[SEM-GRD] eInfrastructure Position (OWL and RDF)

[Edwards, Peter]

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

Computing Science

Software Engineer - eInfrastructure for Social Sciences

Available immediately (21 month appointment)

£27,857 - £33,262 per annum

The PolicyGrid project within the Department of Computing Science invites
applications for the above post, to work on a new eInfrastructure activity
funded by the ESRC eSocial Science Programme.

PolicyGrid (www.policygrid.org) is one of the National Centre for eSocial
Science research nodes, with a particular emphasis on the role of the
Semantic Grid in supporting collaboration, sharing and re-use of social
science resources. ESRC has recently committed to the construction of an
e-Infrastructure on the UK National Grid Service (NGS) to provide integrated
access to a variety of resources for social science research, including
datasets, tools, services and easy-to-use user environments.

You will focus on the development of Grid services and software tools in the
context of the metadata infrastructure and simulation workpackages of the
eInfrastructure effort. These include (but are not restricted to) the
following: developing a Grid based metadata/ontology infrastructure; making
an existing natural language interface for creation of RDF metadata robust,
pluggable and usable; portal development. The work will entail extensive
collaboration with other sites involved in the eInfrastructure project, and
regular access grid, telephone and face-to-face conferences. There will be a
requirement to produce documentation throughout the project, to include:
regular progress updates, workpackage reviews, software tool documentation.

You should have a PhD in Computer Science, or relevant equivalent
experience. You are expected to be a highly competent programmer in Java,
and have experience of Semantic Web technologies (including OWL and RDF).
Knowledge of Web/Grid services, e-science, and related areas would be
desirable. The work will involve development of robust software, within a
managed project environment; it is therefore important that you have
knowledge and experience of software engineering principles and standards.
The post is available until 31 December 2009 and is available immediately.

For further details, including online application facility:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=YCS060RZ

Closing Date:  24-Mar-2008



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