Manager ([email protected]).
@mordremoth Seconding several of the other responses, there were genuinely interesting routes through the web courtesy of web rings and directories, not to mention pointers from usenet groups.
There was something appealing about the chain-linked hypertext flow of web rings, albeit that (and I was very young, so my memory is hazy and probably misinformed) there must have been a substantial element of gatekeeping involved in the membership of those rings. I guess that, by nature, is one of the ways in which 'hand-vetting' works, and it is no more curated (and possibly rather more coherently curated) than a search engine built on unknown and largely inscrutable algorithmic processes.
And, do I miss that long-lost constellatory phase of the internet? Absolutely.
I’m looking forward to a workshop with Ethan Kleinberg, next week, exploring Archive Fever in the digital age. It’s a rare thing to have the chance to discuss and think about these things in such illustrious company.
If you’d like to join us on-or-off-line, you can find out a little more about it here: https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/archive-fever-mal-darchive
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