[CODE4LIB] Programming contractor sought

[Kyle Banerjee]

Feel free to forward.

Programming Contractor sought:

Contractor is responsible for implementing a prototype system that
aggregates access to existing digital content stored in digital
archives among the 48 members of the Orbis Cascade Alliance and the
Northwest Digital Archives. The successful prototype will be used as a
basis for securing a large scale grant to build sustainable digital
programs.

Tasks:

* Communicate with administrators of member repositories
* Design and test software
* Define and implement interfaces with member repositories
* Evaluate potential commercial and open-source solutions for
repository applications
* Maintain/create relevant documentation,
* Attend project meetings as needed,

Contractor may be required to represent the Alliance at
technically-oriented conferences and meetings.

The total value of the contract is estimated at $16,500, based on grant funds.

We will expect the contractor to commit to half-time from March 1 –
August 31, 2009. Attendance at meetings will be mandatory; meetings
possibly held in the Portland, OR area. Travel expenses up to $750
will be reimbursed based on applicable University of Oregon policies.

Skills required:

* Demonstrated facility with UNIX/Linux, including shell scripting
* Proven ability to follow programming specifications, including prioritization
* A proven track record with finishing projects on time and at budget
* Demonstrated experience with database technology, including MySQL
* Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
* Creativity in problem solving to independently resolve technical issues
* Two or more years of software development experience
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science,
Information Science, Library Science, or related field

Preferred skills:

* Knowledge of library systems, particularly OPACs
* Knowledge of library standards, particularly MARC
* Experience with IT in a higher education environment
* Experience with repository software (such as DSpace, Greenstone, or Fedora).
* Knowledge of PHP, Python, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, XML, XPATH, and XSLT
* Experience working with version control software
* Experience writing and maintaining technical documentation
* Demonstrable experience in OAI-PMH, SRU, and OpenURL,
* Familiarity with metadata standards, preferably Dublin
Core,MARC,EAD, METS, and MODS

Review of Contractor materials will begin on February 28; materials
received by that time will receive preference.

To Apply:

Please send Word or pdf attachments via e-mail to baner...@uoregon.edu
and include the following:

* Cover letter addressing relevant qualifications for the position
* Resume
* Names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three references


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Kyle Banerjee
Digital Services Program Manager
Orbis Cascade Alliance
baner...@uoregon.edu / 541.359.9599

Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers

[Bucknell, Terry]

Peter,

Yes, previous emails off-list had alerted us first to 70 or so titles with 
carriage returns, and (after we'd tidied those up) yesterday to just two:

4815Genes & Development
11707Quality and Safety in Health Care

I hope they were the ones that you found. They should be OK now. If not, feel 
free to email off-list to tell me the two new culprits are!

We have been busy developing more flexible APIs and in the course of that today 
we realised that we were including some records that don't have feeds (and that 
don't appear in our web interface). We will make sure that we tidy those up. We 
also appreciate that we have some updating to do because of new launches and 
title transfers. In the longer term we are looking to publisher-initiated 
updates to our database via CrossRef.

Thank you for sharing what you have done with our data. We welcome 'case 
studies' which we can use to suggest what people can do with this stuff. Please 
share with any user group for your cataloguing system too!

I'll email this list again once we think the data has been cleaned up, and once 
we have other APIs to try out and comment on.



Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Sydney Jones Library
University of Liverpool
Chatham St, PO Box 123
Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692
Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681


From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Boheemen, 
Peter van [peter.vanbohee...@wur.nl]
Sent: 18 February 2009 20:34
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers

Terry,

I was very pleased with the tab delimited file. I have read it into a table and 
joined it to our catalog, that is now showing rss buttons in the A-Z list and 
'recent articles' when presenting a full record presentation of a single 
catalog record.
I discovered two problems with the file however.
1. I found two lines containing carriage returns, messing up these rows. (see
2. There are titles in the list that do have a title and an issn, but that do 
not have a url of a rss feed. (e.g. Cell Differentiation)

Do you know of these problems ?

Regards,

Peter

Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17   
 http://library.wur.nl 
P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail



From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Bucknell, Terry
Sent: Wed 11-2-2009 23:11
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers



As you may know, ticTOCs is a project funded by JISC in the UK to create a 
single, freely available source of RSS feeds for tables of contents - see 
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ . Our database now contains over 12,000 journals from 
over 430 publishers. Up until now the only way to get feeds out of ticTOCs has 
been to use our web interface to search for feeds and then export them as an 
OPML file, or one at a time to a feed reader of your choice.

We are working on creating APIs to let groups like the code4lib community 
extract our data in more flexible ways, but it has been pointed out to us - see 
http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/tictocs-give-us-a-file-pretty-pretty-pretty-please/
 - that all you really need (at least at first) is a simple tab-delimited file 
that contains titles, ISSNs, and feed URIs for all of the journals in tocTOCs. 
We now provide precisely this at http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php.

