Hello everyone,

NYU CUSP is recruiting a Research Information Scientist, a nice blend of
tech skills and library training, to help manage their data.

A summary of responsibilities is below. The full description can be found
here:
http://cusp.nyu.edu/career-prospects/careers/research-information-scientist/


The CUSP NYU data facility has been established to support the empirical
study of cities in conjunction with New York based researchers, agencies,
and citizens. It uses modern approaches to reduce the multiple technical,
legal, bureaucratic, capacity, and cost barriers to access so that the full
research and policy benefits can be realized. The facility has two goals:
(i) ensure that new and existing urban data are made available to and used
by current and future members of the research community in a state of the
art facility, and (ii) staff in government agencies and local citizens are
engaged by the ability to use the facility to addressing important urban
problems.

The research information scientist will serve as an information specialist,
programmer, and ETL engineer, in order to support the full CUSP data life
cycle, including data curation, data ingestion, data discovery, and
researcher access. The research information scientist will be responsible
for collecting, developing, collating, archiving and communicating
information about research datasets in the CUSP data facility. In that
role, s/he will oversee the metadata management system and design/implement
new features or services as needed, which requires strong programming and
database skills. S/he will provide programming support to software
engineers, in order to adapt in-house data profiling and discovery software
to build and update in-house software. A successful research information
scientist candidate will also be able to develop basic and execute complex
ETL scripts for data ingest and researcher database development. This
person will lead CUSP’s metadata knowledge management – structural and
domain information about data assets. In this role, s/he will communicate
with domain experts on NYC and related open data, urban policy research
data, and physical measurement data, creating a database to facilitate data
discovery beyond the standard laundry list approach.

Cheers,
Vicky Steeves
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Vicky Steeves
Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian
212-992-6269 | Bobst Library 517
NYU Libraries Data Services | NYU Center for Data Science