Dear Gabriel, this is undoubtedly a very good idea ! Like many others,
I guess,
I share your experience of the difficulty of project managers and computer
skilled classicists/medievalists to meet each others efficiently.
There is a similar initiative, on the ACH website :
http://www.ach.org/jobs/ but
it is only intended for institutions or projects with a position to
fill : they
give no place to "guns for hire". Therefore, a complete "Dating agency" would
be a very useful step, in my opinion. I would surely use it if I was to hire
people for a project. The point is that we should make a big effort in our non
anglo-saxon countries to promote it : I'm afraid that, at least in France,
there's a big lack of communication concerning jobs in digital humanities.
It would be interesting too to have a common approach or collaboration with
medievalists, because in terms of computing skills, our needs are very
close to
those of classicists.
Cheers, Marjorie
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Marjorie BURGHART
EHESS (pôle de Lyon) / UMR 5648
Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Chrétiens et Musulmans Médiévaux
18 quai Claude Bernard
69007 - Lyon - FRANCE
Quoting Gabriel BODARD <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear all,
>
> I had the idea yesterday to include somewhere in the Digital
> Classicist Wiki an area for brief "guns for hire" statements:
> qualifications and contact details (perhaps even a link to a resumé)
> of classicists with computing expertise who may be available for
> hired work (or even regular employment) in the field.
>
> (I was just thinking of all the times I've been approached by people
> with impeccable qualifications and expertise asking if I know of any
> work going--to whom I was unable to be much help--and the equally
> large and frustrating number of times I've been approached by
> projects looking for someone to help out with a database, a web site,
> or programming help who also knew something about the ancient world.
> It is my contention that the future of this discipline is with people
> whose training is in classics [archaeology, history, etc.] who have
> since or incidentally acquired significant computing skills.)
>
> So, do people think this would be a useful resource? Would you use
> it? (To advertise yourself or to look for help?) Does this replicate
> an existing resource that we should instead be pointing people to?
> Can anyone think of any other problems with such an idea?
>
> Cheers,
>
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