Salary range: £37,937 - £44,059 p.a.

  
2 year fixed term contract

  
An experienced programmer is required to design and implement technical
solutions for the ORCID and DataCite Interoperability Network (ODIN) (www
.odin-project.eu) ODIN is a two-year project financed by the European
Commission, starting in September 2012. Partners of the ODIN project are
innovators in information science, science and the publishing industry: The
British Library, CERN, ORCID, DataCite, Dryad, arXiv and the Australian
National Data Service.

  
ODIN will build on the ORCID (orcid.org) and DataCite (datacite.org)
initiatives to uniquely identify academics and digital research objects and
connect this information across multiple services and infrastructures for
scholarly communication. The project will create links between researchers and
their digital research objects (datasets, journals etc.) and will enable
tracking of use and re-use and help to gauge the impact of research
activities.

  
This post is based in the Social Science team and will develop a proof of
concept to seamlessly connect information about social science datasets and
their creators, re-use of datasets by researchers and published research and
other outputs by academics and expose this information to allow further
connections to be made by third parties through the ORCID and DataCite
infrastructures. The successful candidate will take responsibility to deliver
this proof of concept as well as contributing to the wider ODIN project
through designing interoperability solutions for researcher and object
identifiers and analysing the current landscape of infrastructures in
scholarly communications.

  
This is an opportunity to take ownership of an innovative project and see it
through from design to implementation. The successful candidate will be a
self-starter and able to work with minimal technical guidance, using their
skills to develop technical solutions to identified problems. The post
requires a strong understanding of information systems and a high proficiency
in programming languages such as Java and Ruby. Knowledge and experience of
open source software development is essential and knowledge of agile
methodology is an advantage.

  
For an informal chat about this role please contact John Kaye on 020 7412 7450
or email [log in to unmask]

  
Closing date 5 November 2012



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