DH Programmer at the NY Public Library
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Inserito il 07/11/2011
Digital Humanities Programmer at the New York Public Library https://jobs-nypl.icims.com/jobs/6373/job
Us? A small, creative team at the heart of one of the world's great cultural institutions: exploring new technologies, imagining the future of research.
You? A maker and experimenter. Able to build, test and debug in rapid iterations. Excited by deep archives and interested in figuring out ways to breathe new life into them digitally. Convinced that public institutions have a role to play in shaping the information age. Game to help reinvent a 100+-year-old organization.
Users? An entire city, and also a vast array of thinking people around the world. NYPL is an incubator for books, technologies, businesses and works of art. Thousands of scholars, writers, artists, students, workers and job seekers use our reading rooms, databases and archives to pursue vectors of thought and creation. Our digital collections are accessed through web browsers around the world.
External Responsibilities:
Day to day: You’ll work at NYPL’s landmark central branch on 42nd Street, collaborating with curators and librarians on digital collections projects, developing dynamic interfaces and applications, experimenting with amazing library data sets, using and contributing to open source software, organizing public symposia and code camps, attending conferences and meetups, and dreaming up the next big thing*.
Current NYPL Labs project areas range across the following:
developing new interfaces and tools exposing archival materials crowdsourcing tools and games for enhancing library collections e-reading technologies for browsers and mobile devices data mining and visualization geospatial (modeling cultural history through old maps)
*Got side projects? Not a problem. NYPL offers a fast-paced but humane work culture, leaving you time to live, play and create outside of the office. Artists, hackers, writers, musicians... we all work at the Library.
Position will report to the Manager of NYPL Labs within the Library's Office of Strategic Planning, and will also work closely with the NYPL web development team and Senior Manager for Web Initiatives.
External Qualifications:
Comfortable with both GUI IDEs, such as XCode or Visual Studio, as well as command line tools Excellent knowledge of Javascript, including frameworks and techniques such as AJAX, JQuery and/or Prototype Expert level HTML and CSS skills Demonstrated experience building with a scripting language Demonstrated experience working with dynamic content in template-driven web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Drupal, etc. Knowledge of source code/version control software, test driven development, and Agile processes a major plus Knowledge in development of mobile applications on Android or iOS a plus Experience with building large-scale distributed applications and architectures using Java or C/C++ another plus Project based experience with open source creative coding frameworks such as Cinder or openFrameworks would be excellent Clear, acute writing style (there will be blogging and potentially other writing opportunities) Ability to work well with others, but also to build things by yourself (though not afraid to ask for help) Bachelor's degree in Web Development, Computer Science, Digital Design, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience) is required Degree/experience/interest in a humanities field a plus Passion for libraries, archives and open source/open access culture a must
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