JOB: Digital Content Curator for East Asian Studies
The Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science
(MPIWG) is seeking a
Digital
Content Curator
Department III Artefacts and Action in Systems of
Knowledge
Accountable to: Director, Head of Library, Head of
Information Technologies Responsible for: communicating with depositors and
potential depositors, curating, organizing the uploading, and review of digital
and material resources on the History of Science, East Asia; further
development of dynamic infrastructure for content management.
Tenure: A full time position with tenure, initially for 2
years.
Pay Scale: TVöD E13/E14, roughly comparable to
assistant/associate professor. (For further reference see http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tvoed/bund/)
Job Summary:
The digital-content-curator will organize the content
collection of historical sources on East Asian science and technology in close
collaboration with the director of Dep. III, the head of library and IT. The
curator will liaise independently with depositors and suppliers. S/he will be
central to the development of a content-management-system for the storage,
analysis and representation of data of diverse formats (paper documents,
objects, 2 and 3D imaging, audio, video etc and digital databases). Duties
include communicating with agents and depositors, uploading, processing and
evaluating data, corpus management, diagnosis of problems, preparing
web-presentation, researching and compiling information and reports about
deposits. The content-curator will support the members of the teams with
content-related and technical collaboration across the archiving and retrieval
workflow.
Competency
-Background in East Asian Studies, Library and/or
Information Sciences.
-Familiarity with historical sources on East Asia
(digital and material), library categories and database/ data management
projects.
-Fluency in English and Chinese. Additional language
skills are welcome.
-Profound experience in independent and pro-active
project management combined with a sense for team-work.
-Ability to manage the complete project life-cycle of
digital documentation materials, their use and analysis.
-Proficiency in digital humanities working methods
(Metadata standards, the application of semantic web technologies for the
organization, ontologies).
-Practical skills in the management of various data
formats (texts, imagery, 3D), document encoding and processing, data management
techniques (GIS etc), and media file formats. Experience with the hard sciences
welcome.
-Experience in software development and
content-management systems.
-Aptitude to create technical and training guidelines and
documents.
The MPIWG is an international, interdisciplinary
institute. International experience is highly desirable. There are no formal
teaching obligations. Administrative responsibilities are decided in
consultation with the Director and shared with other members of the scholarly
staff. The MPIWG provides excellent support for research, including travel
funds.
Scholars of all nationalities are welcome to apply;
applications from women are especially welcomed. The Max-Planck-Society is
committed to employing more handicapped individuals and encourages them to
apply.
If after reading through this document and visiting our
website (see http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/departmentSchaefer),
you have further questions, please contact Prof. Dagmar Schäfer (dschaefer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
For administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please
contact Ms. Claudia Paaß, Head of Administration (verwaltungsleitung@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de),
or Mr. Jochen Schneider, Research Coordinator (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
Your application should consist of a one page covering
letter that addresses key selection criteria, a brief CV, and the names and
contact details of three professional referees – ideally, as a single Word or
PDF document with your name and the position title as the document’s name.
Please also provide a work sample (link or reference welcome).
Only electronic applications are accepted.
Applications should be submitted no later than September
10, 2013, by 4 pm (MEZ) to Ms. Nuria Monn: bewerbung3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
While all applications will be acknowledged by email,
only shortlisted applicants will be contacted personally, and we appreciate
your patience during this time.
Candidates will be invited to a workshop and interview in
the week 14-19 Oct. 2013. If you already know that you are unavailable at this
time, you must make mention of this in your covering letter.
Position remains open until filled.
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science,
Boltzmannstraße 22, D-14195 Berlin