27 August: fyi -- postdoc, Canada
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Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities with a focus on
Information Management (2009-10, renewable)
[Note: This position has re-opened. Please feel free to pass this message
on to any suitable candidates.]
The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project seeks a
post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities with expertise in information
management. This position is based in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab
at the University of Victoria. The successful candidate will work closely
with team members at U Victoria, the Digital Humanities Observatory, U
Toronto, U Montreal, Nipissing U, U Alberta, McMaster U, and beyond.
The postdoctoral fellow will work with production-focused and experimental
corpora, datastores, and analytical technologies, collaborating with those
associated with INKE's information management team and others, consulting
with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with
other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK.
The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in
humanities-oriented research, corpora, datastores, and computational
analysis tools, including training or demonstrated experience working with
a variety of digital humanities resources, including digital archives,
scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and text analysis and
visualization tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and
aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The
ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical
requirement.
Examples of technologies employed in related INKE projects are as follows:
TEI P5; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases;
JavaScript; Ruby on Rails; PHP; CSS; and web-based SQL database projects
using PostgresSQL and mySQL. Experience in some or all of these areas and
similar areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement, though aptitude
with digital tools is required.
Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both
the humanities and their computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is
someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and
provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues.
The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and
is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief
cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees
may be sent electronically to etcl.apply@gmail.com . The contract can
begin as early as Fall 2009; it is for a one-year term, with the
possibility of renewal.
Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled.
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