Applications are invited for recruitment of various internship positions or career in Assam University Silchar.
Assam University Silchar is inviting applications from eligible candidates for recruitment to the post or career of Internees to assist in the Dimasa digital archiving project for the Bodo and Dimasa Heritage Digital Archive (https://bododimasaarchive.org) from July to September, 2024. The project on “Digital Archiving of Dimasa language and culture heritage” is an ongoing ICSSR sponsored Major Research Project under the mentorship of Dr. Monali Longmailai (Project Director), Prof. Kh. Dhiren Singha (Co-Project Director), Assam University, Silchar and Prof. Christina Wasson (Co-Project Director), University of North Texas (UNT), USA from 2023 to 2025. The archive uses Mukurtu, a content management system from Drupal platform to preserve and also promote indigenous heritage of Dimasa.
Name of post : Digital Archivist / Field Assistant
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Eligibility Criteria :
The candidates must have either completed / pursuing Master’s in Linguistics programme.
Preference for internship will be given to candidates having competence of the Dimasa language, good writing skills and field experience in language documentation and / or archiving
Job Roles :
1) The internees will assist in creatingcultural categories for digital preservation and promotion of Dimasa indigenous languages and cultures.
2) They will assist in compiling heritage dictionary for documenting Dimasa speech varieties, artifacts, and existing names and historical names.
3) They will interlink Media files from Vimeo, watermarking designs and patterns for image and video files, learning digital copyrights and creating Cultural/Community Protocol, Traditional Knowledge labels.
4) They can explore allied fields of linguistics such as ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropolinguistics, corpus linguistics, language documentation, language technology, linguistic landscaping, folkloristics and incorporate their ideas and knowledge from these subjects into Mukurtu.
5) They can create Collections for compilation of material production for communities, such as learner books, primer, story books, arts and craft, literature, and also related content.
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How to apply :
Candidates may send a Curriculum Vitae (CV), marksheets and any other relevant documents scanned with a cover letter altogether duly signed to monalilong@gmail.com on or before June 15, 2024
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