Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Co-investigator Network

Devin C Becker Head, Data and Digital Services

Positions

Head, Data and Digital Services, University of Idaho Library , University of Idaho 2015 -
Co-Director, Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL) , College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences 2016 -
Digital Initiatives and Web Services Librarian, University of Idaho Library , University of Idaho 2013 - 2015
Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Idaho Library , University of Idaho 2010 - 2013

Research Areas

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- Using Static Web Technologies and git-based Workflows To Re-design and Maintain a Library Website (quickly) with Non-technical Staff. College and Undergraduate Libraries. 2021
- CollectionBuilder-CONTENTdm: Developing a Static Web 'Skin' for CONTENTdm-based Digital Collections. code4lib. 2020
- What is Static Web and What's it Doing in the Digital Humanities Classroom?. dh+lib. 2020
- Programming Poetry: Using a Poem Printer and Web Programming to Build Vandal Poem of the Day. code4lib. 45. 2019
- Connecting Historical and Digital Frontiers: Enhancing Access to the Latah County Oral History Collection Utilizing OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) and Isotope. code4lib. 2015
- A Philosophy of Digital Librarianship. The Idaho Librarian. 2014
- Slicing and Dicing the Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Land Grant Research: A Survey of and Model for Digital Collections of Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Publications. Journal of Agricultural and Food Information. 14:225-241. 2013
- Saving-Over, Over-Saving, and the Future Mess of Writers' Digital Archives: A Survey Report on the Personal Digital Archiving Practices of Emerging Writers. American Archivist. 75:482-513. 2012
- Each Item Its Own Time and Place: Using Google Fusion Tables and Simile Timeline to Map the Ott Historical Photograph Digital Collection. Microform and Digitization Review. 41:24-33. 2012
article
- Cleaning Wikileaks Data for Use in Google Mapping Applications (Part 1 of 2). Spatial Humanities Step By Step. 2011
- Mapping Wikileaks Afghan War Diary Data Using Google Fusion Tables (Part 2 of 2). Spatial Humanities Step By Step. 2011
book
- Shame | Shame. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, Ltd.. 2015
conference poster
- Climate Change Research Support at the University of Idaho Library. Project Launch Meeting for REACCH PNA. 2011
image
- Literary Empires: Mapping Temporal and Spatial Settings of Victorian Poetry. Places & Spaces: Mapping Science. 2010
- Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe. Places & Spaces: Mapping Science. 2010
review
- Review of Bugle by Tod Marshall. Coldfront. 2015

collection or series editor for

Faultline (Journal) 2006 - 2007

editor of

website
- Vandal Poem of the Day

presentations

presentation

Research

principal investigator on

CollectionBuilder: A Digital Exhibit Platform and Static Web Development Model for Libraries, Built by Librarians awarded by Institute of Museum and Library Services 2019 - 2020
The Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning: Building Capacity through Collaboration awarded by University of Idaho 2016 - 2017
Preserving the Recent for the Future: Generating the Latah County Common Heritage Collection through Community Digitization awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2016 - 2017
Vandal Poem of the Day awarded by Idaho Humanities Council 2015 - 2016
Control Shift: Documenting the Transitions Writers Experienced in Moving from Paper-Based to Digital Environments awarded by Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) 2013 - 2014
Development of the Idaho Digital Watershed Library (IWRRI Project KE K164) awarded by United States Geological Survey 2011 - 2013

co-principal investigator on

NEH Challenge Grant - Idaho's LGBTQ Community awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2017 - 2021
Idaho Community Foundation Regional Grant: Idaho's LGBTQ Community 2018 - 2019
Pride Foundation Community Grant: Idaho's LGBTQ Community 2018
Latah Community Foundation Grant - Idaho's LGBTQ Community 2017 - 2018
Idaho's Agricultural History Online: Digitizing the Idaho Forester and Extension's Current Information Series awarded by United States Agricultural Information Network 2013 - 2014

other research activities

CDIL Summer Fellowship Symposium Instructor / Facilitator
Digital Collection Magic with Static Web Technologies: Improving CONTENTdm Front Ends using CollectionBuilder Presenter
Metadata + APIs --> Beauty: Building Engaging Digital Repository Skins With Static Web Tools Presenter
Oral histories as data Speaker
Oral history as open data: Analyzing and publishing research interview artifacts and data using minimal computing techniques Speaker
Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium Instructor

Background

education and training

M.L.S. in Digital Libraries; Rare Books, Indiana University , School of Library and Information Science 2008 - 2010
M.F.A. in English, University of California, Irvine , Department of English 2004 - 2007
B.A. in English; Religion, Williams College 1998 - 2002

awards and honors

Idaho Commission on the Arts Literature Fellow, conferred by Idaho Commission on the Arts, 2017

Contact

full name

Devin C Becker

mailing address

General Library

University of Idaho

Moscow, Idaho 83844-2350

USA