Research Associate at Maynooth, Ireland
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Inserito il 29/01/2012
An Foras Feasa: the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and
>Cultural Traditions is the humanities research institute at NUI Maynooth
>and a research consortium of four partner institutions: NUI Maynooth, St
>Patrick's College Drumcondra, Dundalk Institute of Technology and Dublin
>City University. We are currently recruiting for a Research Associate
>with software engineering expertise to work on a Digital Humanities
>project on a one year, full-time contract. A broad outline follows and
>a full-description of the role can be accessed here:
>http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id3D2013
>
>An Foras Feasa (AFF) supports individual and collaborative research
>projects in the areas of Humanities and Technology, and represents a
>unique contribution of traditional knowledge and dynamic innovation.
>Since its foundation in 2007, An Foras Feasa has secured over 8 million
>euro in research funding from competitive research programmes including
>the Programmes for Research in Third-Level Institutions, Cycles 4 and 5,
>and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
>Research Development Initiative.
>
>This post has arisen in consequence of an IRCHSS Senior Research
>Fellowship Project Award to Professor Margaret Kelleher, Director, An
>Foras Feasa, for a one-year project entitled A Study of the Circulation
>of Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Irish Fiction from
>1650 to the Present: An Electronic Edition of the Loebers92 Guide to
>Irish Fiction.
>
>This project will provide, firstly, an electronic, searchable version of
>the Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650 -1900, produced in print form by Rolf
>and Magda Loeber (Four Courts, 2006), to include links to known
>electronic editions, and recent republished printed editions, of the
>listed texts. Secondly, the electronic Guide will provide the basis for
>a new analysis of patterns of publication, distribution and circulation
>of lesser-known seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century Irish
>fiction, to include an analysis of current patterns of distribution and
>access resulting from the contemporary digitisation of early Irish
>fiction.
>
>Duties will include; Implementation of data-model and controlling schema
>within an XML, document-oriented design (in collaboration with AFF's
>Technology Officer); Ingestion of data from the MS Word format into XML
>database using automated parsing techniques; Generation of reports on
>software engineering documentation, amongst other duties.
>
>Please follow the link for full details of the application process.
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Aja Teehan
>
>Technology Officer
>An Foras Feasa
>The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions
>National University of Ireland Maynooth
