Transforming Indigenous Archival Search seeks a Metadata Specialist to improve the visibility and searchability of Indigenous records by developing and implementing metadata workflows and culturally-appropriate technical solutions.
Requirements
- Knowledge of XML schema, XSLT stylesheets, metadata cross-walks, and principles for designing and/or adapting existing work from related domains.
- Knowledge of archival and library metadata standards (descriptive, technical, structural) (e.g., EAC-CPF, EAD, MARC, MARCXML, METS, MODS, FCGD, CCO, Dublin Core, VRA).
- Familiarity with ontology development and structured data standards, such as controlled vocabularies and thesauri.
- Experience with analyzing, creating, and documenting procedures such as service standards, policies, procedures and workflows.
- Experience using or architecting APIs.
- Conceptual knowledge of programming, data manipulation and transformation tools, technologies and methodologies (e.g., Python, Ruby, JavaScript, OpenRefine).
- Working knowledge of metadata application profiles, RDF triple-stores, SPARQL queries, JSON-LD, IIIF, linked data, BIBFRAME, and/or the Web Annotation standard.
Responsibilities
- develop and implement metadata workflows
- augment Tribal staff as metadata specialist
- implementing culturally-appropriate technical solutions in the SNAC platform
- associated documentation
- Professional experience with technology-focused metadata projects
- scripting
- data manipulation
Other
- liaise with national and international standards groups
- Demonstrated success working collaboratively in project teams with multiple levels of staff, colleagues, and community constituencies.
- Experience working with archival collections or knowledge of archival repository functions, services, and requirements.
- Experience working with Native and Indigenous (or other BIPOC) communities.
- Demonstrated commitment to openness, diversity, inclusion, innovation, and social justice.
