PhD Placement opportunity in British Library Music Collections: 'Elgar's letters and digital tools', deadline 27th February
The British Library is offering a 3-month Placement (or part-time equivalent) for a PhD student interested in music and the digital humanities to work on making the digitised letters of Edward Elgar more accessible to online audiences. The placement will involve working with HTR (handwriting text recognition) tools and datasets of existing human-typed transcriptions. Elgar was a prolific and idiosyncratic correspondent with messy handwriting and a fondness for ciphers, doodles, and picture postcards — it's an enormous, fantastic corpus with which to experiment with digital tools.
The Placement will be based in the Library's Music Collections with co-supervision from Heritage Made Digital and Digital Research. It is an excellent opportunity for a student to gain valuable, hands-on experience working with digital humanities tools and with music-related special collections.
A link to the advert, together with eligibility criteria and information about applications and funding, can be found here: https://www.bl.uk/services/research-collaboration/phd-placement-scheme. The deadline is 27th February. Informal queries are welcome: please contact frankie.perry@bl.uk.
The British Library is offering a 3-month Placement (or part-time equivalent) for a PhD student interested in music and the digital humanities to work on making the digitised letters of Edward Elgar more accessible to online audiences. The placement will involve working with HTR (handwriting text recognition) tools and datasets of existing human-typed transcriptions. Elgar was a prolific and idiosyncratic correspondent with messy handwriting and a fondness for ciphers, doodles, and picture postcards — it's an enormous, fantastic corpus with which to experiment with digital tools.
The Placement will be based in the Library's Music Collections with co-supervision from Heritage Made Digital and Digital Research. It is an excellent opportunity for a student to gain valuable, hands-on experience working with digital humanities tools and with music-related special collections.
A link to the advert, together with eligibility criteria and information about applications and funding, can be found here: https://www.bl.uk/services/research-collaboration/phd-placement-scheme. The deadline is 27th February. Informal queries are welcome: please contact frankie.perry@bl.uk.
