DH specialist- Goettingen

from digitalhumanities.org

Goettingen State & University Library is looking for a) a digital humanities and b) a metadata specialist for  "IDIOM - Interdisciplinary Dictionary of Classic Mayan". Positioned in the Digital Humanities by its cooperation with the Virtual Research Environment TextGrid (www.textgrid.de<http://www.textgrid.de>) at the Goettingen State and University Library, IDIOM provides an innovative link between the humanities and information technology. Funded by the North-Rine Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, the long term research  project will be directed by Prof. Nikolai Grube of the Department of Anthropology of the Americans at Bonn University. Its goal is the analysis of all known hieroglyphic Mayan texts which will serve as the basis for the compilation and editing of a Classic Mayan language dictionary.

Job postings and further details (in German):
http://tinyurl.com/q3vf8qv (TextGrid infrastructure, data structure/XML/TEI)
http://tinyurl.com/nc4p39x (Metadata and data modelling)

About IDIOM: http://www.iae.uni-bonn.de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/laufende-projekte/idiom-dictionary-of-classic-mayan
http://www.iae.uni-bonn.de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/laufende-projekte/idiom-dictionary-of-classic-mayan/idiom-english-project-description

Application deadline: Feb. 15, 2014