30 October: fyi -- Sanskrit and text markup, Providence

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Brown University seeks a post-doctoral research associate or doctoral
research assistant to to work in a digital Sanskrit library project.
The position requires advanced training in Sanskrit, academic research
skills, and competence in working with XML and TeX.

The Sanskrit Library is a collaborative project to make the heritage
texts of India accessible on the web. The project is building a
digital Sanskrit library by integrating texts, linguistic software,
and digital Sanskrit lexical sources. This year the project is making
digital images of manuscripts of the Mahabharata and Bhagavatapurana
housed at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania and
linking them with the corresponding machine-readable texts. Extending
the scope of linguistic software to these digital images serves as a
pilot project to demonstrate the feasibility of doing so with
manuscript images generally.

One qualification that will be of particular value is a high degree of
competence in working with TeX and the ability to set up a environment
to reproduce the print-ready copy of a nearly completed book typeset
with TeX on a different machine. This will involve locating and
collecting scattered packages used in order to produce the print-ready
copy properly from the existing TeX file. The existing version of the
book was produced using the virtual terminal command-line TeX command
and ran TeX (Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)) under the Unix operating
system on a Mac G4.

Brown University is an equal-opportunity employer. Women and
minorities are particularly encouraged to apply.

Please let me know of your interest by sending a resum?? to me at the
address below, preferably by email.

Yours,
Peter Scharf

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Peter M. Scharf (401) 863-2720 office
Department of Classics (401) 863-2123 dept.
Brown University
PO Box 1856 (401) 863-7484 fax
Providence, RI 02912 Scharf@brown.edu
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Classics/people/facultypage.php?id=10044
http://sanskritlibrary.org/
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