Position Announcements - D.C. Area (fwd)

[Adam Schiff]

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Librarian/Biodiversity Information Specialist (2 positions)
 Newly created positions - designed for starting professionals - to help
 build the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) and the
 Bioinformatics community.  A forward-looking information management
 firm is looking for creative minds and self motivation, people who are
 just a cut above the rest.  We're looking for future leaders.  If you
 have above average experience with computers, experience/background in
 information sciences and/or science (biology) discipline, an ability to
 present yourself professionally, and possess excellent oral and written
 communication skills, then you ought to step out and up to a unique
 work experience.

 Position responsibilities and duties will focus on a number of areas
 with probable expansion and branching into unanticipated topics over
 time:

 Building the content of NBII, for example, through research and
 collection of data for specific purposes such as biodiversity programs
 of domestic and international information networks and programs (e.g.,
 invasive alien species);

 Electronic acquisition of content collections requiring knoweldge about
 the scope and coverage of technical topics for the purpose of
 populating  the content of NBII.  Creative "scouting" and "acquisitions
 management" skills would be required for this activity.

 Building partnership relationships with other organizations such as the
 Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) and the
 Clearing-House Mechanism.  For example, one focus could be to
 standardize and provide information content on: national plans,
 priorities, legislation: spatial and temporal information on the
 components of biological diversity; and indigenous communities'
 knowledge and innovative practices: and provide training in information
 management tools.

 Conduct inventories of the tools and standards used by biologists to
 manipulate systems and conduct research on futuristic methods and tools
 to improve current systems, for example, incorporating more
 computer-originated concepts such as icons or "walkthrough,
 problem-solving wizards," rank-orders of search criteria, simultaneous
 multiple data searches; intelligent search agents; multi-lingual search
 engines; and

 Conceptualize dramatic new ways to retrieve information content,
 drawing upon other disciplines (bio-engineering, genetics, robotics)
 outside the "daily realm" of biological and information sciences:
 automatic "mapping" techniques to directe searches through different
 "labyrinths;" and a type of "fingerprint" system that can select out
 unwanted results and match up one "fingerprint" with a known
 "fingerprint," using a selectable combination of descriptive data,
 genetic, chemical, and visual characteristics.

 Please send resume, salary requirements, and 3 references (names and
 telephone numbers) to:

 Information International Associates, Inc.
 Attention: Kendra Jones
 P.O. Box 4219
 Oak Ridge, TN  37831
 423/481-0388
 FAX: 423/481-0390
 inquiry at infointl.com
 http://www.infointl.com/