With apologies for cross posting.
We are a small team, part of the new Information Management and Technology
group at Essex County Council, with responsibility for setting up a
Community Information Network for Essex. We are developing and managing a
growing range of projects which each make their own contribution to the
developing Community Information Network. These include SEAMLESS
(www.seamless.org.uk), an Essex Community Portal (Essex Online), the ISB
funded "Live Community Networks" project, the NOF funded SCADS project and
two European funded projects - PSINet (www.publicsectorinfo.com) and PULMAN
(www.pulmanweb.org).
We have the following vacancies:
PULMAN Research Officer Ref No.: TT111
Temporary or Secondment
Salary: £23,451 - £27,003 p.a. (pro rata)
(This post is available as either full time for initially 6 months with the
possibility of an extension to 12 months, or part-time initially for 12
months)
The PULMAN Project will establish a European Network of Excellence for
libraries, museums and archives and carry out a range of activities
including the compilation and publication of digital guidelines manuals,
hosting consensus building conferences, encouraging Europe wide dialogue
and collaboration on digital initiatives and best practice amongst both
practitioners and policy makers.
We require an experienced researcher with knowledge and expertise of the
technical issues and developments affecting public libraries, in
particular:-
Resource description, discovery and retrieval
Interoperability
Developments in integrated library systems
Tailoring of services and citizen interaction participation
Multilingual issues
SCADS Project Officer Ref No.:TT112
Temporary or Secondment
Salary £21,702 - £22,971 p.a. (pro rata)
18.5 hours per week for 2 year period
The SCADS project (Seamless Citizens' Access to Distributed Sources) will
create a web-based Citizen's Gateway: a single point of access to
information from multiple sources. Important benefits of SCADS include:
Enabling people to find information from national and local sources in a
single search
Selection by the project team of information from the best available
sources, ensuring the use of the up to date standards and common indexing
terms
Searching websites and databases together, providing a single set of
results for the user.
Searching for information by subject and place.
The SCADS project builds on SEAMLESS, an earlier project in Essex, through
which a large number of local information providers are co-operating to
provide information services to the public.
We require an enthusiastic, adaptable individual to assist in the
realisation of this project. The work will include liaison and co-
ordination with project partners (including national information providers
and other local authorities), technical activities focusing on
interoperability and the agreement and adoption of common standards
(including metadata etc) and work on terminology issues and thesauri.
Live Community Networks Project Officer Ref No.:TT113
Temporary or Secondment Opportunity
Salary: £23,451 - £24,750 p.a. (pro rata)
18.5 hours per week initially for one year, with possible extension for
further 2 years.
The Live Community Networks Project will pilot the development of a
Community Information Network in Basildon and Clacton and Harwich,
focussing on children and young people and their families, especially those
at risk of social exclusion. The project will serve as a pilot for a much
broader Community Information Network covering the whole of Essex and
serving all sectors of the community.
We require a well-motivated individual with a flexible approach to take on
the day to day organisation of this project. Duties will include fostering
partnership and co-operation between all relevant parties, monitoring
progress and ensuring that any problems are identified at an early stage
and remedied, compiling project reports, investigating and procuring
content management software and setting up and developing layered portals.
In addition, he/she will be required to sponsor and co-ordinate activities
relating to monitoring and evaluation, marketing and promotion and
dissemination.
Applications are invited for one or a combination of the above posts. For
an information discussion about these posts please contact one of the team
(Mary Rowlatt, Cathy Day, Jo Morris or Fay Bartlett) on 01245 436524
Application packs are available from Corporate Services Personnel &
Development, PO Box 11, County Hall Chelmsford CM1 1LX or ring 01245 431614
(24 hour voicemail). Alternatively you can e-mail us on
mailto:[log in to unmask], Please quote the appropriate
reference number.
Closing date: 7 September 2001.
Interviews will be held on 20 September 2001.
Mary Rowlatt
Community Information Network Co-ordinator
Essex County Council
PO Box 11, County Hall
Chelmsford
Essex, CM1 1LX
tel: +44 (0)1245 436524
fax: +44 (0)1245 257634
email: mailto:[log in to unmask]
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