<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><u><b>PROJECT DESCRIPTION</b></u></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom:0cm">Based in the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute's (RPI) Department of Science and Technology
Studies, <i>The Asthma Files</i> is an experiment in ethnography, and
in science, health and environmental communication. While examining
ways asthma is understood, cared for and governed in varied settings,
it also examines how digital tools can be used to support new
research practices and new ways of enrolling audiences in the process
of ethnographic knowledge production. The project responds to
dramatic increases in asthma incidence in the United States and
globally in recent decades, and to wide acknowledgment that new forms
of asthma knowledge are needed. The project aims to advance
understanding of how knowledge about asthma and other complex
conditions can be produced and configured, leveraging digital tools
to enable new modes of collaboration among humanities researchers,
and news ways of presenting and disseminating humanities research.</p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom:0cm">Through a collaboration
with the RPI Tetherless World Constellation, <i>The Asthma Files</i>
also will implement capacity to utilize large data sets, information
modeling, social network analysis, and semantic web capabilities to
address humanities questions in non-traditional ways. This will
produce new ethnographic material and interpretation, while advancing
methodological understanding of how digital techniques can be used
in humanities research.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><u><b>JOB DESCRIPTION</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">To help us with this research project,
we are looking for someone knowledgeable with Plone, the open source
content management system, Zope, the open source database system, and
Python. Some example projects might include:</p>
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<li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">1)
Theme customization.</font></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:0.4cm">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">2)
Implement new workflows for different users: members, editors,
collaborators, etc.</font></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:0.4cm">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">3)
Develop new objects types.</font></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:0.4cm">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">4)
Feedback and development functions.</font></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:0.4cm">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">5)
Make a 3rd party extension to Plone so that other research groups
can download platform without content.</font></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:0.4cm">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">6)
Evaluate security permissions.</font></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:0.4cm">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">7)
Integration of existing research tools with Plone:</font></font></font></p>
</li></ul>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><u><b>SKILLS NEEDED</b></u></p>
<ul>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Work experience with Plone, Zope,
and Python.</p>
</li></ul><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Erik Bigras<br>STS PhD Candidate<br>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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