This position is now filled.
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OPENING: DEVELOPER/PROGRAMMER
Effective: Immediately
Institution: LANS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, STBPO-RL
Employment Type: Limited Term (2 years)
Clearance required: None
The MESUR project is looking for a technical staff member to support grant-funded digital library research & prototyping efforts. This opportunity requires a highly creative technical person who wants to join innovative information researchers in rethinking aspects of scholarly communication in the digital, networked era, more specifically to work collaboratively in a research effort aimed at identifying novel indicators for the assessment of the quality of units of scholarly communication. In this realm, the qualified candidate will focus on research, prototyping, and software tool creation, and may be involved in technical specification, and eventually standardization.
The successful candidate will work on the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team. That Team operates by assimilating cutting-edge concepts from information science, computer science, digital library research, as well as web research and practice, and using those concepts to rethink various aspects of scholarly communication. The internationally renown Team is involved in high-profile research projects funded, amongst others, by the Library of Congress, and the National Science Foundation. Specifically, the successful candidate will work collaboratively with the team leader, the principal investigator, and colleagues in the following areas.
Job description:
• Deploy a large-scale RDF triple store;
• Design and implement ontologies for the representation of a variety of scholarly entities;
• Ingest large datasets pertaining to the process of scholarly communication (bibliographic data, usage data, etc) into the triple store, including addressing significant entity de-duplication issues;
• Support a wide variety of analysis and visualization efforts on the basis of ingested scholarly data;
• Other work areas will be assigned as appropriate.
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:
• Significant programming experience in Java, and at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Perl, XSLT, Python;
• Experience with Oracle DBA and application development is a distinct asset
• Understanding of, and experience with, applying standards such as XML, XML Schema, RDF, OWL, UML, and associated tools;
• Significant experience working with and developing on Linux platforms;
• Understanding of the process of scholarly communication, and of scholarly bibliographic information;
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a team leader and with members of a technical team in achieving common goals;
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously in the realm of discovering, exploring, and assimilating technical information, and in analyzing problems, proposing and implementing solutions;
• Demonstrated effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
Desired Skills, Knowledge, Abilities:
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies;
Education, Training, or Licensing:
M.S. degree in computer science, mathematics, information science, or physics and relevant high-level experience in programming -or- equivalent combination of education and experience.
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