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The NUMEV Labex (http://www.lirmm.fr/numev) and AgroPortal project (http://agroportal.lirmm.fr) which builds an ontology repository for agronomy are offering a 1-year postdoc position for 2017-2018 in Montpellier, to work on agronomical ontologies and their alignments as well as take part in the international GACS initiative (http://www.agrisemantics.org/gacs).
 
Abstract:

Standards vocabularies and ontologies are key elements to achieve data interoperability. The AgroPortal project (http://agroportal.lirmm.fr) develops and supports a reference ontology repository for agronomy, plant sciences, biodiversity and nutrition. We have already designed and implemented an advanced prototype offering ontology-based services that hosts 64 ontologies or vocabularies including some reference resources in the domain: Agrovoc, NAL thesaurus, Crop Ontology, etc. One of the challenges when dealing with multiple ontologies is to determine their overlap and align them.
We are offering a postdoc position to develop ontology mapping capabilities to align AgroPortal ontologies and participate into the international Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS) project. With the experience and technology developed with the YAM++ application (LIRMM’s ontology alignment matcher), we will make AgroPortal a state-of-the-art platform for mapping extraction, generation, validation, evaluation, storage and retrieval by adopting a complete semantic web and linked open data approach and engaging the community for curation. We will first focus on the ontologies of the Montpellier community (agronomy, food, biodiversity) and then join the GACS project (integration of Agrovoc, NALt & CABt) in partnership with RDA AgriSemantics working group.
 
More detail here:
http://www.lirmm.fr/sifr/positions/2017_NUMEV-Lingua_postdoc_position.pdf
or
http://www.lirmm.fr/sifr/positions/2017_NUMEV-Lingua_postdoc_position.html