Technical Editor at Brepols in Thessaloni8ki

Brepols, is an international academic publisher of printed and electronic works in the humanities. Publications include editions of historical texts and scholarly studies in history, literature, theology, philosophy and art history. Brepols has a wide customer-base spread throughout the world, comprising specialist libraries, academic institutions and individuals.

For employment at the Thessaloniki office (Greece) Brepols require a:

Technical Editor for Latin / Ancient Greek & French Texts

Your role:

For a challenging multilingual digitisation project you will:
• Take care of the preparation & follow-up of a large-scale text digitisation project, including:
o Analysis of the content of the multilingual source material
o Description of detailed metadata
o Instruction writing for the data-entry program
o Quality check of incoming files, including:
 tagging / adjusting / aligning data
 various philological verifications
• Collaborate closely with our IT-specialist and with an editorial team

Your profile:

You have:
• Relevant academic background
• Fluid command of English & French
• Very good written knowledge of Latin & Ancient Greek; knowledge of Oriental languages is an asset
• Excellent organisational skills: you can plan ahead and distinguish the important from the optional in order to get work done within a strict time frame
• Fluent user experience with Office programs (Word, Excel, Skype, OneNote,
…)

You are:
• Digitally literate
• Not afraid of web applications, databases, XML, structured data, …
• Interested in (European) history & culture
• A very accurate, systematic & efficient team player

Should you want to apply for this position, please send your application letter and Curriculum Vitae (in English, with photograph) before 11/05/2018 to Mr. PaschalisTsomakas, Administrator, Brepols Publishing Services EPE, Ermou 55, 54623 Thessaloniki, Greece. email : Paschalis.Tsomakas@brepols.net