Sr. Ontology Specialist
Thomson/West - Eagan, MN (Minneapolis, MN area) USA

Thomson Legal & Regulatory (TLR) is a leading provider of integrated information solutions to legal, tax, accounting, intellectual property, compliance, business and government professionals around the world. Thomson West, a division of TLR, is seeking a Sr. Ontology Specialist who specializes in taxonomy development and maintenance to join the Ontology team. This individual will manage the development and maintenance of 2 taxonomies as well as numerous mapping files. This position has the potential to manage the Ontology Editorial group consisting of Classification Model Developers and taxonomy specialists.

Job Responsibilities

• Define, develop and maintain a user taxonomy that optimizes search and retrieval, navigation and browsing capabilities for TLR Business Information and News products.
• Continually augment and refine content, structure and format of taxonomy to meet existing and emerging customer needs.
• Oversee development of taxonomy used for classification of content.
• Develop and maintain numerous mapping files.
• Manage implementation of thesaurus/ontology management software program.
• Ensure that data integrity issues are identified and proactively addressed.
• Work with QA Specialist to develop and manage QA processes for taxonomies, mappings, authority files and classification and extraction data.
• Design and implement automatic feedback loops using classification, extraction and user data results to determine optimal changes to taxonomy development and structure.
• Proactively identify and resolve data integrity issues.
• Work with Product Development, Engineering, Development and Editorial experts to ensure that assets are compatible with existing products and technology.
• Ensure work and projects are aligned with business and product priorities.
• Provide general Ontology assistance to Thomson West as required.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Information Science required.
• Minimum 5 years experience working with taxonomies/ontologies/authorities.
• Minimum 3 years Project Management experience.
• Strong management capabilities.
• Highly knowledgeable of automated classification and extraction processes.
• Experience using a variety of thesauri/ontology management tools.
• Extensive experience with online database searching. Ability to form complex Boolean queries.
• Familiar with XML, DTD development and data warehousing principles.
• Ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical coworkers.
• Knowledge of content and data architectures and their relationship to Information Architecture and Knowledge Management practices.
• Extremely detail oriented.

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