research grant for an ontologist

[Leif Isaksen]

Hi all

Apologies for x-posting but this might be of interest to someone on the list.

Best

L.


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From: maurizio lana <m.l...@lett.unipmn.it>
Date: Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:36 AM
Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] research grant for an ontologist
To: DIGITALC...@jiscmail.ac.uk


[usual apologies for crossposting]

Università del Piemonte Orientale - Vercelli at the address
http://www.unipmn.it/Informazioni%20su/Ricerca%20Scientifica/Assegni%20di%20Ricerca/Bandi/default.aspx?DisplayContentByLocator=15722,11274&compound=20722&opt=ao,rd,rh
has a call for 1 research grant (1 year, 19.000€ pre-tax) for a
person (less than 35 years old and PhD) which will work with geolat
research team to the construction of a geographical ontology which
will be used in the annotation/markup of a latin texts corpus;
moreover, this person will participate to the setup of the software
prototype of the annotation working environment.

geolat project (geography for latin literature), has three scopes:
1) building a global digital library of latin;
2) tagging every geographical name both recurring to existing
resources and creating a geographical ontology for classical
texts/world;
3) allowing scholars to access the geographically tagged texts through
a geo/graphic interface.

the interdisciplinary team needs a person able to finalize the
decisions of the group about the geographical ontology, and to
build/integrate the specific parts of ontology for latin texts with
other already existing ontologies.
the candidate should have a solid background in computer science,
computational ontologies and RDF, with no constraints on the domain
where s/he got this knowledge: computer science, information
engineering, or cognitive sciences.

the call is written in Italian language, interested people can ask for
explanations to m.l...@lett.unipmn.it.
knowledge of Italian language is not requested; good knowledge of
English as interaction language is requested. residence in italy is
not requested

the call is really open to anyone interested.
should the grant appear not completely satisfactory, here the
candidate can find a very advanced field of activity not so easily
available elsewhere...

all the best

maurizio lana, director of geolat project


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Maurizio Lana - ricercatore
Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925