Research fellowship in Digital Humanities / Digital Medieval Studies / History of Medieval Philosophy
at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage / Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities

Duration: 12 months, with the possibility of renewal (up to 36 months)
Payment: EUR 35.000 gross p.a. (net salary of around EUR 2.500 per month)
Project: ERC-2021-StG project “Polyphonic Philosophy: Logic in the Long Twelfth Century (c. 1070-1220) for a New Horizon in the History of Philosophy”
PI and contact: Prof. Caterina Tarlazzi (caterina.tarlazzi at unive.it<mailto:caterina.tarlazzi at unive.it>)

Prof. Tarlazzi would be delighted to be contacted by prospective candidates to discuss the job and the overall project. For administrative details about the application, please refer to the email address in the full job advertisement.

Required skills and expertise in:
– digital scholarly editions
– mark-up languages
– semantic technologies (RDF, Linked Open Data)
– programming languages Javascript and/or Python
– databases
– basic knowledge of Latin (if any)
– master’s degree (no formal award of doctorate required)

DATES
Application deadline: February, 8th, 2023
Interviews: February, 27th, 2023
Start: April 1st, 2023 (or as soon as possible after that)

ABSTRACT
In the framework of the ERC-2021-StG project “Polyphonic Philosophy: Logic in the Long Twelfth Century (c. 1070-1220) for a New Horizon in the History of Philosophy”, a digital resource will be developed dealing with manuscripts and commentaries on Porphyry’s Isagoge, Aristotle’s Categories and De interpretatione, and Boethius’s De divisione and De differentiis topicis. In particular, the product will have two main and intertwined components: a digital catalogue of manuscripts, and a scholarly digital edition of certain texts, selected from the manuscripts. Modelling will be followed by the development of the infrastructure and data management. Later on, a system and interface to visualise data will be developed in order to consult data, analyse data through searching and indexing, and to produce the final publication. In this context, the research fellow will have to develop a data model for describing and enhancing data concerning digital textual criticism and the analysis of manuscripts. In particular, the data model will be based on web technologies such as XML/TEI, IIIF, RDF and Linked Open Data.The research fellow will work in close contact with other team members, including experts in codicology and paleography, Latin textual criticism, and history of mediaeval philosophy. He or she will be responsible for the digital and IT aspects of the product meta-analysis thereof. He or she will also collaborate with IT-staff for the most technical aspects, and with scholars from the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH). Proven expertise in digital humanities is therefore required.

FULL JOB ADVERTISEMENT
English version: https://www.unive.it/data/28825/?chiavi%5Bglobale%5D=tarlazzi&cerca=cerca
Versione in italiano: https://www.unive.it/data/12137/?chiavi%5Bglobale%5D=tarlazzi&cerca=cerca