Dear All,
[The deadline to apply for the first position (Research Assistant/Associate - 2
years) is 1 week from now.]
We have three opportunities for talented people with interest in linked data
and/or education technology to join the Open University's work on linked data
for education.
Two of the open positions ("project officer", 1 year each) relate to supporting
the development, practice and application of linked data within the Open
University, mixing technical skills with the ability to engage with a broad
academic community.
The third one (research assistant/post-doc, 2 years) is broader in scope, as it
takes place within a newly funded european project (the LinkedUp Support
Action), looking at applying open web data technologies and principles across a
network of universities and education-releated organisation in Europe and
worldwide. Note that the deadline for applying to this one is 1 week earlier
than the others (see details below).
Please refer to the Knowledge Media Institute's job vacancy page
(http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/) for more information (individual links provided
below). Contact Mathieu d'Aquin (m.daq...@open.ac.uk) for more information
about the positions, and kmi-recruitm...@open.ac.uk for clarifications on the
application procedure.
Research Assistant/Associate (post-doc) - Linked Data for Education EU project
(LinkedUp) - 2 years
The Open University, Knowledge Media Institute
Apply by: 12th September 2012
More info: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/index.php#8306
Working within the LinkedUp European Support Action, the goal here is to create
both the technological and the support infrastructure to push forward the
application of linked data in the education sector in general. This means in
particular that we need somebody able to become an expert in the application of
the linked data principles for open educational data, and learning and teaching
applications. Beyond the purely technological aspects however, this implies
collaborating and engaging with a large network of educational institutions
(universities and other organisations) on innovations led by the deployment of
Linked Data-based solutions.
Project Officer / Linked Data - 1 year
The Open University - Knowledge Media Institute
Apply by: 19th September 2012
More info: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/index.php#8307
This job is about becoming the Linked Data Specialist/Expert/Champion at the
Open University. The core of the work here is related to taking care of
data.open.ac.uk: ensure that it works and is maintained, keep the data
up-to-date with changes in the original sources, identify new sources of data
and integrate them, demonstrate and build the practices of Linked Data within
the University, especially through dedicated applications. We are therefore
expecting candidates to have good technological background (with the ability to
develop using languages such as Java, PHP, Javascript) and good communication
skills. Naturally, an interest in linked (open) data is strongly recommended.
Project Officer / REF Publications, Linked Data - 1 year
The Open University, Knowledge Media Institute
Apply by: 19th September 2012
More info: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/index.php#8308
One of the most significant areas of application of Linked Data at the Open
University (and the academic sector in general) is for the management of
research communities and research outputs. This job concerns one of such
applications, which is especially dedicated to supporting the Research
Excellence Framework for evaluating the quality of research realised in the
university. This application makes use of data available from data.open.ac.uk
and creates its own (private) datasets to support researchers at the Open
University (hundreds of them) in managing, annotating and promoting their
research output. Ability to programme (in PHP, and possibly in Javascript) as
well as experience/interest in managing information in the academic community
are of course needed here.
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