Digital Humanities Research Intern

Job Description

Work with the Yale Digital Humanities Lab and the Smithsonian Institution’s Data Science Lab as a Digital Humanities Research Intern this fall/winter! We are jointly seeking a Yale graduate or undergraduate student to help advance PixPlot, open-source software for visualizing image collections at scale.

The Digital Humanities Research Intern will assist in further developing the software, user interface, documentation, and/or testing procedures by using images held in collections at Yale and the Smithsonian. The intern will have a dedicated workspace in the Franke Family Digital Humanities Laboratory within Sterling Memorial Library.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate should possess one or more of the following attributes:

• Interest in large-scale image collections
• Interest in user testing web applications
• Skills in explaining complicated concepts in accessible language
• Experience with the Python programming language
• Experience with computer vision, neural networks, and related fields

DHLab staff will provide technical training as needed based on the student’s interests and prior experience.

Learning Objectives

Through the internship, the student will gain the following:

• A broad overview of the field of computational images analysis
• Experience managing real-world image analysis projects in the humanities and natural sciences
• Familiarity with installing, configuring, and operating the DHLab’s PixPlot software
• Experience managing large-scale (>10,000) image collections from both the file system and command line
• Knowledge of best practices in metadata management from the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) sector

Job Details

Time period: Although originally scheduled for summer 2020, we anticipate this internship will occur in the fall and/or winter

Estimated time commitment: 10 hours per week

Payrate: $25/hour

Travel funding: $500 will be available, if the intern would like to visit the Data Science Lab in Washington D.C.

Application Information

Apply online

Applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 27 in order to be considered.

Email the Digital Humanities Lab with any questions.

This project is funded by the Yale-Smithsonian Partnership.