Hi Ed, Luca, this is on-topic. I agree that the email could've mentioned Apache CouchDB more explicitly. I had email exchange with Luca before, they even use (or at least evaluate) GeoCouch.
Luca, can you perhaps explain a bit more what the job will look like in regards to Apache CouchDB. Cheers, Volker On 12/10/2012 09:52 AM, Ed Young wrote: > This is not the place to post this. > > Admin - please warn this user. > > On 10/12/2012, at 19:15, Luca Morandini <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Position no.: 0030516 >> Employment type: Full-time Fixed Term >> Campus: Parkville >> Department of Computing and Information Systems >> Melbourne School of Engineering >> >> Salary: $76,057 - $82,331 p.a. plus 17% superannuation >> >> The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) project >> (www.aurin.org.au) is an exciting $20m initiative across Australia tasked >> with delivering a state of the art research infrastructure supporting >> nationwide urban and build environment researchers. The project will develop >> a core framework (e-Infrastructure) through which a variety of urban >> research areas (lenses) will be supported. Examples of the kinds of lenses >> that will be supported include supporting researchers interested in health >> impacts of living in cities, traffic, housing, energy and water challenges >> facing cities, and future city models. Many of these challenges are based on >> the access to and use of a wide variety of heterogeneous data sets from a >> range of data providers across Australia including government departments >> such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics, to commercial/utility >> companies, to research data sets from universities and a range of other >> organisations. The data is itself extremely het e rogeneous. >> >> The project requires an experienced software (data) engineer who will work >> as part of a core AURIN e-Infrastructure team in the Melbourne eResearch >> Group (MEG) at the University of Melbourne under the leadership of Prof. >> Richard Sinnott. The individual will, working closely with the AURIN >> technical team and the AURIN data architect, be involved in the design, >> definition, implementation and support of the AURIN data and metadata >> systems. This includes data access, data processing/indexing, data linkage, >> metadata management and data storage. Many of these data sets include >> geospatial information and the project draws heavily on Open Geospatial >> Consortium standards and their implementation. >> >> Close date: 6 January 2013 >> >> Position Description & Selection Criteria >> >> http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=855544 >> >> Regards, >> >> Luca Morandini >> Data Architect - AURIN project >> Department of Computing and Information Systems >> University of Melbourne >> Tel. +61 03 903 58 380 >> Skype: lmorandini >>
