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**Apologies for cross-posting** A Research Associate is being recruited to work on the COINE (Cultural Objects in Networked Environments Project). The person appointed will be a member of staff of the Centre for Research in Library & Information Management (CERLIM) at the Manchester Metropiltan University but will be based at the Armitt Museum & Library in Ambleside, Cumbria. At least two years experience of museums work, including the use of IT systems, is required. Applicants must be graduates; a postgraduate qualification is preferred. The post is offered on a fixed term basis to 31st August 2004 and will be on an appropriate point on the scale £18681-£22236 per annum. Interviews will be held in Ambleside on Friday 17th May 2002. MMU values diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. For further particulars and an application form (returnable by 3rd May 2002) contact the Personnel Department at MMU on 0161 247 6464 quoting reference AG136 or email [log in to unmask] Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Peter Brophy, Director of CERLIM (see below). The COINE project is part-funded by the European Commission under the Information Society Technologies Programme and involves partners in the UK, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Poland. The central concept of the Project is to empower local communities to record and share their personal, social and cultural experiences. COINE operates through the creation of local IT-based environments which are hospitable to local cultural activity, but which can be searched and otherwise manipulated in a regional, national and international setting. Users will thus have seamless access to very highly distributed resources. Technically, COINE will bring Open Archives approaches into the cultural domain, providing seamless access to very highly distributed resources and a highly distributed metadata and data publishing platform. The cultural domain is not pre-determined, and could include text (e.g. poetry), art (e.g. paintings), music (e.g. local ethnic minority traditions), digitised realia (e.g. collections of objects of local significance, such as local pottery), family history (genealogical records and objects of significance) and so on. The COINE Project will demonstrate its applicability to a range of such domains. Professor Peter Brophy Director Centre for Research in Library & Information Management (CERLIM) Department of Information & Communications Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building Rosamond Street West Off Oxford Road Manchester M15 6LL United Kingdom Tel: 0161-247-6153 Fax: 0161-247-6979 Email: [log in to unmask]