*--From Karen Cariani, WGBH Director WGBH Media Library and Archives at
WGBH Educational Foundation--*
October 26, 2012
*WGBH Boston: Developer Job Posting*
• Department Overview
WGBH produces the best and most well-known television, radio and online
programs for
public media. The WGBH Media Library and Archives preserves and helps
re-purpose
WGBH creations into the future. The MLA establishes the policies and
procedures for the
access, acquisition, intellectual control, and preservation of WGBH’s
physical media and
digital production and administrative assets. The MLA also offers
production organization
of archival materials from projects start up to shut down, research
services, rights clearances,
and licenses WGBH stock footage. The MLA offers material on the Open Vault
website for
the public and is developing a digital asset management system for internal
access and digital
preservation.
• Position Overview
WGBH is looking for a creative and energetic Developer to develop and
support web based
projects for the Media Library and Archives. The developer will work on the
implementation
of a website to give scholars and researchers access to media material from
the WGBH
Archive and the ongoing development of related Archives web projects. In
addition, the
developer will aid in implementing the architecture, workflows, and
applications for WGBH
MLA digital library services, including the forthcoming DAM system. The
system will be
based on the Hydra Project technology stack, which includes Ruby on Rails,
Blacklight,
Apache Solr, and the Fedora Commons repository.
Finally, working closely with the Media Library and Archive’s director,
project managers,
and a WGBH Interactive Designer, the web developer will continue to develop
the Open
Vault website: http://openvault.wgbh.org.
• Specific duties include:
* Working with open-source applications and toolkits, test and maintain a
multi-purpose
repository infrastructure that supports the ingestion, and delivery of
digital objects for access
through web browsers. Recommend potential toolkits and applications for
inclusion in the
repository architecture.
* Design and implement workflows to extract, transform and repurpose
metadata and digital
objects as needed from the DAM to the Web.
* Customize open source applications to provide front-end interfaces to the
repository for
end-user delivery
* Maintain digital library architecture, troubleshooting issues whenever
they arise.
* Keep abreast of community-wide developments in the realm of digital
library software and
infrastructure.
* Contribute to the development of Open Source applications and engage in
particular with
the Fedora, Blacklight and Hydra community.
* Write and maintain documentation.
• Skill set requirements
To perform the required duties, the Developer must possess the skills and
qualities required
to complete the project, at least a Bachelor's or Masters Degree in
Computer Science or
related fields, and/or extensive work experience, and at least 3+ years of
work experience
developing web applications. Demonstrated interest in developing digital
library collections
and moving images archive issues preferred.
• The ideal candidate:
Able to configure and deploy RoR applications on Heroku or Amazon EC2 (in
Linux
environment)
Familiar with Blacklight and SOLR (on Tomcat or Jetty)
Facile with metadata formats and standards, transformations, and harvesting
Wordpress deployment and customization
Has experience with Internet technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript
and
XML (particularly XSLT, XPath and RDF)
Has worked with web services such as REST, SOAP and/or XML-RPC
Is familiar with one or more RDMS, such as MySQL.
Has experience implementing digital archives, using repository software
such as
DSpace or Fedora Commons.
Is proficient with Unix.
Has experience with Blacklight, Hydra, Ruby on Rails and/or Solr and is
very excited
to develop those skills further.
Experience integrating with, or extracting data from, FileMaker Pro will
also be
helpful.
Familiarity with online media workflows (from post-production to
compression to
distribution) also helpful.
Ability to collaborate well with other project managers, technical
development staff
and management on the direction and workflow of the project.
A proactive, problems solving and solutions based work ethic.
WGBH is a Mac shop, with LAMP servers. Candidates should be prepared to
share and
discuss code samples.
This is a full-time, on-site position with benefits, starting as soon as
possible. There is also
the potential for a remote staff member, with the right credentials. This
project is funded
for 14 months, with the possibility of full-time employment after that.
Moderate travel may
be required. We work hard, but believe in work/life balance. Salary and
position terms are
determined by the candidates level of experience and knowledge of these
various technology
/ development platforms.
WGBH is centrally located in a bright, sunny building that includes open
floor plans, with its
own parking garage, cafeteria (the food is actually good!), health club
access, and more.
--
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
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