Syapse is looking for a Semantic Server Engineer in Palo Alto, CA. The post states, “We are looking for an experienced developer to contribute to our server-side semantic data stack. If you are interested in the semantic web stack (RDF, OWL, SPARQL) but have always felt that biotech and healthcare were the best application for these new technologies, then come and help us upend data management in that industry.  You will be working with a mix of open-source and proprietary software, to build out the back end for our data platform suite.  Areas of emphasis range from dynamic customization of ontologies and forms, to audit trail implementation, to faceted browse optimization, to integration with large-scale structured data. Server-side components will include a mix of open-source tools and our own implementations of various components.” Read more

Alex Howard reports that Palo Alto, CA, is the latest city to embrace ‘city as a platform.’ He writes, “In the 21st century, one of the strategies cities around the world are embracing to improve services, increase accountability and stimulate economic activity is to publish open data online. The vision for New York City as a data platform earned wider attention last year, when the Big Apple’s first chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, pitched the idea to the public. This week, the city of Palo Alto in California joined over a dozen cities around the United States and globe when it launched its own open data platform. The platform includes an application programming interface (API) which enables direct access through a RESTful interface to open government data published in a JSON format. Datasets can also be embedded like YouTube videos, as [above].” Read more

The Stanford Digital Library Systems & Services (DLSS) department is looking for a Semantic Technology Services Engineer in Palo Alto, CA. The post states, “The incumbent will be a part of the Digital Library Infrastructure group, a team focused on realizing core components of the Stanford Unviersity Libraries’ emerging digital library architecture. The team focuses on delivering cross-cutting digital library services and infrastructure, such as metadata generation, transformation and management; service oriented library rinfrastructure; and digital asset & rights management. This group works closely with peer teams focused on other aspects of digital library functionalityin the creation of common and reusable technologies and components. The successful candidate will be responsible for the design, adoption and initial development of new technologies needed to support Stanford’s vision of the digital library of the future.” Read more

SemanticWeb recently sponsored a Web Mining Hack Day. Diffbot, one of the vent organizers reports, “over 80 of Silicon Valley’s top hackers, designers, and students gathered at the Diffbot offices in Palo Alto in the hopes of building the next great Web 3.0 app. Over the next 13 hours, participants learned about data and analysis APIs, formed teams, and wrote code. At the end of the night, only one team could win the prize for best App.” Read more

Stanford University is looking for a Web UI and Backend Server Developer in Palo Alto, CA: “Stanford University is the home for a national center to apply advances in computing to improve the effectiveness of biomedical research and health care. The user-facing part of our center is primarily an open-source web portal for collecting, categorizing, and applying medical and biological terminologies in innovative ways (http://bioportal.bioontology.org). In addition, we provide programmatic access to this information to allow others to build upon our technology. One of the applications of this system provides search of biomedical literature and clinical records that is much more effective than has previously been possible.” Read more

Diffbot, a semantic start-up in Palo Alto, CA, is looking for Machine Learning Interns and Web Development Interns. According to the post, “At Diffbot, we apply computer vision techniques to web documents to extract out semantic metadata. These services are used within hundreds of products at companies such as Cisco, Evernote, StumbleUpon, and AOL. We also offer free access to our technology to developers via an open API. Internally, we are using our technology to develop the next generation semantic results engine for the web. Check out http://diffbot.com for more information about our technology and APIs.” Read more