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Vacancy for Assistant Records and Information Manager at Historic England

25 May 2023

Swindon

£28,856 - £29,342 pro rata depending on experience.

Full-Time

Vacancy for Head of Special Collections and Archives at University of Liverpool

23 May 2023

Liverpool

£44,415 - £56,049 pa

Full-Time

Vacancy for Digital Curation Librarian at Qatar National Library

Qatar

Full-Time

Vacancy for Lecturer in Information Studies at University of Glasgow

26 May 2023

Glasgow

£37,474 to £42,155

Full-Time

Vacancy for Collection Maintenance Officer - Library Technician at State Library of South Australia

30 April 2023

Australia

$65,606 - $69,919 p.a.

Full-Time

DROID 6.6.1 Release

Added on 28 April 2023

The National Archives is pleased to announce the release of DROID 6.6.1 which can be downloaded here.

DROID 6.6.1 is a minor update to DROID 6.6.0, that fixes a bug in the no-profile mode output and hash column. DROID 6.6.1 also updates the internal logging library to the latest version available at the time of release.

Datasheets for Datasets: Describing Web Archives Collections

Added on 27 April 2023

When: Friday 26 May 2023

Time: 1:30-4:00pm

Where: British Library, Staff Entrance, Midland Road, NW1 2DB

Capacity: 16 people

Register here: https://forms.gle/HLMV6chmQhKG6kJ66 (Registration closes 17th May)

This in person workshop explores how web archives collections can be described using the Datasheets for Datasets framework.

Significant work in web archives scholarship focuses on the description and provenance of collections and their data. Looking beyond the worlds of libraries, archives and cultural heritage can provide valuable alternative approaches, which we can experiment with and use. Datasheets for Datasets is a method for describing large datasets from the field of machine learning, which uses a standard set of questions arranged by stages of the data lifecycle.