Taxonomist, CNN Library, Turner Broadcasting, Atlanta GA

Posted February 5, 2014

Job Title: Taxonomist – CNN – Library
Job Category: Librarian Science
Job Location: United States – Georgia – Atlanta 
Job Type : Full Time
Requisition # : 139981BR

Posting Job Description :
 
Qualifications:
The Taxonomist for the CNN Library will require the following:

– Master’s degree in Library or Information Science.
– At least 3-5 years experience in taxonomy, thesaurus, or controlled vocabulary development, preferably for text content in a media business.
– Experience working with platforms for automatic classification. 
– Hands-on experience with Smartlogic Semaphore, Temis/Luxid or similar systems is desired. 
– Understanding of metadata management and metadata standards
– Ontology development, linked data and semantic web, familiarity with SPARQL querying
– Familiarity with web publishing, SEO, and tagging or indexing news content.
– The best candidate will be a team-oriented self-starter with excellent interpersonal and communication skills who can connect well with multi-disciplinary teams. 
– You should be inquisitive and analytical, with good editorial judgment, and work well both independently and collaboratively. 
– You should be very interested in news and comfortable with a fast-paced environment.

Duties:
The Taxonomist for the CNN Library will be responsible for the following:

– Continuous, timely review of topic suggestions and storylines emerging in the news, to define, develop and place in the taxonomy.
– Ongoing development of taxonomy hierarchies, terms and relationships to support new areas of concentration in our content. 
– Development may involve text-mining and entity extraction against content, analyzing content for possible classification gaps, and identification, mapping and incorporation of external vocabularies.
– Research and selection of document sets to support topic development, auto-categorization tuning, and system QC.
– Regular review, analysis, tuning and quality control on the output of the automated classification system to optimize performance and ensure accuracy. 
– Support of linked data initiatives across the business. 

This position is located in our Atlanta headquarters (no telecommuting).
CNN is a 24×7 operation where schedules can involve evening, weekend and holiday hours, so schedule flexibility is important.