**Duties Responsibilities**  
  
The Harvard Library's Office for Scholarly Communication is looking for a
talented and creative

software engineer with a passion for democratizing access to knowledge.

  
As part of our team of librarians, scholars, and software engineers, you will
work on the cutting

edge of the open access movement to make academic research produced at Harvard
and

elsewhere available to anyone, throughout the world, free of charge.

  
Your responsibilities will include:

  * Extending [DASH](http://dash.harvard.edu), Harvard's central open-access repository, based on the open-sourceDspace platform
  * Creating and maintaining web/[mobile](http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/yana) sites using Drupal and other rapid developmentplatforms
  * Generating novel javascript widgets and [visualizations](http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/highbrow) to support open access initiatives
  * Crafting back-end scripts and processes for data ingest and reporting
  * Taking ownership of [new open access projects](http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab)
  * Working closely with librarians, scholars, and technologists across institutionalboundaries
  
We are less concerned about specific technologies than about finding a good
programmer and

team player who cares deeply about what we do. But to give you a taste of the
technologies

we are currently using or experimenting with, see the lists of
"qualifications" below. It's OK if

you are missing a few buzzwords - as long as your can demonstrate the interest
and ability to

learn them (and others) as required.

  
Please Note: This is a one year term-limited position; continuation
anticipated but contingent

upon funding and business needs.

  
**Basic Qualifications**  

  * 5+ years web application development experience
  * Solid understanding of core web technologies and best practices (HTML, javascript,DOM, CSS, HTTP, XML, JSON, AJAX, REST)
  * Knowledge of relational databases (mysql, oracle, sqlite)
  * Thorough command of written and spoken English
  * Demonstrated ability to take appropriate initiative
  
**Additional Qualifications**  

  * Experience using rapid web development frameworks (e.g., php/symfony, ruby/rails,python/django)
  * Experience developing Java-based web applications (tomcat, cocoon, ant, maven,lucene/solr) 
  * Strong, practical understanding javascript/JQuery
  * Full life cycle development experience (technical design through implementation)
  * Skills in Object-Oriented Design, Application Architecture and MVC
  * Comfort with UNIX/Linux, Apache, shell scripting (bash, python, perl)
  * Experience extending Drupal or other CMS
  * Background in academic library systems
  * Experience with Dspace or other digital repository software
  * Familiarity with library metadata standardsand bibliographic information structure
  
**Additional Information**  
  
The Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication was formed in 2008 with
a charge to

the University Library from the Harvard Provost to spearhead campus-wide
initiatives to open,

share, and preserve scholarship.The OSC benefits from the oversight of a
University-wide

faculty advisory board that provides advice on specific programs and policies.

  
With support from OSC, open-access policies are now in place in more than half
of the Harvard

schools. These policies were voted on by the faculty and grant an automatic
license to Harvard

for scholarly articles authored by faculty members.

  
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) is the University wide, open-
access, repository

used to house articles that fall under the faculty open access policies.
Visitors to DASH can

locate, read, and use up-to-the-minute scholarship from Harvard. DASH is
crawled by search

engines and indexes so a broad range of communities have the ability to
discover materials in

DASH. Faculty, or faculty assistants, have the ability to submit articles
directly to DASH.

Articles can also be emailed to OSC or faculty can request a student to help
with the process.

  
OSC is undertaking many other activities related to open access, including
support for

open-access journal publishing, conference presentations, online distribution
of PhD

dissertations, and education and outreach to faculty on the importance of the
policies and the

procedures for supporting them. To learn more about OSC, please visit:

[http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/about](http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/about)



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