Within Stanford’s larger academic community, the Fellow will work on organizing colloquia of faculty, researchers and academic staff engaged on all parts of digital medieval manuscript studies and resources. S/he will also conduct research in areas related to the Text and Technologies program at Stanford, with the support of the Professor Treharne, and using the interoperable tools and resources for first-hand study.

The successful candidate will be inquisitive, technically inclined, and savvy with tools and methods for data curation (or ready and able to come up to speed quickly). S/he will be comfortable navigating both scholarly and information technology communities. S/he will be articulate, with excellent organizational, oral and written communication skills, and intrigued by the promise of leveraging emerging technologies in the realm of digital medieval manuscripts.

This position will work jointly across the Stanford University Libraries and the English Department in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Within SUL, it will be supervised by SUL’s Digital Medieval Manuscripts Program Manager. The position will also be an integral part of the Digital Manuscripts Technical Council, an international panel of technologists from some of the world’s leading research libraries that is cooperatively defining the technical landscape for manuscript studies. Within the Department of English, the Fellow will be engaged with Professor Elaine Treharne, focused on the theoretical and practical aspects of new methodologies for manuscript studies.

• Curate digital medieval resources, including data, metadata, transcriptions, annotations and commentary of digitized manuscripts for scholarly re-use in online environments, such as http://dms.stanford.edu and http://parker.stanford.edu. Curation will include identifying, transforming and integrating data from multiple sources, with an emphasis on leveraging emerging technologies to add value to the scholarly process.
• Identify and apply data curation workflows and tools for aggregating, reviewing, editing and publishing digital scholarship that enriches the field of medieval studies.
• Participate in technology development: gather requirements, help produce documentation and specifications, conduct user research, act as a beta user and perform acceptance testing, and do outreach and training to other scholars.
• Participate in research using digital medieval resources and technologies, in order to gain firsthand knowledge of needs and demonstrate capabilities and opportunities as a subject matter expert.
• Organize regular colloquia of digital medievalists across campus to share and jointly explore methods, objectives and approaches in medieval and manuscript studies.

• A PhD in a relevant subfield of medieval studies, with experience and background (formal or informal) in descriptive metadata encoding of digital manuscripts.
• Familiarity with XML, and its related transformation and query languages, such as DTD, XSLT, and X-Query.
• Prior and ongoing experience working on digital projects as well as active participation in some area of academic medieval studies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and successfully in a team-based environment.
• Desired Knowledge and Skills
• Familiarity with or demonstrated capacity to learn RDF and its associated concepts, tools and serializations.
• The ability to blend domain expertise in medieval manuscript studies with technical expertise in prevailing standards and best practices in the development of digital manuscript technologies and repositories.