Job Announcement: PhD Researcher Position, Vienna, Austria
The Multimedia Information Systems Group (http://www.cs.univie.ac.at/mis) at the University of Vienna / Austria is looking for an excellent candidate to work as a PhD researcher in the upcoming EU eContentPlus project “EuropeanaConnect”.
The objective of EuropeanaConnect (http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/) is to deliver core components which are essential for the realization of the European Digital Library (Europeana) as a truly interoperable, multilingual and user-oriented service for all European citizens. The project will provide the technologies and resources to semantically enrich vast amounts of digital content in Europeana. This will enable semantically based content discovery including support for advanced searching and browsing, allowing for delivery of enhanced services and making Europeana content more accessible, reusable and exploitable.
We expect the applicant to work in the following areas:
- Web-based knowledge organization systems (e.g., Linked Data)
- metadata registries
- persistent digital object identifiers
- multimedia annotations
The ideal candidate holds a MS degree in Computer Science or related field and is able to consider both theoretical and practical/implementation aspects in her/his work. Fluent english communication and programming skills are fundamental requirements. Preferably the candidate has a background in one of the following fields:
- semantic technologies (RDF, SKOS, etc)
- metadata management
- multimedia computing
The position starts as soon as possible and is full-time (40h/week) for the duration of the project until Oct 2011.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. The successful candidate will tightly work with international partners and has the possibility to pursue PhD work within the scope of the project.
We invite interested applicants to send their resume including a pointer to their previous / current work and publications to <sekretariat-at-mminf.univie.ac.at>, Reference No: 396/MIS/0109. In case of any questions, please contact bernhard.haslhofer-at-univie.ac.at
The University of Vienna is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Women therefore are especially encouraged to apply. In case of equal qualification, women applying are to be given priority unless reasons specific to an individual male candidate tilt the balance in his favor according to judgments of the EU Court of Justice.
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