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Nate,

I'm guessing you're venturing into uncharted territory - at least as the
library field is concerned. It's more likely that you'll find more relevant
descriptions in either the urban planning or journalism fields. Let me poke
around and see if I can dig something up.

Toby


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Nate Hill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a job description for an Open Data Specialist at my public
> library.
>
> This person would work for the public library as a builder/maintainer for
> our open data portal (currently an instance of DKAN) which serves civic
> (and eventually other) public domain data.
>
> They would also be an open data evangelist and expert, working with other
> city departments to get/keep them involved as contributors of useful,
> useable data, etc.
>
> I'd also like to highlight the collection development-like aspects of the
> job.
>
> Has anyone seen a similar job description?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nate
>
>
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