From: David Seaman
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Subject: Software developer
position at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
SOFTWARE
DEVELOPER POSITION AT THE RESEARCH LIBRARY OF THE LOS ALAMOS
NATIONAL LABORATORY
The
Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory is looking
for a software developer to support
a grant-funded digital library
research effort. The open
position is limited term, 2 years.
The
successful candidate will work on the Digital Library Research and
Prototyping Team. That Team
operates by assimilating cutting-edge
concepts from information science,
computer science, digital library
research, as well as web research
and practice, and using those concepts
to
rethink various aspects of scholarly communication. The Team is
involved in high-profile research
projects funded, amongst others, by
the Library of Congress, the
National Science Foundation and the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation.
Specifically,
the successful candidate will work collaboratively with a
project team at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory and
NSF-funded
Pathways project that explores scholarly communication as a
global, cross-repository
workflow. Information on Pathways is available
at <http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/pathways/>.
Required
Skills, Knowledge, Abilities
*
Significant programming experience in Java and at least one of the
following languages: C, C++, Perl,
XSLT, Python;
*
Significant experience working with and developing on Linux/Unix
platforms;
*
Understanding of, and experience with, applying standards such as XML,
XML
Schema, SOAP, DOM, XPath, XPointer, UML, RDF, OWL, and associated
tools;
*
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a team leader and
with members of a technical team in
achieving common goals;
*
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously in the realm of discovering,
exploring, and assimilating
technical information, and in analyzing
problems, proposing, and
implementing solutions;
*
Demonstrated effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
Desired
Skills, Knowledge, Abilities
*
Understanding of, and experience with applying library-related
standards, such as OAI-PMH,
OpenURL, info URI, SRU/W, PREMIS, METS,
OAIS;
*
Experience with development in the context of scholarly repository
software solutions such as DSpace,
eprints, Fedora, etc.;
*
Understanding of the process of scholarly communication;
*
Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies;
*
Demonstrated ability to work beyond the boundaries of a single team, a
single
institution.
Education,
Training, or Licensing
Degree
(bachelor's but preferably master's) in Computer Science,
Engineering, Information Science,
Library Science or related field and
relevant high-level experience in
programming, or equivalent combination
of
education and experience.
--
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Research &
Prototyping
http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/
tel. +1 505 667 1267