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Oxford University Computing Services
Humbul Humanities Hub

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/recruit.html

Interoperability Officer
Grade: RS1A
Salary: 16,775 - 25,213 (under review)

Two year post

The Humbul Humanities Hub (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/) is seeking an
Interoperability Officer to lead the technical development of an online
humanities portal.  Humbul is part of the national Resource Discovery
Network (RDN) and based at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit
(http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/).

You will be responsible for implementing and developing technical
solutions to cross-search remote databases, control authentication and
enable community services. You will be comfortable liaising with
data-providers, related services and end-users.

We expect you to have a relevant degree or equivalent experience;  a
working knowledge of languages or tools for developing online information
systems (e.g. PHP, XML, JAVA or Perl); and be familiar with emerging
technologies for interoperability and resource discovery (e.g. Z39.50,
Open Archives Initiative, DOI, OpenURL, RDF, RSS).

You should also be enthusiastic about the use of digital resources within
humanities subjects, communicate well at all levels, and be comfortable
working within a project environment.

Please obtain further details and an application form from Mrs Sue
Crowley, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2
6NN. (tel: 01865-273229, email: [log in to unmask]).  Details are
also available at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/recruit.html

Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on 27th July 2001.
Interviews will be held in early August.


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Dr Michael Fraser
Head of Humbul Humanities Hub
Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS
University of Oxford
13 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6NN
Tel: 01865 283 343
Fax: 01865 273 275
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/