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Posted 5 February 2010

Taxonomist
Aquent.com

Deadline: 'open until filled'

We have a great new contract opportunity for a Taxonomist! This position will be located onsite in Redmond, WA.

In this role you will help our customer to make a concerted effort on building technologies to manage structured and unstructured data, to provide key insight and knowledge to our online services business. Taxonomy is an important part of this.
The work will include Taxonomy development and maintenance. Manual classification and labeling of data. Work with and provide input to engineers who build automated classification algorithms.

Duties will include:
Define categories. Write scope notes. Manual classification. Meet with engineers to discuss progress.

 

Required Skills:

• Bachelor degree in information & library science, philosophy, cognitive science, or related fields.
• 1+ years of experience building and/or maintaining large taxonomies. Experience in the online services industry (e-commerce, search, advertising, social networks, etc.) is a big plus.
• Experience working with content management and taxonomy management systems.
• Excellent communication, verbal and written.
• Strong attention to details.

Qualified candidates, please submit resume via e-mail to jgoodson@aquent.com



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