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Stanford University Libraries is seeking a talented web developer to
support scholarship in the digital age by delivering on the promises of
the digital library. This is a 21-month, grant-funded position.
The Web Developer will primarily develop digital library software to
enable online discovery, viewing and collaborative annotation of digital
library materials. He or she will develop and deploy web services to
enable interoperability between digital library repositories at
different institutions, and will integrate image annotation and
transcription tools into digital library applications. The Web Developer
will be a member of a core team dedicated to the successful completion
of a grant-funded project, and will work closely with the project
manager, the information architect, digital library infrastructure
developers, the user experience designer and other web developers
involved in digital humanities initiatives. This particular project is
highly collaborative, and will involve interactions with developers,
scholars and staff from other institutions. Developing and implementing
open standards and open source software is an explicit objective of the
project.
As a member of SULAIR’s web development team, the Web Developer will
contribute to the overall development of the Stanford Library’s web and
digital library infrastructure, and help plan, specify, and build the
technologies needed to support the University’s goal of ubiquitous
access to scholarly information.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Design and deploy RESTful web services for exposing and delivering
metadata and images from digital library repositories at Stanford and
elsewhere. Develop technical documentation describing the web services
framework, and work with partners to deploy these web services at other
institutions.
• Analyze, enrich, and transform digitized content and associated
metadata into defined formats, schema and systems. This will involve
automated manipulation of XML-based metadata as well as bulk conversion
and ingestion of digital image files into digital library repository
systems (such as Fedora).
• Develop and deploy an online discovery environment that allows
visitors to search metadata and full-text indexes of digital library
data, and provides users tools to interact with those data. These
web-based tools will support text transcription (from scanned images),
image annotation and online group collaboration.
• Develop and deploy technologies to deliver to the web large digitized
images. This includes implementation of a load balanced JPEG2000 image
server, supporting web services for streaming images over http and
implementation of an image viewing application.
• Produce documentation and provide technical support within SULAIR and
to partner institutions in deploying and implementing these technologies
in different digital library environments.
Required Knowledge and Skills
• Participation in at least one web development project using Ruby on
Rails, Java or PHP. Familiarity with a range of programming and
scripting languages is essential; Ruby on Rails expertise is highly
desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to write solid, simple, elegant code both
independently and in a team-programming environment and within schedule
limitations.
• In-depth knowledge of HTML and related website development
technologies and software (especially Javascript, CSS and PHP).
• Demonstrated expertise with XML and related tools and technologies
(e.g., XML schema, schema management and databases, XSLT, X-forms).
• Experience with relational database design and management. Experience
implementing database applications for SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on a project from
specification to launch; communicate effectively, orally and in writing;
and work with all levels of staff, vendors, and consultants.
• Demonstrated proficiency working on a cross-functional web development
team, including human-computer interaction specialists, system
administrators, database programmers, librarians and end users.
• Demonstrated proficiency applying best practices to technical
projects, especially test-first development and automated testing. Also
must make effective use of team collaboration tools, build management,
and version control systems.
• Demonstrated success participating in and contributing to open source
software development projects.
• Demonstrated experience with library applications and technology,
including experience participating in relevant library open source efforts.
• In-depth knowledge of library policies and practice, metadata
standards and the scholarly communication framework
• Quick and self-bootstrapping learner. Particularly adept at quickly
learning new scripting and programming languages.
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