Zooniverse, the world-leading research crowdsourcing team, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher and project lead to help direct the development of the Zooniverse platform, especially in the area of text and audio transcription for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) and humanities research. Zooniverse enables ~1.5 million registered volunteers to participate in over 60 projects across the disciplines (from astronomy to history and literature) in partnership with GLAM organizations, universities and research institutions around the world, in service of both research and education. A recent grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) supports the development of new text and audio transcription projects (www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-71-16-0028-16). These may be stand-alone, experimental projects that break new ground or involve adding functionality to our unique and innovative free project builder platform (www.zooniverse.org/lab) that allows research teams to build and manage their own crowd-sourced research projects.
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