PhD-student Visualization of Cultural Landscapes Utrecht University
Job description
A cultural landscape is the product of continuous interaction between nature and human activity. It includes historical places and buildings, together with the natural environment itself, which, under the influence of human habitation, has got cultural value as well.
For centuries different groups of people have cultivated their environment. Traces of these activities have been scattered over various collection holders, like archives, museums, libraries, research institutes, government agencies, even far outside the cultural landscape itself. The documents, works of art, books, images
and databases in question differ greatly in nature and in the manner they have been catalogued and digitized, which makes the digital heritage of a cultural landscape not only distributed, but also semantically disconnected. On the other hand, there are the potential users of this kind of information, like tourists, schools, architects, town and country planners, governmental administrators and the local
population.
All these users must be able "to read" the landscape in its context of place and time. This reading will take place on different levels: landscape as nature, habitat, artifact, system, problem, wealth, ideology, history, place and aesthetic. All this information has to be combined and integrated in order to display the
spatio-temporal dynamics of the cultural landscape: how different processes have interacted in transforming it over time, what traces they have left in cultural objects, thus presenting cultural heritage in the context of its evolving environment.
The target groups form a fleeting audience, which will not spend hours studying; they will rather prefer 'one window shopping' and information packages whose essence can be quickly grasped. Therefore, the presentation should be comprehensive and concise, and long-winded stories are to be replaced with visual and explorative interfaces empowering users to gather information as they wish.
Required education/skills: University Graduate
Msc. degree in Computer Science, Information Science (with specialization in techniques, like XML and multimedia), or Geomatics. Interest in geovisualization and the (historical) development of cultural landscapes is highly desirable.
Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 - 3000
Salary: scale 10.
Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 2502
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 4 years
Maximum hours per week: 38
Additional conditions of employment:
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
Prof. dr. J. van den Berg
E-mail address: jurgen@cs.uu. nl
Or Dr. L. Breure
E-mail address: leen@cs.uu.nl
Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links:
* About the organization (http://www.cs. uu.nl/)
Application
You can apply for this job before 01-08-2007 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending
your application to:
Faculty of Science
Personnel and Organization Department
Budapestlaan 6
3584 CD Utrecht
E-mail: Science.PenO@ uu.nl
When applying for this job always mention the vacancy number 62716.
[sursa beasiswa]
If you want to receive academic resources in your e-mail on daily basis, please subscribe to 10resources-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
