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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hello LRUG,<BR>
<BR>
Hope you don't mind yet another job ad cropping up here!<BR>
<BR>
BBC News is running a summer of R&D prototyping and is looking for a Ruby developer<BR>
to help us prepare some data and APIs.<BR>
<BR>
We have a basic Rails 3 application set up running a named entity extractor<BR>
over our archive. We are mapping extracted entities to controlled vocabs such as<BR>
the Geonames database, They Work for You, and Open Corporates. The hope is to<BR>
build some interesting semantically driven audience propositions on top of the data.<BR>
<BR>
So far we have been having some fun with things like Postgres geospatial queries but are<BR>
hoping to move our data into something like BigOwlim at a later date, a Solr instance may<BR>
also be a good mix for this type of setup.<BR>
<BR>
The stack so far is hosted on Amazon EC2 and includes ...<BR>
<BR>
* Rails 3.2<BR>
* Resque<BR>
* Postgres<BR>
* A Scala + Stanford NER webservice (for entity extraction)<BR>
* Jquery, Sass, et al<BR>
<BR>
The role itself will likely run for 6 weeks, maybe a little longer and we'd like somebody<BR>
to be able to work closely with our Technology and Journalism departments. Some of the<BR>
work will be architectural in nature, such as how to export data to a triple store.<BR>
There'll also be a bit of client side development in making a useful administrative<BR>
interface and also some more complex CS type issues to resolve such as how to deal with<BR>
ambiguous entities.<BR>
<BR>
We feel it's quite a nice bit of work for the early summer and possibly the chance to work<BR>
with something new and interesting.<BR>
<BR>
Please reply with day rates, availability and any relevant details if your interested!<BR>
<BR>
Many thanks,<BR>
<BR>
Matt Haynes<BR>
Senior Developer BBC News</FONT>
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