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Java Developer/Researcher: Visualizing Digital Libraries (3 year post, No. 11484) 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 Java Developer (possibly also with a research background), to build intuitive user interfaces to a knowledge-based web server, enabling researchers to add, search, and analyse research concepts in a digital library. 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 will have a demonstrable track record in developing Java systems in industry or academia, or have strong programming skills (e.g. C++) to quickly migrate to Java. Experience in any of the following will also be advantageous: user interface design; information visualization; internet applications; databases; requirements engineering; intelligent systems; knowledge modelling; Common Lisp; RDF; XML. There will be the freedom to develop/continue a relevant research career if desired. 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. KMi is at the forefront of Java development for innovative, interactive applications such as voice-on-the-net groupware, software visualization and knowledge modelling tools. Closing date for applications: 22 August, 2000. Interviews: 28-29 Sept. 2000. The further particulars for this post can be found at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/scholonto-jd.html. The project leader is Dr Simon Buckingham Shum, to whom informal enquiries may also be made [sbs@acm.org] Tel. +44 (0)1908 655723. ========================================================================= 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:O.Rose@open.ac.uk], 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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The further particulars for this post can be found at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/scholonto-rf.html. The project leader is Dr Simon Buckingham Shum, to whom informal enquiries may also be made [sbs@acm.org] Tel. +44 (0)1908 655723.
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