Job Offering:
*Experienced Researcher/PostDoc*
“Canonical reference & sustainability of digital editions”
(40 hours/week; fixed-term employment for the period of 12 months, starting 1 April 2016)
The Centre for Information Modeling – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz has rich experience in DH research and teaching and is involved in a variety of (inter)national projects. The main research area of the ZIM-ACDH is digital edition as a generalizable method of semantic and formal enrichment and analysis of research data from the humanities and cultural heritage domains.
* Job Specifications*
- The research fellow will do supervised research on “Canonical reference & sustainability of digital editions” in the Marie Curie Initial Training Network “DiXiT”. - It is crucial that digital scholarly editions are stable reference texts that embed in themselves established canonical reference systems and persistent identifiers (PIDs). The relationship between well-established reference systems and technical PID systems will be explored in order to contribute to a common resolving infrastructure. - The candidate will conduct theoretical research on canonical reference and human naming systems and their inherent logics, develop a proposal for a generic referencing system for digital editions and implement this system in the Graz FEDORA-Commons-Infrastructure GAMS ( http://gams.uni-graz.at/doku) as a proof of concept.
* Professional Qualifications*
- Relevant doctoral university degree (or research experience of at least four years), preferably in the Humanities. - Prior experience with scholarly editing and canonical reference systems. - Ability to present the subject in English (spoken and written). - High level of commitment and motivation for scientific work and international collaboration.
*Formal Requirements*
This position is funded through the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT). To download the mandatory Application Form, visit dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellowships/application/. Note that applicants
- must be in possession of a doctoral degree (or have research experience of at least four years) and have less than five years of full-time equivalent research experience. - must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host organization (i.e. Austria) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to recruitment. - must be willing to spend a time period of up to 2 months of their tenure at one of the DiXiT partner institutions.
*Application Deadline: 29 January, 2016*
Send your application, consisting of a letter of intent, your CV and a brief outline (up to 1 page) of a specific project you would like to realize in the context of this position by e-mail to zim@uni-graz.at or by regular mail to:
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities University of Graz Elisabethstraße 59/III, A-8010 Graz
The completed Application Form must be sent separately to: dixit-info@uni-koeln.de For further information see dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellowships/experienced-researchers/ or contact the Centre at zim@uni-graz.at or +43 316 380 2292.