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Junior Researcher HTR for Colonial Archives and Slavery Studies (IISH) – deadline 13 October 2024
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is searching for a Junior Researcher (0,7 – 1,0 fte) for a coalition of research projects that tackle (digitized) early modern colonial archives to revisit the history of slave trade, slavery and colonialism, we aim to expand the corpus of text-recognized sources. This will create a tremendous resource for research into the early modern history of societies, colonialism and intercultural contact across Asia and the Atlantic.
Based in the projects The Global Business of Slave Trade and Voices of Resistance at the IISH, the researcher will closely collaborate with specialists of the GLOBALISE project to learn to apply existing pipelines to create largescale text-recognition of early modern archives in primarily Dutch and later also the Spanish, Portuguese and French language.
The junior researcher will take charge of a workflow that develops text-recognition (htr) for digitized early modern colonial archives on a large scale, collect the digitized material, and will apply the pipeline for text recognition and layout analysis (Loghi). The researcher will also ensure the output is stored in durable ways (dataverse) and described with high-quality documentation, using methods and practices that are developed and use in the GLOBALISE project.
Applications should be submitted ultimately 13 October 2024 via the KNAW portal.
