Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 15.
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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:21:09 +0100
From: "Paul F. Schaffner" <pfs@umich.edu>
Subject: early bks/etext job (Michigan)
SUBJECT: early bks/etext job (Michigan)
The University of Michigan Library's electronic-text group
is looking for an editor/proofreader to work on the large etext
projects that it is responsible for under the aegis of the
'Text Creation Partnership,' namely the full-text components of
Early English Books Online, Evans Digital Edition, and
(prospectively) Eighteenth-Century Collections Online. EEBO
produces structurally tagged electronic transcriptions of
pre-1700 English books; Evans (just beginning) of
pre-1800 American books; and ECCO (still in our future) of
18th-century English books. EEBO alone, approaching 7000
texts completed so far on the way to 25,000, is probably
the largest corpus of its kind ever attempted; the three
projects taken together are something quite unprecedented.
The new editor will join six others similarly employed--three
at Michigan, three at Oxford. The job is a modestly-waged
library staff position, not a faculty position, but it does
offer a chance to read extensively in early books, to use
and expand subject knowledge and technical skills, and a congenial
working environment.
The official posting and job description can be found at:
http://websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/jobnet/job_posting.php?postingnumber=037707
The official salary range (class 07) is $27,600 to $65,100,
but candor compells me to say that the actual salary is likely,
as usual, to fall towards the lower end of that range.
The job is posted as a term appointment (through July of 06),
with the possibility of extension dependent chiefly on
the availability of funding.
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