Fellowship at National Gallery, London

Research Fellowship (CROSSCULT Project)
National Gallery, London
Department:Scientific

Salary: UKP 29,065 - 36,418
Type:Fixed Term Full-Time

Closing date:28 March 2016
Interview date: 6 April 2016

Job ref: 1354

CROSSCULT Research Fellow
Defining, mapping and using cultural heritage data/User testing and
evaluation of mobile applications

Job reference: COSC/10/GB80

The National Gallery seeks to recruit a Research Fellow to
participate in CROSSCULT, a large European research project
involving partners from multiple countries, in the field of
Information Technologies applied to digital cultural heritage.  This
project will run for 3 years and is scheduled to start in the Spring
of 2016.

You will undertake research and development work into the semantic
definition of the National Gallery collection information.  You will
examine how the detailed connections between paintings, artists,
materials and broader European history can be structured, stored and
connected to external sources of data.  You will also assist with
the preparation of this data for dynamic re-use within a custom
built mobile application, to be produced by other CROSSCULT project
partners.  They will also carry out extensive testing of the mobile
application and supporting technologies, including planning and
carrying out a series of internal and public evaluations,
specifically related to its use within the National Gallery.  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 10 project partners.

The project as a whole involves new IT technologies and tools,
including mobile programming, content and knowledge management, user
modelling and recommendations and machine learning.  It will also
include semantic reasoning, crowd-sourcing and crowd management,
data mining, social networks, augmented reality, geolocation and
sensors data processing, and gaming.  These technologies will be
developed by the project partners into the CROSSCULT software
platform, which will facilitate complex, interactive, mobile,
on-site experiences.  It will also be used to link cultural heritage
sites like museums or historic city centres across Europe, with the
goal of providing visitors with a better understanding of the
various facets of European history, and to help them reinterpret it.

You must have a first degree in an appropriate digital humanities,
scientific or conservation 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 and experience working with databases.  A good
understanding of semantics-based knowledge representation, metadata
models (based on XML/RDF), ontologies (based on OWL), Semantic Web
methods and tools for ontology development and semantic data
management 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 34 months

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


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