Data Curator

Description

The Databrary project at New York University seeks a Data Curator, an information specialist who will work with researchers in developmental science to acquire and organize the content of the Databrary digital library. While its content is heterogeneous, a significant portion of the library is video material.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will work in close collaboration with individual faculty and researchers across the country in preparing files for deposit, including

• Analysis of the structure of study data;
• Data normalization, cleaning, authority management;
• Organization of digital and physical inventories.

You will also work in close collaboration with the Databrary software developers to

• Devise metadata schema that are flexible but that also offer incentives to consistency;
• Devise effective discovery services that function across heterogeneous metadata, and which foster interactions among a highly diverse community of researchers, including UX design and evaluation;
• Create best practices for long-term sustainability of data formats, including video formats, such as format migration and transcoding;
• Create deposit, maintenance, and annotation workflows;
• Create taxonomy(ies) and initial tag sets.

QUALIFICATIONS

• MLS and 3-5 years experience in a related field, such as developmental science, metadata schema design and management, taxonomy management, or equivalent education and experience;
• Working knowledge of data management, including metadata, data retrieval and research data use, format migration, preservation;
• Demonstrated experience in consulting with faculty regarding technology or metadata options/requirements;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

PREFERRED

Familiarity with video data and/or sensor data.
Familiarity with data management technologies such as XML, SQL, unix filesystems.
Familiarity with current efforts in annotation standards. TO APPLY

Send the following to jobs@databrary.org:

• One page cover letter (PDF)
• Academic transcript of your formal qualifications (PDF)
• Links to your open source contributions or other samples of your work
• Resume (PDF)