It's
good to see the word “taxonomy” creeping into the newsroom.  And
the AP is looking for someone who can make them.  Here's the job
posting:



TAXONOMY
DEVELOPER
The Associated
Press
New
York, NY

In
a rapidly evolving technological environment, the Taxonomy Developer
will collaborate with journalists,  technologists, product
specialists and news librarians to coordinate taxonomy creation,
development and maintenance across media types and products, with the
goal of aiding in the efficient retrieval and distribution of
information.

The Taxonomy Developer for the
Associated Press will  develop taxonomies as well as create the taxonomy
management and implementation strategy for AP's content delivery.

Responsibilities
The taxonomy developer will help
define overall AP Taxonomy Integration Strategy for content classification,
delivery and user experience; work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on
editorial, technical and product teams to develop taxonomy implementation,
process and management strategy; and help evaluate and work with appropriate
tools for taxonomy management, data collection/analysis and surfacing of new
terminology.

In addition, duties will include
selection and prioritization of appropriate taxonomy domains. This includes
developing taxonomies for new and existing products; selecting allowed values
lists for proper names, products and companies; creating extensions and
qualifiers to integrate AP's taxonomic scheme to external standards (ISO,
SIC/NAICS, etc.); and working with and extending NewsML, IPTC News Codes and
NITF. This person will work closely with the editorial, technical and product
teams ensuring the taxonomies are usable and will develop and manage automated,
semi-automated and manual processes for gathering taxonomy data, including
adding terms, synonyms, aliases and new relation types as needed.

The Taxonomy Developer will work as
part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team that is creating multimedia news and
information products for AP and bringing them to
market.

Qualifications include:
1) familiarity with industry
standards groups, such as ISO, SIC/NAIC,
2) understanding structural
metadata standards for content classes and entity
extraction,
3) ability to validate usability of
taxonomies with internal user groups (editorial teams) as well as external
audiences,
4) expertise with taxonomy
management and data collection/analysis,
5) surfacing of new terminology,
6) familiarity with Search and Auto
Classification tools (Autonomy http://www.autonomy.com/content/home/ and
Teragram http://www.teragram.com/); Text extraction tools (InXight
http://www.inxight.com/); Taxonomy/Ontology maintenance tools (SchemaLogic
http://www.schemalogic.com/ and Teragram
http://www.teragram.com/)

MLIS degree or 3 years experience
preferred.

For consideration, please send
cover letters and resumes to taxonomy@apjobs.org

The Associated Press is an
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.