JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Data Quality Assurance Assistant

Department: Web Continuity

Reports to: Government Data Manager

Salary: £20,450 + excellent benefits

Job purpose:

You will play an important role in a dynamic team supporting the government’s initiative to encourage departments to publish more of its non-personal data to facilitate the re-use of public sector information. [read more...]

I wanted to let everyone know about the Omeka Plugin Rush 2010. Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.

We are currently accepting applications to create one of several Omeka plugins:

FlickrImporter
AnonymousTagging
MetaComplete
Flowplayer
FeedImporter

Participants will be honored with some Omeka swag, a spot in our Developers' Hall of Fame, and a small sum of money.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, but all plugins are due by 5/1/2010. [read more...]

AHRC's statement here:
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News/Latest/Pages/innovativeresearch.aspx

Interesting stuff, although I notice that none of their sources are actually referenced or linked to, instead simply referred to as 'the study' or 'recent research'. Tut tut.

"The False-Door: dissolution and becoming in Roman wall-painting" is an e-monograph by Maurice Owen (Southampton Solent University), accessible via this URL:

http://creadm.solent.ac.uk/custom/rwpainting/cover/index.htm...

It examines the impact that the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum had on the modern world - from Neoclassicism to Disaster movies and unpacks the numerous modern filters through which we view this period in antiquity. [read more...]

Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship Summer 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship July 19-August 12, 2010 [read more...]

Colleagues at Cardiff University are working an Ordnance Survey research project about vernacular place names in Great Britain. The research aims to collect and represent informal place names to improve information systems that are currently only based on administrative place names. [read more...]

Recent launch of Eastern Art Online: The Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/

This is a major online resource from the recently expanded and refurbished Ashmolean, to open up the University of Oxford's Islamic and Asian Art collections held at the Museum to a wider audience.

The site showcases collections from the Islamic Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea. Currently there are around 1,400 objects on the site, but this figure will be [read more...]

The Alpheios Project has released the first beta version of a set of free reading aids and learning tools for Classical Greek and Latin. The source code is also freely available to developers. [read more...]

Oxford University Computing Services is looking for a Project Officer (part-time, fixed-term) to work on the RunCoCo project. Details and an application form are available from http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/ Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 26th March 2010, and interviews will be held on 7th April 2010.

The work involves: [read more...]

• running a communication campaign and developing engaging Web content to successfully promote the RunCoCo project and support its user community

In 2006, Glasgow School of Art's Digital Design Studio ran the AHRC-funded "British Empire Exhibition, Glasgow 1938" project which consulted as many sources and individuals as possible in order to build an accurate 3D digital model from which the planning of the Exhibition and its architectural style can be examined. The aim of the current project is to improve interpretation of the Exhibition by linking, in a meaningful way, the related cultural artefacts on which the 3D model was based with the modelled data itself. [read more...]

Visual Resources Digitisation Officer (FIXED TERM CONTRACT)
5 months (1.0 FTE) or 10 months (0.5 FTE)

Salary: £27,318to £30,748 pa based on 1.0 FTE
Location: Farnham
Ref: 10-LIBR143-02
The University for the Creative Arts has campuses at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester and is home to 6,500 students from over 70 countries studying on courses in fashion, graphics, design, media, fine art and architecture.

The Imagio project is a Library and Learning Services project funded by the University to support teaching and learning. [read more...]

Hi all,

If anyone has any interesting Digital Humanities feeds, then please send them my way. I am feeding them through a Wordpress installation using a nifty feed plug in as well as filtering through Yahoo Pipes. The site primarily has an Australian focus, but any feed is welcome.

2cultures.net

Craig

exeGesIS, a well respected environmental and IT consultancy, is currently appointing an IT Consultant to work within the HBSMR (Historic Building Sites & Monuments Records).

Salary: negotiable but likely to be in the range £25,000 - £35,000.
This is a permanent, full time position.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 17th March.

For more information please see: http://www.esdm.co.uk/jobs.asp

The Erasmus AcademyNY is now offering courses online. [read more...]

UCL Department / Division
Bentham Project
Grade: 7
Hours: Full Time
Salary (inclusive of London allowance): £31,778 - £36,395 per annum

Duties and Responsibilities [read more...]

UCL Department / Division
Bentham Project
Grade: 7
Hours: Full Time
Salary (inclusive of London allowance): £31,778 - £36,395 per annum

Duties and Responsibilities

The Bentham Project is a vibrant research centre, whose purpose is to produce the new authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. [read more...]

The 1938 British Empire Exhibition was a stunning display of architectural achievement and a reflection of the life and culture of Glasgow, the UK and the Commonwealth. It incorporated over 100 innovative buildings, including the world famous Tait’s Tower and attracted over 12.5million people to Bellahouston Park, Glasgow over its six month run. This last public showcase of the Empire was of huge international significance and continues to be relevant to the study of British social and industrial history and modernist architecture. [read more...]

VACANCY
There is a vacancy for the position of Digital Preservation Project Manager in the Parliamentary Archives, on a fixed term appointment to 31 March 2012, with the possibility of extension or permanency.

BACKGROUND
The Parliamentary Archives provides a records management and archives service for Houses of Parliament, and assists compliance of the House of Lords administration with Freedom of Information and Data Protection legislation. It supports the corporate aims of Parliament in the areas of effective information [read more...]

Applications are invited for a full-time 12 month fixed term post of
Applications Developer, available immediately. ADS has been awarded funding
by AHRC to migrate its digital archive system to a fedora-based repository,
and the post holder will be required to take the Java programming lead for
this project. Applicants should have a computing or software engineering
qualification, and a high level of java programming expertise. Experience
with Oracle and the implementation and configuration of fedora would be an
advantage. [read more...]