Research Assistant-Fellow In Semantic Web And Ontology For Live Sciences

Ad: http://www.city.ac.uk/jobs/job_ads/acad_research/AH10022.html This is a research post to investigate and evaluate semantic search and navigation of the SeaLife semantic browsers using an ontology of infectious diseases developed in owl by CeRC and systems such as NeLI, CORESE, COHSE and PubMed. This is a key deliverable in the EU-funded FP6 Sealife project (www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/sealife ) bringing together results of the first 2 years of this highly-appraised project. This person will be working with the City ehealth Research Centre (http://www.city.ac.uk/cerc) – a multidisciplinary centre collaborating with national and international partners on grants funded by prestigious bodies such as the European Commission and the World Health Organisation, DH, NHS, HPA and others. The post holder will be responsible for the semantic search/navigation and evaluation of the semantic browsers on the NeLI technical infrastructure, liaise with other SeaLife partners, in particular University of Manchester, INRIA, France, TU Dresden and Scionics as well as external NeLI stakeholders to successfully accomplish the ontology development and enhancement, semantic search implementation on NeLI, conduct the evaluation of Sealife browsers and drive the research into Semantic web and ontology for virtual medical communities.