Programmer, Metadata Harvester

Description

  The Orbis Cascade Alliance seeks a qualified programmer to perform the following work between 2014 October and December 31 through a Professional Services Contract with the Alliance. The work is funded by an IMLS National Leadership grant that concludes 2014 December 31.

Scope of Work
Create a metadata harvester that creates a sustainable way to relate EAD finding aids hosted by the Alliance and digital content hosted by NWDA member institutions in redesign of the Northwest Digital Archives Researcher Site (http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/index.shtml).

• Metadata Harvester
o NWDA program members will choose whether to include pointers to OAI sets in their EAD finding aids according to the specifications, and whether to revise their digital content to also fit the digital content metadata standards. The harvester is expected to function only if both pointers are in place.
o NWDA program members must have OAI enabled for their digital asset management system or institutional repository
o If EAD submitted to the Researcher Site contains a URI link to an OAI set in