The Smarter Cities Technology Centre at IBM’s Dublin Research Laboratory is looking for a Researcher of Social Semantic Web. According to the post, “We are researching novel ways to enable citizens, services, and service providers to interact coherently in a smarter city. We are creating and leveraging Social Media and Web 2.0 software tools that help to capture, organize and benefit from the wealth of city data being generated by urban and environmental sensors, including citizen-contributed data. We are looking for researchers with strong expertise in the areas of: (1) Social Media and Web 2.0 , preferably with geospatial applications. (2) Capturing, representing, exploiting social media and crowd-sourced information. (3) Enabling users and developers to easily leverage linked open data as an information source. (4) Collaborative, end-user-driven knowledge enrichment.”

It continues, “The successful candidate will must have demonstrated ability to define research plans, carry out leading research, and publish research results through professional journals, academic conferences, and patents. As a researcher you will be expected to formalise challenging problems, develop new solutions, and work with business & development teams to ensure these solutions have a significant impact.”

Learn more and apply here.

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