Fellowship at National Gallery, London

Research Fellowship (IPERION-CH Project)
National Gallery, London

Department: Scientific
Salary: UKP 29065-36418

Fixed Term Full-Time

Closing date: 28 March 2016
Interview date:18 April 2016

Job ref:1352

IPERION Research Fellow Conservation and Heritage Science digital
documentation and data processing management Job reference:
COSC/09/GB80

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The National Gallery seeks to recruit a Research Fellow to
participate in IPERION-CH, a large European research project
involving partners from multiple countries, in the field of
Conservation and Heritage Science.  This project will run for 4
years and began in May 2015.

Further information related to the IPERION-CH project as a whole can
be found on the public project website:

    <URL:http://www.iperionch.eu>

You will undertake research and development work into Conservation
and Heritage Science digital documentation and data management.
Beginning with the existing data resources and software tools used
within the National Gallery and across the IPERION-CH consortium
they will work to improve and promote efficient access to data and
images produced during the technical study and scientific analysis
of cultural heritage objects.  You will also improve the use of
common data standards, protocols, languages and tools, to avoid the
creation of new data silos and increase the possibilities for
interrogating Cultural Heritage scientific data created across
different institutions.  In addition to testing and developing
existing systems and tools, You will also contribute to the
development of at least two prototype digital resources,
demonstrating how specific areas of research and or data can be made
more accessible and used more efficiently.  This work will be
carried out in collaboration with specialists from a range of
National Gallery departments, along with the larger group of
researchers based within the other 23 project partners.

You must have a first degree in an appropriate scientific,
conservation or digital humanities field and a post graduate degree
in a relevant subject.  In addition you must have strong practical
computing experience, including some degree of appropriate
programming, as well as experience working with databases and
digital documentation systems.  A good understanding of the
documentation standards used within the cultural heritage field,
specifically within museums and galleries, along with knowledge of
the range of digital information used and generated within the
Cultural Heritage sector, specifically related to scientific fields,
will also be essential.  It is also desirable for you to have a
strong knowledge of European art history, particularly in relation
to old master paintings.

This is a fixed term contract research fellowship which will run for
a maximum of 22 months

Joseph Padfield
Conservation Scientist
Scientific Department
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London WC2N 5DN
+44 20 7747 2553


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