Dear Gabby and all,
I feel that one of the main things that has come out of Digital
Classicist's activities to date has been its emphasis on
interdisciplinarity, and the service you propose would be an
excellent opportunity to consolidate and further this. This has been
a major issue for us in these early days of the e-science programme.
To that end we are in the process of establishing just such a 'dating
agency' database of computer scientists with an interest in the arts
and humanities, and who may have an interest in collaborating on A&H
projects. I think it would be excellent if we could coordinate our
efforts in some way (I should add that the response from the CS
community has been extremely encouraging). One thing I would say is
that it will be extremely important to be very strategic in how the
'guns for hire' and opportunities are collated and presented, so that
it would be easy to see at a glance what skills are there in mark-up
(for example), or what opportunities in database design. That will be
quite complicated. Also, are we talking just individuals here?
Existing services such as the AHDS's ICT Guides project (http://
ahds.ac.uk/ictguides) has facilities for searching by project, centre
of activity and research method and research tool, as well as by
individual. Would it be worth keeping this in mind?
All the best,
Stuart
On 1 Oct 2006, at 13:15, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
> James Cummings wrote:
>> Several years a number of UK HE institutions attempted to do this
>> as a national service. See http://www.cvs.ac.uk/ ... this
>> provided a place for researchers to put their CVs up in a
>> structured way for employers to search, etc. Sadly they decided
>> it wasn't viable.
>
> I had a feeling I'd heard about something like this. What I had in
> mind was of course something much simpler (though I'm happy for the
> community to pick up and run with it in some other direction if so
> inspired). I was thinking much more of a space for those of our
> digital classicist colleagues who are not in permanent/long term/
> stable/full time employment (in particular graduate students and
> unemployed post-docs, for example) to just say: 'look, here I am,
> exploit me.'
>
> A sample entry might look something like:
>
> • Classical pedigree/qualifications (e.g. PhD)
> • Computing qualifications/experience (e.g. XML/XSLT; programming
> language(s); ...)
> • Projects associated with/responsible for?
> • Referee (1/2 classicist and/or digital humanist who can vouch for
> you)
>
> We wouldn't want a full CV, although a link to an online resumé
> elsewhere would probably be fine.
>
> I wasn't thinking, particularly, of posting job adverts in the same
> place (after all jobs can be posted on the mailing list, the Stoa
> blog, and elsewhere). And many of the opporunities we're talking
> about are not advertised, as such, but filled by word-of-mouth.
>
> As Marjorie points out, it will of course be particularly important
> to (a) make sure this is used in Europe/rest-of-world, where the
> problems of communicating digital classical expertise are
> especially acute, and (b) coordinate this with the medievalist/
> other humanist bodies who have similar problems. After all, it is
> probably the case that someone with a humanities background outside
> of classics is still better qualified for this kind of work than a
> compsci major, however good their programming skills.
>
> Best,
>
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