Front end developer - open source archives consortium project

Front end developer

About Milli
The Milli Consortium is a not-for-profit network of individuals and communities interested in the nurturing of archives. Milli helps individuals and institutions to build and sustain archives. It facilitates discussions among the community around issues of diversity, archival standards, conservation, physical and digital access, pedagogy, privacy and the development of inclusive description standards. Ours is a small team of archivists, designers, developers, and semantic web researchers. Milli was incubated by Prasoon, the Archives at NCBS, and Janastu.

Call for Front end developer
Milli intends to roll out prototypes of our archival discovery-interpretation-narration tool in early 2021. We are looking for a frontend developer for a six-month project (variable work hours).

Applying:
If you’re interested in what you see below, drop us an email with a few lines about yourself, some way to see your past work and/or a CV: hello at milli dot link

Applicants should be interested in working on web annotations, semantic frameworks, and archival description. An interest in long term research in these areas or adjoining disciplines will be very helpful. They should be happy in an open source environment that is also dedicated to decentralized networks of information. Some other things we look for:

• Proficient in HTML, CSS, Javascript (jQuery, Backbone, Angular, React, Vue) any frontend framework
• Open source enthusiasts
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team with other professionals such as archivists, back-end developers, domain experts and web designers.
• Build high-quality mock-ups and design different prototypes
• Understanding of web application delivery optimization, lightroom and other similar tools
• Understanding of mobile-first design
• Familiarity with Git or other version management tools
• Excellent knowledge of browser troubleshooting and debugging practices and techniques
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Location, hours and compensation:
Applicant can be based anywhere and operate with a flexible hours schedule. Compensation will be commensurate with experience, but keeping in mind that the consortium is operating out of India.

Reference material:
• High level architecture is captured in the blue flowchart in this section: https://hackmd.io/0ogY6lp6THqOhZdLpzrr8A?view#Architecture-Discussions
• Notes from our weekly meetings: https://hackmd.io/0ogY6lp6THqOhZdLpzrr8A?view
• Design team's early take based on our concept ideas: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kmcSUm4=/ and https://www.figma.com/file/gDqIy5VF6JAPAUZGGenfkJ/Milli-Future-Design
• Example of a recent open source project we have been looking at carefully: https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/recogito/release/5
• Archival Standards: https://www.archives.org.uk/about/sections-interest-groups/archives-a-technology/news-and-events.html
• Introduction to metadata and interfaces: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/metadata-basics/intro
• Web annotation vocabulary: https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-annotation-vocab-20170223/#named-individuals
• Example of standardized vocabulary: https://id.loc.gov/
• Milli sessions from 2020: https://www.milli.link/iaw2020/
• Archival theory and background can be picked up from the training manual at the Archives at NCBS (a partner institute): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1APupqJVXvInNekPqOZFETEgcRdMvO7Z1