Postdoctoral Researcher Trifecta Food History DhLab Amsterdam

at  Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen

Locatie: Amsterdam
Max uren per week: 38.00
Max salaris: 5.929
Duur overeenkomst: 48 maanden
Solliciteer t/m: 05-05-2024
For the Trifecta project DHLab in Amsterdam is opening a vacancy for

REQUIREMENTS

What you will be contributing

• You will bring an open-minded and collaborative attitude towards doing groundbreaking digital humanities research;
• You have a firm grasp on computational methods and are willing to achieve proficiency in historical research methods or you are a historian willing to achieve proficiency in computational methods;
• You will need to have finished a Ph.D. in history, digital humanities, language technology, semantic web or a related field by the starting date of the project;
• Prior experience in interdisciplinary projects is a plus.

The mass scale digitization of sources provides the tantalising possibility of studying complex concepts and entities over long periods of time, across thousands or even millions of sources, and from a myriad of perspectives. However, automated methods for analysing these “big data” are inadequate for complex concepts because they have not confronted the fundamental challenges of identity (i.e. what are they exactly and how are they perceived), change (i.e. how have they evolved over time) and the long tail (i.e. what low-frequent contexts do they connect to). The ERC-funded TRIFECTA project will combine language technology and semantic web research to create a database that can be used to explore the cultural and societal contexts of contentious entities and concepts in the domain of food history.
Tracing Contentious Entities and Concepts in Food History. In this sub-project, you and the Ph.D. candidate will develop technology to identify ingredients and food-related concepts from historical resources, as well as analysing how food habits and discourse around food have changed over time. On the digital methodological strand, this sub-project will study the impact of digital processing tools on the hermeneutical practice of historical research. For more information about the project, see: https://trifecta.dhlab.nl