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-o pening-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-o pening-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