Job Opportunities ISTEC busca a un "campeón" en la región para tomar la dirección de la Iniciativa de Enlace de Bibliotecas (LibLink)El ISTEC convoca a todos a sus asociados a proponer candidatos dispuestos a cumplir con esta misión en carácter honorífico y que cumplan con el siguiente perfil: PERFIL PARA DIRECTOR: El Director de la Iniciativa de Enlace de Bibliotecas debe ser un profesional:
Para postularse, enviar: - Carta de intención. - Carta aval del titular de su institución. - CV en extenso. Texto, de 3 p align=justifyáginas máximo, describiendo su proyecto de gestión y su visión del futuro para la Iniciativade Enlace de Bibliotecas, donde demuestre capacidad para conseguir fondos para la Iniciativa. Una vez que se tengan las propuestas, es necesario que el candidato acepte una entrevista con el Presidente de ISTEC o con otra persona que él designe. Entre las cuatro iniciativas de ISTEC. Los directores de las iniciativas responden al Vicepresidente de Desarrollo de Programas, Desarrollo, siendo éste actualmente el Mtro. Jorge García. Este Vicepresidente es el conducto al Presidente y a la Junta Directiva. Además de ser ésta una gran oportunidad de desarrollo profesional, el director que va asumir esta posición va tener los costos de viajes para atender a reuniones administrativas y de planeación pagados por ISTEC, así como asistencia administrativa de la Oficina Ejecutiva del Consorcio. Enviar sus postulaciones al correo: vbird at istec.org a más tardar la medianoche del día 16 de Octubre de 2007. Fecha en la que se anunciará el (la) candidato(a) elegido: 1ro Nov 2007 Para cualquier pregunta, favor contactar a la Sra. Virginia Romero-Bird al teléfono (505) 277-0804 o a su email: vbird@istec.org English version ISTEC is looking for a "champion" in the Region to take the lead of the ISTEC Library Linkages (Liblink) Initiative.ISTEC invites all members and associates to propose candidates to fulfill this mission in a voluntary basis and potential candidates should meet the following profile. DIRECTOR'S PROFILE The Director of the Liblink Initiative must be a professional individual with the following characteristics:
An application must include: - Letter of intent - Written endorsement from his(her) immediate supervisor - CV -- long version Text, of 3 pages maximum, describing how would you envision the Initiative under your leadership, the vision and future of the Liblink Initiative and fundraising plans Once the applications are received, the chosen candidate will be interviewed by the ISTEC President or the people whom he assigns. * About Liblink Liblink is one of major Initiatives of ISTEC. The Initiative Directors report to the VP of Program Development, currently managed by Jorge Garcia. Mr. García is the interface with ISTEC President and the Board of Directors Besides this being a great professional development opportunity for the Director that will take this position, he or she will have to attend administrative and planning meetings, which will be covered by ISTEC. The Director will have the support of the ISTEC Executive Office. Please send applications to: vbird at istec.org by midnight October 22, 2007. Announcement of selected candidate: Nov 1st, 2007
Further questions, please contact: Virginia Romero-Bird at (505)
277-0804 or to her email: vbird at istec.org Laboratorio de Investigación Los AlamosESPAÑOLEl Laboratorio de Investigación Los Alamos en Nuevo Mexico - Estados Unidos está buscando Ingenieros y/o desarrolladores de software para el grupo de investigación en Bibliotecas Digitales. Para optar a esta posición se requiere ser residente o ciudadano en los Estados Unidos. Para mayor información favor visitar http://www.hr.lanl.gov/JobListing/SingleJobAd.aspx?JobNumber=214473 o contactar al Dr. Johannes van Reenen al correo electronico: jreenen@unm.edu ENGLISH The Los Alamos National
Laboratory's Research Library http://library.lanl.gov/
is seeking a Technical Staff Member with professional level experience
as a software engineer to
assist in programming and supporting the digital library application
development efforts.
The successful candidate
will have a mix of assignments
within the Digital Library Applications and Repository team. This team
uses cutting-edge concepts defined in Digital Library, Computer
Science, and Information Science research to build digital library
applications for use by high-level scientific researchers.
Specifically, the
successful TSM software engineer will work collaboratively with the
team
leader and colleagues to: Design and develop tools for disseminating
various representations of scholarly assets stored in the LANL
Repository, including but not limited to search, taxonomy browse,
de-duplication tools, etc.; Design and develop capabilities to
facilitate a
deeper integration of scholarly assets stored in the LANL repository
into the research process, including tools that support personalized
access to and interaction with assets; Design and develop tools that
support collaborative research, and in which the scholarly
assets
stored in the LANL Repository are integrated; Other work areas will be
assigned as appropriate.
*Required Skills:*
Significant professional programming
experience in JAVA, Perl, and XSLT; Significant professional experience
in
building XML-based applications and in using XML tools; Significant
professional experience working with and developing using Linux/Unix
platforms; Understanding of and professional experience in developing
software
based on W3C standards such as XML Schema, Web Services (SOAP and/or REST), DOM, Xpath, XSL and associated tools; Profesional experience developing Web applications with dynamic, client-side interface components using AJAX and browser-independent Javascript/AJAX toolkits such as Dojo. Understanding of and professional experience in developing software based on other standards relevant to the work of the team: ant, tomcat, CVS; Understanding of and professional experience in developing relational database applications (Oracle and/or MySQL); Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a team leader and with members of a technical team in achieving common goals; Demonstrated ability to work autonomously in analyzing problems, proposing and implementing solutions; Demonstrated commitment to all aspects of maintaining the Laboratory's security environment, and demonstrated effective communication skills, both verbal and written. This position requires
an L access authorization. Applicants
must have the ability to obtain an L clearance, which normally
requires
U.S. citizenship.
*Desired Skills:*
Understanding of and professional
experience in developing sophisticated high-performance,
browser-independent Web interfaces using AJAX technologies including
Javascript (DOM
and xmlhttprequest), CSS, XSL, and XHTML; Understanding of and
professional experience in developing software based on other standards
relevant to the work of the team: RDF, DOI, handle, OAI-PMH, OpenURL,
SRU/SRW, etc; Professional experience with large sets of metadata,
including addressing significant entity de-duplication issues.
*Education:* M.S. degree in computer science, information
science, or equivalent combination of education and experience.For more information or to apply, go to http://www.hr.lanl.gov/JobListing/SingleJobAd.aspx?JobNumber=214473 [SIGMM] PhD and PostDoc positions (Multimedia,Wireless Capsule Endoscopy) Multimedia Information Group (MIG) at University of Bridgeport is looking for one PostDoc candidate and one PhD student for the WCE (Wireless Capsule Endoscopy) project starting from September 2007. WCE allows a physician to examine the entire small intestine without any surgical operation. With the miniaturization of wireless and camera technologies the ability comes to view the entire gestational track with little effort. This funded project carries out research in analyzing bio-medical image/video data generated by the wireless capsule, for example, detecting digestive organs and building medical image/video database.
MIG at UB: http://www.bridgeport.edu/~jelee/mig/ |
