Digital Metadata Librarian
Brigham Young University Job Location: Utah Apply By: 03/10/2021 Date Created: 02-03-2021
- Master’s in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from an ALA-accredited institution
- Digital metadata emphasis in graduate school or three years of experience working in digital metadata and digital collections is preferred
- Ability to research, edit, evaluate, upgrade, and manipulate the content of library systems and databases
- Knowledge of protocols and methods for digital metadata aggregation, including the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and application protocol interfaces
- Demonstrated understanding of emerging developments within the national metadata environment and within librarianship in general
- Familiarity with linked-data concepts and practices
- Creates, updates, remediates, transforms, imports, and exports metadata for digital objects and collections residing in various library systems and metadata repositories
- Coordinates aggregation of digital content and metadata, including digital object metadata and descriptive records
- Maintains and updates metadata application profiles
- Creates metadata ingest templates
- Performs quality control and quality assessment of metadata describing digital objects
- Presents research or innovative/unique information at conferences, workshops, seminars, and/or other professional/scholarly meetings