[Asis-l] Graduate Research Assistantship in Biodiversity Informatics

[Bryan]

University of Arizona
Graduate Research Assistantship
School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS)

A graduate research assistantship is currently available to work on
biodiversity informatics on a project to develop semantic web
resources for natural history collections. The work will be supervised
by Dr. Bryan Heidorn, the Director of the SIRLS. Students must be
accepted into the Doctoral Program of SIRLS. See
http://sirls.arizona.edu/program/phd/admissions for additional
information about the PhD program at SIRLS.

The assistantship offers a generous support package, including
stipend, tuition expenses, and health insurance. Initial work would be
tied to the National Science Foundation project, Biological Science
Collection Tracker. For additional information see
http://biscicol.blogspot.com/.  Some project activities will include
text mining to populate knowledge bases. Strongly prefer candidates
with both knowledge of biological collections, RDF, OWL, SKOS, Open
Ontology Repository principles, and the TDWG ontologies. There will
also be opportunities in other biodiversity informatics projects as
well as teaching.

Additional details may be found at: http://sirls.arizona.edu/3616

Contact Bryan Heidorn, heidorn at u.arizona.edu to submit a curriculum
vitae and letter of intent to apply (pre-screening).  After
pre-screening applicants should apply though the Graduate College of
the University of Arizona http://grad.arizona.edu/admissions.