Metadata Specialist

University of Maryland • College Park, MD

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About The Position

Transforming Indigenous Archival Search, a collaborative Mellon-funded project, seeks a Metadata Specialist to liaise with national and international standards groups, develop and implement metadata workflows, and augment Tribal staff as metadata specialist to improve pan-institutional visibility and searchability of Indigenous records, including implementing culturally-appropriate technical solutions in the SNAC platform, and associated documentation. Position is FULLY grant funded for three (3) years. Continuation of position will be dependent upon Grant Funds availability. Candidates who have Native or Indigenous backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Three (3) years of experience in an academic or research library in bibliographic database management or copy cataloging.
• Additional work experience as defined above may be substituted on a year for year basis for up to four (4) years of the required education.
• Knowledge of bibliographic records in integrated library systems.
• Knowledge of bibliographic database management and copy cataloging.
• Skill in oral and written communication.
• Skill in the use of Microsoft Office products.
• Ability to interpret and apply policies, procedures, regulations, and laws.
• Ability to multitask while demonstrating a commitment to customer service and sensitivity to a culturally and ethnically diverse community.

Nice To Haves

• MLS or advanced degree in a related field of information management or equivalent work experience.
• Professional experience with technology-focused metadata projects, scripting, and data manipulation.
• Demonstrated success working collaboratively in project teams with multiple levels of staff, colleagues, and community constituencies.
• Knowledge of XML schema, XSLT stylesheets, metadata cross-walks, and principles for designing and/or adapting existing work from related domains.
• Knowledge of archival and library metadata standards (descriptive, technical, structural) (e.g., EAC-CPF, EAD, MARC, MARCXML, METS, MODS, FCGD, CCO, Dublin Core, VRA).
• Familiarity with ontology development and structured data standards, such as controlled vocabularies and thesauri.
• Experience with analyzing, creating, and documenting procedures such as service standards, policies, procedures and workflows.
• Experience using or architecting APIs.
• Conceptual knowledge of programming, data manipulation and transformation tools, technologies and methodologies (e.g., Python, Ruby, JavaScript, OpenRefine).
• Experience working with archival collections or knowledge of archival repository functions, services, and requirements.
• Experience working with Native and Indigenous (or other BIPOC) communities.
• Demonstrated commitment to openness, diversity, inclusion, innovation, and social justice.
• Working knowledge of metadata application profiles, RDF triple-stores, SPARQL queries, JSON-LD, IIIF, linked data, BIBFRAME, and/or the Web Annotation standard.
• Familiarity with core university digital systems and platforms such as Google Suite and Zoom.

Responsibilities

• liaise with national and international standards groups
• develop and implement metadata workflows
• augment Tribal staff as metadata specialist to improve pan-institutional visibility and searchability of Indigenous records
• implement culturally-appropriate technical solutions in the SNAC platform
• associated documentation

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees