Head of the Phonogrammarchiv at the University of Zurich — Universität Zürich
CHF 73'500 - 111'500
Universität Zürich · Zürich (ZH)
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 35 days ago
SalaryCHF 73'500 - 111'500
Role overview
As the largest university in Switzerland, the University of Zurich offers a wide range of attractive positions in various fields of study and career.
With around 10,000 employees and currently 12 professional profiles for learners, the University offers an inspiring working environment in top research and education.
Use your talent and skills with us.
- As the largest university in Switzerland, the University of Zurich offers a wide range of attractive positions in various fields of study and career.
- With around 10,000 employees and currently 12 professional profiles for learners, the University offers an inspiring working environment in top research and education.
- Overall management of the archive and strategic development: professional, personnel and organizational management of a small team consisting of its own function and an additional 50% position, with clear responsibility for strategic development towards a digital, research-driven infrastructure node.
- Digital archiving and infrastructure: conception and implementation of the systematic digitization of analog sound stocks as well as a long-term archiving concept according to current standards according to the management principles; ensuring technical quality (e.g. Metadata standards);
- We offer: Our employees benefit from a wide range of attractive offers.
Main responsibilities
- Overall management of the archive and strategic development: professional, personnel and organizational management of a small team consisting of its own function and an additional 50% position, with clear responsibility for strategic development towards a digital, research-driven infrastructure node.
- Digital archiving and infrastructure: conception and implementation of the systematic digitization of analog sound stocks as well as a long-term archiving concept according to current standards according to the management principles; ensuring technical quality (e.g. Metadata standards);
- Integration of modern methods for the efficient development of large audiocorpora (e.g. segmentation and (semi)automatic transcription and annotation) maintenance of technical systems
- supervision of the collection at the site Buchs ZH Collection Center.
- Research and scientific use: independent and collaborative research based on archive holdings; editions and publications (e.g. dialectology, phonetics, digital linguistics).
- Services: active support for research projects and processing of enquiries (archive searches, provision of data, provision of information); transfer of the holdings and their scientific importance to the professional and wider public (e.g. guided tours, events, digital accessibility).
- Networking: national and international networking with central institutions of dialect research as well as with research infrastructures and technology partners for the further development of digital standards and methods.
- Teaching: The position can be extended by 15%, which creates a teaching obligation of 2 SWS per semester.
- The teaching should take place especially for a new degree programme 'Speech & Voice Science' and can also be attended by interested students from other linguistic subjects with profit. Requirements:
- Completed studies in a relevant field (e.g.
What the company offers
- We offer: Our employees benefit from a wide range of attractive offers.
Additional details
- Tasks: Overall management of the archive and strategic development: professional, personnel and organizational management of a small team consisting of its own function and an additional 50% position, with clear responsibility for strategic development towards a digital, research-driven infrastructure node.
- Digital archiving and infrastructure: conception and implementation of the systematic digitization of analog sound stocks as well as a long-term archiving concept according to current standards according to the management principles; ensuring technical quality (e.g. Metadata standards);
- Integration of modern methods for the efficient development of large audiocorpora (e.g. segmentation and (semi)automatic transcription and annotation); maintenance of technical systems; supervision of the collection at the site Buchs ZH Collection Center.
- The teaching should take place especially for a new degree programme 'Speech & Voice Science' and can also be attended by interested students from other linguistic subjects with profit.
- Well-founded knowledge in German-Swiss dialectology as well as willingness to learn about the existing archives of the German language and their historical context; well-founded technical knowledge in language data processing and archiving; and willingness to train in historical sound technology and current language technology.
Notes and original content
- Digital archiving and infrastructure: conception and implementation of the systematic digitization of analog sound stocks as well as a long-term archiving concept according to current standards according to the management principles; ensuring technical quality (e.g.
- Metadata standards);
- Requirements:
