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Subject: [Metadatalibrarians] Position

POSITION TITLE:  Senior Metadata Librarian

This position will be the champion for managing the treatment content in
a major new online search application. The individual will be
responsible for creating a comprehensive metadata strategy which will
include acquisition, quality handling and enhancement (e.g.
normalization, entity extraction, taxonomy mapping, etc.). The position
will play a significant role in designing and developing a new line of
products and services as well as related administrative applications.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Understand the objectives and end-user needs of the search product

- Develop a metadata strategy to guide the design of procedures in
acquisition and ingest of content as well as to guide software
development of the search application

- Provide direction on the selection, application and maintenance of
controlled vocabularies and authority files

- Envision, design, articulate and oversee development of methods for
managing content and metadata (from a variety of sources and in
disparate formats) in order to enable optimal search, recall, refinement
and navigation

- Create a data dictionary defining the purpose and treatment of
metadata, to serve as a guide and a record, including details about
format, application, conformance to any controlled vocabulary or
authority file, intended relative weighting for informing search
relevance, etc.

- Participate in product development team throughout development and
consult closely with software development staff to convey requirements,
understand and work within technical constraints, and optimize the
effectiveness of design implementations

- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with content
suppliers and partners

QUALIFICATIONS:

- 7+ years experience in content management, working with online
publishing of content or as a metadata librarian

- Experience working with published content in relation to search
applications

- Familiarity with web applications, search technologies and the
software development process

- Experience working with metadata structures (XML, DC, MARC, RDF, etc.)

- Familiarity with entity extraction and auto categorization
technologies helpful

- Ability to work in a start-up environment with a skeleton staff
initially and very ambitious goals

- Must be self-motivated, able to work independently and thrive in a
fast-paced, multi-tasking cross-functional team environment while
maintaining excellent working relationships with people in a wide
variety of functional areas

- High level of interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
as well as basic technical writing skills

- Knowledge of libraries, library content, library industry standards,
and library information retrieval systems helpful

- Masters degree in library or information science required

- Ability to travel 10%

LOCATION: The position is in Ann Arbor MI but relocation is not
necessarily required.

CONTACT:

Please send your resume and cover letter in an email to
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with the
subject "Senior Metadata Librarian Position".


Donice Mattei
Manager, Recruitment
ProQuest
734 997 4154
cell:  734 709 7668
email:  [log in to unmask]



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