The UC San Diego Library is looking for two extraordinary and knowledgeable
professionals to join our staff in the role of Metadata Librarians.

  
The UC San Diego Library is committed to supporting academic excellence and
diversity within the faculty, staff, and student body.

  
We have two positions available:

* Temporary, for two years from date of hire  
* Permanent  
  
About the UC San Diego Library

The UC San Diego Library, ranked among the nation's top 25 public academic
libraries, plays a critical role in advancing and supporting the university's
research, teaching, patient care, and public service missions. The world-
renowned research for which UC San Diego is known starts at the UC San Diego
Library, which provides the foundation of knowledge needed to advance cutting-
edge discoveries in a wide range of disciplines, from healthcare and science
to public policy and the arts.

  
The UC San Diego Library is widely recognized as an innovative leader in the
development, management, and delivery of digital resources to support the
university's world-class research and instruction. The Library plays a
leadership role in HathiTrust, an international partnership of 52 academic and
research libraries committed to long-term digital preservation, and also plays
a central role in data curation, a critical part of the University's research
cyberinfrastructure initiative.

  
Program Description

The Research Data Curation and Metadata Services programs are two
collaborative programs within the UC San Diego Libraries. Metadata Services
(MS) incorporates traditional cataloging (including a team that provides
services for the UC system) as well as metadata support for digital objects,
database management, and manuscripts and archives processing. Research Data
Curation (RDC) is one of the Library's newest programs, born of the commitment
of the Library to digital preservation and lifecycle management.

  
RDC supports a core piece of the Library's Strategic Plan, engaging with
partners to make digital scholarly work and data openly discoverable and
accessible for the long term. In response to the growing campus-wide data
management and data preservation challenges, the Library actively supports
open data and open access by collaborating with faculty, researchers, students
and other partners to ensure the long-term curation and accessibility of
scholarly works in all formats.

  
The scale of the challenge regarding the stewardship of digital data requires
that responsibilities be distributed across multiple entities and partnerships
that engage institutions, disciplines, and interdisciplinary domains. For this
reason, the Research Data Curation Program operates in collaboration with UCSD
Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCI) and the University of California Curation
Center (UC3).

  
Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCI) is a UC San Diego-sponsored program that
offers campus researchers facilities, storage, data curation, computing, and
networking to facilitate their research using shared cyberinfrastructure
services across campus.

  
The RCI program is designed to provide cost-effective, reliable services which
can be utilized by UCSD principal investigators in their current research
efforts and incorporated in proposals for future research.

  
RCI has a number of services, including the data curation services. In the
spring of 2011, the UC San Diego RCI Implementation Team invited researchers
and research teams to participate in the Research Curation and Data Management
Pilot program. Twenty applications were received and after due deliberation
the RCI Oversight Committee selected five curation-intensive projects.

  
The pilot participants received assistance with the creation of metadata to
make data discoverable and available for future re-use; with the ingest of
data into the San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC) new Cloud Storage
system, which is accessible via high-speed networks; and with the movement of
data into Chronopolis, a geographically-dispersed preservation system. More
information about the pilot projects can be found at http://rci.ucsd.edu/data-
curation/pilots.html

  
Metadata Services connects our UCSD community to intellectual and creative
content and materials by analyzing, describing and organizing resources using
methods and systems that promote discovery. MS provides, augments and
normalizes metadata for digitized and born-digital objects and for tangible
resources--particularly collections of distinction for which UC San Diego is
known. MS delivers and manages bibliographic access to licensed and open
access electronic resources in all formats. The program includes approximately
37 FTE staff in four core service areas.

  
Within MS, the Metadata Analysis and Specification group establishes and
manages metadata standards and policies for metadata creation and encoding
practices. The group advises on metadata creation, and provides metadata
augmentation, manipulation, normalization, and mapping for digitized and born-
digital objects. Staff provides consulting services on tools, standards,
controlled vocabularies, and workflows for metadata creation.

  
Responsibilities of the Position

Each position will work partly in the Metadata Services Program and partly in
the Research Data Curation Program.

  
The temporary position will focus 60% time on research data sets, and the
permanent position will focus 70% time on the digital objects being prepared
for ingest into our Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS).

  
The successful candidates for these positions will work collaboratively with
two other metadata specialists already on our staff.

  
Both positions will also work closely with staff in the Digital Library
Program and in Information Technology Services to achieve our librarywide goal
of developing and delivering a robust and high quality discovery and
management tool for digital objects. Both positions will provide metadata
services related to digital objects and research data.

  
These Metadata Librarians will interact with curators, archivists, librarians,
project managers, technologists, researchers and students to analyze their
metadata. They will advise and assist data owners, and will propose techniques
for normalizing and mapping metadata that can be aggregated and shared. The
objects and their metadata will come from many sources--from library
collections (text, still image, moving image, etc.) to data sets from campus
researchers.

  
We have an in-house-developed Digital Asset Management System (DAMS4). The
metadata creation and editing tools are still under development, which makes
this an exciting time to come on board. We are actively designing for a linked
data future.

  
* Consults with data and content owners (library staff and campus researchers) on metadata strategies, including introducing them to best practices, selection of appropriate metadata standards and schemas, and advising on tools and workflows for metadata creation and cleanup.  
* Analyzes metadata from data and content owners for quality and completeness, making recommendations of changes for consistency and to assure coherent aggregation with other metadata in the DAMS.  
* Prepares instructions for metadata processing prior to the ingest of objects and collections into the DAMS.  
* Provides quality control review of digital objects and metadata following ingest.  
* Contributes to planning of long term metadata strategy for UCSD Library and the DAMS.  
* Assists with specifications for DAMS development as needed.  
* Contributes to the development and revisions of policies, schemas, and guidelines to support the DAMS.  
* Advises on standards, vocabulary control, taxonomy support, database management  
  
To Apply:

For full consideration, please submit applications to https://apol-
recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF00434

  
Please provide the following:

  
1. A short application letter addressing your interest in leading this program
and applicable qualifications

2. A resume of education and relevant experience

3. The names of at least three persons who are knowledgeable about your
qualifications and/or suitability for this position

4. A personal statement summarizing your past or planned contributions to
diversity; guidance for preparing diversity statements can be found at:
http://facultyequity.ucsd.edu/Faculty-Applicant-C2D-Info.asp

  
UCSD is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong
institutional commitment to excellence through diversity.



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