The following announcement has been posted to http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news.cfm?n_ID=74

Project Research Officer The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

CCH is both a department with responsibility for its own academic programme and a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research. In its latter capacity, it is looking for someone to assist with the technical development work in research projects. The projects cover a wide range of humanities disciplines, including medieval studies, history, literature and linguistics, and music, and also include a number of more general information management projects in both humanities and the social sciences.

The successful candidate to this position would be required to analyse a wide variety of humanities materials and to model them using XML-related technologies; to design, write and modify programs to search, query, retrieve and display them; and to collaborate in the creation of integrated HTML-based interfaces to publish them.

Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs, XPath, XSLT) is essential, as is familiarity with standards-compliant XHTML and CSS. Awareness of the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines and/or of emerging XML technologies (XSLT 2.0, XQuery and Schemas) is highly desirable.

Proven experience in creating dynamic XML-based applications using technologies such as Cocoon and/or native XML databases would be a significant advantage.

In addition you will need to have a good understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. The successful candidate should have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English.

This appointment is on the RA1A scale, currently ranging from 20,645 to 30,902 per annum plus of 2,323 London Allowance.

For further details and an application form, please contact Personnel Department, King's College London:

strand-recruitment@kcl.ac.uk.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 14 December 2006. The interview date is to be confirmed. Please quote reference W1/AAV/159/06.