Developer Position available at GBIF

The GBIF Secretariat is seeking a motivated and experienced software developer for a 15 month consultancy to work on the development of one of GBIF’s key infrastructure components: the GBIF Metadata Catalogue.

The GBIF Metadata Catalogue will play a key role in a greatly expanded GBIF network featuring numerous providers (publishers) and consumers of data where the key activities of inventory, discovery and access to data need to be well coordinated through provision of registries and metadata catalogues. A Metadata Implementation Framework Task Group is currently preparing a report with a set of recommendations based on the terms of reference provided by GBIF (http://www.gbif.org/News/NEWS1234799445). The goal is to ensure that the GBIF network follows best practices in deployment of metadata systems and that the metadata requirements are in place to support the “technical, social and policy framework” for publication of primary biodiversity data that is being addressed by the separate, parallel-running GBIF Data Publishing Framework Task Group. The person appointed will be instrumental in delivering the metadata catalogue system for the GBIF network.

Further information on the position is available on the GBIF news site (http://www.gbif.org/News/NEWS1248872610 ) together with instructions for submitting an application.

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Éamonn Ó Tuama, M.Sc., Ph.D. (eotuama@gbif.org),

Senior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA),

Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat,

Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK
Phone:  +45 3532 1494; Fax:  +45 3532 1480