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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 Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/3975/