Alvin Sebastian has joined RCC’s digital humanities team as a software developer.
Alvin will work for RCC two days per week with full funding from UQ’s School of Architecture and School of Languages and Cultures to work on their projects.
One project is to develop a platform for linguistics researchers to carry out combinations of searches through transcripts of conversations with an easy-to-use graphical interface. This will be part of a future language data commons the school wants to build in collaboration with other language analytics researchers from around Australia.
Another project is to create a crowd-sourcing website where people can upload images and information about heritage-listed properties in the National Trust of Queensland.
Alvin will work on these and other projects until the end of 2020.
“I’m looking forward to meeting new people, contributing to technological advancement in digital humanities, and learning new things along the way,” said Alvin.
He has more than 10 years of experience in full stack web development and delivery of IT products and services in general.
Previously, he worked as Data Services Engineer for the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), where he developed software to store, manage and access a wide range of ecological data. He also deployed, managed and maintained servers that run various websites and data services.
