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Although most of our alumni choose a research path and some of them are already working as Associate Professors, there is also a relevant group that choses becoming publishers (sometimes creating their own publishing houses), content curators for institutions or companies, and also consultants on Textual Heritage and book preservation in both public and private collections/libraries.

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The students of the Language Analysis and Processing and Erasmus Mundus Master in Language & Communication Technologies are students coming from a background of linguistics and mostly computer science students. This means that, in general, the work they do is already out of the box of the usual jobs in the Digital Humanities.

Previous students of our master's degrees' have worked in companies on issues such as:

After working in FAIR (Meta AI) found a company to work with large-scale language models.

Information extraction in the medical domain by doing sentiment analysis, anonymisation and identification of clinical terms linked to medical knowledge-bases.

Detection of hate speech in social media networks.

Generation of product references with generative language models for companies selling sports products on the Internet.

Generation of cross-lingual techniques to make Basque voices speak in other languages that the original speaker does not speak.
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Most of our Masters students are mid-career with some background in heritage, and many go back to work, often as volunteers, with small museums or galleries. We have had some other notable groups - journalists, often seeking to improve data journalism skills. We also have students who have worked in industry and wanted to apply gamification to training in their firm. We have some students who have gone into pure game design. We also have students who have gone on to work on social media and marketing, and digital identity and branding. Some of these have worked for large forms, some have set up their own consultancies. 

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Most of our Masters students are mid-career with some background in heritage, and many go back to work, often as volunteers, with small museums or galleries. We have had some other notable groups - journalists, often seeking to improve data journalism skills. We also have students who have worked in industry and wanted to apply gamification to training in their firm. We have some students who have gone into pure game design. We also have students who have gone on to work on social media and marketing, and digital identity and branding. Some of these have worked for large forms, some have set up their own consultancies. 

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We also Have a 4 year BA in DH&IT, and a lot of the graduates from that find positions in large firms in project management or on the interface between the CS side (programmers) and the user side; our BA graduates seem to bridge this divide well

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We also Have a 4 year BA in DH&IT, and a lot of the graduates from that find positions in large firms in project management or on the interface between the CS side (programmers) and the user side; our BA graduates seem to bridge this divide well

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From our average number of 48 students (since the start of the Advanced Master in Digital Humanities at KU Leuven in 2017), about 25% apply for an internship during the 1 year master programme. The other 75% opt for a more classic research thesis.

The internships mainly take place in the Belgian GLAM sector (80%) and 20% in private companies (ranging from IT security companies to operational project management, quality assurance, game development via computer interface development in the financial sector)

Within the GLAM sector these are mainly:

1. Europeana Foundation

2. Rijksarchief (State Archive) Leuven

3. The Royal Library of Belgium / KBR

4. KADOC (Historical document archive institution)

5. I-Learn Vlaanderen

6. KU Leuven Libraries Artes

7. KU Leuven Libraries - Digitization Department

8. KU Leuven Husserl Archive

9. KU Leuven, Faculty of Engineering Technology

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Some notes about our Master on Digital Curation and Digital Humanities

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Some notes about our Master on Digital Curation and Digital Humanities

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Our master will open in September 2023, with two areas of specialization: digital curation and digital humanities. We have been thinking about the profile we want for our students, looking for information on training needs for the job market, mainly in the area of scientific research in the arts and humanities, and in the professional world linked to cultural heritage institutions.

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What we identify as needs in the "market"

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What we identify as needs in the "market"

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Synergies of cross-professional interaction and cross-learning between archives, libraries and museums and other cultural industries are growing since 2020 linked to curation and digital humanities.

Institutional and transversal impacts reported are:
- need for development of new digital skills set;
- need for a digital maturity assessment;
- development of digital strategies;
- existence of a gap of digital competencies within cultural professionals that demands interdisciplinary courses.

Research to stimulate stronger and mutually beneficial partnerships between academia and cultural industries:

- the need for empirical research on digital humanities employability skills, upskill and/or reskill within several generations on the labour market;

- the need for new ethics professional codes that include digital humanities and artificial intelligence;

- the need for researchers to work with practitioners to explore emerging issues, enabling a better understanding, discussion and debate.

