10 December: fyi -- digital humanities, Maynooth
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MAYNOOTH, CO. KILDARE
AN FORAS FEASA
FULL-TIME IRCHSS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
(CONTRACT POST - ELEVEN MONTHS)
IRCHSS FUNDING
Sponsored by the IRCHSS (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and
Social Sciences) Research Development Initiative Strand 5 (Targeted
Co-fund Initiatives) and Intel (Ireland) Ltd., this project will focus
on delivering a Universal Learning Environment for Digital Humanities
Education. The aim of this project is to enhance the development of
distance-based digital humanities education, through the building of a
component (or software tool) that can be deployed in current and
future Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). The project partners
include An Foras Feasa, Intel and the Irish Film Institute.
Specifically, it will (1) deliver an online digital humanities module
entitled `Culture and Politics in Twentieth-Century Ireland', based on
the Amharc Éireann newsreels and associated materials from the Irish
Film Archive; (2) provide an online software tool to access, engage
and manipulate the digital objects relating to this archive; (3)
enable the utilisation of this component from a variety of current,
popular VLEs including Intel's Skoool.ie project, Moodle (used widely
at third level) and An Foras Feasa's collaborative writing environment
(CWE).
AN FORAS FEASA
An Foras Feasa: the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and
Cultural Traditions (AFF) is a consortium of four institutions (NUIM,
DCU, SPCD and DKIT), with combined expertise in the fields of
humanities, technology, education, multilingualism and identity
formation. In 2007 AFF secured 5.8m under PRTLI Cycle 4. AFF has
identified four key research priorities for 2007-2010: ICT Innovation
and Digital Humanities; Multiculturalism and Multilingualism: Textual
Analysis and Linguistic Change; Ireland and Europe: History,
Literature and Cultural Politics of Migration; Cultural Heritage and
Social Capital in a Global Context. AFF's distinctiveness, nationally
and internationally, lies in its sponsoring of transformational
research in models and theories at the interface of Humanities and
ICT, as well as implementation and dissemination; it has developed
research of international significance in the fields of hyperspectral
text recovery and encoding of historical documents.
THE CANDIDATE
This is an excellent opportunity for a Java/XML developer to work in a
stimulating, challenging research environment using the latest leading
edge Java innovations and Open Source technologies. The successful
software engineer must have the ability and willingness to take
ownership of the project, design and progress it through to
development, test and delivery. The ideal candidate will be an adept
problem solver and have at least two years industrial experience in
the design and development of J2EE, Web Application (all tiers), and
XML development, with a first class or upper-second class degree in
Computer Science or a related discipline.
The post of full-time Research Associate, with a Software
Engineering role, includes a full range of duties, which will
include:
· Work on a major component-based software life cycle development
a Universal Learning Environment for Digital Humanities
Education; designing, development, troubleshooting, debugging
and implementing software.
· User Interface component development using Java, JSP, AJAX,
JavaScript, XML, XSLT, CSS, FLEX; Production of software
specifications based on UML.
· Metadata development of XML schemas for document and media
encoding; addressing localisation issues. Integration of
software modules in Virtual Learning Environments. Deployment
and management of Fedora Commons repositories.
· Pattern-based (MVC, Struts, JBOSS) web application development
using web technologies (JSF, JSP, Servlet), web services and
integration technologies (SOAP, XML, JMF), persistence and
databases (eXist-db, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and security
management; Apache/Tomcat in a Unix/Linux/OS X environment.
· Integration of several software components and understanding
interdependencies and relationships.
· Providing technical advice and liaising with relevant Humanities
scholars, researchers and academic departments within the
institution and Project Partners.
· Maintaining the Project Website, ensuring that information is
kept up to date, and managing general publicity for the
Institute's e-activities.
· Other project-related software-development tasks as may be
required from time to time by the Principal Investigator.
Candidates for the post must have proven industrial track record in
product delivery of digital humanities solutions in applicable time
frame and providing updates to project management. It is essential
that the candidate have fluency in J2EE, Web Application (all tiers),
and XML development. Knowledge and experience of working with at least
one of the following metadata related technologies would be essential:
Fedora Object XML (FOXML), Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) for
interoperable online metadata standards, the Text Encoding Initiative
(TEI), the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH), an application-independent interoperability framework based
on metadata harvesting.
An experience of working in a third level institution would be
advantageous. The ideal candidate must be highly motivated, have
proven ability to work well in an industrial team environment and
perform under pressure. Candidates must have excellent communication
skills and the ability to work on their own initiative in a
challenging environment.
Salary: 24,000 (11 months)
Applications with full C.V., together with the names, addresses, fax
and telephone numbers of two referees, should be forwarded to the
Dr. John Keating (Associate Director), An Foras Feasa, National
University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, E-mail:
john.keating@nuim.ie so as to arrive not later than 5.00 pm on 14th
December 2010.
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