Title: Technical Consultant, Stabiae Bibliography Project, one position
available

Salary: $17/hour

Duration: 120 hours total, with start date on or around January 4, 2011
and end date no later than April 30, 2011

Location: University of Maryland, College Park. Primarily Hornbake Library

Required skills: HTML, XML

Preferred skills: Experience with database design, mySQL, Zotero, CSS, PHP

Required education: Bachelor’s degree

This is a grant-funded position (Library Faculty Research Fund) open to 
a University of Maryland student or staff member to work with two 
University of Maryland librarians, Jennie Levine Knies and Patricia 
Kosco Cossard, to create a technical report and problem-solution memo on 
an appropriate bibliographic management platform for the Ancient Stabiae 
Bibliography.

Ancient Stabiae, just three miles from Pompeii, is the largest 
concentration of well-preserved seaside Roman villas in the entire
Mediterranean world.  The mission of the Restoring Ancient Stabiae
Foundation http://www.stabiae.com/fountation_site/usa/index.html is to
continue excavation and study of Stabiae with the eventual creation of
an in situ archaeological park.  Buried and preserved by the cataclysmic
eruption of A.D. 79, the site is 1.8 km long on a cliff-edge that 
preserves the views from the villas to the Bay of Naples.

In 2007, Cossard was awarded funding to develop a prototype 
comprehensive bibliography on the 250-year history of excavations on the
site.  Currently, the bibliography holds 425 monograph records, 100
serial set records, one archival/manuscript collection record, and 30
pages of indexing.  However, it exists in unpublished form, thus
unavailable to serve the project’s educational outreach mission.

Outcomes from this position should include:

1)      Technical Report & Problem /Solution memo on appropriate
bibliographic management platform, including an implementation workplan
and comment on import capabilities, standards, and limitations
(approximately 15 hours)
          a)      Review and report on the pros and cons of using Zotero
to serve as platform for bibliography
          b)      Investigate feasibility of social tagging
          c)      Investigate interoperability with GIS
          d)      Investigate customization of user interface

2)      Implement conversion to Zotero or other recommended solution
(approximately 90-115 hours)
          a)      Build backend
          b)      Populate
          c)      Run indexing
          d)      Report/correct bugs and errors

3)      Co-develop usability testing

Interested parties should submit a cover letter and resume
electronically to Jennie Levine Knies at [log in to unmask]  Position open 
until filled.
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Jennie Levine Knies
Manager, Digital Collections
2216 Hornbake Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301)314-2558 TEL (301)314-2709 FAX
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http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital