Vacancy for Metadata Specialist at University of Cambridge
28 March 2021
Cambridge
Fixed Term
Cambridge University Libraries are about to embark on an exciting five-year Digital Preservation Programme to establish the Cambridge University Libraries Digital Preservation Service.
Based at the main University Library, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Metadata Specialist on the Programme. This is a new role essential for delivering the digital preservation service and contributing to a wider Digital Transformation Programme, supporting the Library's extensive digital collections and those of other university bodies.
The Digital Preservation Programme is a pioneering initiative for the University Library, involving a cloud-native, open-source digital repository and preservation system to ensure ongoing access to digital materials. The project includes tools for digital deposit, search, discovery, access, use, and re-use.
The service will support digital collection materials from creation or acquisition through to access, use, and re-use, ensuring accessibility for current and future users. These collections include digitised images, research publications and data, and born-digital archives.
Within the Digital Preservation team and reporting to the Head of Digital Preservation, the Metadata Specialist will focus on metadata management to support digital preservation and access. The role involves ensuring metadata exists within systems, developing data models and schemas, and optimizing processes around collection metadata.
The key activities include:
1. Analyzing and evaluating existing metadata workflows for digital collections.
2. Cleaning, transforming, optimizing, and enriching metadata to support collection management and improve efficiency.
3. Informing how metadata is consumed by current and future systems.
4. Promoting the use of metadata in creation, enrichment, analysis, and management reporting.
5. Developing and monitoring compliance with metadata standards and policies, and implementing workflows accordingly.
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