RR Repository

h1. Project and job description for 2013 reboot

The purpose of the project is to develop a proof-of-concept Reproducible

Research Repository (RRR) to associate records of experimental work in

the audio and music domain with the software and datasets used and any

resulting publications.

The Repository is intended to be a lightweight source of information

about publications and the experimental work they describe, connecting

experiments with links to the software versions and datasets used and

documentation about how to reproduce the experimental setup. The

intention is to store metadata and descriptive documentation only;

software and datasets will be expected to be hosted in other suitable

repositories such as code.soundsoftware.ac.uk, Github, institutional

repositories, etc, and the RRR will link to these.

The project is scheduled to take 5 months for 1 developer, to be

structured as follows:

 * 3 weeks - Review and document existing work in this field, including

  an incomplete earlier project within QM, and liaise with data

  repository team in QM ITS in order to establish whether an

  existing solution can be applied

 * 1 week - Decide and justify whether to use an existing solution or

  develop a new one

then either (if developing a new solution)

 * 2 months - Develop a minimal new system as a proof-of-concept 

 * 1 month - Deploy to internal test users, revise according to feedback

 * 1 month - Document the system and determine the appropriate next steps

  to take to make a robust public-facing implementation

or (if using an existing one)

 * 1 month - Deploy and tailor existing solution

 * 1 month - Deploy to internal test users, revise according to feedback

 * 1 month - Configure and deploy robust public-facing implementation

 * 1 month - Document the system and determine appropriate next steps

The developer must be confident with at least one web development

platform, and experienced enough to be able to make the appropriate

decisions about technology and infrastructure based on experience with

multiple platforms and frameworks.