{"id":2138,"date":"2019-02-20T18:21:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2019-02-21T18:34:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T18:34:22","slug":"witchfinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2019\/02\/20\/witchfinder\/","title":{"rendered":"witchfinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advice from HR was not to call this job &#8216;Witchfinder General&#8217;. So we didn&#8217;t. But we wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>University of Edinburgh has a <a href=\"http:\/\/witches.shca.ed.ac.uk\/\">database of Scottish Witches<\/a>. It has been published as open data and we are looking for a Data and Visualisation Intern to work with our Wikimedian in Residence to help us develop a linked open-data set by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-using pre-existing data and creating new data which allows geographical mapping of parts of the data set.<\/li>\n<li>Developing other visualisations of the data which allow new, previously unknown, patterns in the data to be extracted and new stories and hypotheses about the data to be developed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you like data and you like witches, this could be the job for you <a href=\"https:\/\/equatecareerhub.org.uk\/job\/data-and-visualisation-intern-database-of-scottish-witches\/\">https:\/\/equatecareerhub.org.uk\/job\/data-and-visualisation-intern-database-of-scottish-witches\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve advertised it via the new <a href=\"https:\/\/equatescotland.org.uk\/\">Equate Scotland Careerhub Website,<\/a> because that &#8216;s where we think all the canny witches will be looking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Daemonologie1.jpg#\/media\/File:Daemonologie1.jpg\">By James VI and I (1566-1625) &#8211; <\/a><a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/25929\/25929-h\/25929-h.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/25929\/25929-h\/25929-h.html<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Daemonologie1.jpg#\/media\/File:Daemonologie1.jpg\">, Public Domain, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=24327206\">Link<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Daemonologie1.jpg#\/media\/File:Daemonologie1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/0b\/Daemonologie1.jpg\" alt=\"Daemonologie1.jpg\" width=\"186\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advice from HR was not to call this job &#8216;Witchfinder General&#8217;. So we didn&#8217;t. But we wanted to. University of Edinburgh has a database of Scottish Witches. It has been published as open data and we are looking for a Data and Visualisation Intern to work with our Wikimedian in Residence to help us develop &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[143,327,326,153,325],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","category-eople-place-work","tag-data","tag-history","tag-magic","tag-openedfeed","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}