[Rdap] new position: Data Curator at Virginia Tech

Andi Ogier alop at vt.edu
Tue Sep 16 15:30:22 EDT 2014


Hello RDAP!

Just wanted to quickly announce a new position at Virginia Tech! Apologies
if you've already seen this.


The full posting can be found here:
https://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/51624


Job Title: Data Curator


Brief Description:

The Data Curator works in a team-based environment to implement and advance
the Libraries’ data management services. Working as part of the Data
Curation Unit and collaborating with colleagues across the Libraries, the
incumbent will play a leading role in creating workflows, identifying,
implementing, and assessing the use of technologies that support
qualitative and quantitative data gathering, manipulation, transformation,
visualization and analysis. They will also advise on the development of
infrastructure supporting a data repository to maximize the exposure and
reuse of research data sets at Virginia Tech and lead efforts involving the
transformation of metadata into appropriate formats.

This position will be responsible for:

- Processing requests for archiving datasets in the digital repository;
designing and implementing appropriate processing workflows.

- Selecting and managing technologies for transferring and transforming
metadata to augment datasets and enable ingest into a repository.

- Developing, documenting, and executing policies and workflows relating to
technical processes for actively managing the lifecycle of datasets within
the library at Virginia Tech; developing processes for maintaining the
integrity of and access to archived datasets.

- Leading data transformation and manipulation projects.
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