Doctoral candidate in cartography / geovisualization / storytelling

at  ETH Zrich

PROJECT BACKGROUND

The IKG is looking for a doctoral candidate in the field of storytelling to support the cartography group in its research and teaching activities (fixed-term position). The research, concepts and deliverables will be developed in close collaboration with the “Atlas of Switzerland” team. It is planned that the generic descriptive language and data format, the programming library and the authoring tool developed during this doctorate will be used to generate storytelling content and publish it in the “Atlas of Switzerland”, the Swiss national atlas. Furthermore, the candidate will be involved in related teaching/tutoring as well as in supervising theses.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your main task and responsibility will be to develop a generic and descriptive approach, language and programming library for describing and publishing digital story maps. The research and implementation should cover different types of story maps, such as “scrolling narrative”, “journey/guided tour”, “time-based”, “camera/scale-based” or any other additional storytelling modes that emerge during the conceptual phase. In addition, a graphical user interface shall be developed to allow map editors to input multilingual story map content into the generic structure, describing the story and its map-related interactions.

Please refer the Job description for details