University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Undergrad position(s)* – part of a National Science Foundation REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) fund
Graduate position – Hourly, also funded by the National Science Foundation
*Students must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions.
The work is for research projects in semantics and geospatial data.
- Semantics – the meaning of terms
- Problems – Data producers use their own vocabulary resulting in incompatible data, Searching for data over the Web is not done in context, Geospatial data are in silos and could be put into the Linked Data Cloud.
- Solutions – Use and enhance semantic technologies: RDF, SPARQL, OWL, ontologies
The work can be done remotely. Various other helping-type tasks are also needed, such as updating Wiki content, etc.
The National Science Foundation encourages hiring students with economic hardship as well as minority students, women, and those with disabilities.
Freshmen and sophomores are considered for the REU position. The intent of REU projects is to for undergraduates to learn basic research skills and also encourage them to major in science and technology.
Please send an email of interest that includes interest and coursework relevant to Computer Science and/or GIS/spatial data to:
Nancy Wiegand
Space Science and Engineering
1225 W. Dayton Street
wiegand@cs.wisc.edu