Vacancy for Digital Curation Librarian at Qatar National Library

Vacancy for Digital Curation Librarian at Qatar National Library

Qatar

Full-Time

Key Result Areas :

Development, operation, and maintenance

Develop, document, operate, and maintain relevant digital workflow (or part thereof), including preparation of Submission Information Package (SIP), monitoring and reporting on ingest status, and troubleshoot ingest issues in the QNL Digital Preservation System and the Institutional Repository.

Develop, operate, and maintain processes for periodically checking and troubleshooting issues related to integrity of Archival Information Packages (AIPs) in the QNL Digital Preservation System.

Develop, operate, and maintain workflows for preparing and delivering Dissemination Information Package (DIPs) from the QNL Digital Preservation Systems to other relevant systems as needed.

Develop, operate, and maintain processes (including metrics and methods) for assessing (automated where feasible) quality of large collections of digital content, including content and metadata provided by other library departments and external partners (e.g. international digitisation projects and partnerships).

Prepare and maintain metadata requirements and crosswalks, facilitate cooperation with other relevant QNL departments, when necessary, to ensure metadata interoperability across library services, including digital content platforms.

Advise and support the Head of Digital Curation, Preservation and Access in ensuring the long-term accessibility of QNL digital assets.

Collaboration and teamwork

Collaborate and follow up with the digitization and cataloguing departments to ensure that appropriate technical and descriptive metadata is captured and assigned to digitized items.

Mentor and instruct other departments of QNL with guidance on metadata quality, schemas, thesauri, and other aspects of best practices for describing contents of diverse digital collections

Cooperate with QNL external digitisation projects partners to develop requirements and best practices for describing contents of digitised collections

Cooperate with relevant stakeholders to ensure that metadata provided for specific collections are sufficient to deliver high quality digital services for end users

Participate in teamwork and committees as needed

Documentation and training

Contribute to the development of policies and processes related to digital preservation, web archiving, file format, and metadata curation.

Provide written reports, assessments, analytics, and documentation as needed and upon request

Develop and deliver training related to digital curation, preservation, and scholarship.

Personal development and miscellaneous

Keep abreast of developments, trends, and issues in areas of responsibility.

Perform miscellaneous duties and conduct special projects as assigned.

Other reasonable tasks as assigned by supervisor.

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