eXist-db job opportunity

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Markus Schnoepf <schnoepf <at> BBAW.DE>
> Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Open position in Munich, Bavaria
> Date: August 15, 2012 3:58:24 PM GMT+02:00
> To: DIGITALCLASSICIST <at> JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Reply-To: The Digital Classicist List <DIGITALCLASSICIST <at> JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> 
> Apologies for cross posting.
> 
> Programmer and Digital Humanist (full‐time)
> Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra seeked
> deadline August, 31, 2012.
> Job Description
> 
> You will be responsible for the technical maintenance and
> development of the Dictionary of Gāndhārī database. Gāndhārī is a
> Middle Indo‐Aryan language used in ancient Gandhāra (northern
> Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) and in Central Asia (Xinjiang,
> China) from ca. the fourth century BCE until the fourth century
> CE. As an important literary and administrative language of this
> region, Gāndhārī played a central role in the spread of Buddhist
> literature from India to Central Asia and China. The Dictionary
> database, established in 2002 at the University of Washington,
> currently contains transliterations and images of 2,635 Gāndhārī
> documents (manuscripts, inscriptions and coin legends) – the large
> majority of known sources for this language. At the same time,
> archeological discoveries continue to enlarge the Gāndhārī textual
> corpus, and only a small part of the currently known texts is