PhD Researcher in Digital Musicology & Crowdsourced Encoding

mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; Wien; On-site; EUR 32,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

The mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna invites a Praedoc (doctoral student) to conduct digital musicology research in the IWK’s Digital Music Research area. The role emphasizes building a high-quality corpus of music encodings and developing software tools within two funded projects.

Successful candidates will undertake doctoral studies at mdw, while contributing to citizen-science infrastructure and modular workflows for music research, in a collaborative academic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with Web technologies (HTML, RESTful APIs) and semantic Web technologies (RDF, JSON-LD).
• Knowledge of distributed data storage and processing, e.g., GitHub Actions or Solid PODs.
• Professional competence in German would be highly beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Conduct digital music research at IWK within the Let’s Encode! and DARE projects.
• Engage in crowd-encoded music corpora and validate editing/encoding environments.
• Collaborate with project teams and audiences including musicians and scholars.

Skills

Web technologies

Semantic Web

Distributed data storage

German language

Job description

The mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna invites a Praedoc (doctoral student) to conduct digital musicology research in the IWK’s Digital Music Research area. The role emphasizes building a high-quality corpus of music encodings and developing software tools within two funded projects.

Successful candidates will undertake doctoral studies at mdw, while contributing to citizen-science infrastructure and modular workflows for music research, in a collaborative academic environment.