We offer a fully funded collaborative doctorate at the University of
Sheffield and The National Archives for UK/EU residents.
We are seeking a PhD student to help shape the future of information
exploration and discovery in big digital archives. There is a clear need
for cultural heritage institutions (museums, libraries and archives) to
provide systems that go beyond keyword-based search and support more
diverse information seeking behaviours, such as browsing and exploration
of large collections. Entities, such as people, places, organisations
and events, can be extracted from the archive and linked to form a
network that users can explore in addition to navigating the content
directly. The National Archives seeks to collect and secure the future
of the public record in all its forms and to make it as accessible as
possible. This project builds on existing work to create linked data
annotations and ontologies to support the exploration of content within
the UK Government Web Archive (UKGWA).
Relevant research areas:
- Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Processing
- Linked Open Data
- Digital Libraries
- Entity-centric information access
- Time-aware information access
Required skills:
Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative research methods, ability
to work independently, excellent written and oral communications skills,
knowledge of formal research process, including writing and presenting
results/findings. Applicants will also have strong analytical skills,
programming skills, and a genuine interest in designing, building and
publishing innovative approaches and systems to explore large-scale
archive data.
Application deadline: 18th May 2015
Position start date: 1st October 2015
Find more information on the position and how to apply visit:
http://bit.ly/entity-centric-exploration-PhD
Informal enquiries about this position can be made to Dr Gianluca
Demartini ([email protected]) and/or Prof. Paul Clough
([email protected])
