From Dave.Bretthauer at uconn.edu Mon Feb 8 09:53:08 2010 From: Dave.Bretthauer at uconn.edu (Dave Bretthauer) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:53:08 -0500 Subject: [XML4Lib] Position Announcement: Applications Developer, University of Connecticut Libraries Message-ID: <8C81AA7D3B12F4408C6B3359AEB001CC0770E00A@LIB-EMarks.library.lib.uconn.edu> Please note: there are two Applications Developer positions available. Both are described at http://www.hr.uconn.edu/employment_services/jobs-ntp.html Computer Programmer Analyst II (UCP VIII) Applications Developer - DPT University of Connecticut Libraries The University of Connecticut Libraries is seeking an Applications Developer. As a member of the Digital Programs Team and under the direction of the Digital Programs Team Leader, the Applications Developer provides programming support for UConn's local digital collections workflows, including data-driven planning, capture, metadata handling, efficient and effective discovery tools, and enabling archival master file storage toward a trusted digital repository, all conformant with the best practices of cultural heritage and higher education institutions. The incumbent provides programming, research, and development for digital collections, so that the UConn Libraries can fulfill related strategic objectives in support of the University's Academic Plan. Within a project management environment, the Applications Developer defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains new software and Web applications that support the creation and maintenance of Library information resources and services. With growing collections of diverse digital content, including text, maps and geospatial data, photographs, and other information objects, the next level of growth for UConn will be significant progress toward semantically integrating these resources by means of creative-yet standards-compliant-applications, which the incumbent will play a critical role in developing. The incumbent is responsible for creating applications and for assisting others in developing and implementing Web resources and services that are well integrated into the current information server environment. The Applications Developer works with the Digital Projects Librarian, the Digital Integration Librarian, the Preservation Librarian, the Libraries' Webmaster, and the IT team to provide customized tools for creating and managing collection and access services in the University of Connecticut Libraries and to provide leadership in the collaborative process to develop innovative access and delivery of the Libraries' digital resources. Minimum Acceptable Qualifications: 1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or five years of programming experience in a progressively responsible position in lieu of a degree. 2. Two to three years programming experience; this is in addition to the five years programming experience accepted in lieu of a degree. 3. Demonstrated experience independently analyzing and translating assigned specifications into operating programs and preparing detailed program documentation. 4. Demonstrated experience in analytical reasoning and logical problem solving. 5. Good written communication skills. Preferred Qualifications: 1. Knowledge of and experience with web server technologies (for example: Apache, IIS, SSH/SFTP) and related protocols and services. 2. Knowledge of and experience with coding HTML and JavaScript, with Web Services, and with related protocols. 3. Proficiency in relational database design and application of SQL for querying and set retrieval. 4. Demonstrated expertise with an XML schema relevant to Digital Collections (such as: DIDL, Dublin Core, EAD, KML, MARCXML, METS, MODS, ONIX, PREMIS, or TEI). 5. Experience with XSL, XSLT and XPath. 6. Experience with data manipulation and conversion. 7. Dual proficiency with both Windows as well as UNIX/Linux Operating System environments. Compensation: Salary is commensurate with experience. University benefits include 22 paid vacation days/year, 12 paid State holidays, health and retirement plans, and tuition reimbursement. Application Procedures: Submit a letter of application (indicating search number), resume and the names, address, and telephone numbers of three professional references to: Marian Farley, Assistant Vice Provost for University Libraries, University of Connecticut Libraries, 369 Fairfield Way, Unit 2005A, Storrs, CT 06269-2005. Screening will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. (Search #2010203) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Dave Bretthauer Webmaster & Systems Librarian University of Connecticut Libraries 369 Fairfield Way U-2005-05SY Storrs, CT 06269-2005 Voice: (860) 486-6494 Fax: (860) 486-2407 http://www.lib.uconn.edu/~dbretthauer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info Thu Feb 11 09:19:53 2010 From: kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info (Kevin Hawkins) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:19:53 +0000 Subject: [XML4Lib] IT Manager, Digital Humanities Observatory (Dublin, Ireland -- 15-month contract) Message-ID: <4B741209.5040209@ultraslavonic.info> --Apologies for Cross Posting-- Position Opening: IT Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) (Fixed Term Contract ? 