Two Developer Positions available at GBIF
The GBIF Secretariat is seeking motivated and experienced
software developers for a 3-4 month consultancy under the overall
supervision of the Head of Informatics.
GIS Services
The appointed consultant will develop geospatial services
for species related data. To provide geospatial services, content from
various sources will be integrated into a spatial database and offered as OGC
web services provided by GeoServer along with custom search, browse and
discovery services to be developed in Java. Spatial data will be in the
form of point data, polygon data and raster formats, and integration of these
spatial data-types will be required to provide coherent services. Further information on the position is available on the GBIF news site
(http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/job-opening-gbif-software-developer-gis-services/)
together with instructions for submitting an application.
GIS Client
The appointed consultant will develop a web-based,
extensible GIS client that can be customised for different uses and distributed
freely. The primary use case is a means of visualising information about
biodiversity data from disparate sources delivered through standards-based web
services (e.g., Open Geospatial Consortium). A second use case is as a client
to a transactional OGC Web Feature Service, enabling updates to a geospatial
data store. Several datasets and services relating to African Protected Areas
will be used to develop a demonstration case. An important aspect of the work
will be preparing/packaging a toolkit, documenting its use, and developing a
tutorial. We are particularly interested in hearing from those with experience
in GeoExt, OpenLayers, Flex or other comparable toolkits/platforms. Further information on the position is available on the GBIF news
site (http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/job-opening-gbif-software-developer-1/)
together with instructions for submitting an application.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 25 April 2010.
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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