Contract Number MEST-CT-2004-514539 Project Title: Cultural Heritage Informatics Research Oriented Network (CHIRON) Job Title: fellow researcher on cultural heritage informatics Job Description: CHIRON aims at providing training opportunities to graduates wishing to start a research career in the field of IT applications to the research, conservation, and presentation of material Cultural Heritage.
The host institutions will provide research training according to the following scheme: PIN scrl - managing the document (PIN) • Archaeological documentation and standards • Archaeological databases (structured data from excavation and/or collections, texts, images, etc..) • User interfaces design, testing and evaluation • Web services and content management • Multimodal interfaces and wearable equipment (through collaborating institutions) • On-site experience and tool testing concerning data acquisition and management, multimedia creation and cultural communication, on a series of archaeological sites and museums of different sizes and periods (via collaborating institutions: antiquities authorities, archaeological departments, other research centers) in a Mediterranean environment • Archaeological use of IT for standing structures and monuments (data capture, documentation, communication, compatibility of contemporary actual use with preservation/museum use) University of the Aegean - creating the museum (UoA) • Theoretical background and practical training on museological issues • Design of cultural information systems • Communication of ICT information to different types of users • Design of VR applications • Evaluation of effect of ICT on end users in the cultural heritage sector • Study of use of ICT for contemporary cultural practice Ben-Gurion University - in the field (BGU) • Field experience in a Mediterranean/Near East environment, in particular in the desert • Use of IT in field archaeology: GIS, automatic field data acquisition, remote sensing and satellite imagery. • Collection management (in collaboration with the regional antiquity authorities) and re-use of pre-existing archaeological archives University of Brighton - technological and economic challenge (Brighton) • 3D modeling and real-time visualization • Interactive digital TV and multimedia production • Usability studies and Human Computer Interfaces • Cultural tourism and sustainability • Socio-economic impact of Cultural Heritage through monuments sites and museums • Business Innovation in Cultural Heritage Ename Center - managing communication and the public (Ename) • Structuring and managing data for use in public presentations • Design and development of on-site presentation applications for monuments and sites • Site technology management and evaluation • Participation in the formulation of public policy and standards for site interpretation • Adapting traditional interpretation forms (text panels, live guides, reconstructions) to a digital environment • Computer aided cultural routes • Integration of tourism and local development in cultural heritage projects • Integration of high-tech cultural heritage presentation techniques in non-technical teams University of York - digital preservation and access (UYork) • Electronic publication and digital preservation • Resource discovery; Internet technologies, metadata standards, interoperability • Database design and implementation; data structure, documentation and standards • CAD, GIS and VR modelling; web delivery of 3-D visualisation; terrain modelling; web- GIS ETH Zurich - visualizing the past (ETHZ) • Computer vision – complex texture analysis and synthesis • Virtual and augmented reality • Remote sensing and satellite imagery • Virtual archaeological reconstructions and worlds - procedural scene creation • 3D Data acquisition • Image-based content retrieval • Number of vacancies for the first year of project: PIN 2 UoA 1 BGU 1 Brighton 1 Ename 2 UYORK starting October 2005 1 ETHZ 1 For application send a complete CV and a letter of interest to one of the contact person(s): PIN - Sorin Hermon: UoA: Sofia Dascalopoulou: BGU: Isaac Gilead: Brighton: David Arnold: Ename - Daniel Pletinckx: UYork - Julian Richards: ETHZ - Luc Van Gool: More informations at the web-site(s): http://www.chiron-training.net ; www.chiron-training.org (0) Comments posted about this in the forum
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