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Part Time e-taxonomy Support Specialist, Natural History Museum

Submitted by Vince Smith on Sat, 23/06/2012 - 15:53

Become part of an expanding team of developers and informaticians working at the cutting edge of information and biodiversity research. The Natural History Museum London is recruiting an e-Taxonomy support specialist (14 month, part time, £16,403 per annum, pro rata equivalent to £27,339) as part of a major effort to help researchers share and manage biodiversity data on the Web.

Drupal developer (Two Posts) | Natural History Museum

Submitted by Vince Smith on Sat, 23/06/2012 - 11:43

Become part of an expanding team of developers working at the cutting edge of information science and biodiversity research. The Natural History Museum London is recruiting two junior/mid-level Drupal developers (18 month contracts, £34,508 per annum plus benefits) as part of a major effort to help researchers share and manage biodiversity data on the Web.

ViBRANT First Year Review

Submitted by Vince Smith on Mon, 19/03/2012 - 17:43

I am delighted to be able to share with you the results of ViBRANT's first year review. This was written by three external reviewers (Barbara Aronson, Jessie Kennedy and Tom Dedeurwaerdere) after a day-long series of presentations from members of ViBRANT's management team at the end of January.

e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science

Submitted by Vince Smith on Fri, 02/12/2011 - 10:44

A few days ago, a special issue of ZooKeys, edited by myself and Lyubomir Penev, published its jubilee Issue No 150 "e-Infrastructures for Data Publishing in Biodiversity Science", comprising 18 papers in total plus two editorials.

Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licences

Submitted by Vince Smith on Fri, 04/02/2011 - 00:13

During and after the kick-off meeting for ViBRANT there was much discussion on the “non-commercial” (NC) limitation, which is part of the default licence scheme added to content created within the ViBRANT infrastructure. A strict definition of NC makes this content incompatible with a growing body of other free material (e.g. Wikipedia) and potentially rules out other beneficial uses that a content creator might have intended to allow.

We are hiring

Submitted by Vince Smith on Fri, 13/08/2010 - 12:40

The ViBRANT team at the Natural History Museum, London, in conjunction with the NERC funded eMonocot project will be hiring a Senior and Junior Drupal developer to complement the current group supported under EDIT. These posts are intended to start on December 1st, in time for the start of the ViBRANT project and the job adverts will appear here shortly. ViBRANT offers a range of job opportunities across Europe for informaticians and support scientists with an interest in biodiversity and natural history. All these posts will be advertised on this site in the coming months.

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