[Sigcr-l] JOB: Lead Taxonomy Developer, The Associated Press

[Sarah Goldman]

***Please send cover letters and resumes to taxonomy at apjobs.org***

The Taxonomy Developer for the Associated Press will develop
taxonomies as well as create the taxonomy management and
implementation strategy for AP's content delivery.

Responsibilities 

The taxonomy developer will help define overall AP Taxonomy
Integration Strategy for content classification, delivery and user
experience; work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on editorial,
technical and product teams to develop taxonomy implementation,
process and management strategy; and help evaluate and work with
appropriate tools for taxonomy management, data collection/analysis
and surfacing of new terminology.

In addition, duties will include selection and prioritization of
appropriate taxonomy domains. This includes developing taxonomies for
new and existing products; selecting allowed values lists for proper
names, products and companies; creating extensions and qualifiers to
integrate AP's taxonomic scheme to external standards (ISO, SIC/NAICS,
etc.); and working with and extending NewsML, IPTC News Codes and
NITF. This person will work closely with the editorial, technical and
product teams ensuring the taxonomies are usable and will develop and
manage automated, semi-automated and manual processes for gathering
taxonomy data, including adding terms, synonyms, aliases and new
relation types as needed.

  
Qualifications include: 

1) familiarity with industry standards groups, such as ISO, SIC/NAIC,
2) understanding structural metadata standards for content classes and
entity extraction,
3) ability to validate usability of taxonomies with internal user
groups (editorial teams) as well as external audiences,
4) expertise with taxonomy management and data collection/analysis, 
5) surfacing of new terminology, 
6) familiarity with Search and Auto Classification tools (Autonomy
http://www.autonomy.com/content/home/ and Teragram
http://www.teragram.com/); Text extraction tools (InXight
http://www.inxight.com/); Taxonomy/Ontology maintenance tools
(SchemaLogic http://www.schemalogic.com/ and Teragram
http://www.teragram.com/)

MLIS degree or 3 years experience preferred.

The Associated Press is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Please send cover letters and resumes to taxonomy at apjobs.org