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Job posting, Digital Humanities Specialist I (Cengage Learning)
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April 13, 2017 at 5:49 pm #54653Matthew K. Gold (he/him)Participant
From: “Costain, Bret M” <bret.costain@cengage.com>
Date: Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 1:32 PM*Digital Humanities Specialist I*
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, seeks a creative, collaborative, and
experienced individual to join our team as a *Digital Humanities Specialist*.
Responsible for supporting and assisting the evolution of Gale’s Digital
Scholarship Program, the successful candidate will serve as a key support
and development liaison to key customers that are engaging in advanced
humanities research as well as Gale’s technology development. The *Digital
Humanities Specialist* will identify trends and activities in digital
humanities taking place on campuses throughout the academic market, provide
digital scholarship support services, and support libraries’ role as the
central research hub on campus.Reporting to the Director of Humanities Publishing, the *Digital Humanities
Specialist* will provide on-site support and guidance for digital
humanities scholars and students that are using Gale and OER content and
tools to drive active research. Responsibilities will focus on working
collaboratively with colleagues at Gale and throughout our academic
customer base to advance research activities and the use of primary source
content in the scholarly workflow. The *Digital Humanities Specialist*
will develop and conduct workshops on Gale’s digital scholarship resources
and work collaboratively with other Gale team members in pursuit of new
tools and features/best practices. The *Digital Humanities Specialist* will
participate in Hackathons and other extra-curricular development activities
to build and evolve new technologies that support our librarian and student
users.The position is ideally suited for (but not limited to) someone with an
interest in scholarly research and publishing, native language processing,
data visualizing, and text analysis. Working on a team of dedicated
digital scholarship and publishing professionals, this position will offer
the successful candidate the opportunity to engage in continuing research
execution and support using a broad array of computational techniques
including network analysis, concept extraction, and natural language
processing.The *Digital Humanities Specialist* will provide subject-specific
leadership for collection building and management, as well as promote
library collections, programs, and services. As an integral member of
Gale’s Digital Scholarship program, the *Digital Humanities Specialist*
will assist with the development of DH-related tools and materials that
will be used by key accounts in the academic space. This role will also
conduct in-depth research to inform future technology and content needs
both at Gale and at point of use in academia. With a solid understanding
of current research resources and technologies, the *Digital Humanities
Specialist* will assist in the development of instructional materials and
new features in Gale’s Digital Scholarship research platform. Active
engagement with faculty and students throughout our customer base is
required.This role is specifically responsible for the promotion, support, and
ongoing development of Gale’s Digital Humanities Sandbox, a research
environment designed to enable and assist digital scholarship in the
academic community.*Overview of responsibilities*
§ Conduct on-site DH Symposiums designed to facilitate the establishment
and growth of DH-related activities in the library and across campus.§ Work with members of Gale’s Digital Scholarship Team to establish
training schedules, scope of development work, and organize interaction
with customers and students.§ Collaborate with other Product Managers across Gale and Cengage Learning
to determine, define and utilize synergies and economies within product
development.§ Understand, support and communicate company strategy internally and
externally.§ Track the competitive landscape and market position for all responsible
projects and initiatives, identify new market-specific opportunities, and
conceptualize and test product ideas.§ Collaborate on market research, product positioning and customer
communications.§ Help define and support customer training strategies and prescribe
related tactics.§ Represent Gale and Cengage Learning at relevant industry and customer
events§ Build relationships with customers that support the product lines and
company objectives.§ Understand and translate the market requirements for the evolution of
scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences.§ Ensure that product development and support strategies are communicated
to, and understood by technology project teams and 3rd party vendors.§ Work with Technology Management to ensure projects are appropriately
resourced.§ Develop and maintain high-level relationships with partner firms and
organizations necessary for the success of Gale’s Digital Scholarship
Program.§ Develop and maintain high-level management of consultants and advisory
editors necessary for the success of the ongoing product development.§ Develop, maintain and publicize a product family strategy designed to
increase revenue, drive student usage, and manage costs.§ Report regularly on project/role status to senior management and
internal stakeholders§ Analyze, interpret and then report out to team and senior management on
performance against results.*Qualified candidates should have:*
§ Strong programming skills in either Python (Pandas) or R
§ Ability to manipulate, explore, and visualize data using the latest
analytical tools§ Knowledge and use of at least one of the following: social network
analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, concept
extraction, etc.§ A demonstrated interest in scholarly communication
§ Understanding and experience working with third party APIs
§ Published in peer-reviewed journals or other scholarly publications
§ Experience with Tableau or other data visualization tools
§ Research design expertise
§ Academic background in the humanities, arts, or related fields
§ Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, interpersonal) and the
ability to establish strong rapport with cross-functional teams and
customer in order to effectively collaborate and build partnerships.§ Demonstrated understanding of the current research, information
resources, and scholarly trends in humanities disciplines, including
knowledge of emerging issues and technologies.§ Demonstrated experience with or knowledge of metadata creation and
maintenance.§ Demonstrated experience with technologies, metadata schemas, scripting
languages, or computational methods used in digital humanities projects.§ Proven ability to acquire new skills and adapt to changes in the
profession§ Strong public service orientation.
§ Ability to travel within and outside North America. Expected travel:
30%*Preferred Education/Experience*
§ Advanced degree in a humanities or arts discipline.
§ Experience with or a degree in the field of Data Science is a plus.
§ Minimum of two years of experience in an academic or research library,
or in an academic or research environment.§ Experience participating in the development and use of DH-related tools.
§ Experience with providing information literacy instruction and research
consultations in an academic/research library. -
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