The British Museum is looking for a web developer to join the web team: to assist our senior web developer in the maintenance, design and implementation of our website. The ideal candidate must have a background in ASP.NET, C#, object orientated design, XHTML and should be able to prove prior experience utilizing these technologies.m.

Salary: £28,871 per annum
Contract: Fixed term 9 months
Closing date for applications: 12 noon, 14 May 2008

Pre-qualification for Invitation to Tender for Digital Wedgwood Hardware contract.

Interested companies are invited to submit pre-qualification documentation for supply, installation and commissioning of the Digital Wedgwood hardware. The pre-qualification document can be obtained on request from Intelligent Heritage (a.cooper@intelligentheritage.com)

The closing date for submitting pre-qualification documents is Friday 29th February 2008.

Background
The Wedgwood Museum aims to be at the centre of learning for the heritage of the ceramic industry, the Wedgwood family and cultural background of the Potteries. Its collections are designated of national importance by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council.

A new £10.2m museum - made possible by a £5.85m grant from HLF - is due to open in summer 2008

The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint to a new post to provide strategic line-management for staff within ESDS Qualidata and the History Data Service. Applications are invited from suitable candidates with demonstrable relevant management skills, a background in the creative use of digital resources in any area of historical research and experience in setting standards across the data life-cycle, including data creation and analysis, metadata standards and documenting resource creation.

The successful candidate will have the breadth of knowledge required to co-ordinate and contribute to the running of workshops on data creation, management, digitisation, and the use of data in the broader field of social history. Candidates should have a postgraduate degree or equivalent in social science or history, with training in research methods.

Ref SS544
Location Colchester
Job Category Senior Support

** Invitation to quote: Options Appraisal for Cataloguing Strategy: Museum in Docklands Archive Collections. **

In early 2008, Museum of London's Information Resources Section will work with a specialist consultant to appraise and evaluate the options available for cataloguing the archive collections held at Museum in Docklands (MiD). The study will focus on archival and museum cataloguing methodologies and options for the accompanying software. It will indicate the preferred option, and outline the actions required for implementation.

Key Objectives

The overall objective of the work is to assess and write a cataloguing options appraisal for the MiD archive collection. In consultation with the archivist, the museum's Documentation Officer and other museum staff, the consultant will:

1) Assess and analyse key cataloguing issues unique to this collection, focussing on the different approaches, needs and issues presented by an archival or a museum approach to cataloguing as well as specific issues foreseeable in the creation of a catalogue structure for the MiD archive collections

2) Conduct consultations with parallel institutions examining how they have dealt with cataloguing archival collections within a museum context.

3) Conduct consultations with relevant museum staff on archival/museum cataloguing issues

4) Appraise cataloguing systems, both archival and museum (to include MIMSY XG) and make recommendations

Inspired by Rowing‚ website brief

Introduction

The River & Rowing Museum in Henley has been given funding to develop a website with the working title Inspired by Rowing. The site will be developed as a microsite within the newly implemented CMS for the River & Rowing Museum website www.rrm.co.uk with its own visual identity but clearly allied to the Museum.

The Project

Aims/objectives for the site

• Inspire an interest in the history of rowing (including recent)
• Assist ARA in raising profile of rowing as a sport nationally
• Increase participation, for example through attending events/joining boat clubs

Main stakeholders

• River & Rowing Museum
• Henley Stewards

Who will the site be for?

• Young people interested in rowing‚ Late teens and young adults (say 15-25) in the UK who are potentially interested in history of rowing and/or taking part in rowing as supporters or rowers
• Adults interested in history of rowing‚ Lifelong learners (for example 40-70 yr olds) interested in the history of rowing.

What will it offer them?

then and now‚

Photos, video clips and information highlighting interesting stories, facts, etc, in context of 3 rowing Olympics held at Henley/Dorney Lake: