[DL] Research Position in Data and Knowledge Management - FBK, Trento, Italy

[Chiara Ghidini]

The Data and Knowledge Management (DKM) Research Unit of the Bruno  
Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy, is offering a 30 months research  
position.

The successful candidate will work primarily on: (i) the development  
of multilingual ontologies and (ii) the customization of MoKi: the  
modeling wiki system (moki.fbk.eu) for the acquisition and  
representation of multilingual knowledge in the context of organic  
agriculture. The activities will be carried out within the EU ICT PSP  
Organic.Lingua project (www.organic-lingua.eu), whose aim is to show  
the potential of multilingual Web portals for Sustainable Agricultural  
& Environmental Education. The activity will require the customization  
of MoKi to represent multilingual information, the integration of MoKi  
with the services required by the Organic.Lingua portal and the  
interaction of MoKi with linguistic tools and services providing  
translation services.

The candidate is expected to work in collaboration with other  
researchers, programmers, and students involved in this and other  
related projects within the DKM unit and FBK. For more information on  
DKM visit dkm.fbk.eu.

The ideal candidate should have:
* Master of PhD degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering;
* Solid background in semantic web and conceptual modeling;
* Solid skills in software development;
* Previous software development experience
* Good knowledge of English (oral and written)

Additional requirements:
* Skills in knowledge representation and logic;
* Ability to work in a collaborative environment and deliver in  
research projects

Type of contract: Research position (R4 level) for two and a half  
years. Gross Salary will be € 33.100,00 circa per year.

Due to FBK's attempt to promote equal opportunity and gender balance,  
in case of equal applications, female candidates will be given  
preference.

How to apply
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Please send your detailed CV with three references to jobs at fbk.eu.  
Emails should have Ref.Code: DKM_OLR4_2011

Closing date: 29 June 2011a

Official call:  http://risorseumane.fbk.eu/sites/risorseumane.fbk.eu/files/Call%20DKM_OLR4_2011.pdf

Please send your CV with permission of the Personal data Protection  
Code, Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 June 2003.
Those candidates who will pass the preliminary curricula screening  
will be contacted shortly for an interview. Those applicants who will  
not be selected, will be notified of the exclusion at the end of the  
selection process.
Please note that FBK may contact those candidates admitted to  
evaluation within a period of 6 months for selection process of  
similar vacancies.
For transparency purposes, the name of the selected candidate, if he  
or she has accepted the position, will be published on the FBK website  
at the bottom of the selection notice.





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