job posting--Interface Specialist (fwd)

[Roy Tennant]

Forwarded on behalf of John Price-Wilkin <jpwilkin at umich.edu>, please do
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Roy

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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:55:44 -0500 (EST)
From: John Price-Wilkin <jpwilkin at umich.edu>
Subject: job posting--Interface Specialist

A full description of this position is online at:
	http://www.umdl.umich.edu/dlps/jobs/interface-specialist.html

Title: DLPS Interface Specialist 
Division: Digital Library Initiatives 
Supervisor: Assistant Head, Digital Library Production Services 
Classification:  Asst. Librarian

The Digital Library Production Service (DLPS), a part of the University of
Michigan University Library, is UM's key organization for creation,
deployment and support of local digital library collections. DLPS provides
production level support for electronic library collections in a number of
subject and format areas. Online collection resources include significant
image- and text-based journal collections, art image collections, and a
leading edge SGML/XML development effort. Staff members within the DLPS
assume responsibility for creating access mechanisms, data loading,
security, accounting and billing mechanisms, as well as creation and
conversion activities. DLPS provides these services to the University of
Michigan, as well as other institutions, and works with the Digital
Library Federation (DLF) to advance the the development of sound digital
libraries. Among the areas supported are:

   1.electronic journals (received from publishers) in image format, PDF,
	and SGML 
   2.monograph and serial publications converted to page image format
	through Preservation efforts 
   3.art and other cultural images, including objects from the Papyrology
	collection and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. 
   4.numeric data (e.g., demographic and sociological data) 
   5.a variety of published collections in SGML 

The DLPS Interface Specialist works in a team structure for putting
collections online, and is primarily responsible for design and assessment
of access mechanisms (e.g., entry points, organization, effective
displays) for a broad variety of DLPS systems.