Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 94.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:36:48 +0100
From: "Ray Siemens" <siemensr_at_MALA.BC.CA>
Subject: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Humanities Computing
[Announcement of Interest]
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Humanities Computing
A new one year, fixed-term appointment will become available July 1st,=20
2005, for a suitably qualified Post-Doctoral Researcher to work with the=20
University of Victoria's Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) Project,=
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based in the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) at the University=
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of Victoria.
About TAPoR: TAPoR is building a unique human and computing infrastructure=
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for text analysis across the country by establishing six regional centers=20
(UMcMaster, UMontreal, UAlberta, UNew Brunswick, UToronto, and UVictoria)=20
to form one national text analysis research portal. This portal will be a=20
gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with=20
representative texts for experimentation. The local centers will include=20
text research laboratories with best-of-breed software and full-text=20
servers that are coordinated into a vertical portal for the study of=20
electronic texts. Each center will be integrated into its local research=20
culture and, thus, some variation will exist from center to center.
TAPoR at the University of Victoria=E2=80=99s HCMC has a multimedia=
laboratory=20
and server infrastructure suitable for research into a variety of areas of=
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Humanities Computing, including multimedia enrichment and acquisition, text=
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representation and text analysis. UVic=E2=80=99s newly appointed CRC Chair=
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Humanities Computing, and our resident computing experts, provide guidance=
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and expertise to the 8+ TAPoR-related research projects currently under=20
development. To learn more about UVic people and projects, see=20
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/tapor/index.htm.
Suitable candidates interested in this position will bring established=20
academic research questions in an area of Humanities Computing, as well as=
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demonstrated capability to implement solutions to those questions using the=
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technologies supported by TAPoR at UVic.
Examples of technologies supported by TAPoR at UVic are: XML, XSLT, and=20
XSL:FO encoding languages; TEI P4 and P5; XQuery; and eXist XML=20
databases. In addition, UVic TAPoR project members frequently work with=20
XHTML, JavaScript and CSS, and web-based SQL database projects using=20
PostgresSQL and mySQL.
A full job announcement detailing submission requirements, deadlines, and=20
salary guidelines, will be posted shortly on the Human Resources home page=
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at the University of Victoria.
Please contact Scott Gerrity (sgerrity_at_uvic.ca or 250-721-8787), HCMC=20
Coordinator, for further information. =20
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