*Digital Manuscript Specialist* *Stanford** University** Libraries & Academic Information Resources*
The Digital Manuscript Specialist will serve as a key team member on a collaborative project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project supports the development and conduct of a workshop that will examine specific instances of research and teaching based on selected medieval manuscript collections with a view to defining certain parameters of future work. Instances of such research and teaching involve several humanistic disciplines and auxiliary sciences like paleography and codicology, and focus special attention to approaches that rely heavily or essentially on the availability and use of data in digital form. The project is especially interested in the development or exercise of tools and architectures that (1) facilitate access to materials in multiple digital collections, (2) link sites and collections via common or cross-walked metadata schema, (3) link text and image at the feature or information content level, (4) link primary materials and secondary scholarship, and (5) help establish specifications for new and future projects. The Digital Manuscript Specialist will work as a part of a small team charged to analyze the overlapping and intersecting requirements of the use-cases in the context of digitized manuscript collections generally.
Required Knowledge
· A postgraduate degree in a relevant subfield of medieval or early modern studies, with significant experience and background (formal or informal) in descriptive metadata encoding of digital manuscripts. · Core technical skills: experience with XML, and specifically descriptive metadata schemas such as TEI, EAD, METS, and MODS. · The ability to blend domain expertise in medieval manuscript studies with technical expertise in prevailing standards and best practices in the development of digital manuscript tools and repositories. · Excellent organizational and communication skills, and proven ability to meet deadlines. · Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and successfully in a team-based environment. · Minimum related experience required: 1 year; 2-3 years desired
Distribution of Effort:
· Consult with the six PI’s allied with the project to develop and execute use-cases that demonstrate the potential of digital manuscript projects and that suggest future directions for interoperability that support teaching and research. (20%) · Consult with the six PI’s and Stanford Libraries’ technical staff on various projects to develop XML schema for describing digitized medieval artifacts and related secondary works in ways that support teaching and research goals, and comply with community best practices and standards. (30%) · Analyze tools, metadata approaches and technical architectures for selected digital manuscript projects and repositories. (30%) · Produce an integrated report on the outcomes of the use cases and the framework for interoperability they suggest. (20%)
This is a grant-funded position with a maximum length of 12 months. The position is available beginning April 1, 2009, but the exact start date is negotiable. No matter the start date, however, the job ends on March 31, 2010.
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