Digital Repository Analyst

Description

Play a key role in a grant-funded initiative to shape a data-centered international strategy for archiving and digitizing historical journals and newspapers

The Digital Repository Analyst will assess and compare the capacity of various systems to provide long-term access to digitized news.  Based on this assessment, he/she will play a key role in developing a rational methodology and process for libraries and publishers to collaborate on digitizing newspaper content to ensure broad access, interoperability, and persistence.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Determining the scope of content residing in targeted digital newspaper repositories and performing comparisons of coverage to identify gaps and areas of overlap/uniqueness
• Evaluating the functionality, features and interoperability of the various database products used to contain the content
• Assessing the technical specifications for the primary elements of the platforms/content management systems
• Working with CRL audit repository specialists to evaluate the publisher/library polices and the aspects of the platforms/repositories relative to preservation policies
• Develops use cases and requirements of academic researchers for the use of digitized newspaper content.

Requirements:

• Minimum of one year of experience analyzing and/or managing large research or academic databases
• Experience with digital preservation practices, and working knowledge of standards and concepts in support of long term preservation of digital information
• Familiarity with the use of news and related content in academic research in the humanities and social sciences
• In-depth understanding of the lifecycle of electronic news or digitization of primary source library collections.
• B.A. in related discipline
• MLS, MSLIS or equivalent experience

In addition to professional challenge and a chance to make a creative contribution, the CRL offers a competitive salary and exceptional benefits package.