15 months) Applications are invited for a fifteen-month fixed term contract position of IT Manager to the DHO. Funded under Cycle 4 of PRTLI, RIA and its partners are building a joint national platform for the coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level. The key infrastructural element of the consortium is the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO). The DHO is designing, constructing, and hosting an electronic access portal and research resource for the humanities. Reporting to the DHO Director, the IT Manager will be responsible for: - ? the development, implementation, management and maintenance of web applications, software and hardware systems for the ADR and the DHO portal/DRAPIer and Repository ? the development of strategies to ensure the long-term preservation of the DHO?s digitised content ? provision of technical foresight and project management for the DHO and ADR ? day-to-day management of the IT function of the DHO. The IT Manager will have a third-level degree or equivalent in a relevant IT discipline and a minimum of five years? experience in an information systems role. Previous project management experience and staff management experience are essential. Salary, depending on experience, will be in the range ?62,071 to ?71,814 per annum. Further information and details of the application process are available on www.ria.ie and www.dho.ie The closing date for applications is Monday 22nd February 2010. Applicants will be shortlisted on the basis of the information provided in their application. From cmsmcq at blackmesatech.com Mon Feb 22 19:50:44 2010 From: cmsmcq at blackmesatech.com (C. M. Sperberg-McQueen) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:50:44 -0700 Subject: [XML4Lib] Call for Participation: XML for the Long Haul, 2 August 2010 Montreal Message-ID: <1B3A69C7-087D-4EC1-A73A-27163A904268@blackmesatech.com> [Apologies for multiple postings] This pre-conference symposium co-located with Balisage 2010 should be of interest to readers of this list. Please forward as appropriate. If you have a department bulletin board, you might print out the flyer at http://balisage.net/Handouts/LongHaulCall.pdf and put it up for others to see. I look forward to your paper proposals and your attendance! -Michael Sperberg-McQueen * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Call for Participation: International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul Issues in the Long-term preservation of XML Monday 2 August 2010 Hotel Europa, Montr?al, Canada Chair: Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies http://balisage.net/longhaul/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Nearly everywhere, people who create, store, query, or serve XML expect it to live a very long time. XML is platform- and application-independent, and by and large it is platforms and applications that vanish. If by encoding information in XML we have freed it from dependency on specific platforms or applications, have we succeeded in ensuring that the XML can live long into the future? Or is there more to it than using XML? How can we best ensure that our data, all our data, and its semantics survive this year, next year, ten years? into the next millennium? Commercial information may have a useful lifetime measured in years or decades; cultural-heritage material, scientific data, governmental data, and historical documents need to be preserved for centuries; information about nuclear waste products will remain relevant for hundreds of millennia. It?s not enough for the bits to survive; the meaning of the information needs to survive as well. What are we doing and what should we be doing to help its survival? This one-day symposium will bring together researchers, government analysts, archivists, preservationists, librarians, and XML practitioners to discuss the problems and challenges of deep time document encoding. What is being done now and what more we can do? We solicit papers addressing any aspect of this problem complex, including but not limited to: - Analysis of the problem: what are the requirements? - How is XML for long-term archiving different from XML for immediate processing or message interchange? - Identification of particular risk factors (with or without recommendations for managing risks) - Long-term preservation and access issues in library, commercial, governmental, or other contexts - Designing for survival - How tradeoffs in the design of markup vocabularies affect data life - Reports from the field on success or failure of specific techniques in preservation in particular fields (energy, defense, healthcare, STM journal articles, historical editions, curated scientific and scholarly data, product support and maintenance data, legislative records, etc.) - How to document the semantics of markup vocabularies so as to ensure that documents can be understood in the future - How to document and preserve application semantics - How to use XML as a wrapper around pre- or non-XML data to improve its chances of survival - The role of packaging - How to ensure that XML data remain usable even if the application environment they were built in (or for) has disappeared - Does scale change everything? Paper Submissions Paper submissions for the symposium should follow the instructions for submissions to the main Balisage 2010 conference (same format, same address, same due date). Paper submissions are due 16 April 2010. * * * * * There is nothing so practical as a good theory * * * * * -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net ****************************************************************