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FEDORA DEVELOPERS! WGBH in Boston needs your expertise to create/upgrade a targeted digital archives of PBS content. Research and scholarship, especially in the humanities, will benefit greatly from increased access to the rich moving image, still, audio and text assets in the WGBH Archives. Remember that FRONTLINE you saw the other day? What happened to all the outtakes? They’re locked in our vault. We need your help to make them available and searchable for scholars. This involves more than digitizing and more than metadata; we're looking to create new services and generate value from our media archive, as well from the engagement of our users around it. See openvault.wgbh.org and teachersdomain.org to get an idea of where we’ve been and where we want to go with this. Contact [log in to unmask] for questions, or apply at http://careers.wgbh.org/ _____________________ JOB REQ#: 4384 DATE POSTED: May 02, 2008 TITLE: Web Developer [Interactive] - Mellon Digital Library (Boston) TYPE OF POSITION: Management, Full Time, Project Contract (26 weeks) DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW: For more than 20 years, WGBH Interactive has been creating compelling interactive experiences that inform and entertain, while pushing the bounds of new technology by bringing public broadcasting's rich content and resources to new audiences on a variety of new platforms. We develop and deliver the highest quality media resources to the nation's teachers and students as classrooms migrate to the digital age and are an R&D leader, creating focused prototypes and vision pieces in collaboration with the world's leading technology companies. The Media Library and Archives (MLA) establishes the policies and procedures for the access, acquisition, intellectual control, and preservation of WGBH’s physical media and digital production and administrative assets. The MLA also offers production organization of archival materials from projects start up to shut down, research services, rights clearances, and licenses WGBH stock footage. The MLA's goal is to promote the efficient and effective use and re-purposing of the WGBH physical and digital assets. POSITION OVERVIEW: WGBH is looking for a Web Developer to lead the implementation of a prototype system to give scholars and researchers access to material in the WGBH Archive via the World Wide Web. Working closely with the Media Library and Archive’s project manager, the Interactive Designer and the Director of Technology for Interactive, the web developer will specify, document and develop the technical architecture of a prototype web site. Site features will be guided by a small group of scholarly users, as well as prior WGBH web sites such as http://openvault.wgbh.org and http://www.teachersdomain.org/. As part of a small cross-functional team working on a web site, the Web Developer’s role will include participating in requirements gathering, writing technical specifications (including testing procedures) and providing end-user technical support for the prototype. The bulk of the web developer’s time will be spent writing code and implementing designs, under the guidance of the Director of Technology. Responsible for maintaining a working environment that leverages the potential and diversity of the department's entire staff. Provide direction and leadership in such a way as to nurture, create and maintain an environment that is (1) free from discrimination, intolerance and harassment and (2) provides employees with equal access to opportunities for growth and advancement including professional development whenever possible. REQUIREMENTS OVERVIEW: To perform the required duties, the Web Developer must possess the skills and qualities required to complete a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, and more than 3 years of work experience solving problems for web-based environments. The ideal candidate has had experience implementing digital archives, using software such as CWIS or Fedora Commons. The Web Developer must demonstrate understanding of Internet technologies including (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML (XSLT, XPath and RDF helpful) and web services (such as REST, SOAP and/or XML-RPC). The Web Developer must be familiar with one or more server-side programming languages, such as Java, Perl, Python or PHP, and one or more RDMS, such as McKoi, SQL, MySQL, Oracle 9 or PostgreSQL. Experience integrating with, or extracting data from, FileMaker Pro will also be helpful. Familiarity with online media workflows (from post-production to compression to distribution) is highly desirable. Experience developing Section 508 or WAI-compliant web sites is a plus. WGBH is a Mac shop, with LAMP servers. Candidates should be prepared to share and discuss code samples. WGBH IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Please note that this job description is meant to be a generic description and represents the minimum job duties an individual will be required to perform. Individual departments will/can customize job descriptions and hours of work to meet their specific needs.