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Again, apologies for any cross posting, but some people on list may be interested. Best Julianne ----- The University of Worcester's Department of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is seeking to appoint an IT technician to create a searchable on-line database derived from the XML mark-up of a series of Victorian play texts as part of the Digitisation of Lacy’s Acting Edition AHRC-funded project. The selected candidate will be required to generate a workable database of plays in consultation with the project team and mount this on the project website so that it is accessible to external users. The technician should also be able to add features to the project website, as required. The team has used the Oxygen XML editor package to create the e-texts that will form the database. This is a two-year project to scan and make available a range of plays from the 100 volumes held in the Birmingham Central Library. The project will create e-texts of the plays in pdf format and mount these on a project website for general academic and scholarly use. It will also create a database of a smaller selection of plays, marked up for academic research and searchable around a series of key terms and identifiers, based on the TEI-lite system in XML. The project is run by Dr. Richard Pearson, the project director, assisted by a postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Kate Mattacks. The IT technician will work closely with Dr. Pearson and Dr. Mattacks to implement the practices devised by the project, and will attend editorial board meetings to ensure quality of the project and database functionality. Salary: £10.80 per hour Hours: Up to 200 hours to project completion For more information email: Kate Mattacks [log in to unmask] ----- -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford