This is a support position for the Advanced Computing and Information Systems (ACIS) laboratory. The Director of the ACIS laboratory, Dr. Jose Fortes, is leading the IT component of a large multi-university project titled “National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections” (iDigBio). The iDigBio project is an exciting initiative to provide software and infrastructure to digitize the nation’s biological collections and disseminate that infrastructure to other institutions. The ACIS laboratory is responsible for designing and developing the middleware, supporting storage, and cloud infrastructure for the project. iDigBio’s data integration expert will develop or utilize tools and techniques to automate data transformation tasks required by iDigBio’s mission. The expert will work closely with the rest of the iDigBio team to document and redistribute these tools and techniques, including the potential development of data transformation, cleaning, and analysis appliances. The expert will be a contact person for new data sources of iDigBio’s systems. In addition to jointly developing data-management IT components with other ACIS experts, the expert will work with data providers on determining effective methods for the representation and transmission of data from source databases into iDigBio’s global schema. The expert will also work with data consumers to address their needs for additional data sources and types, or for establishing more effective data representations for iDigBio’s global schema.
To apply and for more details, go to: https://jobs.ufl.edu/postings/45214
