Manages metadata creation for both retrospectively digitized and born-digital collections, ensuring effective workflow management and adherence to standards and best practices. Oversees the entire metadata creation process, from initial planning through to implementation. Ensures that both retrospectively digitized materials and newly created digital content meet established standards and best practices, facilitates optimal discoverability and usability of the collections; refining workflow processes to enhance efficiency and productivity across the team.
Manages metadata entry processes, ensuring high quality and accuracy, and conduct data exports for digital collections. Oversees the metadata entry workflow, implements quality control measures to maintain high standards of accuracy and consistency. Conducts regular data exports to ensure that digital collections are updated and accessible, facilitates user engagement and enhances the overall user experience.
Imports metadata from external sources, adding to existing documentation about local metadata practices. Imports metadata from various external sources, enriching the existing collection and documentation of local metadata practices. Evaluate and integrates external metadata while ensuring that it aligns with our institutional standards, thereby enhancing the richness and usability of our digital collections.
Implements metadata policies and standards, including descriptive, structural, technical, administrative, and rights metadata, to facilitate digital collection production, management, and access. Develops and implements comprehensive metadata policies that encompass all facets of metadata creation and management. Ensures that descriptive, structural, technical, administrative, and rights metadata are systematically applied, supporting effective digital collection production and management while enhancing user access and navigation.
Manages the creation of metadata inventories for both internal digitization efforts and vendor-partnered projects. In conjunction with other team members, develop and maintains detailed inventories to ensure comprehensive tracking of materials, provides clear documentation of the metadata quality and compliance with relevant standards. Coordinates with external repositories and platforms to align metadata inventories, ensures seamless integration and adherence to both institutional and external standards.
Actively collaborates with the Digital Collections Working Group, Technical Services, SCRC, and other units to apply current and emerging metadata schemas, enhancing digital collection discoverability; focusing on enhancing the discoverability of our digital collections, ensuring they are accessible and easily navigable for users.
The job performs routine assignments in a library unit in the acquisition and processing of library materials and resources. Resolves processing problems with units.
Assists in setting policies for collections. Participates in designing and implementing workflows for acquiring materials for collections.
Performs other related work as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
Masterâ™s degree in Library and Information Science, or equivalent, with a focus on digital libraries, metadata, or related field.
Experience:
Minimum of 1-year relevant library or related experience.
Technical Skills or Knowledge:
Demonstrated experience with MARC and non-MARC metadata standards, e.g., Dublin Core, VRA Core, BIBFRAME, etc.
Preferred Competencies
Strong organizational skills.
Ability to collaborate effectively and collegially with supervisors and colleagues.
Capability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Proficient in reading and writing documentation.
Ability to work efficiently and with attention to detail.
Working Conditions
Hybrid work schedule.
Ability to use computers extensively during the course of the working day.
Application Documents
Resume (required)
Cover Letter (preferred)
Reference List (3) (preferred)
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