We are advertising IT-related positions for the Atlas of Living Australia. One of
these, the Technical Architect position, is open to international applicants
and has a closing date of 5 May 2008. Please see:
https://recruitment.csiro.au/asp/job_details.asp?RefNo=2008%2F286
This is an exciting opportunity to take responsibility for
development of the technical architecture for the Atlas of Living Australia.
The
Architect will be required to consider:
- Data standards and protocols
- Wrapper software for data
providers
- Metadata repositories
- Use of domain ontologies
- Central data indexes and caches
- Integration with federated
access frameworks
- Web applications and web
services
- Support for tools for
visualisation and analysis (e.g. GIS systems)
- Linkages to other Australian
data networks, in particular to other projects included within the NCRIS
Strategic Roadmap
- Linkages to international data
sharing projects such as GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility),
Casimir (Coordination and Sustainability of International Mouse
Informatics Resources), OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System) and
CBOL (Consortium for the Barcode of Life).
The Atlas of
Living Australia is also advertising three positions open to
Australian residents and closing dates of 22 April 2008:
The Atlas of
Living Australia is a five-year project funded by the Australian
Government to “develop an authoritative, freely accessible, distributed
and federated biodiversity data management system that links Australia’s biological
knowledge with its scientific reference collections and other custodians of
biological information”.
Thanks,
Donald
Donald Hobern, Director,
Atlas of Living Australia
CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra,
ACT 2601
Phone: (02) 62464352 Mobile: 0437990208
Email: Donald.Hobern@csiro.au