Vacancy: Information Officer (Linguistics) Oxford Text Archive
Title: Information Officer (Linguistics)
(Two year post in the first instance)
Grade: RS1A
Salary: 16,775 - 25,213 UKP
Location: 13 Banbury Road, Oxford
Post No:
Occupant:
Reports to: Head of the Oxford Text Archive
Other entitlements: 38 days annual leave including public holidays and Christmas closure Membership of the University's Pension Scheme
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Humanities Computing Unit and The Oxford Text Archive
The Humanities Computing Unit (HCU) is based at Oxford University Computing Services and provides high-level support for all the humanities faculties within the University, as well as housing several national and international projects (e.g. the British National Corpus, the Humbul Humanities Hub of the RDN, and the UK host of the TEI Consortium).
The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) is a long-established facility supported by Oxford University, and based within the HCU. Since 1996, the OTA has been working as a Service Provider for the national Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) to support academics working in all areas of literary and linguistic studies. In addition to the OTA, there are four other AHDS Service Providers located at institutions throughout the UK (see http://ahds.ac.uk), whilst the AHDS Executive is based at King's College London.
The OTA seeks to address three key areas:
- Collect, catalogue, preserve, and redistribute digital resources of interest to those working in literary and linguistic studies within the UK's Higher Education and FE communities.
- Develop appropriate licensing conditions and technical mechanisms for the effective distribution of such resources.
- Promote good practice in the creation and use of such resources in both research and teaching.
The Oxford Text Archive develops state-of-the-art online finding aids and browsing facilities, to provide users with direct access to all our services (see http://ota.ahds.ac.uk). It also offers an advisory service to scholars creating digital literary and linguistic resources within the UK HE and FE sectors.
Following a study of the OTA's subject coverage and Collections Policy, it was decided that additional support should be offered in the area of Linguistics. To enable this activity, supplementary funding has been awarded to the OTA by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) via the AHDS Executive. This new appointment represents a first step towards improving the OTA's provision for Linguistics and linguisticians, and the post holder will be actively encouraged to raise the profile of the OTA within this sector of the academic community.
Duties:
- Working in consultation with other OTA staff to identify digital resources produced by, for, or of interest to linguisticians, for potential accessioning by the OTA.
- Actively promoting the services offered by the OTA/AHDS in support of Linguistics and linguisticians to appropriate sectors of the academic community.
- Sharing advice and expertise with clients of the OTA and other members of staff of the AHDS.
- Assisting with the production and development of cataloguing descriptions of digital resources for Linguistics held by the OTA.
- Take advantage of appropriate training opportunities as these arise, in order to keep up to date with relevant skills and developments.
- Carry out other appropriate duties from time to time as required.
Qualifications and experience:
Candidates will be judged on the basis of the following criteria and should try to ensure that their application shows how they meet the criteria. Candidates will be expected to give examples of relevant experience which need not be work experience, e.g. they may wish to give examples from college projects, voluntary work or skills gained while bringing up a family.
Essential
- Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in Linguistics or closely-related discipline
- Experience of working with digital resources produced by, for, or of interest to linguisticians
Desirable
- A post degree level qualification in Linguistics, or equivalent
- Enthusiasm and willingness to learn about the latest developments in digital resource creation and manipulation.
- Demonstrable awareness of the uses of digital resources in research and teaching within the Higher Education sector.
- Ability to work independently.
In addition to the above, candidates should have a genuine enthusiasm for working with digital resources, and want to join an exciting multidisciplinary team. All necessary training will be provided for the chosen candidate, and s/he should consider this post an excellent step towards a career in humanities computing, computational linguistics, or information management.
Please send completed application forms to Mrs Nicky Tomlin, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (tel: 01865 273230, fax:01865 273275, email: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk)
Closing date for the submission of applications is 27th April 2001
Interviews will be held during week commencing 8th May 2001
Applicants should note that OUCS will only reimburse full travelling expenses within the British Isles for those candidates selected for interview.