Zooniverse GLAM Postdoc, Chicago
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Inserito il 22/10/2016
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Zooniverse GLAM/Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow
Zooniverse, the world-leading research crowdsourcing team, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher and project lead to help direct the development of the Zooniverse platform, especially in the area of text and audio transcription for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) and humanities research.
Zooniverse enables ~1.5 million registered volunteers to participate in over 60 projects across the disciplines (from astronomy to history and literature) in partnership with GLAM organizations, universities and research institutions around the world, in service of both research and education. A recent grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) supports the development of new text and audio transcription projects (www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-71-16-0028-16). These may be stand-alone, experimental projects that break new ground or involve adding functionality to our unique and innovative free project builder platform (www.zooniverse.org/lab) that allows research teams to build and manage their own crowd-sourced research projects.
You’ll be working with our team of talented and friendly developers, designers, and researchers at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL, as well as collaborating with the Zooniverse team at Oxford University in the UK. We use cutting-edge technology to provide the best tools to researchers using the platform. As the lead researcher in the development team, you will contribute to the design of such tools, ensuring that the functionality is of use to researchers in all fields, but especially in museums and libraries. You will be responsible for understanding the museum and library community and attending conferences and working with project partners on behalf of the team. You will also have time to carry out your own research in the growing field of crowdsourcing. There is opportunity to travel, and to work with an extremely diverse group of people spanning libraries and museums, humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences.
More information here:
https://workforcenow.adp.com/jobs/apply/posting.html?client=maxadler&jobId=14481&lang=en_US&source=CC2
