On behalf of the FilteredPush project, I enclosed this programming job announcement. Interested programmers should send questions directly to James Macklin jmacklin@oeb.harvard.edu

-Bob Morris ==================== Dear Colleagues,

We have a second position available for a programmer on our NSF-funded Filtered Push project (http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush). This position will address mainly client-side applications. A successful applicant will have several years of experience as a contributor in managed team projects. The description is copied below and can be accessed on Harvard's Employment website at http://www.employment.harvard.edu/ , selecting "Administrative/Staff Jobs (External Candidates)" then selecting "Searching Openings" then searching on: Auto req ID: 22338BR

We will begin evaluation of applicants immediately in the new year and hope to have a person on board as soon as possible.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Happy Holidays,

James

-- James Macklin, Ph.D. Director of Collections and Informatics Harvard University Herbaria 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Ph. (617) 496-1566; Fax. (617) 495-9484 http://www.huh.harvard.edu/

----- Business Title: Project Programmer

School/Unit: Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Location: USA - MA - Cambridge

Job Function: Information Technology

Time Status: Full-time

Department: Harvard University Herbaria

Salary Grade: 056

Union: 00 - Non Union, Exempt or Temporary

Duties & Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director of Collections and Informatics at the Harvard University Herbaria (HUH), on a 3-year, NSF-funded project entitled Filtered Push Network, this position will develop a production quality implementation of the open source Filtered Push Network software (currently prototyped based on a previous NSF award; http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush). Develop and extend clients for the network software, architecture, front-end (UI) coding for various clients; in addition to design and coding for web service layers.

NOTE: This is a three-year appointment.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree. At least three years of IT project management experience.

Additional Qualifications

Some familiarity with biology, especially botany, would be an asset. Familiarity with Agile programming methods. Able to work independently. Java skills with recent 1.5 and 1.6 experience, Java Enterprise Edition technologies including JPA and JMS, Web applications: HTML,PHP, Perl, AJAX, Peer-to-peer networking architectures, Familiarity with relational databases: MySQL, Oracle, Java XML databinding frameworks, Java persistence frameworks: Hibernate RDF and Semantic Web technologies.

Additional Information

All formal offers will be made by FAS Human Resources.

The Filtered Push network software addresses three critical issues with data in current distributed networks of species-occurrence data, as in all scientific data: correcting the errors, maintaining currency, and assessing fitness for use. This project will build a continuous quality control system for such distributed heterogeneous data sets. We will expand our current prototype to develop software that provides for networks allowing data providers and consumers to define potential errors in data, develop metrics for those errors, analyze distributed data to detect potential errors, and close the quality management cycle by providing a network architecture to move assertions about data quality such as corrections back to the curators of the original distributed data sets.

Harvard University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

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