The Heinz-Nixdorf-Chair for Distributed Information Systems at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) invites applications for a fully funded PhD student position in Biodiversity Data Visualization for the data management project of the Biodiversity Exploratories (BE) Priority Program. Deadline for application: 2nd, May 2014 Start date: June 2014 or later What this is about The…

We are looking for a motivated student to support the content management of our new GFBio portal. Any further information can be obtained from our job offer page: http://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de/professur/about-us/jobs/studentische-oder-wissenschaftliche-hilfskraft

Link to the german press release: http://www.jenapolis.de/2013/12/informatiker-aus-jena-und-kanada-entwickeln-open-source-software-zur-analyse-von-texten-in-web-portalen/   Link to the english description: http://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de/professur/news-and-events/atural-language-processing-for-web-portals-first-release-of-the-semantic-assistants-liferay-integration

Portals are web-based software applications that can provide a central entry point to a multitude of heterogeneous data sources. Liferay (see http://www.liferay.com/) is an open source, JSR 286-compliant enterprise portal system written in Java. The motivation behind our integration is to bring the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to web portals, with the…

We offer a Postdoc (or PhD) position on scientific data management and application of semantics to it. More information can be found here http://www.uni-jena.de/Universit%C3%A4t/Stellenmarkt/Wissenschaftliche+Mitarbeiter/80_2013+_+wiss_+Mitarbeiter_in+am+Institut+f%C3%BCr+Informatik.html

Now Jena's budget can be explored in a graphical manner: "Jena's Offener Haushalt". Where before you had to find your way through 800 pages in the report, each citizen can check the finances of the city by navigating through a Treemap.In cooperation with the city council Jena we developed a visual representation of the city's…

If you are interested, please have a look at the thesis description and contact Felicitas Löffler.

Congratulations! Fedor successfully defended his thesis on September 17, 2012.

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We are looking for a scientist leading the Ecoinformatics unit of iDiv. Details can be found here.