Geographic Data Management | Metcalf Clinic Project
Metcalf Clinic | Careers in Arts & Humanities
Metcalf Clinics are co-op, project-based training program for UChicago students. During the paid project, teams of undergraduates take a deep dive into a professional area of interest and build relevant experience. Students are placed in teams to lead engagements, research, and projects with employer partners. During the program, teams receive access to coaches, industry experts, and the opportunity to network with successful alumni. These clinics are terrific way to hone professional development in technical research, analysis, strategic planning, and presentation skills and a great boost to your resume By applying to this program you agree to follow the Student Recruiting Guidelines.
Spring Quarter - 6 hours per week
work structure - in person
This position is not benefits eligible
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Geographic data management – Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago
Florence Illuminated (FI): Developing a DH Model for Integrating Historical Datasets and Defining Spatial History through a demographic reconstruction of early modern Florence
Florence Illuminated is an international consortium of independent digital projects and was created to develop ways to effectively share and aggregate historical demographic data on Florence, one of early modern Europe’s most dynamic urban phenomena. This collaboration is focused specifically on implementing a schema to federate independently-born digital projects and resolve the myriad redundancies inherent in building separate digital infrastructures. With a two-year federal grant (NEH), our teams are working to construct a demographic map pf Florence in 1427 to create an online, searchable geographic database. This open platform will allow for larger more integrated historical analyses of Florence’s interconnected cultural, social, and economic histories by other researchers, serve as a model for flexible digital collaboration, and demonstrate the interpretive power of spatial history, where plotting multiple forms of data in historical geographic space opens up new ways of understanding the past.
General duties:
Task 1: Enrichment and management of geographic data of the 1427 tax census of Florence (CATASTO)
- Mapping property holdings and locating residents in Florence
- Assigning geographic coordinates for geographic places of origin referred to by individuals in the dataset using existing resources
- Assigning linked data identifiers, such as Getty TGN IDs, to places
- Collaborate with Sandra Schloen and Carmen Caswell of the Forum for Digital Culture to integrate the locations into the larger data ecosystem of the university’s “Online Cultural Heritage Research Environment” (OCHRE) database system
Task 2: Resolution of landholder and tenant data in the 1427 Florentine tax census (CATASTO)
- Using query tools to locate individuals from manuscript records
- Analyzing and comparing property descriptions to match landlords to tenants in the Catasto database
1 year reading knowledge of Italian preferred
Requirements
- 1 year reading knowledge of Italian preferred
- Some GIS skills welcome but not required
- applicant must be able to work in person with Forum staff
- Apply with Resume and one Paragraph on why you're interested in this project!
Apply with Resume and one Paragraph on why you're interested in this project!