Web Harvesting Developer
Do you love using your technical skills to solve problems and increase access to information?
Coherent Digital is a young, fully-dispersed company built by a team with decades of experience in scholarly and academic publishing. Our products deliver endangered content to a global audience of researchers, librarians, and educators.
As we grow, we’re looking for a talented Web Harvesting Developer to support us in our mission to find and preserve endangered materials
Position Impact:
Make a critical, technical contribution in the creation of new products.
Evaluate and make technical recommendations to enable team goals.
Execute web harvesting and data projects to support overall business goals.
Does this sound like you?
5+ years of experience in information services.
Expertise in web harvesting, data management, and Python.
Familiarity with AWS cloud services
Enjoy problem solving and working in a team to deliver on goals.
Kind and collaborative co-worker.
Experience with controlled vocabularies (valued, not required.)
MLIS (valued, not required.)
In the job, you will:
Evaluate websites and recommend the best methodology to harvest content and metadata.
Write custom crawlers as needed to acquire structured content and metadata.
Use Python, Open Refine, and other tools to structure, map, clean, and prepare large datasets for ingestion.
In collaboration with the development team, continually improve technical solutions in content operations.
Create and QC MARC Records and other data feeds as needed.
To get started, send an email with your resume to aavorio@coherentdigital.net
Coherent Digital is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
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