Employment based postgraduate project in Linked Data for Music Collections
[Apologies for cross posting] We are currently looking for a talented postgrad (existing or new research masters or PhD student) for an IRC employment based postgraduate project [1] in collaboration with Contemporary Music Centre (CMC) [2]. The program allows a postgrad to pursue a masters or PhD degree whilst working within an organisation. The student will either be a postgraduate student currently registered in NUIG, or a candidate wishing to pursue a PhD or Masters degree in Insight at NUIG. Insight at NUIG is a national research centre is data Analytics led by Prof. Stefan Decker in the National University of Ireland, Galway. === About NUI Galway === The National University of Ireland, Galway [3] is home to more than 15,000 students across five Colleges with highly active agendas in teaching and research. The INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics [4] is a joint initiative between researchers at NUI Galway, University College Dublin, University College Cork, and Dublin City University, as well as other partner institutions. It brings together a critical mass of more than 200 researchers from Ireland's leading ICT centres to develop a new generation of data analytics technologies in a number of key application areas. The €75m centre is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and a wide range of industry partners. INSIGHT's research focus encompasses a broad range of data analytics technologies and challenges, from machine learning data mining, media analytics and optimisation decision analytics to personalisation recommender systems, the semantic web and linked data and the sensor web. And together with more than 30 partner companies INSIGHT researchers are solving critical challenges in the areas of Connected Health and the Discovery Economy. === About The Contemporary Music Centre === The Contemporary Music Centre is Ireland's national archive and resource centre for new music, supporting the work of composers throughout the Republic and Northern Ireland. The Centre is used, nationally and internationally, by performers, composers, promoters and members of the public interested in finding out more about music in Ireland. Its library and sound archive, open to the public free of charge, contain the only comprehensive collection in existence of music by Irish composers. Extensive reference and advice services are available and the Centre's web site provides access to CMC's resources for those who cannot visit in person. The Contemporary Music Centre engages in an ongoing programme of development work and events, to promote new Irish music at home and abroad, and is a member of the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC). === About the Project === The aim of the project is to develop an innovative linked data platform to provide third parties access to and means to discover the rich content available in CMC’s collections. Emphasis will be put on the publication of CMC's content management system's contents as Linked Data on the Web as well as a demonstration of that data’s potential. The process of gathering the requirements (including work flows and data models) of both the content management system and Linked Data platform will be gathered by Insight @ NUIG, the Digital Repository of Ireland (Royal Irish Academy) and CMC via other instruments and will be handed over to the postgrad taking on this challenge. If you are interested, please send your details and a short CV to Christophe Debruyne (christophe.debru...@insight-centre.org). Additional information on the project can also be requested from him. Candidates will be screened and, together with CMC, ranked. The chosen candidate will be asked to contribute to writing a short research proposal with an internal deadline around the 17th of July. The template can be found in [1] and is fairly straightforward to fill in. The position is foreseen to be based in Dublin (the headquarters of CMC). [1] http://www.research.ie/scheme/employment-based-postgraduate-programme-2014 [2] http://www.cmc.ie/ [3] http://www.nuigalway.ie/ [4] http://www.insight-centre.org/ Professor Stefan Decker Director, Insight Galway Director, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Professor of Digital Enterprise National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Tel: +353.91.495011 E-mail: stefan.dec...@insight-centre.org Web: http://www.stefandecker.org
Re: position in cancer informatics
The discussion seem to point to a deeper question: how to enable crowd
sourcing of the analysis of these kind of data sets? This may involve
running of analysis code or maybe even manual work.
What kind of computational infrastructure would we need to enable this? And
how do we validate and aggregate results?
On Thursday, 19 July 2012, Helena Deus wrote:
An on a related topic and the reason why doing cancer informatics is so
exciting in this area: a happy story where exploring data patterns enabled
curing a cancer which had a 4-5% survival chance -
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/health/in-gene-sequencing-treatment-for-leukemia-glimpses-of-the-future.html?_r=1
On Jul 19, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
On 17 July 2012 22:27, Nathan nat...@webr3.org javascript:_e({},
'cvml', 'nat...@webr3.org'); wrote:
Can you open this right up for everybody to be involved?
I know I for one would be happy to invest free time to looking at these
datasets to find patterns - are they open and available online, any
pointers to get started, anything at all that would enable me (and
hopefully others skilled here) to work on this?
It sounds like less of a position and more of a global need we who can
should all be pumping time in to.
Maybe related:
15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/07/18/15-year-old-maker-astronomically-improves-pancreatic-cancer-test/
He gleaned information on the topic from his “good friend Google,” and
began his research. Yes, he even got in trouble in his science class for
reading articles on carbon nanotubes instead of doing his classwork. When
Andraka had solidified ideas for his novel paper sensor, he wrote out his
procedure, timeline, and budget, and emailed 200 professors at research
institutes. He got 199 rejections and one acceptance from Johns Hopkins:
“If you send out enough emails, someone’s going to say yes.”
Best,
Nathan
Helena Deus wrote:
Dear all,
We have an exciting research assistant position open at DERI for a
chance to work with Cancer Informatics! We are looking for an enthusiastic
developer who is familiar with bioinformatics concepts. Your role will be
exploring cancer related datasets and looking for pattern (applying, for
example, machine learning techniques) that can be used for personalized
medicine.
Please don't hesitate to Fw. this to whomever you think might be
interested.
To apply or to ask for more information, please reply to me (
helena.d...@deri.org javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'helena.d...@deri.org');) with CV + motivation letter
Kind regards, Helena F. Deus, PhD
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
helena.d...@deri.org javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'helena.d...@deri.org');
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Professor Stefan Decker
Director, Digital Enterprise Research Institute,
Professor of Digital Enterprise
National University of Ireland, Galway. Ireland.
Tel: +353.91.495011
E-mail: stefan.dec...@deri.org
Web: http://www.deri.ie
Personal: http://www.stefandecker.org
