Research Developer

Description

Summary

The Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London is looking for a highly motivated and technically sophisticated individual to join the research and development team.

The position will principally involve web application development and the implementation of innovative frontend interfaces for two research projects in the department’s portfolio: The Making of Charlemagne’s Europe is bringing together all surviving documentary evidence for the reign of Charlemagne into a unified web-based resource employing semantic web technology in the creation of an ontology (third year of this three-year project); Digitising the Prosopographies of the Roman Republic will be developing a highly structured digital prosopography of people from the Roman Republic that will integrate data from several print-based existing prosopographies (first year of a three-year project).  It will support both browser and open-data access, and will also be exploring rich linked data strategies to enable connection to other projects perhaps elsewhere in the world.

Details

The successful candidate for this position will have wide experience collaborating in the design of integrated interfaces for web publication, and in the development of functionally sophisticated public facing web applications.  They will be familiar with the modelling of structured data and comfortable developing tools to search, query, retrieve and display them using relational databases, RDF, and related technologies; and in designing, writing and modifying programs and scripts which facilitate content creation.

For an informal discussion of the post please contact Paul Vetch on 020 7848 1040, or via email at paul.vetch@kcl.ac.uk

Equality of opportunity is College policy.

Salary

The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications, within the Grade 6 scale, currently £31,331 to £37,382 per annum, plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance.

Post duration

Fixed term contract for 12 months from 1 December 2013 until 30 November 2014.

Contact

To apply for this post, please download the job pack from the advert on the College’s website: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs. The job pack contains detailed instructions on how to make your application. Please ensure that you follow the instructions carefully, as incomplete or incorrect applications may not be considered. All correspondence MUST clearly state the job title and reference number R6/AAV/965/13-MK.