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A female graduate in the Master's Degree in Digital Content Management has taken part, as a co-founder, in the release of a new firm in the area of corporative digital marketing and communication.

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Welfare and social responsibility analyst

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Welfare and social responsibility analyst

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One of the students in the Master's Degree in Digital Content Management has been hired by a multinational firm on consultancy, to carry out tasks as a welfare and social responsibility analyst for the company. His tasks are aimed at supporting internal communication issues, measurement of organizational climate and culture, and the development of the company's Wellness plan, apart from other areas focused to public relations issues.

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One of the students in the Master's Degree in Digital Content Management has been hired by a multinational firm on consultancy, to carry out tasks as a welfare and social responsibility analyst for the company. His tasks are aimed at supporting internal communication issues, measurement of organizational climate and culture, and the development of the company's Wellness plan, apart from other areas focused to public relations issues.

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Our Master is too ‘young’ to understand post lauream destinations (we started in 2019!). Anyway, we have graduates that work as editorial assistant and data analyst. As a master degree (not only) in digital (but also) in public humanities the larger part of internships we have at the moment (especially of the first yr. students) involve students in the application of the combined expertise in the humanities and technologies to creative and cultural environments where the public can experience and access cultural heritage and artefacts in new and exciting ways. Students are taught how to design, build and implement web resources, they learn how to use digital technologies to manage cultural resources and learn how these skills can be applied to organising public exhibitions and events.

I.e. 1) internship in a Neurohumanities hub for the study of the brain, aesthetics and cultural heritage through digital technologies and neurological tools. For the student this means a great opportunity for engaging the general public in heritage projects through advanced technological interfaces (and aiding in the advancement of research through cutting edge science).

I.e. 2) internship at a ceramics producing company. Why? Because the student was quite interested in the ceramics market and the way they can be used in a sustainable way for house decorations. The company is a billion dollar company and technologically very advanced. The project focuses on -Apply theoretical knowledge from digital and public humanities studies to real-world marketing projects; -Learn how to develop and implement effective marketing campaigns targeting different customer segments.

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Data Scientist (Engineering Program Manager)

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Data Scientist (Engineering Program Manager)

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One student now leads a new content science discipline within a major IT Services and IT Consulting company in U.S. that uses data science and humanistic methodologies to analyse technical documentation.

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A number of our students go into jobs in the creative arts/cultural sector, including publishing, marketing and gaming. Applicants with a mixture of critical thinking, coding, digital design skills, research software engineering, research software analysis skills, UX/UI design etc are much sought after. It is common for our students to use their dissertation (empirical or project-based) as a platform to launch new careers, such as this student, who took his dissertation (a gaming project) in order to get his 'dream job' in the games industry.

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PR specialist at an independent fashion brand

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PR specialist at an independent fashion brand

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In-house PR specialist at an independent fashion brand and with a role focusing on social media marketing, which involves a lot of data analysis. This person uses skills learned on MADH practicing cultural analytics and data visualisation, for example  to create a network diagram using Gephi to analyse audience engagement strategy.
[In the early days of the programme many of our students went into cultural heritage sector etc, but nowadays the majority go into digital media roles such as this one. Not a particularly unusual example perhaps, but important to demonstrate once again how the humanities/DH skills ARE valued in commercial sector]

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From DH/CH experts to DH entrepreneurs - opportunities for DH graduates

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From DH/CH experts to DH entrepreneurs - opportunities for DH graduates

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Most of our students get jobs immediately upon graduation or in fact before, since formalized DH skills are in high demand.
While many pick up jobs as project-related research assistants and developers at the DH centers in Graz and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, others have found a lace at cultural heritage institutions like the Arts-Historical Museum Vienna or the Graz Museum.

Also, two of our graduates recently (February) founded "DH Craft", a small startup for DH services that are often beneath the scale of a university cooperation: database and website changes, workshops on tools and methods, or full support for DMPs or data modeling. DH Craft remains closely connected to our Centre and our research data repository and publication platform GAMS, but has addressed a central need of the Austrian DH scene.

