Vacancy at The National Archives: Digital Preservation Analyst Developer

Digital Preservation Analyst Developer
Position Type: Full time, Permanent
Salary: £38,000 (starting salary)
Closing Date: 25/01/2013
Location: Kew, London

The National Archives is seeking to recruit an analyst developer to lead work on the PRONOM / DROID toolkit for use inside the UK Government's Digital Recaords Infrastructure and elsewhere around the world. The focus of work on PRONOM will be to deliver a new version based on the open linked data paradigm to enhance our ability to collaborate with other archives internationally. The focus of the DROID work will be to enhance the ability to identify text based file formats; other work to develop small “plug –in tools” for the DRI to validate and extract properties from a variety of file formats and developing an overall roadmap for the toolkit will make up the bulk of the remaining work. The role will also provide day-to-day detailed technical advice to the rest of the Digital Preservation team as required.

To be successful in this role you will need to draw on your experience in computer science analysis and development to deliver practical, pragmatic enhancements to these tools and systems that focus the processes of file format identification, validation, and property extraction; you will need to direct the work of others to do the same.

For more details of this post including how to apply see: http://ig24.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_nationalarchives01.asp?s=PyAxDIfSqHTyVvHqn&jobid=64413,9852215965