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.
This PhD-project will be focused on the definition of a suitable architecture for high-level, content-oriented information retrieval and visualization techniques for spatial multimedia, acknowledging historical collections and the dimension of time. Emphasis will be on (1) use case scenario’s for intended audiences (2) prospects for federated search over the cultural heritage collections within a limited domain and (3) the design of a appropriate information retrieval and visualization interface with attention for 3D. The PhD-project will be embedded in the research line on visualizing cultural landscapes.
For more information, refer to website of the Center of Content and Knowledge Engineering (http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/IK) and the project website http://www.vensteropdevecht.nl/.
Qualifications
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.
Terms of employment
We offer a full time PhD position for the duration of four years. Your gross salary per month ranges from € 1,956.- during the first year to € 2,502.- during the fourth year of your employment. The salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8%, and an end-of year bonus of 3% gross per year. In addition we offer: partially paid parental leave, flexible employment conditions in which you may trade salary for vacation days or vice versa. The employment conditions are based on the Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities.
Further details
More information can be obtained from Prof. dr. J. van den Berg (jurgen@cs.uu.nl) or Dr. L. Breure (leen@cs.uu.nl).
How to apply
Send a letter and CV to:
Personnel and Organization Department,
Wiskundegebouw
Budapestlaan 6, 3584 CD Utrecht
The Netherlands
or send an e-mail to: Science.PenO@uu.nl
Please mention vacancy number 62716.
Closing date for applications is 1st of August 2007.
Please refer to this website.
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.
This PhD-project will be focused on the definition of a suitable architecture for high-level, content-oriented information retrieval and visualization techniques for spatial multimedia, acknowledging historical collections and the dimension of time. Emphasis will be on (1) use case scenario’s for intended audiences (2) prospects for federated search over the cultural heritage collections within a limited domain and (3) the design of a appropriate information retrieval and visualization interface with attention for 3D. The PhD-project will be embedded in the research line on visualizing cultural landscapes.
For more information, refer to website of the Center of Content and Knowledge Engineering (http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/IK) and the project website http://www.vensteropdevecht.nl/.
Qualifications
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.
Terms of employment
We offer a full time PhD position for the duration of four years. Your gross salary per month ranges from € 1,956.- during the first year to € 2,502.- during the fourth year of your employment. The salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8%, and an end-of year bonus of 3% gross per year. In addition we offer: partially paid parental leave, flexible employment conditions in which you may trade salary for vacation days or vice versa. The employment conditions are based on the Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities.
Further details
More information can be obtained from Prof. dr. J. van den Berg (jurgen@cs.uu.nl) or Dr. L. Breure (leen@cs.uu.nl).
How to apply
Send a letter and CV to:
Personnel and Organization Department,
Wiskundegebouw
Budapestlaan 6, 3584 CD Utrecht
The Netherlands
or send an e-mail to: Science.PenO@uu.nl
Please mention vacancy number 62716.
Closing date for applications is 1st of August 2007.
Please refer to this website.
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