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The Databrary project at New York University seeks a Data Curator, an information specialist who will work with researchers in developmental science to acquire and organize the content of the Databrary digital library. While its content is heterogeneous, a significant portion of the library is video material. **RESPONSIBILITIES** You will work in close collaboration with individual faculty and researchers across the country in preparing files for deposit, including * Analysis of the structure of study data; * Data normalization, cleaning, authority management; * Organization of digital and physical inventories. You will also work in close collaboration with the Databrary software developers to * Devise metadata schema that are flexible but that also offer incentives to consistency; * Devise effective discovery services that function across heterogeneous metadata, and which foster interactions among a highly diverse community of researchers, including UX design and evaluation; * Create best practices for long-term sustainability of data formats, including video formats, such as format migration and transcoding; * Create deposit, maintenance, and annotation workflows; * Create taxonomy(ies) and initial tag sets. **QUALIFICATIONS** * MLS and 3-5 years experience in a related field, such as developmental science, metadata schema design and management, taxonomy management, or equivalent education and experience; * Working knowledge of data management, including metadata, data retrieval and research data use, format migration, preservation; * Demonstrated experience in consulting with faculty regarding technology or metadata options/requirements; * Excellent oral and written communication skills. **PREFERRED** Familiarity with video data and/or sensor data. Familiarity with data management technologies such as XML, SQL, unix filesystems. Familiarity with current efforts in annotation standards. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/8115/