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Art History Academic Assistant University of London - The Warburg Institute Customer Ref: 039/11 Location: London The Institute has obtained a two-year grant to digitise the Gods and Myths section of its Photographic Collection, and the c.500 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books relevant to the survival of classical mythology in the Warburg Institute Library. Combined digitisation of these sections will result in a rich interdisciplinary resource for the study of the heritage of the classical tradition in literature and art. The digital images will be created by the Institute’s Photographer. This temporary post is available in the Photographic Collection for the period October 2011 to September 2013. Duties will include entering digitised images of the Gods and Myths section into the on-line Warburg Institute Iconographic Database; providing metadata for these images; assisting the project manager with queries relating to metadata for the project and with supervision of the part-time Assistant. Further details: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACQ516/art-history-academic-assistant/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~