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Consultant Developer(s) for EAD search application Western Connecticut State University Danbury Western CT State University has applied for a grant from the NEH to makeimprovements to a statewide EAD search application called the CT Archives Online [(http://library.wcsu.edu/cao](http://library.wc su.edu/cao)). We are looking for a consultant developer or developers to help carry out those improvements. Proposals are due by March 1, 2016. A link to the rfp:[http://www.biznet.ct.gov/scp_search/BidD etail.aspx?CID=38283](http://www.biznet.ct.gov/scp_search/BidDetail.aspx?CID=3 8283) The CAO application will continue to: * search EAD files * be no charge for access or participation * have a Web based interface * have few encoding requirements for EAD submissions * have simple and advanced search - with the ability to scope to one orall repositories * provide result sets showing collection level metadata * provide search results that contain a "show relevant containers" linkthat would show hits of the search term in the EAD inventory (in archdesc) andshow the component container information (in c0x tags) associated with the search term * provide faceted results showing common access points among the searchresults * provide a system for submission of EADs What we want to improve upon: * Improve the user interface of CAO. * Increase efficiency and update dependencies of CAO stack * Improved file sharing paradigm * validate files upon submission for well-formedness and for validnessagainst the schema/or DTD * Exposure of the CAO dataset to Google * Increase efficiency of in-context search * allow phrase searches * provide a "cart" for items a user wants to set aside from searchresults * ability to send cart contents to a repository's archivist * add links within daotags to search results * Track analytics to show the number of users and types of searches andgeneral site behavior * make the CAO application deployable for other consortial finding aidsearches Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/24773/ To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/