PhD Studentship in Linked Data Integration for Social Science Applications

Hi All

a new PhD opportunity in Dublin:

Closing Date:12 Noon on 4th March 2016 or until filled
Post Status: 4 year PhD Studentship
Department: ADAPT Centre, School of Computer Science and Statistics,
Trinity College Dublin
Benefits : Payment of  tax - free stipend and full academic fees for EU
students and partial fees for non-EU students

Research Topic
The Seshat Global Databank (http://seshatdatabank.info/) is collecting data
on every human society throughout history and prehistory to better
understand the dynamics of human social evolution. The ADAPT Centre has
partnered with Seshat to provide the sophisticated Linked Data –based data
curation infrastructure for semi-supervised data collection, refinement and
publication. But we want to do more. There is increasing amounts of data
published on the web that could be integrated into Seshat, especially
structured data such as historical GIS. However there are a wide variety of
information sources and standards, increasing data  integration costs. This
PhD will develop new methods and tools to make data integration more
flexible and self-managing within the Seshat project. This post is part of
the new ADAPT Centre and will work closely with the ADAPT and Seshat
affiliated H2020 project ALIGNED (www.aligned-project.eu).

Application Procedure
Please apply via email to vacancies@adaptcentre.ie and include    :
a) Targeted cover letter (600-1000 words) expressing your suitability for a
position
b) Complete CV
 Please include the reference code E2_PhD7 on all correspondence.

Further details at:
http://adaptcentre.ie/careers/TCD_E2Phd7_Advert-HR.pdf

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