Job Advert for Technical Officer at UK Data Archive

The UK Data Archive at the University of Essex is seeking a Technical Officer to develop and test a model and schema for a data exchange format for qualitative data and a limited set of import/export tools for other major CAQDAS packages (e.g. NVIVO, Atlas ti, MaxQDA, Qualrus, QDAMiner etc).
This work builds on R&D undertaken by ESDS Qualidata at the UK Data Archive and some partner institutions. The post holder will need design and implementation experience with XML, XML Schema, XSLT/XPath, RDF and RDF Schema, with extensive experience in Java (J2EE) software development and Java XML and RDF libraries such as HP's Jena. Experience in collaborative software development within an open source framework is also essential.
Appointment to this full-time post will be made on the scale £26,402 - £31,525 per annum depending on skills and experience and is for a fixed term until December 2007. Further particulars can be found at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/personnel/Jobs/details/SS216W.htm
Closing date: 8 November 2006

Louise Corti
Associate Director & Head ESDS Qualidata, Outreach & Training
UK Data Archive - a service provider of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1206 872145
Email: corti@essex.ac.uk
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk www.esds.ac.uk