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Monday, December 14, 2009

Building a "coming soon" website

Starting up biodiversity.aq
the domain name is reserved, DNS are being pointed at a quick website I built on my mac in a few minutes. It contains the essential information and the links to the two components of the project: SCARMarBIN (marine) and the EBA database (terrestrial and limnetic). Hope to have a truely integrated, top-notch website within the next 6 mo... pretty challenging.

biodiversity.aq is hiring

The ANTABIF (Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility, www.biodiversity.aq) project aims at constructing a scientific network and web portal that will provide free and open access to Antarctic biodiversity data. The project is funded by the Belgian Science Policy (BelSPO),
ANTA’BIF is implemented by the Belgian Biodiversity Platform and will build on the experience accumulated in the framework of, amongst others, the SCAR-MarBIN project. ANTA’BIF offers a dynamic and challenging position, with many developments on the way, and real-time collaboration with a network of scientists and developers in Belgium and abroad. The construction and test phase of the project will run over a period of two years.

Profile: IT Specialist
We seek, for immediate hiring, an IT specialist (Graduate or equivalent), to take part in the implementation and development of the new Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTA’BIF). (S)he will be in charge of the implementation of specific web developments and of the data and metadata management of the project.

please circulate widely!

you can download the original job offer in three languages here