The following position, to work on both a digital repository and a
virtual research environment project may be of interest. Both projects are
JISC-funded.
BID and BVREH Developer, Oxford e-Research Centre
Grade 7: Salary 25,889 - 31,840 p.a.
The Oxford e-Research Centre is seeking an enthusiastic developer to work
on two interesting and complementary projects at the Centre. The
successful candidate will work as part of the 'Building a Virtual Research
Environment for the Humanities' (BVREH) team to develop the existing
prototype Virtual Workspace for the Study of Ancient Documents into a VRE
to support documentary textual and manuscript scholars. They will also
work as part of the Bridging the Interoperability Divide (BID) and OxGrid
team to develop a specialized tool to retrieve metadata from experimental
data produced by users of the campus grid, enabling easy retrieval of
original data when referenced by items in the institutional repository.
The candidate will have a Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
with software development experience in object orientated languages such
as C++, C# or Java. They will also be experienced in web development with
familiarity with deployment of web technologies on the Linux platform
including the Apache web server, Java Servlets/Portal frameworks and web
services. It is essential that the postholder be able to communicate
effectively with team members and stakeholders alike and will have
experience of gathering user requirements within an iterative development
lifecycle. The post is fixed-term until 31 March 2009.
Further particulars can be found on our vacancies page
http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/oerc/jobs/. Please send a covering letter, CV and
application form to [log in to unmask] or to the Personnel Officer,
Oxford e-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, or by fax to 01865 610624.
Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on Wednesday 27 June
2007, interviews will be held late July 2007.
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Dr Michael Fraser
Co-ordinator, Research Technologies Service
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6NN
Tel: 01865 283 343
Fax: 01865 273 275
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/
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