{"id":405,"date":"2013-07-31T05:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T05:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/xml_conversion_contractor_harvard_business_publishing_watertown_ma\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T05:37:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T05:37:29","slug":"xml_conversion_contractor_harvard_business_publishing_watertown_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/xml_conversion_contractor_harvard_business_publishing_watertown_ma\/","title":{"rendered":"XML Conversion Contractor, Harvard Business Publishing, Watertown MA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>XML-Focused Contract Position with Harvard Business School&#8217;s Publishing Group<\/b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Harvard Business Publishing&#8217;s Higher Education division (HBP HE) has an opening for an XML Conversion Contractor to work on converting Word documents to XML and EPUB formats using in-house software. The position is full-time (though can be flexible for the right candidate), will last through at least September, and has a rate of $20 an hour. HBP is located at the Arsenal complex in Watertown, Massachusetts, and there is a free shuttle to the Arsenal from the Charles Hotel and other locations in Harvard Square.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>HBP HE sells content from Harvard Business School (HBS) and other sources to business schools around the world via our <a href=\"http:\/\/hbsp.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvard Business for Educators website<\/a> as well as a series of business-to-business delivery models.? The content we sell includes HBS case studies, case studies written by other top business schools, Harvard Business Review magazine articles and trade book chapters, and a series of eLearning products.? The company is current managing a very large content transformation initiative for the Higher Education division.? We&#8217;re evolving from a PDF-based distribution and workflow to an XML-based workflow that will allow us to add mobile-friendly (EPUB) and online (HTML) formats to our distribution. In addition to becoming &#8220;frontlist compliant&#8221; and generating XML-based content for all new content, this project in particular entails us converting and testing roughly 3,500 backlist case study documents.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tasks would include:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Converting source Word documents to HE XML and EPUB using proprietary software.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Reviewing HE XML for compliance with predetermined standards.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Testing EPUB files on an iPad for quality of display and functionality, including many added enhancements.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Trouble-shooting issues in source documents.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Identifying bugs and possible improvements to converter software.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Updating file status through spreadsheets and project tracking software.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Working collaboratively in an agile environment to most efficiently complete the conversion project.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>This initiative falls outside the traditional LIS space.? We&#8217;re looking for a candidate who has an interest in XML and data interoperability from the content workflow\/production side.? You do not need to be a software engineer at all, but technical interest and aptitude for looking at the &#8216;code&#8217; of documents will be a key component of the work.? Ideally you have taken, or are in the process of taking, GLIS classes such as:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>??????? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span>LIS 469 &#8211; XML &#8211; eXtensible Markup Language<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>??????? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span>LIS 531Z &#8211; Data Interoperability and Web-Based Resources<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>??????? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span>LIS 445 &#8211; Metadata<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>??????? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span>LIS 448 &#8211; Digital Stewardship<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a major strategic initiative for both Harvard Business Publishing and Harvard Business School.? You will have the chance to help build and test a world-class XML content workflow for a publisher &#8211; a true &#8220;lab&#8221; environment for how XML benefits industry.? And you&#8217;ll have the opportunity to work with some of the world&#8217;s premier consultants and vendors in the XML workflow and ebook space.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Interested parties should contact:<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Post<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Director, Higher Education Content Production<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Harvard Business Publishing<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dsaulnier@hbsp.harvard.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">l<\/a><a href=\"mailto:isa.post@harvardbusiness.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">isa.post@harvardbusiness.org<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"tel:617-783-6189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">617-783-6189<\/a>? C: <a href=\"tel:617-866-8445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">617-866-8445<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hbsp.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/hbsp.harvard.edu\/<\/a><span style=\"color: #888888\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XML-Focused Contract Position with Harvard Business School&#8217;s Publishing Group Harvard Business Publishing&#8217;s Higher Education division (HBP HE) has an opening for an XML Conversion Contractor to work on converting Word documents to XML and EPUB formats using in-house software. The position is full-time (though can be flexible for the right candidate), will last through at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/xml_conversion_contractor_harvard_business_publishing_watertown_ma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;XML Conversion Contractor, Harvard Business Publishing, Watertown MA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}