[Updated 14 June 2010] The Division of the Humanities is looking for an Associate Director of Research Computing to provide leadership and oversight of humanities faculty research and digital scholarship projects at the University of Chicago. The Associate Director will be responsible for developing innovative and sustainable solutions for faculty research projects, based on knowledge of current technologies and best practices and an engagement with the methodologies and practices of disciplines in the humanities.
MantisBT is a free popular web-based bugtracking system written in the PHP scripting language.
The most common use of MantisBT is to track software defects. However, MantisBT is often configured by users to serve as a more generic issue tracking system and project management tool.
Features:
• event-driven-plug-in system
• works with MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle and IBM DB2 databases
• RSS Feeds
• Customisable workflow
• Wiki integration
• Chat integration
A&H use case 1 description:
The “First World War Poetry Digital Archive” project has used MantisBT to track development and the use cases developed were used as reference points for successful development prior to user testing.
An editing tool for web content. Dreamweaver offers a graphics-based (What You See Is What You GET) and code-based user interface for the development of web pages and sites. The tool may be used to simplify the process of web site development (in comparison to creation of individual web pages), through the provision of a templating system that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting.
Features:
• WYSIWYG
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
• Subversion integration
• FTP/SFTP support
• WebDav support
• Web site template system
• Adobe Spry AJAX framework support
A&H use case 1 description:
The Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (1700-1945) project has used Dreamweaver to design and develop their project web site.
The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) wishes to recruit a Frontend Web Designer/Developer to work with and support the CCH development team and subject discipline specialists in the design and development of visually attractive and functionally effective web interfaces.
