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Digital Library Applications Programer Position at the University of California, Santa Cruz Library
The University of
  California, Santa Cruz Library will make available digital collections from the Grateful Dead Archive on  a
  cutting-edge website. This website will provide access to Grateful Dead
  Archive materials and tools to facilitate public contributions to the
  archive.  This project will
  enable the university to convert a significant part of a traditional archive
  to digital form and make it available online while simultaneously experimenting
  with the impact of fostering, creating, and curating of a large, socially
  constructed archive.  The website
  will support discovery, delivery, use and construction of the Grateful Dead
  Archive for a broad range of users including the general public and the
  academic research community.  The
  position will contribute to the development of open source software Omeka (http://omeka.org/) developed by the Center for History and New Media at George
  Mason University.  Enhancement of
  the software will include improving social metadata capacity, permissions and
  rights consent for contributed digital content, and migration (export and
  import) of metadata and data between collection management software/social
  sharing sites and Omeka, as well as applications, servers and repositories
  supporting access, content management and digital preservation.  Lastly, the position will also
  support the installation, configuration and management of applications and
  servers supporting the website.
   
  Under general
  supervision and reporting to the Grateful Dead Project Manager, this position
  designs and develops code to enhance applications and installs, configures
  and manages server, storage and networking hardware.  Work is performed using PHP, MySQL,
  Javascript, XML software and XSLT stylesheets.   Position interacts with University Library staff in
  Special Collections and Digital Initiatives to gather requirements, write
  specifications, develop code enhancing existing or creating new Omeka plug-ins,
  testing code and perform quality assurance to evaluate code against original
  requirements. Position works closely with University Library Information
  Technology Services (ITS) staff to manage applications and servers
  (development, staging and production) in a LAMP environment supporting the website
  including Omeka, CONTENTdm, Wordpress and Drupal software and migrate
  metadata and data between applications, servers and digital preservation
  repositories.
For more information and to  apply for the position please see   https://jobs.ucsc.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=64755