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Research Fellowship: Knowledge-Based Digital Libraries
(3 year post, No. 11483)
The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute is recruiting top
calibre staff to meet the challenge of building a next generation
internet digital library service for disseminating, analysing and
visualizing research literatures. We are looking for a Research
Fellow with experience in knowledge representation (e.g. ontologies,
frame-based representations, description logic, semantic hypertext)
and/or another field of AI, and an interest in the representation and
analysis of scholarly argumentation/discourse. The post concerns the
design and implementation of a knowledge-based, digital library
server which will assist researchers in managing evolving concepts,
perspectives and debates. (A related post will build Java user
interfaces onto the knowledge base.) The appointment will be made on
the Research staff salary scale, UKP16,286 - 24,479 pa, or
UKP22,579 - 30,065, depending on qualifications and experience. You'll be
joining a friendly and dynamic team at the forefront of research and
development in technologies for scholarly publishing, semantic web
tools, and knowledge management. We currently have over a dozen
academic and corporately sponsored research projects in knowledge
technologies and organizational knowledge management.
Closing date for applications: 22 August, 2000.
Interviews: 28-29 Sept., 2000.
The further particulars for this post can be found at
. The project leader is
Dr Simon Buckingham Shum, to whom informal enquiries may also be made
[[email protected]] Tel. +44 (0)1908 655723.
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The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is a highly successful, rapidly
expanding interdisciplinary laboratory founded at The Open University
in 1995, and located in attractive new offices at The Open
University's main campus in Milton Keynes, UK. KMi undertakes
high-profile advanced research and development in Knowledge Media: a
convergence of knowledge, communication and computing technologies.
We offer a stimulating and well-endowed research environment, widely
acknowledged to be at the leading edge of European research and
development, particularly in new technologies for knowledge modelling
and management, open supported learning, and synchronous and
asynchronous group working.
The application form is linked electronically to the Further
Particulars, and should be emailed to Ms. Ortenz Rose
[mailto:[email protected]], or posted to her at:
Knowledge Media Institute
Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
UK
Tel. +44 (0)1908 653800
Fax. +44 (0)1908 653169
A paper application form may also be obtained from here.
THIS POST IS OPEN TO INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL APPLICANTS.
Disabled applicants whose skills and experience meet the requirements
of the job will be interviewed. Please let us know if you need your
copy of the further particulars in large print, on computer disk, or
on audio cassette tape. Hearing impaired persons may make enquiries
on Milton Keynes +44 (0)1908) 654901 (Minicom answerphone).
Equal Opportunity is University Policy.
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