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| Call for candidature of a Marie-Curie fellowship
Contract Number MEST-CT-2004-514539
Project Title: Cultural Heritage Informatics Research Oriented Network (CHIRON)
Job Title: fellow researcher on cultural heritage informatics
Job Description: CHIRON aims at providing training opportunities to graduates wishing to start a research career in the field of IT applications to the research, conservation, and presentation of material Cultural Heritage.
The host institutions will provide research training according to the following scheme:
PIN scrl - managing the document (PIN)
• Archaeological documentation and standards
• Archaeological databases (structured data from excavation and/or collections, texts, images, etc..)
• User interfaces design, testing and evaluation
• Web services and content management
• Multimodal interfaces and wearable equipment (through collaborating institutions)
• On-site experience and tool testing concerning data acquisition and management, multimedia creation and cultural communication, on a series of archaeological sites and museums of different sizes and periods (via collaborating institutions: antiquities authorities, archaeological departments, other research centers) in a Mediterranean environment
• Archaeological use of IT for standing structures and monuments (data capture, documentation, communication, compatibility of contemporary actual use with preservation/museum use)
University of the Aegean - creating the museum (UoA)
• Theoretical background and practical training on museological issues
• Design of cultural information systems
• Communication of ICT information to different types of users
• Design of VR applications
• Evaluation of effect of ICT on end users in the cultural heritage sector
• Study of use of ICT for contemporary cultural practice
Ben-Gurion University - in the field (BGU)
• Field experience in a Mediterranean/Near East environment, in particular in the desert
• Use of IT in field archaeology: GIS, automatic field data acquisition, remote sensing and satellite imagery.
• Collection management (in collaboration with the regional antiquity authorities) and re-use of pre-existing archaeological archives
University of Brighton - technological and economic challenge (Brighton)
• 3D modeling and real-time visualization
• Interactive digital TV and multimedia production
• Usability studies and Human Computer Interfaces
• Cultural tourism and sustainability
• Socio-economic impact of Cultural Heritage through monuments sites and museums
• Business Innovation in Cultural Heritage
Ename Center - managing communication and the public (Ename)
• Structuring and managing data for use in public presentations
• Design and development of on-site presentation applications for monuments and sites
• Site technology management and evaluation
• Participation in the formulation of public policy and standards for site interpretation
• Adapting traditional interpretation forms (text panels, live guides, reconstructions) to a digital environment
• Computer aided cultural routes
• Integration of tourism and local development in cultural heritage projects
• Integration of high-tech cultural heritage presentation techniques in non-technical teams
University of York - digital preservation and access (UYork)
• Electronic publication and digital preservation
• Resource discovery; Internet technologies, metadata standards, interoperability
• Database design and implementation; data structure, documentation and standards
• CAD, GIS and VR modelling; web delivery of 3-D visualisation; terrain modelling; web- GIS
ETH Zurich - visualizing the past (ETHZ)
• Computer vision – complex texture analysis and synthesis
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Remote sensing and satellite imagery
• Virtual archaeological reconstructions and worlds - procedural scene creation
• 3D Data acquisition
• Image-based content retrieval
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