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job: 3D Games Programmer, £34,607-£43,840
Submitted by Daisy Abbott on Wed, 17/03/2010 - 11:54.3D Games Programmer
3 Years Fixed Term
The Glasgow School of Art is looking to appoint a computer games programmer as part of a dedicated development team involved in the strategic development partnership between The Digital Design Studio and NHS Education for Scotland (NES). [read more...]
job: Realtime 3D Research Programmer £34,607 - £43,840
Submitted by Daisy Abbott on Wed, 17/03/2010 - 11:52.job: 3D Modeller
Submitted by Daisy Abbott on Wed, 17/03/2010 - 11:44.Two positions available.
For more information on all posts please visit www.gsa.ac.uk/jobs or contact us on hr@gsa.ac.uk
3D Modeller
Competitive
3 years fixed term
As part of a dedicated development team involved in the strategic development partnership between The Digital Design Studio and NHS Education for Scotland (NES). the Glasgow School of Art is looking to appoint a 3D Modeller to build and model new digital data associated with human anatomy involving input from a range of medical disciplines and 3D scanned data. [read more...]
centre: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
Submitted by Andrew Webber on Tue, 16/03/2010 - 11:40.
CRASSH was founded in 2001, with the aim of creating a new focus for disciplinary innovation and, in particular, interdisciplinary dialogues across the full spectrum of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2011, the Centre will move into a purpose-built new building on the University's main Humanities site. We support the work of scholars at all career levels, from graduate researchers onwards, and encourage interaction across those levels. CRASSH is now known nationally and internationally as a centre of excellence for such work. [read more...]
job: Digital Media Manager, Horniman Museum
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Tue, 16/03/2010 - 09:47.We seek to appoint a Digital Media Manager to lead on the development and implementation of the Horniman’s digital strategy, ensuring that its web presence operates as a fully integrated part of the Horniman’s experience and reflects the Trust’s values and objectives. [read more...]
blog: My comments on the Documentation and Conservation of Media Arts summit
Submitted by Daisy Abbott on Mon, 15/03/2010 - 12:27.DOCAM 2010: Fifth international Summit on the documentation and conservation of the media arts heritage, March 3 - 5, 2010, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
This is a summary of the event with brief comments on each presentation and useful links to further resources. The abstracts for each presentation are available from the online programme at http://www.docam.ca/docam2010/en/
Videos of each presentation will be online from around the start of April 2010 and are highly recommended viewing. [read more...]
job: Data Quality Assurance Assistant Post at The National Archives
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 11/03/2010 - 11:55.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...]
blog: Omeka Plugin Rush 2010
Submitted by wanderingwill on Wed, 10/03/2010 - 16:45.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...]
blog: Networking is the best way to exploit research in the humanities
Submitted by Daisy Abbott on Wed, 10/03/2010 - 14:53.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.
blog: e-monograph: "The False-Door: dissolution and becoming in Roman wall-painting".
Submitted by Maurice Owen on Wed, 10/03/2010 - 14:16."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...]
job: Call for Projects: Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship
Submitted by Jillian OConnor on Tue, 09/03/2010 - 17:29.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...]
blog: Ordnance Survey research project about Vernacular place names
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 09/03/2010 - 10:55.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...]
blog: Launch of Ashmolean Museum's Eastern Art Online: The Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 08/03/2010 - 15:15.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...]
blog: Free reading aids and learning tools for Classical Greek and Latin
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 10:52.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...]
job: Oxford University: Project Officer
Submitted by AlunEdwards on Tue, 02/03/2010 - 17:33.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
centre: Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE)
Submitted by Peter Robinson on Mon, 01/03/2010 - 11:07.The Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing is founded on the premise that computer methods are now fundamental to every stage of the editorial process. We use digital tools to locate and view the original materials; to transcribe them into electronic form; to compare the texts and to analyze the patterns of variation; and we publish them electronically. We are the home of two major projects built to this formula: the St John's Gospel editions led by David Parker, and the Canterbury Tales Project, led by Barbara Bordalejo and Peter Robinson.
job: Software Engineer, Glasgow School of Arts
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Mon, 01/03/2010 - 10:15.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...]
job: Visual Resources Digitisation Officer
Submitted by garethknight on Wed, 24/02/2010 - 10:36.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...]
blog: 2cultures blog
Submitted by Craig Bellamy on Tue, 23/02/2010 - 00:34.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
job: Archaeological & Heritage Product / IT Consultant
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 19/02/2010 - 16:58.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
