Overview
The consultant will enhance and upgrade the BRS Secretariat thesaurus system (PoolParty) to improve information classification and indexing on BRS Secretariat websites and other information systems.
Tasks Summary
- Upgrade the PoolParty staging server to its latest version, applying security patches and bug fixes.
- Set up, configure, and migrate relevant thesauri to a new PoolParty server for production use.
- Enhance the BRS taxonomy by removing concepts, merging schemes, expanding hierarchy, cleaning concepts, and aligning with SDG indicators and Global Framework on Chemicals targets.
- Enhance the BRS Tagger App to provide more accurate results by updating the corpus, defining stop-words, and connecting to the GEO Index API.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of proven experience in computer programming, data analysis, knowledge management, content governance, search, taxonomy and metadata management projects is required.
- Demonstrable experience in indexing content using existing taxonomies is also required.
- Proven experience in system's analysis and design, computer programming, including advanced programming skills in MS VB or C# for .NET platform, using MS SQL Server databases, and OData restful web services is required.
- Experience with Pool Party Thesaurus Management System, supported by certificates from the PoolParty academy is desired.
- Experience in working with environment related intergovernmental organisations on knowledge management is desirable.
Qualification Requirements
An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in information management, computer science or related field is required. A first level university degree in combination with two additional years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
