Postdocs in MIR: Ontology, Collaborative Web and Watermarking

Postdocs in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) : Ontology, Collaborative
Web and Watermarking
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2 PhD positions (12 months each) in Music Information Retrieval
systems are available from the beginning of 2009 at the Le2i Lab. (CNRS),
University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France.

The two selected students will investigate the following aspects
of MIR systems:

* (Ontology) Music Ontology Specification for musical data modelling,
   requirements specification for collaborative Web aspects.
* (Security) Development of watermarking algorithms for musical scores
   in symbolic representation (For example MusicXML).

These postdocs are part of the national project ANR 2008 NEUMA
(Network enabled & user friendly musical analysis tools), which goal
is « designing and evaluating an open cooperative system for musician
communities, enabling new search and analysis tools for musical content
sharing and dissemination. » The partnership consists of 3 research groups:
IRPMF, LAMSADE (Paris), Le2i (Dijon)  and ARMADILLO, a Digital asset and
content management company. Work will be realized in close cooperation
with musicologists from IRPMF.

Desired skills:
* (Ontology) Semantic Web, knowledge management
* (Security) Watermarking, database security
* Good skills in programming are required (Java).
* No specific musical skill is required, but is a plus.

Salary : to be defined

If interested contact:
Lylia Abrouk / Nadine Cullot / David Gross-Amblard
firstname.lastname@u-bourgogne.fr (+33) 3 80 39 91 18
Laboratory : Le2i UMR-5158 CNRS, Bourgogne university - BP 47870 21078
DIJON CEDEX, France

Applications must include :
   * a detailed CV
   * a motivation letter
   * publications list
   * 2-3 recommendation letters

More on :
NEUMA project : http://neuma.le2i.com
Le2i Lab. : http://www.le2i.com

Received on Friday, 12 December 2008 14:43:20 UTC