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Semantic Web Jobs: Pearson

Angela Guess — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:30:13 +0000

Pearson is looking for an Information Architect in Harlow, England. According to the post, “An opportunity has arisen for an information architect to join the Content and Digital Management team responsible for this very busy and rapidly developing area. Reporting to the Director of Content Architecture, this individual will play a key role in the strategic architecture initiatives currently under way in PI. These include: Developing, documenting and helping to guide the appliance of information architecture standards in all Pearson International businesses, including descriptive metadata, structural metadata, taxonomy and ontology standards. Working on new initiatives that use semantic technologies to increase the findability and reuse of content. Designing and building taxonomies, ontologies, metadata schema and other information architecture products.” continued…

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Semantic Web Jobs: Pearson

Angela Guess — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:30:28 +0000

Pearson is looking for a Content Discovery and Metadata Technical Lead in Harlow, Oxford, England. The post states, “As Technical Lead, you will lead the delivery of services and solutions around content discovery and metadata management. You will bring a delivery focus and expertise, specific to product and platform development. This is a unique opportunity to be involved from the very beginning of the Content-as-a-Service platform giving plenty of opportunity for the right Technical Lead to shape , deliver and evangelize it. You will be responsible for working as part of a larger platform team to deliver a set of common, open, shareable technology capabilities that will enable the discovery, retrieval, and management of content within and across Pearson Operating Companies, as well as within and across a diverse technology applications landscape.” continued…

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Insights from the SemTechBiz Conference – UK

Eric Franzon — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:45:07 +0000

The Semantic Technology and Business Conference – UK took place in London last week at the Millennium Goucester Hotel, and a number of themes emerged from the two-day event. A few of the sessions are highlighted below, but first, let us turn to some of the attendees to share some of their favorite insights and takeaways:

Public Sector Semantics

There was a lot of interest in the Public Sector work. One of the presentations that highlighted the Open Data movement was Nigel Shadbolt‘s Keynote presentation about the recently launched Open Data Institute. We have covered the ODI here, and Professor Shadbolt shared some exciting insights and perspectives on the Open Data economy. In his presentation, he referred to a report on which he collaborated that was published by Deloitte Analytics. This free white paper is available for download.

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Semantic Web Jobs: Pearson

Angela Guess — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:30:12 +0000

Pearson is looking for a Principal Technical Architect in Saddle River, NJ. According to the post, “Within Pearson Technology’s Enabling Technologies Group, the Data Abstraction & Distribution team is responsible for Build activities associated with Data Services. Build activities mainly consist of: (1) Design and Manage normalized data format in conjunction with the Enterprise Architecture Group. (2) Design, Improve and Maintain the ETL, Storage and Distribution functions associated with Data Services (currently called DIA). (3) Integration and testing of new releases of these software components. (4) Evangelization of these components across Pearson. (5) Management of all requirements, small enhancements and defect fixes associated with these software components, data formats and core objects.” continued…

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Pearson Creates Semantic Reading Metric to Help Students Succeed

Angela Guess — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:00:29 +0000

Pearson has created a semantically powered tool to help students assess their reading abilities. The article explains that the Pearson Reading Maturity Metric is “a new and more accurate measure of the reading difficulty of texts. Developed by scientists at Pearson’s Knowledge Technologies group, the new computer-based technology measures how close an individual student’s reading abilities are to what they will need to succeed in college and careers.” continued…

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