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An online graduate program for anyone working with bits in archives, libraries, museums, labs, or offices. Try individual classes or 4-course certificate!

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Need a deeper dive into #metadata? This summer we're offering not 1, but 2 separate sections of our popular online course taught by @nmdjohn, running from 28 May to 5 July and 8 July to 16 August. Take one course or enroll in the grad certificate at https://t.co/C7jLLmkCQ2

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New York University is hiring its first Digital Preservation Librarian—Zoom info session on 16 January https://t.co/hUf95tDINi #DigitalCuration #Job

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One of our alumni from last year is the curator at the US Naval Undersea Museum ⚓️ Here's a gig as Archivist for Department of the Navy https://t.co/beXCiOCBtF HT @archivesgig

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Strategies, metadata, storage, and emulation: 4 digital preservation skills you’ll earn in our online #digipres course starting 17 January https://t.co/C7jLLmkCQ2

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This archivist position at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (the T) requires "experience with digital preservation software and computer forensic tools." We teach that in our online #digipres course starting 17 January https://t.co/veNHgrL743

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How will AI impact your collection? Our faculty are helping to define the conversation with other luminaries in AI.

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Who benefits from increased productivity wrought by AI? Harvard hosted a panel Friday on legal/economic/educational perspectives, with employment law prof Pauline Kim (Washington), AI entrepreneur @todatmit (ViralGains), @erikbryn (Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI) and me

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If you're near Skowhegan this Friday, you might be interested in this town hall style conversation on the perils of AI in the 2024 election and what we can do about them.

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With AI reshaping the contours of political discourse, veteran journalist and media historian @michaelsocolow and I lead the 2024 Maine Town Meeting on AI's influence in a crucial election year. The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center hosts this Friday. 🐘♻️https://t.co/OyGB3CFqfC

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How are typical expectations of authorship, copyright, and provenance buckling under stress from AI? Join our Tues 4:30pm EDT conversation with @ChristianePaul2—probably the best-known name in digital curation—who's explored these issues for over a decade https://t.co/ozID1DguRT

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This thread shows that digital curation jobs are everywhere, even if people can't figure out what to call them.

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The 2023 #DigitalCuration #Job titles are in! Digital Archivist was victorious again🏆 but not by much at 4%. Close behind were newcomers Data Services Librarian and Digital Scholarship Librarian. Past winners like Records & Information Management Specialist seem to have died out

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Just in time for the new year, here's a job for a "Digital Curator" at the prestigious Thoma Foundation in Dallas https://t.co/Ek8tiV8qZh

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The 21st century is almost a quarter over! Isn't that terrifying? Even more terrifying if your library, archive, or museum is still stuck in the previous century. Our online courses teach the digital skills necessary to bring your collection into the 21st https://t.co/C7jLLmkCQ2

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Er, that was supposed to be Museum of the Dog (we blame either autocorrect or the Cat lobby)

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Want to work for the Museum of the Job? Here's a position at the American Kennel Club 🐶🐕🦮🐕‍🦺https://t.co/MrGkV0E0rf HT @archivesgig

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The past: floppies. The present: checksums and emulators. The future: DNA storage? They're all techniques taught in our online #DigitalPreservation course. There are still seats open for our online class starting January 17th https://t.co/C7jLLmkCQ2

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Did that collection of tapes/CDs/hard drives catch your eye over the holiday? BBC archivist Richard Wright says, "if it’s on a shelf, it’s in trouble." Shepherd your archive into the future with our online #DigitalPreservation class, starting 17 January https://t.co/C7jLLmkCQ2

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Co-teaching our #DigitalPreservation course this spring is @jonippolito, featured in this Library of Congress interview https://t.co/eFXsP4wyyO, this interview with the Smithsonian https://t.co/4wPHjHAYgt, and this episode of the Art & Obsolescence podcast https://t.co/YPlAtOc6so

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Your hard drive dies, floppies and CDs get bit rot, links 404—so many ways for your digits to succumb to obsolescence! Learn how to keep them safe with strategies taught in our spring #DigitalPreservation online class starting in 2 weeks on 17 January https://t.co/C7jLLmlaFA

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#DigitalCuration #Job as Cataloguing, Taxonomy and Data Archivist at the UK National Archives with "access to nearby Kew Gardens; on-site gym, therapists and wellbeing resources; restaurant, shop and staff bar" 😍 https://t.co/VNMpCVjJyA

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The year is almost over, but you know what they say about the fat lady 🎼 Archivist opening at The Metropolitan Opera https://t.co/bFbhzpBRxr HT @archivesgig

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Postdoc in Haverford Libraries digitizing materials for the Curator of Quaker Collections https://t.co/rl8fBjhTAL

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#DigitalCuration #Job in Philly as Digital Projects Specialist, American Philosophical Society https://t.co/KRZmmcHBd3 HT @archivesgig