Borsa biennale ad Hamburg in filologia digitale
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Inserito il 16/10/2011
UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG
Faculty: 5 — Humanities
Department: European Languages and Literatures (SLM II)
Seminar/Institute: Institute of Greek and Latin Philology (IGrLatPhil)
Upon funding approval the university will have a position open for a
research associate (wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in)
— salary group 13 TV-L — with starting date: immediately within Special
Research Area 950 “Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe”.
The position calls for 39 hours per week. The short-term contract will
end on 30-vi-2015 (see also § 2 of the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Law
(Wissenschaftszeitver-tragsgesetz)).
The university intends to increase the number of women amongst its
academic per-sonnel and expressly encourages qualified women to apply.
In compliance with the Hamburg Equal Opportunity Law, preference will be
given to qualified female appli-cants.
Responsibilities:
The research associate’s duties include academic service within
Scientific Service Project Z01 “Methods of analyzing manuscripts for
recovering lost writing”.
Area(s) of Responsibility:
This service project will provide imaging of manuscripts that have been
compromised through damage or intentional modifications for the
multidisciplinary Special Re-search Area. Such manuscript pages will be
digitised using special imaging systems, and the methods for evaluating
and visualising the captured data shall be improved. The tasks include
carrying out imaging campaigns in European and extra-European libraries,
managing and extending the digitisation equipment, and independant
de-velopment and improvement of open source software used in visualising
the digital images in close cooperation with the scholarly users of
these digital images.
The focus of this particular position falls within information
technology and particularly requires knowledge in the processing,
evaluation and visualisation of data from two-dimensional imaging
applications.
Requirements:
Academic degree in one of the above academic subject areas qualifying
the holder to carry out the above-mentioned responsibilities. Major in
information science or expe-rience in the area of image processing
development (such as e.g. multispectral im-age analysis).
Suitable software programming skills (C, C++/Java).
Knowledge of the basics of photography would be a plus.
Mobility and the readiness to work towards practical results in an
interdisciplinary team and to travel internationally for the imaging
work in libraries.
Preference will be given to disabled applicants with equal qualifications.
Application dossiers (application letter, curriculum vitae, degree
certificate(s), etc.) are to be submitted to Prof. Dr. Michael
Friedrich, Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften,
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel Ost, D-20146 Hamburg by: 15-x-2011.
For more information please contact Prof. Christian Brockmann
(christian.brockmann @uni-hamburg.de) or check the following website
http://www.manuscript-cultures. uni-hamburg.de/sfb/index_e.html .
