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. --- 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/