Research Associate position - Linked Data and digital music at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre

We have another opening for a Linked Data PDRA post; this one is towards
the music technology end of the scale, researching semantic solutions
throughout the digital music lifecycle from production to delivery and
consumption. It’s a 2 year post in the first instance, in conjunction
with some great partners, including the BBC. Applications close on 23rd
July.

In addition to applicants with existing skills in this area, we also
welcome those with experience using Linked Data in other fields who are
looking to apply their skills and knowledge to new disciplines.


Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Linked Data and Music
Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford
Vacancy ID : 
113899

We are seeking a Research Associate working on the Semantic Web and
Linked Data technologies for application in the domain of music
consumption and production, specifically for the SLoBR and FAST
projects. These projects share a common purpose in the development and
application of Linked Data to all stages in the digital music lifecycle.
SLoBR (Semantic Linking of BBC Radio: Programme Data and Early Music), a
joint project with the Centre and Goldsmiths University of London and
the BBC, will use linked data to combine musicological research data
with programme information from the BBC early music show and external
resources such as DBpedia. The project will focus on the use and
consumption of this data, developing a web based User Interface (UI) for
navigating related information in the context of Early Music Show
content and generalising these approaches into tools for similar data
reduction, visualisation and exploration problems in linked data., the
project will involve liaison with musicology specialists at our partner
institution and travel to the BBC in London for regular collaboration
sessions. The EPSRC funded FAST (Fusing Semantic and Audio Technologies
for Intelligent Music Production and Consumption) will pursue radical
innovations amidst challenges driven by the practical needs of end-users
throughout the music industry, with exciting proof-of-concept
demonstrators that collectively form an intelligent music information
infrastructure and include the application of state of the art signal
processing and Semantic Web techniques.

This is a fixed-term post for 2 years in the first instance.

For full details see:
https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=113899

Received on Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:24:56 UTC