2014-15 Harvard Fellowship in Japanese Digital Humanities & Social Sciences (Boston)

[Steven Horowitz]

Thanks to Pamela Fields of CULCON for passing on this unique and JET-relevant opportunity, which came to her originally from Vickey Best, Executive Director of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources.

Steven**

 

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Below is a link to the PDF describing Harvard's re-posting for a 1-2 year fellowship in digital humanities and social sciences.  The original posting was at the post-doc level, this is a broader posting and does not require a PhD.  Great opportunity for a very technologically savvy JET Alumni.  Also an excellent networking opportunity and stepping stone. 

 

http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/pdfs/Fellowship_JDA_2014_15.pdf

 

North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources

Website: http://www.nccjapan.org/

Text of job listing pasted from the PDF:

2014-15 HARVARD FELLOWSHIP IN 

JAPANESE DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University announces a 

special fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year (with the potential to be renewed for one 

additional year), for a person in any field of East Asian studies, with extensive expertise in the 

digital humanities or qualitative digital data management in the social sciences. The fellow will 

be expected to assist faculty, students, and research affiliates, as described below, and assist 

specific digital projectssuch as the Constitutional Revision in Japan Research Project and

especially the Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters (www.jdarchive.org).

Eligibility:

Applicants must have at least a bachelor’s degree, in East Asian (preferably Japanese)studies, in 

any area of the humanities or social sciences. This will be a 12-month fellowship, commencing 

on August 1, 2014, and the annual fellowship stipend will be $50,000. The application deadline 

is June 15, 2014.

Responsibilities specific to the Digital Archive of the 2011 disasters will include working with 

programmers to refine and maintain the archive’s user interface, working with existing and 

potential new content partners to connect their resources to the archive, and helping to build a 

global user community. In addition, the fellow will provide assistance to affiliates of the 

Reischauer Institute in the following sorts of activities:

• Defining appropriate research questions and terminology, where relevant

• Selecting appropriate print and electronic information sources and tools

• Designing search strategiesto ensure retrieval of potentially relevant information

• Developing rigorous methods of information extraction and analysis

• Identifying background information to place the findings in context

A strong working knowledge of Japanese and English languages is required. While the position 

will not require any direct coding, candidates for the position must be able to work closely with 

programmers and designers employing a variety of web technologies and programming 

languages, be able to understand and evaluate their work, and have the ability to effectively 

communicate between technical and non-technical project collaborators. An ideal candidate will 

have had experience designing and hosting websites (including a familiarity with HTML, CSS, 

and Javascript), maintaining online databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL), coding for the web (PHP 

or other web coding language), writing simple scripts for data scraping and management (Python 

or other scripting language), and working with Git code repositories or other version control 

systems, as well as an understanding of the principles behind the functioning of web APIs.