Salt Lake City, Utah
Software Developer - Ruby on Rails Job Opening in Salt Lake City, Utah - /postings/65035
The University of Utah?s Marriott Library and the Boston Public Library (BPL) are looking for a skilled, creative, and motivated software developer to help us improve the way libraries store and share digitized historic newspapers. This 20-month full-time telecommuting position, which includes excellent benefits, is funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The goals of the project will be to develop a set of modular, open-source software plugins for ingesting, describing, discovering, displaying, and disseminating digitized newspaper content within the popular Samvera (formerly known as Hydra; /) and Fedora Commons (/) digital asset management system framework. Due to the temporary nature of this position, the Marriott Library will not be able to sponsor work-authorization visas.
The project addresses an acute need among institutions providing digital access to cultural heritage materials. Newspaper content poses unique challenges for management and dissemination, especially in terms of article-level access. Our goal is to provide robust support for managing both physical (microfilm reels, pages, digital files) and intellectual (issues, articles) objects, as well as supporting descriptive metadata specific to newspaper content.
The successful candidate will join a distributed team of passionate and talented developers and technologists from The University of Utah and Boston Public Library. We will employ a development process informed by Agile development frameworks, emphasizing frequent communication, adaptive planning driven by user needs, iterative development, frequent delivery of releases, continuous refinement, and flexible adaptation to changing requirements. You will also work with committees and Interest Groups representing key stakeholders, who will provide guidance on project planning, vision, and sustainability, as well as feedback on the code. (See +Newspapers+Interest+Group for more.)This is a position.
See the link above for more information on qualifications, responsibilities, and compensation. For full consideration, please apply by July 31, 2017.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $77,000.00 /year
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