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Our students found jobs as data analysts in industry, working on sentiment data analysis, named entity recognition. Some of them are project managers in the domain of machine translation or language technologies. Some students work on chatbots design. Few continue their studies as PH.D. candidates in NLP (one or two contracts with collaboration with industry). 

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Our students found jobs as data analysts in industry, working on sentiment data analysis, named entity recognition. Some of them are project managers in the domain of machine translation or language technologies. Some students work on chatbots design. Few continue their studies as PH.D. candidates in NLP (one or two contracts with collaboration with industry). 

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Good news for DH researchers and professionals

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Good news for DH researchers and professionals

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The UNED DH masters degree is a new one, but regarding previous non official master degree (organized by LINHD), most of our students have gone to university research laboratories. Some students went into small companies with work related to content creation, translation or curation, but only when their degrees were linguistic related. In the near future we hope to open to companies in other sectors, even if always working around multimedia corpus and AI technologies.

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Both in the private sphere and the public, we have students who go on to become project managers, either for research projects or for data-based private initiatives.

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This is not really out of the box, but our DH program is rather new and we do use the example of this former student to help us adapt our courses to the market. She works for a software editor in semantic analysis of clients' feedback and e-reputation monitoring.

We also have students in digital marketing and qualitative studies.

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One of our alumni went from Library Science to the Music Industry after learning about MEI, an interesting career change.

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We also have quite a few alumni going on to do jobs in archival consultancy, which is similar to the data consultancy jobs I already listed but I felt was worthy of another line.

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While our profiles (TNAH program of the Ecole des chartes) traditionally go towards archival, library, or research engineers, we are more and more seeing students go work in private sphere (better pay and conditions, too) especially as consultants for data management.

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Digital technician of Cultural Dissemination tasks

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Digital technician of Cultural Dissemination tasks

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The Twn Hall of Palau-Solità i Plegamans will hire one of our students to work with the municipality education and cultural departments to create different tools for augmented reality and information dissemination
(Joan Barceló, Máster Humanidades y Patrimonio Digitales. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

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Intelligence Analyst at tech/journalism company

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Intelligence Analyst at tech/journalism company

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A student at our one year masters in DH and Culture at Trinity College Dublin previously had a background in journalism, both through a bachelors degree and work experience. Student arrived at our course with almost no coding experience, but after learning Python skills learned in our year-long Programming for the Humanities module, as well as DH coursework on critical analysis of tech, was hired full time as an Intelligence Analyst for a tech company owned by a major news media company. The student tells me that in the job interview, the employers were particularly impressed by her course work on sentiment analysis and her own student project in NLP for hate speech detection. The student's company is focused on news and social media, providing a number of services such as managing reputational risks, monitoring industry trends, and identifying and confirming the veracity of news on social media.

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Centre for university students with disabilities: Accessibility support (to staff and teaching staff), Accessibility evaluation (educative materials [books, epub, video], e-learning platforms, and buildings), System manager (Linux/Windows), File server administration (Linux), Reporting bug and improvement requests of UNIDIS management tool to the developers
(Victoria Escandell, Máster en Lingüística y Tecnologías, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

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At present sing ontologies, OWL, SKOS, graph databases
(Victoria Escandell, Máster en Lingüística y Tecnologías, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

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Management of Radio France International's digital sound archives

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Management of Radio France International's digital sound archives

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(Ioana Galleron, Master en Humanités Numériques, Paris-Sorbonne)

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A student at our one year masters in DH and Culture previously had a bachelors degree in Art History and almost zero coding experience. After learning Python skills learned in our year-long Programming for the Humanities module, as well as DH coursework on critical analysis of tech, was hired full time as a Data Analyst at a tech startup in London which focuses on creating HR platform software.

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Several students are working as Bot Designers. They  design Conversational Experiences for different types of customers, but especially for the banking and commercial sector. They carry out the conversations design, training of the model, implementation and improvements of the assistants. For this, it is necessary to have some knowledge of machine learning models, cloud and programming bases, together with communication skills as a fundamental competence.

