Software Developer (m/f/d)

Job advertisement No. 20/2025; application deadline: 20.04.2025

As the German National Library of Science and Technology our future-oriented services ensure the infrastructural requirements for a high-quality supply of information and literature for research in science and industry. With the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), we are working to revolutionise the exchange and use of scientific knowledge in the digital age.

To improve our wiki-based services (e. g. ConfIDent), we are developing innovative software solutions that make a significant contribution to the long-term findability and reusability of open research information. In this way, we promote a more sustainable and comprehensive documentation of scientific activities and contribute to a fairer evaluation of research achievements.

The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology – Program Area C, Research and Development, is looking to employ a

Software Developer (m/f/d)

to join the Open Science Lab as of the next possible date.

The position is initially limited to 12 months (§ 14 Abs. 2 TzBfG). The regular weekly working time is 19,90 hours (part-time). The remuneration is based on pay scale group 10 TV-L.

Your challenge
Your main task will be researching and developing solutions for a ‘knowledge graph service’ designed as a map of legacy climate change scientific literature corpora of the IPCC open access content (e. g., Global Warming of 1.5°C) and republishing search results as part of the project "Climate Knowledge Graph". The project will be conducted in cooperation with TIB Lab Knowledge Infrastructures and ORKG, and the external partner #semanticClimate. The outcome of the project "Climate Knowledge Graph" will be to have as an online website the open access parts of the IPCC Assessment Report Six in a knowledge graph that can search, retrieve search results literature as full text, and save the search results as a multi-format publication output.

Your tasks will focus on

Development of software components for linked open data (LOD) mapping of literature and, multi-format publishing of climate literature:
Design a LOD data model for: corpora management, for search results, and for publishing from the corpora
Design data models to work in Wikibase software
Supervise the mapping and importing of IPCC open access source corpora into Wikibase using existing Open Science Lab services and software: Wikibase4Research (Open Refine), Antelope (Terminology Service), Computational Publishing Services and the #semanticClimate Text and Data Mining tooling
Design HTML outputs to work with W3C Web Publication standard’s use of Manifests for publication creation
Create W3C CSS Paged Media styles for publishing outputs (Web, Paged Web, and PDF)
Integration of the developed software components into the web-based platform Climate Knowledge Graph:
Design, implementation, and testing of software components
Implementation of data models and fine-tune through iterative rounds
Implement components Web Publications manifest and CSS Paged Media styles to work with outputs from SQLQueries from Wikibase
Contribute to developer and user documentation for data models and software components

Your profile

You have a relevant university degree (bachelor's degree or equivalent) in Computer Science, Digital Humanities or a related field
Professional experience in software development in the academic publishing sector
Knowledge of W3C Paged Media CSS, academic document markup languages (HTML, JATS, XML, etc.), one or more modern programming languages (especially Python, JavaScript), modern web technologies, and databases
Very good English skills, both spoken and written

Desirable additions to your profile

Experience with open source software development and maintenance
Experience with open web standards: Especially W3C standards for publishing; and Citation Style Language
Experience in the development of web applications

What we offer
In TIB’s Research and Development Department you have the opportunity to further evolve your professional development in a dynamic and excellent research environment. We provide an intellectually inspiring environment with an entrepreneurial mindset embedded in a leading technical university and one of the largest technical information centres being part of the Leibniz Association.

The research department at the TIB is relatively young and offers many opportunities. It is our vision to rethink the representation and provision of data and information and to organize them in an Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) in the future. There is a close cooperation with the L3S Research Centre at Leibniz University Hannover, one of the world's leading research institutes in the field of Web & Data Science, within the Leibniz Joint Lab Data Science & Open Knowledge.

With the Open Science Lab, TIB supports the digital opening of science by helping communities to adopt new methods and tools in their practice. Research and development activities in the OSL are closely interlinked with the training of young scientists in the Information Management degree programme at Faculty III - Media, Information and Design at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, with which TIB has established the Leibniz Joint Lab Future Libraries & Research Data.

Last but not least, we attach great importance to an open and creative working atmosphere in which it is fun to work.

Furthermore, we offer

A job in the public service oriented towards the common good on the basis of the collective agreement for the public service of the German states (TV-L) with a salary in pay scale group 10 TV-L
A special annual payment at the end of the year and 30 days of vacation per year with a five-day working week
A flexible workplace in terms of time and space with offers to reconcile work and family life, such as mobile and remote work options as well as flexible working time models (flexitime)
A modern workplace in a central location of Hannover with a collegial, attractive and versatile working environment
An employer with a wide range of internal and external further education and training measures, workplace health promotion and a supplementary pension scheme for the public sector (VBL)
Employee discount in the canteens of the Studentenwerk Hannover as well as the possibility to use the various offers of the University Sports Hannover at a discount
Independent and future-oriented activities that offer variety and room for personal development
Work in the context of a national, European or international research and innovation project
A portfolio of technology components to build on, including ORKG, OpenResearch.org, TIB AV-Portal, DBpedia.org and other

If you are interested, questions regarding the position can be addressed to Lambert Heller, head of the Open Science Lab, by mail at Lambert.Hellertibeu.

How to apply
We look forward to receiving your application.

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Paper applications are also possible on an equal basis. In this case, please send your complete application documents with the subject 20/2025 before April 20, 2025 addressed to

Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
Personalservice
Anna Bechtloff
Welfengarten 1 B
30167 Hannover
Germany

or alternatively as a single PDF document file to bewerbungtibeu. For applications in digital from, please send a PDF file with a maximum size of 10 MB.

In the case of foreign university degrees, it is mandatory to submit a Statement of Comparability from the Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB) for the final assessment of the hiring requirements during the hiring process (link for more information). A fee will be charged for this. This obligation does not apply if the foreign university degree has already been assessed by an expert and is listed in the ANABIN database of the ZAB as an equivalent university degree (link to ANABIN database).

Who we are
TIB, being part of the Leibniz Research Association, is with around 600 employees one of the largest technical information centres in Germany, having three main functions:

Acting in the capacity of the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, our forward-looking services secure the infrastructural requirements for providing researchers in science and industry with high-quality information and literature.
Carrying out cutting edge research to further expand TIB’s role as a German information centre for the digitisation of science and technology.
Offer library services for the Leibniz University Hannover.

TIB is an equal opportunity employer, providing ideal working conditions, and continuously taking action to enable its employees to combine career interests with family life. It is particularly keen to promote professional equality between women and men and therefore strongly encourages qualified men to apply.

Severely disabled candidates with comparable qualifications will be given preferential treatment. We welcome applications from all nationalities.

Please note that your application documents will not be returned and application and travel costs cannot be reimbursed.

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