Software Developer (m/f/d)

Organisation/Company: Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)

Research Field: Computer Science

Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)

Positions: Bachelor Positions

Country: Germany

Application Deadline: 20 Apr 2025 – 23:59 (Europe/Berlin)

Type of Contract: Temporary

Job Status: Part-time

Hours Per Week: 19.9

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

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 researcher.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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).
• 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.

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.

Selection process

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

How to apply

We look forward to receiving your application. To submit your application, please click here.

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:

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

Additional comments:

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

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