(María Goicoechea, Master on Digital Letters, Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

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Engineering linguist at a big tech company (LINKEDIN) 

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Engineering linguist at a big tech company (LINKEDIN) 

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Daily tasks involve data annotation, creating simple scripts in Python for process automation, hosting consensus meetings, and testing how Generative AI can speed up our job, all of these properly documented in multiple guidelines. The goal is to improve the biggest job-related knowledge graph (taxonomy) in the world.

Big tech companies heavily rely on linguistic profiles to support their engineering teams throughout the development of web, platform, and software features. In addition to possessing a solid understanding of technical requirements beyond Python, candidates are expected to demonstrate proficiency in key areas such as regular expressions, command lines, and markdown. These skills greatly enhance annotation processes, facilitate code changes in non-UI-friendly environments, and enable the creation of well-documented materials reviewed by technical colleagues.

(María Goicoechea,  Master on Digital Letters, Complutense University of Madrid)

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The company One-tap.es (design of web apps and interactive systems:

Story-telling, Personalized apps, Object digitization, Virtual Environments,

Audiovisual Production, tec.) has recruited one of our setudents and Content Curator and UI/UX technician
(Joan Barceló, Máster Humanidades y Patrimonio Digitales. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

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Content Curator for Digital Heritage Systems 

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Content Curator for Digital Heritage Systems 

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The company LaTempesta (Barcelona. Spain), providing professional services in strategic consulting, digital transformation acceleration, and production of web projects and digital cultural heritage projects has recruited one of our students as content curator and 3D scientist
(Joan Barceló, Máster Humanidades y Patrimonio Digitales. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

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What we know about our graduates is that they give the following description of their current professional environment (which is clearly a reflection of the differences in intake in this advanced master):

PhD Candidate

Project manager translations Project manager translations

Specialist in e-publishing and metadata

European market surveillance across the country

Project manager translations

Digital humanist who coordinates ERP projects

Project manager at the European Parliament

Search engine optimization manager

Conversation designer @ Belfius

Press officer

Digital Performance Marketer

Specialist in digital collections

Digital Tech & Solutions I Community Management I Project Management I Entrepreneur I Innovation Oriented I AI, NFT & Metaverse

Scientific assistant at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage

Business analyst - SAP developer

Research Analyst: Talented at working in a mixed method research environment

Business Designer Digital Transformation & Innovation

Art and digital marketing consultant

Project Manager Digitization

Adding technology and creativity to communication about politics and human rights

Game Investigator

Digital transformation consultant

Senior Data Protection Consultant & Implementation Architect

Intern Accountability and Digitization

Talent management

Innovation manager for digital transformation in cultural heritage

Director of Communications

Documentalist / Archive Digitization

Business support team leader

Computational social scientist and software architect

Customer success specialist

Digital art historian

Research Data Engineer

Business Intelligence & Data Visualization Consultant

Senior Film Analyst

Content Marketing Manager

Developer of educational content

Information specialist

Heritage officer new media

Staff member Education Arts

Java developer, Scrum master

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An alumna, an MA in Art History, obtained a position as project and software developer at the High Performance Computer Computing team at Ghent University. Within the team she is primarily working on a project around making scientific software more accessible to researchers

Another alumna (also an MA in Art History), has been working as a scientific researcher for the Royal Library of Belgium on a project to achieve a sustainable social media archiving strategy for Belgium and is currently responsible for the cultural heritage policy for digital-born media at the Documentation and Research Centre on Religion Culture and Society

An alumnus, an MA in History, is working as Collections Developer at Europeana in the Collections Team, as well as project manager for several European-level projects, focused on Horizon2020 projects and CEF Telecom projects.

Another alumnus (MA in English Linguistics and Literature) has been developing the NLU component of the Google Assistant’s Dutch version: training machine learning models with linguistic data, as well as defining manual grammar rules and thus expanding the Assistant's ability to understand the user. Now, he has been appointed as Conversation designer at Belfius, a Belgian bank.

Another MA in Art History (and graduate from the KU Leuven MA of Science in DH) is working as a senior Data Protection Consultant and Implementation Architect certified in CISSP, CIPP/E and Lead Auditor for ISO/IEC 27001.