The University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is recruiting a Visiting Research Programmer for Visual Resource Access and Management—Library Scholarly Commons (full-time, temporary academic professional appointment with possible renewal up to 3 years; may become permanent at a later date).
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In this position the Library seeks a professional with a strong background in technical development in a digital library environment or with Web-based applications involving the manipulation, organization and delivery of digital image content. Candidates should have a firm grasp of the principles of information organization and management. The focus of responsibility for the person who steps into this role will be to provide technical and program support for the development of campus-wide digital visual resource collections in support of the learning and research activities of campus academic units. The Visiting Research Programmer for Visual Resource Access and Management will report to the Library's lead research programmer for digital repository development and will work closely with the head of Digital Content Creation and with Library staff involved with metadata creation. The Visiting Research Programmer for Visual Resource Access and Management will collaborate with staff in the Office of Library Information Technology Planning and Policy responsible for workstation maintenance and server system administration and will be a member of the Library's Digital Content Access team which draws members from multiple Library organizational units., The Visiting Research Programmer for Visual Resource Access and Management will develop and support the information processing and digital object workflows needed to make digitized library content accessible through – and integrated with—public search systems as well as digital content access management systems, including ContentDM and ARTstor. The University of Illinois Library is a development partner, along with eight other academic institutions, in the ArtStor Shared Shelf visual resource cataloging and management system. Working with a team of librarians, curators, and faculty, the Research Programmer for Visual Resource Access and Management will be responsible for ingest of local and commercially-licensed digital content into ArtStor, and help represent the Library at ARTstor shared-shelf development meetings. This position may interact with users or groups in the Library’s Scholarly Commons, a new library space for faculty and graduate students to explore the use of technology in their research and teaching. Further interactions may involve the College of FAA Visual Resources Curator and the librarians and staff of the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art.
Incumbent will have primary technical responsibility for the Library's CONTENTdm implementation, which currently provides access to about 20 locally digitized collections and more than 25,000 digital images. The Library's CONTENTdm implementation is under active development and extension with new collections being added or in development and with new software being integrated alongside CONTENTdm to extend its functionality. While the primary focus of this position is on digital visual resources, the incumbent also may be called on to provide technical support for making available Library digitized text resources (e.g., Project Unica, Harry Partch Archive) through the development, running, and troubleshooting of content processing scripts.
