Digital Scholar, Oberlin
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Inserito il 13/04/2013
from digitalhumanities.org
The Five Colleges of Ohio seeks applications for a three year, full time
position of Digital Scholar. Supported by a generous grant from The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, the Digital Scholar will work to enable the Five
Colleges' transition to digital scholarship and continue the process of
integrating digital collections into the curriculum and faculty research
agendas. The home-base office for the position could be at any of the
consortial colleges.
The Digital Scholar will:
• Foster the conceptualization, design, development, and assessment of
scholarly digital projects;
• Serve as a liaison to faculty, educating them about the wide range of
options offered by the libraries and collaborating with them on the use of
digital collections and projects in the curriculum;
• Train and coordinate training opportunities for staff to increase their
understanding and awareness of the emerging field of digital scholarship;
• Engage Five College faculty and students, as appropriate, in
collaborative scholarship and the creation of knowledge using digital
collections and emerging analytical tools; regular travel to consortial
sites, ensuring that all five campuses receive the support
Required Qualifications include a graduate degree in a liberal arts
discipline; both a demonstrated effectiveness in a training or
teaching environment and a sophisticated understanding of digital projects,
metadata standards, digital publishing, and scholarly
communications; familiarity with digital repositories and experience with
XML, XSL, and/or XSLT; conversant knowledge of a variety of digital
methodologies, such as text-mining, geographic information systems, or data
visualization, or other modes of digital scholarship.
For more information or to apply to this position see
http://bit.ly/oh5scholar Review of applications will begin on May 1, 2013
and continue until the position is filled.
