[LRUG] [JOBS] BBC News, short but hopefully interesting research project

[Matt Haynes]

Hello LRUG, 

Hope you don't mind yet another job ad cropping up here!

BBC News is running a summer of R&D prototyping and is looking for a Ruby developer
to help us prepare some data and APIs.

We have a basic Rails 3 application set up running a named entity extractor
over our archive. We are mapping extracted entities to controlled vocabs such as 
the Geonames database, They Work for You, and Open Corporates. The hope is to
build some interesting semantically driven audience propositions on top of the data.

So far we have been having some fun with things like Postgres geospatial queries but are 
hoping to move our data into something like BigOwlim at a later date, a Solr instance may 
also be a good mix for this type of setup.

The stack so far is hosted on Amazon EC2 and includes ...

* Rails 3.2
* Resque
* Postgres
* A Scala + Stanford NER webservice (for entity extraction)
* Jquery, Sass, et al

The role itself will likely run for 6 weeks, maybe a little longer and we'd like somebody
to be able to work closely with our Technology and Journalism departments. Some of the 
work will be architectural in nature, such as how to export data to a triple store. 
There'll also be a bit of client side development in making a useful administrative 
interface and also some more complex CS type issues to resolve such as how to deal with 
ambiguous entities.

We feel it's quite a nice bit of work for the early summer and possibly the chance to work 
with something new and interesting.

Please reply with day rates, availability and any relevant details if your interested!

Many thanks,

Matt Haynes
Senior Developer BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/
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