Hi All,
Please find a job opportunity for a Drupal programmer below. Please
circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Thank you!
Best,
Matt
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*Design Brief*
A brief for programming for a website by American Social History Project
(ASHP). Responses due: Reviewed on a rolling basis starting January 15, 2023
Send proposal and any questions on the brief to: Marco Battistella and
Pennee Bender mbattistella@gc.cuny.edu, pbender@gc.cuny.edu
Programing target dates: April 15, 2023 — beta version; September 1, 2023
completed revisions (site launch target date is December 1, 2023)
*Organization Overview*
American Social History Project/Center for Media and learning is a research
center at the City University of New York Graduate Center. It has an
international reputation in the fields of public history and history
education. ASHP/CML creates books and documentaries, digital and online
projects, and professional development seminars that combine rigorous
humanities content with innovative methods of presentation. Cited as a
model for public humanities programming, ASHP’s projects and programs
receive funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and private
foundations.
*Project Overview*
In keeping with our commitment to providing students and instructors with
access to rigorous and effective education resources, ASHP/CML is
developing an online Open Education Resource (OER) of our two-volume
textbook, Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History.
Redesigned, updated, and formatted for use on mobile devices, WBA: the OER
will include historical images and primary documents and will be enhanced
by interactive features both newly created and derived from ASHP/CML’s
award-winning online classroom resource, History Matters: The U.S. Survey
on the Web.
Over one thousand repository items in the Drupal database will be linked to
relevant textbook sections and will be searchable and accessible on their
own via a Solr search. With the creation of a “course-packet creation
tool,” teachers will be able to curate and organize site content to be
shared with students as “course packets.” The project has received funding
from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation. A
significant portion of this work has already been completed, we are looking
for a programmer to review the existing code and complete the missing
functionalities.
*Work Completed to Date*
A prototype WBA textbook is online at https://wba.ashpcml.org. The site
includes the full text, images, and several other components of the third
print edition of Who Built America? While the site incorporates some
aspects of our long term vision for the textbook, it is primarily online to
keep the text available to educators and students. The OER with the full
History Matters repository is available at oer.ashpcml.org/ (username:
wba password: oer) The site has been built in Drupal 8 starting in 2017
with an emphasis on creating a data store. Data is generally
well-structured, but the front end has not been programmed.
*Project Objectives*
The programmer will work with ASHP’s project directors and developers to:
1) implement a completed design (See: Design
Document for more information) for the combined front end; 2) configure
and implement a Solr search function for the site; and 3) create a planned
and designed course packet creation tool for the site.
*Project Scope and Functionality Requirements*
Platform: The front end will be a React.js app. (The editor back end and
site data store will use Drupal 9.)
Audience: Educators using the site include faculty with a range of
technical skills and comfort. Most will use desktop browsers. Student
readers will skew younger but will include older and other non-traditional
students. Many student users will likely prefer mobile devices, including
low-power and outdated devices. Per ASHP’s mission—and grant
obligations—all design elements must be accessible, following WCAG
guidelines.
Budget: $15,000 – $20,000
