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TR: Postdoc position on AgroPortal, GACS and ontology alignment in Montpellier, France

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    Clement Jonquet
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    Hello all,
    Just a quick email to ask you to share the postdoc offer we have in
    Montpellier to work on AgriSemantics related stuff : AgroPortal, ontology
    mapping and GACS !
    It still open. A candidate from this community will be perfect!
    Bye
    Happy summer.
    Clement
    ———————————————————–
    The NUMEV Labex (http://www.lirmm.fr/numev) and AgroPortal project (
    http://agroportal.lirmm.fr) which builds an
    ontology repository for agronomy are offering a 1-year postdoc position for
    2017-2018 in Montpellier, to work on agronomical ontologies and their
    alignments as well as take part in the international GACS initiative
    (http://www.agrisemantics.org/gacs/).
    Abstract:
    Standards vocabularies and ontologies are key elements to achieve data
    interoperability. The AgroPortal project (http://agroportal.lirmm.fr)
    develops and supports a reference ontology repository for agronomy, plant
    sciences, biodiversity and nutrition. We have already designed and
    implemented an advanced prototype offering ontology-based services that
    hosts 64 ontologies or vocabularies including some reference resources in
    the domain: Agrovoc, NAL thesaurus, Crop Ontology, etc. One of the
    challenges when dealing with multiple ontologies is to determine their
    overlap and align them.
    We are offering a postdoc position to develop ontology mapping capabilities
    to align AgroPortal ontologies and participate into the international Global
    Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS) project. With the experience and
    technology developed with the YAM++ application (LIRMM’s ontology alignment
    matcher), we will make AgroPortal a state-of-the-art platform for mapping
    extraction, generation, validation, evaluation, storage and retrieval by
    adopting a complete semantic web and linked open data approach and engaging
    the community for curation. We will first focus on the ontologies of the
    Montpellier community (agronomy, food, biodiversity) and then join the GACS
    project (integration of Agrovoc, NALt & CABt) in partnership with RDA
    AgriSemantics working group.
    More detail here:
    http://www.lirmm.fr/sifr/positions/2017_NUMEV-Lingua_postdoc_position.pdf
    or
    http://www.lirmm.fr/sifr/positions/2017_NUMEV-Lingua_postdoc_position.html
    Please, consider transferring the job description in your labs and
    networks.
    Best regards
    Clement
    Dr. Clement JONQUET – PhD in Informatics – Assistant Professor
    University of Montpellier
    Coordinator of the SIFR and
    AgroPortal projects
    Visiting scholar, Stanford University (EU Marie Curie fellow)
    ***@***.***
    http://www.lirmm.fr/~jonquet
    @Montpellier : +33/4 67 14 97 43
    @Stanford : +1 650 723 6725

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