The University of the Pacific seeks to hire a creative and collaborative Digital Humanities Specialist (DHS) to develop and manage strategies and infrastructure for curating digital and pre-digital content and data; provide computer programming support for projects; and author and/or co-author new digital humanities resources or scholarship.
This is a full-time 20-24 month pilot staff position. The DHS will work half-time contributing to the University Library’s archival and digital initiatives and half-time on an interdisciplinary NEH-funded Digital Humanities research project, KELLIA. The DHS will report to Prof. Caroline T. Schroeder in the Department of Religious Studies and Michael Wurtz, the Head of Special Collections.
KELLIA (Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance) is an international DH project funded by the NEH and the DFG (Germany) to develop international standards and promote digital scholarship in the language and literature of ancient Egypt. Researchers at the University of the Pacific, Georgetown University, Goettingen University, and Muenster University will be collaborating on digital methods in textual studies, linguistics, history, and manuscript studies.
Duties
The Digital Humanities Specialist may perform some but not all of the following duities and/or may be assigned additional duties:
- Develops and manages strategies and infrastructure for curating digital humanities content and data.
- Authors/co-authors new digital humanities resources or scholarship.
- Provides web development and programming for humanities research.
- Contributes to original research in digital humanities.
- Contributes to planning and decision-making about KELLIA’s technological development and long-term sustainability.
- Identifies, recommends, and implements linked open data technologies for humanities research.
- Identifies, recommends, and implements digital asset management and digital archiving in the Library.
- Participates in archival processing and reference duties in a special collections environment.
- Designs forward-facing, interactive digital initiatives, websites, and/or exhibits.
- Provides library and special collections instruction.
Skills/Knowledge and Expertise:
Required skills/knowledge and expertise
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills
- Demonstrated expertise in digital humanities technologies of web development (HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript), text encoding (XML), and programming (Python, Java)
- Commitment to open access technologies and data for the humanities or a related field
- Proven ability to work collaboratively in team-based initiatives
- Proven ability to contribute to original scholarship in the humanities or a related field
- Enthusiasm to build international and interdisciplinary research partnerships
- Proven ability to work successfully with diverse populations and demonstrated commitment to promote and enhance diversity and inclusion
- Knowledge of ancient languages, while welcome, is not a requirement for this position
Preferred skills/knowledge and expertise
- Demonstrated expertise with data curation techniques for a variety of digitized and born-digital media (text, code, images, music, etc.) and tools (e.g., DSpace, EPrints, Fedora, contentDM, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience with linked data technologies and methodologies (e.g., JSON, RDF)
- Experience managing CMS and LMS systems
- Command of archival theory and best practices, especially as they relate to the particular issues posed by born-digital content