[Students-l] Fwd: [SIGMETRICS] FW: PhD and Postdoc positions in Amsterdam - Cedar - a computational humanities project of the Royal Netherlands Academy and partners

[M.J. Menou]

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Subject: 	[SIGMETRICS] FW: PhD and Postdoc positions in Amsterdam -
Cedar - a computational humanities project of the Royal Netherlands
Academy and partners
Date: 	Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:07:25 +0200
From: 	Andrea Scharnhorst <andrea.scharnhorst at DANS.KNAW.NL>
Reply-To: 	ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
<SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
To: 	<SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>



The institute Data Archiving and Network Services (DANS - an institute
of NWO and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences-KNAW) in
collaboration with the International Institute for Social History, and
the VU Amsterdam is working on a project of the Computational Humanities
programme of the KNAW called
“Census data open linked – From fragment to fabric – Dutch census data
in a web of global cultural and historic information (CEDAR)”

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*/Project background/*

This project builds a semantic data-web of historical information taking
Dutch census data as a starting point. With such a web we will answer
questions such as:

- What kind of patterns can we identify and interpret in expressions of
regional identity?

- How to relate patterns of changes in skills and labor to technological
progress and patterns of geographical migration?

- How to trace changes of local and national policies in the structure
of communities and individual lives?


This project applies also a specific web-based data-model – exploiting
the Resource Description Framework (RDF) technology– to make census data
inter-linkable with other hubs of historical socio-economic and
demographic data and beyond. The project will result in generic
methodsand tools to weave historical and socio-economic datasets into an
interlinked semantic data-web. Further synergy will be created by
linking CEDAR to Data2Semantics, a COMMIT project.


*/Job possibilities/*

The project encompasses

   * one PhD project, titled “Linked Open Data curation model in social
     science history – the case of Dutch census data” - supervised by
     Professor Frank van Harmelen (VU Amsterdam).
   * one PhD project “Theory and Practice of data harmonization in social
     history” - supervised by Professor Kees Mandemakers (Erasmus School
     of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam;
     IISH))
   * one postdoc position for a candidate experienced in complex network
     analysis and visualization.

The project will be coordinated by Dr Andrea Scharnhorst (DANS,
e-humanities group). It is part of the Computational Humanities
Programme of the KNAW, which will be hosted at the e-humanities group
(ehumanities.nl) and in which further projects (with PhD students,
postdoc’s and senior staff) in the area of computational and digital
humanities will be carried out.


For this project we seek candidates for all positions. The project runs
over a period of four years. The specific requirements and details for
application can be found in the attached job advertisements.


The *deadline for applications is August 29 for the PhD positions and
October 1 for the PostDoc position.* The advertisements for the
positions can be also found here http://simshelf.dans.knaw.nl/


Please distribute this information further, and please apologize for
cross-posting.


Dr. Andrea Scharnhorst
Senior Research Fellow
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Data Archiving & Networked Services
Head of Research
Postbus 93067 T: 070 3446 484
2509 AB Den Haag F: 070 3446 482
Anna van Saksenlaan 10 andrea.scharnhorst at dans.knaw.nl
<mailto:andrea.scharnhorst at dans.knaw.nl>
2593 HT Den Haag 06 23 63 32 93
www.dans.knaw.nl ehumanities.nl





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