Locatie: Amsterdam
Max uren per week: 38,00
Max salaris: 5.929
Duur overeenkomst: 48 maanden
Solliciteer t/m: 05-05-2024
Information For the Trifecta project DHLab in Amsterdam is opening a vacancy for
Postdoctoral Researcher Trifecta Food History (36-38 hrs)What you will be doing The mass scale digitization of sources provides the tantalising possibility of studying complex concepts and entities over long periods of time, across thousands or even millions of sources, and from a myriad of perspectives. However, automated methods for analysing these "big data" are inadequate for complex concepts because they have not confronted the fundamental challenges of identity (i.e. what are they exactly and how are they perceived), change (i.e. how have they evolved over time) and the long tail (i.e. what low-frequent contexts do they connect to). The ERC-funded TRIFECTA project will combine language technology and semantic web research to create a database that can be used to explore the cultural and societal contexts of contentious entities and concepts in the domain of food history.
Tracing Contentious Entities and Concepts in Food History. In this sub-project, you and the Ph.D. candidate will develop technology to identify ingredients and food-related concepts from historical resources, as well as analysing how food habits and discourse around food have changed over time. On the digital methodological strand, this sub-project will study the impact of digital processing tools on the hermeneutical practice of historical research. For more information about the project, see:
https://trifecta.dhlab.nlWhat we are offering You will be working in the Digital Humanities Lab, a research group at KNAW Humanities Cluster in Amsterdam. DHLab investigates and develops innovative, data-driven, and computationally strong methods for humanities research. We develop computational methods for connecting collections and resources, computational heuristics and tool criticism, and we aim to bridge qualitative and quantitative methods. The team publishes in diverse outlets such as Computational Humanities Research, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Digital Humanities Benelux, and the Extended Semantic Web Conference.
During the project, you will be working in a multidisciplinary research environment. You will be co-supervising the Ph.D. candidate on the project and have the opportunity to (further) build an international profile in the digital humanities field.
Your workplace Our offices are located in a historical building in downtown Amsterdam. Researchers work together in projects and a shared office space and can choose to spend part of their time at home. DHLab aims to be an open and inquisitive, safe work environment where your input counts, not your job title. We value open conversations about pros and cons of a particular idea and approach based on content, not status.
For more information Please contact:
Dr. Marieke van Erp, principal investigator & DHLab department head.
Application procedure Please submit a CV, cover letter that includes a motivation on why you want to work on this project and a 1-page research statement. Include one of your publications that best represents your research.