The British School at Rome is appointing a Post-doctoral Fellow who will join the British International Research Institutes (BIRI) Digital Coordination and Strategy Project on a 1-year contract beginning on 1 April 2025.
The objective of the Digital Coordination and Strategy Project is to increase the skills and competencies of each BIRI in managing and digitizing their archives and developing digital humanities projects; to link shared information across BIRI; to develop standardized best practice and facilitate interoperability; to set up a Linked Open Data framework across BIRI, in order to connect records; to develop and create tools, platforms and digital material aimed at a range of publics, including public engagement online and in person.
In 2025-26 these will include learning to and creating virtual exhibitions and ontologies, with the support of specialised consultants; developing a public engagement programme; create integrated cataloguing guidelines; and setting-up a metadata structure for the description of non-book objects from the BIRI collections, in link with the AHRC funded Riches project ‘Transforming Access to Mediterranean Cultural Heritage Science Collections’
The Post-Doctoral Fellow supports the project, across all BIRI from a base at the British School at Rome, reporting to the Head of Research Collections, Professor Raphaële Mouren.
Applications, composed of a cover letter and cv, can be sent to research@bsrome.it.
Deadline: Wednesday 15 January.
It is expected that interviews will take place in February.
See a complete Job Description here
