[Sigia-l] CONTRACT: Developing an Enterprise Taxonomy (Toronto: 3-6 months)

[Johnson, Bryce]

We are looking for a candidate to work in downtown Toronto as part of a team from Navantis. Our client is a major finacial institution and the engagement would be 3-5 months at the clients offices. The candidate would need to have a degree in the Library Sciences, good communication and documentation skills and experince in developing enterprise taxonomies.

As part of the team, the incumbent will analyze and develop plans, vision and strategy for creation and leveraging of descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata in support of the functional requirements of an expanding enterprise-level taxonomy program, focusing on enhanced information retrieval from external and internal Web sites and internal data repositories. They will make recommendations regarding integration of thesauri into broader information architectures (e.g. how to leverage thesauri to enhance searching and faceted browsing functionality). The will have the opportunity to participate in the evaluation and selection of appropriate software and other information technologies relevant to metadata, controlled vocabulary, and other information access projects. 

Please contact me for more information

Bryce Johnson
Manager, Interface Development
Navantis Inc.
416.532.5554x227