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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. --- 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/