This job vacancy can be of interest to members of this list. In partnership with teams at SLAC/Stanford, Fermilab and DESY/Hamburg, CERN is building, and will soon be operating, INSPIRE, a next-generation digital library, based on the Invenio software platform. INSPIRE serves 1 million records to 50’000 scientists in the field of high-energy physics worldwide, enabling citation analysis, full-text search, author disambiguation and article claiming and much more. A beta version of INSPIRE is available at http://inspirebeta.net. INSPIRE collaborates closely with sister infrastructures arXiv at Cornell and NASA/ADS at Harvard, as well as leading scientific publishers in the field and is a founding member of the ORCID initiative. CERN is looking for a manager for the INSPIRE service at CERN who will: * Co-ordinate the INSPIRE day-to-day operations under CERN responsibility: from content ingestion and curation workflows to software integration and deployment. * Lead junior software engineers and students who are developing short- and medium-term solutions for INSPIRE specific needs. * Play a leading role in the design and implementation of solutions for seamless interoperability of INSPIRE, arXiv, NASA/ADS and ORCID. * Analyse both user feedback and usage logs, to suggest initiatives to enhance user experience and service level. Qualification required * University Degree (MSc or PhD) in a scientific discipline, preferably in computing science or physics. Experience and competencies * At least five years in the operation of a large-scale digital library, with user-facing responsibilities. * Work experience in a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python) and version control systems, preferably in open source projects. * Understanding of how scholarly communication works, preferably in High-Energy Physics. We offer a limited-duration contract for a period of five years. Limited-duration contracts shall terminate by default on their date of expiry. Subject to certain conditions, holders of limited-duration contracts may be granted an indefinite contract. These functions might require limited participation in stand-by duty for the maintenance and operation of INSPIRE, including evenings, weekends and public holidays. This vacancy will be filled as soon as possible, and applications should normally reach us no later than 20 October 2011. Interested candidates can apply at
<https://ert.cern.ch/browse_www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=9748> We welcome applications from all CERN Member States irrespective of gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or personal situation. Currently CERN Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom
