<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hello RDAP! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Just wanted to quickly announce a new position at Virginia Tech! Apologies if you&#39;ve already seen this. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The full posting can be found here: </span><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/51624">https://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/51624</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Job Title: Data Curator</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Brief Description: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This position will be responsible for:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- Processing requests for archiving datasets in the digital repository; designing and implementing appropriate processing workflows.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- Selecting and managing technologies for transferring and transforming metadata to augment datasets and enable ingest into a repository.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- Leading data transformation and manipulation projects.</span></p></div></div>
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