Digital Preservation Coalition

Vacancy at King's College London: Research Associate (Digital Preservation)

Research Associate (Digital Preservation)
Post type: Full time fixed term (to 31 Jan 2017)
Location: London
Salary: Grade 6 scale, currently £31,331 to £36,298 per annum plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance.
Closing Date: 19 June 2013

King’s College London is seeking to recruit a Research Associate to work on the newly-funded EU FP7 project PERICLES (“Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics”), which has been funded as part of the EU’s Digital Preservation programme. More information about the project can be found at the project website http://pericles-project.eu/.

The post holder will contribute to a range of the research activities of the project, and will work closely with research staff at King’s and at partner institutions. Key issues addressed by PERICLES include the capture of contextual information to support lifecycle management and preservation on the one hand, and re-use or re-interpretation of content on the other, as well as the facility to model and describe preservation processes, policies and infrastructures as they themselves evolve. The project will be addressing use cases from two quite different domains: on the one hand, digital artworks, such as interactive software-based installations, and other digital media from Tate's collections and archives (http://www.tate.org.uk/); on the other hand, experimental scientific data originating from the International Space Station.

This is an exciting opportunity for a talented researcher to make a major contribution to a high-profile and long-term research project in the field of digital preservation. The successful candidate will be expected to have excellent research skills in the field of digital preservation, or a related area such as data management, digital asset management, data analytics or information retrieval. In addition, they will have knowledge of lifecycle models and techniques for the management of digital material, software development skills, and knowledge of a range of computing technologies of relevance to preservation systems.

• For more information, and application details, see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13266.
• For an informal discussion of the post, please contact Mark Hedges via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .