[SEM-GRD] Research Assistant Position - Folksonomies & the Semantic Grid

[Pete Edwards]

Please circulate the details of the position below to any 
students/colleagues as you deem appropriate.

Thanks

Pete Edwards
pedwards at csd.abdn.ac.uk

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Part-Time Postgraduate Research Assistant
Computing Science
University of Aberdeen

£22,540 - £23,913 per annum pro rata

Computing Science invites applications for the above post, to work on a 
project funded by the ESRC eSocial
Science Programme.

PolicyGrid (www.policygrid.org) is one of the ESRC National Centre for 
eSocial Science research nodes.
The Node’s research agenda assists the social science community to 
exploit the full potential of emerging Semantic
Web technologies and standards in the Grid context. The Node brings 
computer scientists and social scientists
together to focus on the challenges of using Semantic Grid technologies 
to enable more powerful analysis of
mixed-method data (e.g. surveys and interviews, case studies, 
simulations) thus adding significant value to the work
of social scientists engaged in the creation and analysis of evidence 
bases for policy development and evaluation.
The postgraduate research assistant will be part of a larger team, and 
will focus on the development of semantic
grid infrastructure and lightweight metadata (ontology + folksonomy) 
support for management of social science datasets.

You should have an excellent Honours degree in Computer Science or a 
related discipline, and preferably an MSc.
You are expected to be a competent programmer in Java, and have 
knowledge/experience of distributed information
management (including ontologies). Prior knowledge in the area of social 
science is not essential, but would be an
asset. The post will involve conceptual/theoretical work, and also 
implementation of software. Ideally you will have
some knowledge and experience of Web/Grid services and e-science.

The post is offered for 24 months on a part time (50% FTE) basis.

If appointed, it is a condition that you will be required to undertake 
postgraduate research leading to a higher degree,
in an area related to the research activities of the PolicyGrid Node.

Informal enquiries can be made to:

Dr Peter Edwards (PolicyGrid Node Director)
pedwards at csd.abdn.ac.uk

Online application forms and further particulars are available from 
www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs.
Alternatively email jobs at abdn.ac.uk or telephone (01224) 272727 (24-hour 
answering service)
quoting reference number YCS058R for an application pack.

The closing date for the receipt of applications is 8 February 2007

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