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Lead Taxonomy Developer, Associated Press
Jun 08 05
Source: SigIA
Please send cover letters and resumes to taxonomy@apjobs.org
The Taxonomy Developer for the Associated Press will develop taxonomies as well as create the taxonomy management and implementation strategy for AP's content delivery.
Responsibilities
The taxonomy developer will help define overall AP Taxonomy Integration Strategy for content classification, delivery and user experience; work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on editorial, technical and product teams to develop taxonomy implementation, process and management strategy; and help evaluate and work with appropriate tools for taxonomy management, data collection/analysis and surfacing of new terminology.
In addition, duties will include selection and prioritization of appropriate taxonomy domains. This includes developing taxonomies for new and existing products; selecting allowed values lists for proper names, products and companies; creating extensions and qualifiers to integrate AP's taxonomic scheme to external standards (ISO, SIC/NAICS, etc.); and working with and extending NewsML, IPTC News Codes and NITF. This person will work closely with the editorial, technical and product teams ensuring the taxonomies are usable and will develop and manage automated, semi-automated and manual processes for gathering taxonomy data, including adding terms, synonyms, aliases and new relation types as needed.
Qualifications include:
1) familiarity with industry standards groups, such as ISO, SIC/NAIC,
2) understanding structural metadata standards for content classes and entity extraction,
3) ability to validate usability of taxonomies with internal user groups (editorial teams) as well as external audiences,
4) expertise with taxonomy management and data collection/analysis,
5) surfacing of new terminology,
6) familiarity with Search and Auto Classification tools (Autonomy http://www.autonomy.com/content/home/ and Teragram http://www.teragram.com/); Text extraction tools (InXight http://www.inxight.com/); Taxonomy/Ontology maintenance tools (SchemaLogic http://www.schemalogic.com/ and Teragram
http://www.teragram.com/)
MLIS degree or 3 years experience preferred.
The Associated Press is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Please send cover letters and resumes to taxonomy@apjobs.org
This job is located in New York, NY.
The Associated Press
450 West 33rd Street
NY, NY 10001