[Students-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] Web Archiving PhD Funding Support Available

[M.J. Menou]

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Subject: [Asis-l] Web Archiving PhD Funding Support Available
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:09:36 +0000
From: Moen, William <William.Moen at unt.edu>
To: asis-l at asis.org <asis-l at asis.org>
CC: Miksa, Shawne <Shawne.Miksa at unt.edu>,        Moen, William 
<William.Moen at unt.edu>

Web Archiving Doctoral Support Funding Available
Application Deadline February 15, 2012
http://infosciencephd.unt.edu/iipc-web-archiving-doctoral-support-award

The University of North Texas College of Information 
(http://www.ci.unt.edu) is accepting applications for a 3-year award to 
support doctoral studies in its Interdisciplinary Information Science 
Ph.D. Program (http://infosciencephd.unt.edu). The IIPC Web Archiving 
Doctoral Support Award is made possible by a grant from the 
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC, 
http://netpreserve.org). The mission of the IIPC is to acquire, preserve 
and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for 
future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and 
international relations.

The College of Information is collaborating with two members of the IIPC 
in providing a high-value, high-impact doctoral experience for the 
selected student. The overarching goal for this initiative is to build 
capacity in the academy to train and prepare future researchers and 
faculty members to address the multifaceted challenges of preserving and 
using web archives. Two IIPC members – University of North Texas 
Libraries (http://www.library.unt.edu) and the Internet Archive 
(http://www.archive.org) – will provide opportunities for hands-on 
practice and research to supplement and complement rigorous coursework. 
The awardee will also be directly engaged in activities of the IIPC. 
This award will be made by April 1, 2012 to a qualified applicant to 
begin the Ph.D. program in Denton, Texas, in Fall 2012.

The IIPC Web Archiving Doctoral Support Award includes the following 
funding, totaling approximately $40,000 per year in financial support:

-- Annual scholarship to offset travel, lodging, and other living costs, 
as well as expenses related to coursework and study (e.g., books); 
provided by IIPC.

-- Graduate Academic Tuition Scholarship 
(http://www.tsgs.unt.edu/questions#GATS) that will cover all tuition and 
mandatory fees; provided by the UNT Toulouse School of Graduate Studies 
and the College of Information.

-- Graduate Research Assistantship providing a salary for 20 hours of 
work per week, plus health insurance, with assignment to UNT Libraries 
Digital Projects Unit; provided by the UNT Libraries and the College of 
Information.

-- Summer internship at the Internet Archive (San Francisco, CA); paid 
by the Graduate Research Assistantship; provided by the Internet Archive 
and the College of Information.

Applicants must follow the special instructions to apply for the IIPC 
Web Archiving Doctoral Support Award. In addition, applicants must meet 
all general admission requirements of the UNT Toulouse School of 
Graduate Studies (http://www.tsgs.unt.edu) and follow the normal 
application process (http://infosciencephd.unt.edu/admission ) for the 
Interdisciplinary Information Science Ph.D. Program If you are 
interested in this unique opportunity and for complete details and 
step-by-step instructions to apply for this award, see IIPC Web 
Archiving Doctoral Support Award 
(http://infosciencephd.unt.edu/iipc-web-archiving-doctoral-support-award).


Additional Information

The IIPC states that the purpose of their support is to further research 
in this field and to provide the field with more highly skilled and 
knowledgeable people prepared to provide leadership, solve problems, and 
guide the development of new tools and services.

A critical component of the student’s learning will be in the work 
environment of the two IIPC members collaborating on this project. The 
College of Information will provide the student a 20 hour/week paid 
research assistantship (RA). In carrying out the RA responsibilities, 
the student will work in the UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit 
(http://www.library.unt.edu/digitalprojects) on various research and 
development projects, and the work will include (but not be limited to):

-- Work with the web archiving team to collect, preserve, and provide 
access to content published exclusively on the web.

-- Develop collection policies for web archiving activities at the UNT 
Libraries.

-- Implement a faculty outreach program at UNT that will increase the 
visibility of the UNT web archives as possible data sources for research 
activities.

-- Investigate, prototype, and deploy a new framework for web archive 
analytics and reporting.

-- Work with the web archiving programmer to implement data views that 
meet a variety of end user needs.

-- Participate in the ongoing work with the CyberCemetery 
(http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/).

-- Participate in national and international projects involving partners 
of the IIPC.

During the summer months (June – August) of each of the 3 years of the 
project, the student will have an internship with the Internet Archive 
(IA). The student will work in collaboration with the IA web archiving 
services team to contribute to all aspects of the web archiving life 
cycle including identification of use cases and scoping requirements, 
data capture using a broad spectrum of methods and tools as well as 
workflows, storage, audit, preservation, and migration of data, data 
mining, analysis, and reporting, indexing for browse and search, 
metadata extraction, automated quality assurance, and public access 
services. IA will work with the student and his/her advisor to tailor 
the internship to the student’s primary interests while still providing 
broad exposure to the domain of web archiving. Duration of the 
internship will be 2-3 months with at least two weeks onsite at IA’s 
offices in San Francisco each summer. During the first summer, IA 
prefers the student to be onsite in San Francisco at the beginning of 
the summer internship. During subsequent summers the student can decide 
when to be onsite.


Point of Contact for Questions:

William Moen, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Research, Director, Texas Center for Digital 
Knowledge (TxCDK) , Associate Professor, Department of Library and 
Information Sciences

College of Information, University of North Texas

Email: William.Moen at unt.edu




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William Moen, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research
Director, Texas Center for Digital Knowledge (TxCDK)
Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Sciences
College of Information, University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle 311068, Denton, Texas 76203-5017
Email: William.Moen at unt.edu
Website: http://www.unt.edu/wmoen
Voice: 940-565-2473 (TxCDK) or 565-3563 (LIS)
Fax: 940-369-7872


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