Greetings [somewhat crossposted, but please feel free to forward] The SKUA project is advertising a SemWebby job, lasting 18 months and starting as soon as possible next year, which will nod to semantic desktops, social software and linking data. Further details are linked to below, but note that the timescale is short -- the closing date is 5 DECEMBER -- unfortunately forced by the funding deadlines. The job will be ideal for a research-focused developer with SemWeb interests. If they have UI talents, too, that's even better. The SKUA project has received JISC funding <www.jisc.ac.uk> to prototype a network of shared annotation services, which will support annotation of resources (including bookmarking, tagging, scrapbooking and commenting), via a network -- really a DAG -- of triplestores delegating to each other. The nodes will include personal annotations, ones shared with a group or ad-hoc collaboration, and one or more global ones. As well as this infrastructure, we're aiming to produce a couple of applications building on it, ranging from a simple bookmarking service, via a suggestions service ('get me more resources like this one!', using some semantic knowledge about astronomy built in to the node or to the service), up to a broadly Facebook-like VRE. The applications are focused on astronomy in the first instance, but the infrastructure is intended to be generic. We thus have some clear use-cases, and we have close links with an existing developer and user community in AstroGrid and in the European Virtual Observatory project. The job details, including background and use-cases, are at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/YX815/ Research_Associate_Software_Developer/ which points to http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/r3527p.html and there's an initial web site, also giving background, at http://www.myskua.org If anyone has any questions I'd be delighted to answer them. Norman -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk eurovotech.org : University of Leicester, UK