We hope that you will use this data to populate your catalog, A-Z journals list 
or whatever with RSS feed icons/links, or embedded TOCs.  We look forward to 
the day when SFX, SerialsSolutions and the like are all using our data!

Although the project phase of ticTOCs is very nearly at end end, we are 
confident that we are very close to ensuring that the future of ticTOCs is 
assured for at least the next three years, and will continue to be free.


Share and enjoy.



Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Sydney Jones Library
University of Liverpool
Chatham St, PO Box 123
Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692
Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681

Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Terry,
 
I was very pleased with the tab delimited file. I have read it into a table and 
joined it to our catalog, that is now showing rss buttons in the A-Z list and 
'recent articles' when presenting a full record presentation of a single 
catalog record.
I discovered two problems with the file however.
1. I found two lines containing carriage returns, messing up these rows. (see 
2. There are titles in the list that do have a title and an issn, but that do 
not have a url of a rss feed. (e.g. Cell Differentiation)
 
Do you know of these problems ?
 
Regards,
 
Peter
 
Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17   
 http://library.wur.nl  
P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail



From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Bucknell, Terry
Sent: Wed 11-2-2009 23:11
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers



As you may know, ticTOCs is a project funded by JISC in the UK to create a 
single, freely available source of RSS feeds for tables of contents - see 
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ . Our database now contains over 12,000 journals from 
over 430 publishers. Up until now the only way to get feeds out of ticTOCs has 
been to use our web interface to search for feeds and then export them as an 
OPML file, or one at a time to a feed reader of your choice.

We are working on creating APIs to let groups like the code4lib community 
extract our data in more flexible ways, but it has been pointed out to us - see 
http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/tictocs-give-us-a-file-pretty-pretty-pretty-please/
 - that all you really need (at least at first) is a simple tab-delimited file 
that contains titles, ISSNs, and feed URIs for all of the journals in tocTOCs. 
We now provide precisely this at http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php.

We hope that you will use this data to populate your catalog, A-Z journals list 
or whatever with RSS feed icons/links, or embedded TOCs.  We look forward to 
the day when SFX, SerialsSolutions and the like are all using our data!

Although the project phase of ticTOCs is very nearly at end end, we are 
confident that we are very close to ensuring that the future of ticTOCs is 
assured for at least the next three years, and will continue to be free.


Share and enjoy.



Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Sydney Jones Library
University of Liverpool
Chatham St, PO Box 123
Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692
Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Programmer/Analyst at Indiana University

[Dunn, Jon William Butcher]

Apologies for cross-posting...

The Indiana University Digital Library Program is currently seeking a software 
developer for a two year grant-funded position. If you are interested, please 
apply online at , referencing position# 
00033941. If you have any questions about the position, please feel free to 
contact me.

Regards,

Jon

-
Jon Dunn
Associate Director for Technology
Digital Library Program
IU Libraries / University Information Technology Services
Indiana University
j...@indiana.edu
(812) 855-0953

===

Programmer/Analyst, Variations Application Development (PAE3IT)
Digital Library Program, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
Position#: 00033941

The Indiana University Digital Library Program is seeking a skilled software 
developer to join a newly funded project, "Variations as a Testbed for the FRBR 
Conceptual Model." This project, funded by a major grant from the Institute of 
Museum and Library Services (IMLS), is implementing an emerging model for 
making library materials more easily findable, the Functional Requirements for 
Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Building on earlier Variations projects at 
Indiana University, the project will adapt the FRBR data model to improve 
retrieval of music recordings and scores. An existing algorithm for "FRBRizing" 
records from the online library catalog will be improved and run against nearly 
200,000 existing records to create a searchable database. The project will also 
create new web-based search and cataloging tools.

DUTIES: Working as part of a small software development team for the Variations 
digital music library system, maintains and improves the algorithm for 
converting library catalog records to a FRBR (Functional Requirements for 
Bibliographic Records) model; re-architects the search subsystem within 
Variations to make it separable and FRBR-based; implements web-based user 
interfaces for the new search and cataloging features; participates in full 
software life cycle activities: requirements, design, implementation, testing, 
debugging, maintenance, and support; communicates effectively with the larger 
team, which includes usability and user interface design personnel and metadata 
specialists; and documents work and trains users as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and one 
to three years experience in systems analysis and programming of complex 
software systems, including work in a full-featured object-oriented programming 
language such as Java or C++, required. Equivalent education and experience may 
be considered. Experience in Java web application, web services development, 
and XML required. Must have some familiarity with Unix and Perl. Ability to 
interact professionally with faculty, librarians, and technical staff required. 
Good customer service and communication skills required. Master's degree 
preferred. Experience with Flash, AJAX, or other highly interactive web user 
interface development preferred. Experience with library systems and data 
helpful.

NOTE: Position is initially funded for two years with potential for renewal

For more information on the Variations-FRBR project, see 
. For more information on the IU 
Digital Library Program, see .

Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Indiana 
University has a strong commitment to principles of diversity and in that 
spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, minorities, and 
persons with disabilities.