web services

job: Web Developer at the Stanford University Libraries

Application Deadline: 
15/11/2010

To view the position description and apply:

1. Go to http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html
2. Keyword search for 40447

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Stanford University Libraries is seeking a talented web developer to
support scholarship in the digital age by delivering on the promises of
the digital library. This is a 21-month, grant-funded position.

The Web Developer will primarily develop digital library software to
enable online discovery, viewing and collaborative annotation of digital
library materials. He or she will develop and deploy web services to

Discipline: 
Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
Tags: 
web services
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
XML
Ruby on Rails
By blalbritton at Wed, 03/11/2010 - 15:51

tool: Flickr

Purpose: 

Flickr is an online community service that enables registered users to upload, tag, group, comment and rate photographs, artwork, illustrations, screenshots and videos. Images may be shared via Flickr galleries or embedded in external blogs and social media. Hosting approximately 4 billion images, Flickr is also available for unregistered users to search and browse galleries and navigate geospatial maps.

Features: 
  • 100MB monthly upload limit (Free accounts); unlimited uploads (Pro subscribers)
  • High Definition video uploads
  • Available in 8 languages
  • Metadata tagging to form tag-clouds and folksonomies
  • Application Programming Interface (API) enables independent programmers to expand Flickr applications
  • Ajax emulates the functionality of desktop photo applications
  • Uploadr drag-and-drop desktop client allows users to upload photos outside the web interface
  • Private and public image storage
  • Guest pass allows private photos to be shared with unregistered users
  • SafeSearch filtering controls
  • RSS and Atom feeds
  • Direct uploads from email and cameraphones
  • Merchandising of canvas prints, posters, cards, calendars and photo books
  • Copyright and creative commons license options
A&H use case 1 description: 
Over 1,500 items from the City of Edinburgh's printing collections were catalogued to highlight Edinburgh’s rich printing and publishing heritage through the online provision of photographs, film and sound recordings. The Open Access virtual museum uses Flickr to import images that are displayed as dynamic photo galleries on the website.
Creator: 
Ludicorp
Publisher: 
Yahoo! Inc
Specifications: 
JPEG
PNG
Ajax
Macromedia Flash
GIF
Data publishing and dissemination: 
User contributed content
Data capture: 
2d scanning and photography
Software/programming languages used: 
flickr
Discipline: 
Visual Arts
Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
Photography
Alternate tool(s): 

Photobucket

Tags: 
Photography
video
blogging
web services
tag cloud
social media
tagging
Geospatial technology
online community
image galleries
file storage
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Linux
JavaScript enabled browser
Mac OS X
Mobile devices
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
By danafarra at Tue, 08/06/2010 - 17:11

job: Software Development Manager, Centre for e-Research, King's College London

Application Deadline: 
31/07/2009

The Centre for e-Research at King’s College London is seeking to appoint a Software Development Manager to lead its Software Development team, which carries out architectural, design and development

Tags: 
repositories
data management
CeRch
web services
JAVA
software development
By Torsten Reimer at Mon, 20/07/2009 - 10:04

eventresources: Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities 1 & 2

Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities
A workshop jointly organised by the ESPRC Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet) and the Methods Network, King's College London (18-19 December 2006).

Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities 2
A joint workshop of the EPSRC Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet) and the AHRC ICT Methods Network at King's College London (17 - 18 December 2007)

Tags: 
computer science
service-oriented architecture
web services
By Torsten Reimer at Wed, 30/07/2008 - 19:37

briefingpaper: Web Services

[img_assist|nid=1495|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=140|height=115]The Internet, as most people use it, consists out of texts. These might be enriched by multimedia content, but web pages are generally nothing else but texts written in HTML so that they can be rendered by Web Browsers like the Internet Explorer. HTML texts differ from written texts in their hypertext functionality.

Tags: 
web services
By tobiasb at Tue, 29/07/2008 - 13:14

image: Figure 2: SOAP example

Simple Object Access Protocol

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web services
By tobiasb at Tue, 29/07/2008 - 13:14

image: Figure 1: Web service example

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web services
By tobiasb at Tue, 29/07/2008 - 13:14

event: Digital Classicist: The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and classical web services

This presentation by Elaine Matthews and Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford) is part of the Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminars.

Fridays at 16:30 in NG16, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU (June 20th, July 4th-18th seminars in room B3, Stewart House) (June 27th seminar room 218, Chadwick Bdg, UCL, Gower Street)

**ALL WELCOME**

Tags: 
Digital Classicist
web services
Discipline: 
Classics and Ancient History
By Torsten Reimer at Fri, 02/05/2008 - 12:23

event: Geospatial Web Services workshop

Workshop organized by the Centre for Geospatial Science and Service-Oriented
Software Research Network (SOSoRNET) at the University of Nottingham

This two day workshop provides an opportunity:

1. To hear presentations from leading academic and industry players
on their research on geospatial web services technology;

2. To network and develop ideas for future collaborative research

Tags: 
geospatial
schematization
web services
By Lydia Horstman at Wed, 23/04/2008 - 15:37