Doctoral student Marie Curie

Project title: Digital scholarly editing and memory institutions

Digitization projects within memory institutions are quickly becoming more advanced, with several text and image capture phases being informed by textual/image/material criticism, and involving scholarly subject experts. To what extent are these expertise skills in digitization projects and their collections relevant to, performed by, and/or actually implemented by digital scholarly editing projects?

Objectives
This project will:
? identify the relation between various phases in the digitization process and particular scholarly editing skills, primarily textual criticism
? track and map memory institution digitization projects where several important phases in the process have been based on textual scholarship, largely performed by textual scholars
? track and map projects and cases where cooperation and interdependence between digitization experts and scholarly editors have been pronounced
? model implementation scenarios for the integration of knowledge, experiences and results from various digitization projects into digital scholarly editions

Tasks and methodology:
? Case studies of cultural heritage collection digitization projects that are, to varying degrees, based on research in textual criticism and philology. KB in Sweden may provide relevant testbeds.
? Comparative analysis of digitization vs scholarly editing as two kinds of critical transmission activities
? Analyses of digitization projects on varying levels of quality and scale to identify crucial factors affecting the value and potential of the digital material to be re-used in new projects, in a range from new digitization projects to scholarly editions (in collaboration with Editura)
? Measurement of perceived added value among digitizers, editors and other stakeholders

Doctoral students in Sweden are appointed under Chapter 5 of the Higher Education Ordinance. The study period will correspond to a maximum of four years full-time studies. The initial period of employment lasts one year and is typically renewed one year at a time.

This position requires the applicant to hold a Master?s Degree in Library and Information Science or similar qualifications. For admission to a doctoral programme, the applicant's ability to benefit from research education in the field is assessed. It is also essential that the applicant has good command of English, both spoken and written. Previous experience of teaching and/or independent research within the stipulated subject area is considered an additional qualification.

There is a mobility rule within the DiXiT-project which means that the applicant of the doctoral position at The Swedish School of Library and Information Science in Borås must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies etc) in the country of his/her host organization (Sweden) for more than 12 months in 3 years immediately prior to his/her recruitment. Short stays, such as holidays, are not taken into account.

The application, marked with registration number, is to include a list of qualifications, copies of certificates, and other qualifications the applicant wishes for the employer to consider. Also include a thesis plan (about 4-5 pages), and a personal letter of intent. The thesis plan should connect to the objectives of the research project within DiXiT stated above. Two copies of the application documents including references must be available to the University.