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2 Research Assistants / Associates | Ref: 8528
Closing date: Thursday 13 December 2012

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2 Research Assistants / Associates


Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
£27,578 - £35,938, Ref: 8528
Based in Milton Keynes
Temporary contracts until 31st December 2013

KMi needs two Research Assistants or Research Associates (depending on qualification) to work on the EU-funded project – DECIPHER.

The project aims to allow users, whether museum staff or members of the public, to assemble, visualise and explore heritage objects, and the underlying knowledge structures that connect and give them meaning. As part of this work, we have been developing StoryScope, a web-based environment for organising heritage objects, their associated stories and underlying personal and historical events. We have also developed an ontology for describing museum stories and presentations.

You should have knowledge and interest in the areas of web technology, the semantic web and artificial intelligence to help us further develop the StoryScope environment and the intelligent assistance it can provide for finding museum resources and building engaging presentations. The work will involve collaborating both with the local project team in KMi and also European partners of the DECIPHER project.


To apply, please fill the form available at:
Download Application Form | Word http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/appform.doc or
Download Application Form | PDF http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/appform.pdf and email it to kmi-recruitment@open.ac.uk quoting the job reference number 8528.

Closing date: Thursday 13 December 2012.

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Semantic Web and Knowledge Services is...


Semantic Web and Knowledge Services
"The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation" (Berners-Lee et al., 2001).

Our research in the Semantic Web area looks at the potentials of fusing together advances in a range of disciplines, and applying them in a systemic way to simplify the development of intelligent, knowledge-based web services and to facilitate human access and use of knowledge available on the web. For instance, we are exploring ways in which tnatural language interfaces can be used to facilitate access to data distributed over different repositories. We are also developing infrastructures to support rapid development and deployment of semantic web services, which can be used to create web applications on-the-fly. We are also investigating ways in which semantic technology can support learning on the web, through a combination of knowledge representation support, pedagogical theories and intelligent content aggregation mechanisms. Finally, we are also investigating the Semantic Web itself as a domain of analysis and performing large scale empirical studies to uncover data about the concrete epistemologies which can be found on the Semantic Web. This exciting new area of research gives us concrete insights on the different conceptualizations that are present on the Semantic Web by giving us the possibility to discover which are the most common viewpoints, which viewpoints are mutually inconsistent, to what extent different models agree or disagree, etc...

Our aim is to be at the forefront of both theoretical and practical developments on the Semantic Web not only by developing theories and models, but also by building concrete applications, for a variety of domains and user communities, including KMi and the Open University itself.