Research Associate position in Linked Data, University of Oxford

Research Associate - Linked Data
University of Oxford - Oxford e-Research Centre

Closes: 23rd June 2014

We are seeking a Research Associate which is a technical role working on
Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies that support research in
Digital Humanities, specifically for the ElEPHaT and Transforming
Musicology projects. These projects share a need for identifying and
semantically linking diverse digital resources (images of books, OCRed
text, digital audio, symbolic music representations etc.) and the
digital methods and analysis performed over these resources by
humanities researchers.

In addition to applicants with existing skills in this area, we also
welcome those with experience using Linked Data in other fields who are
looking to apply their skills and knowledge to new disciplines.

The ElEPHaT project, a joint project between the centre and the Bodleian
Digital Libraries, will use Linked Data to create worksets combining
digitised content from the large-scale (11 million+ volumes) HathiTrust
collection and the fully human-transcribed EEBO-TCP (Early English Books
Online - Text Creation Partnership) corpus. These worksets will form the
basis for new scholarly investigations of these texts on a large scale
and the insights that will emerge from such study.

The AHRC funded Transforming Musicology project sets out to bring
computational techniques, such as those developed in the Music
Information Retrieval (MIR) community, to bear on the discipline of
musicology as it evolves and adapts to a digital age. The University of
Oxford e-Research Centre leads the creation of a semantic framework for
the project which will describe these new digital methods, linking them
to the results they produce and the music resources over which analysis
has been undertaken, again using Semantic Web and Linked Data
approaches, and tackling challenges such as reuse, reproducibility and
citation of the methods and data.

This is a 2-year fixed-term post in the first instance, at Grade 7.

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on 23 June 2014.
Interviews will be held on 9 July 2014

Full details can be found at:
https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=113457

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