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The (insert your job title) applies semantic web techniques and tools to implement an innovative web application enabling the discovery and interlinking of research activities and outputs at (insert your institution).  The (job title) will join a team  of (how many) administrators, librarians, content specialists, and IT staff to populate, maintain, and extend a key public-facing research resource for (insert your institution) using the open-source VIVO software (http://vivoweb.org).

Tasks include:

  • Analyzing paper and electronic data flows and related business policies and workflows to ensure appropriate data management policies, practices and procedures
  • Creating and testing scripts, programs and web services to support data integration and ongoing synchronization from diverse, distributed sources using tools such as the VIVO Harvester
  • Implementing automated and semi-automated metadata discovery, data mining, data quality management, and data security management practices
  • Evolving and scaling data ingest, update, and quality control procedures based on data analysis, reporting, and feedback from users and administrators

Required qualifications

  • Demonstrated web application development experience in Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby or similar language
  • Ability to independently analyze complex problems and identify solutions
  • Bachelor’s degree in an information science (library science, information science, computer science or equivalent) or other relevant discipline
  • Ability to apply technology within and outside the body of knowledge and specialty of this position
  • More than 3 years and less than 5 years experience

Desired qualifications

  • Database programming experience in MYSQL and/or SQL Server
  • Applications programming experience in data integration, web services, and service oriented architectures.
  • Experience working with metadata standards, ontologies, and thesauri.
  • Familiarity with data interchange standards and tools including XML and XSLT
  • Familiarity with statistics, data mining, text mining libraries, algorithms, and applications.
  • Experience with Agile Software Development methodologies. 

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