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Research Culture Resources Repository Specialist

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1087358


University of Warwick


28/10/2024


9 Months


27 hours per week, with at least one day a week in office and the remainder worked remotely within UK.


Smart Casual

Pay


£18.37


£2.22

Description

Role
The Specialist will contribute to all stages of designing and implementing a pilot online repository for research culture digital resources to facilitate sharing across institutions. This will include responsibility for creating, maintaining, and refining vocabularies and metadata schemas across multiple disciplines to support a comprehensive repository of digital resources including documents, PPT slides, video files, audio files, posters, etc. This role is crucial in ensuring the interoperability, discoverability, and usability of the repository’s contents by developing standardized terms and frameworks that can be applied consistently across various fields. The Specialist will also support the selection of an appropriate web-based platform for the repository. The Specialist will implement a pilot repository in platforms such as Open Science Framework and establish a smooth workflow for maintaining the repository at a large scale. Finally, the Specialist will help prepare funding bids to further develop the repository.

Duties and responsibilities

  1. Develop and Implement Vocabularies: Design and establish controlled vocabularies and taxonomies that cover a wide range of disciplines, ensuring that they align with the needs of the repository’s users and stakeholders.
  2. Metadata Schema Design: Create and refine metadata schemas that support the accurate description, classification, and retrieval of funded project records.
  3. Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Work closely with subject matter experts, researchers, and project leads across different disciplines to gather requirements, validate terminology, and ensure the relevance of vocabularies and metadata.
  4. Repository Management: Support the integration of vocabularies and metadata into the repository system with the repository supplier collaboration, ensuring they are correctly applied and maintained. 
  5. Training and Documentation: Develop and deliver training materials and sessions for repository users and staff to ensure the correct application of vocabularies and metadata. Create comprehensive documentation to support ongoing use and updates.
  6. Compliance and Standards: Ensure that all vocabularies and metadata adhere to relevant national and international standards, such as Dublin Core, ISO, or FAIR principles. To design experimental studies to examine novel questions based on one or more of the topics described above. Methods may include onsite computer-based testing, remote, web-based experimental studies, VR, electrophysiological and survey methods.
  7. Selection of Platform for the Repository. Evaluate various platforms for file repository (e.g., Open Science Framework) and help select the one that aligns best with the objective of the Research Culture Digital Resources Repository.
  8. Implementation of a Pilot Repository. Implement a pilot repository on an appropriate platform, and improve the process of uploading, moderation and downloading, based on feedback of users.
  9. Moderation: Moderate content uploads to the repository to ensure relevance to the repository and compliance with all relevant requirements and develop moderation guidelines. 
  10. Funding applications: Contribute to external funding applications for an extension of the pilot to a national or international repository.
  11. Publication and dissemination: Write-up the findings of the pilot study for publication, engage in the revision process and contribute to dissemination about the pilot study.
  12. Team contribution: Attend relevant departmental activities (e.g. meetings, events) and contribute to the work of the wider Research Culture team as needed.
  13. Learning and Development: Complete all relevant training and learning modules as required.

Skills and experience

Essential:

  • Postgraduate degree
  • Experience of using Open Science approaches
  • Experience of working with interdisciplinary teams and subject matter experts.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex concepts to non-experts.
  • Strong organizational and project management skills.
  • Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and consistency.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team to plan, implement and deliver programmes of work to tight deadlines.
  • Good understanding of research culture issues

Desirable:

  • Doctoral-level or MPhil research experience 
  • Experience in working on research-culture related initiatives.
  • Knowledge of semantic web technologies and ontologies (e.g., RDF, OWL) 
  • Experience in publishing to describe research or other professional activities.
  • Experience in using or managing an open-access file repository
  • Experience in metadata schema development and vocabulary management, preferably within an academic, research, or data repository setting.
  • Familiarity with metadata standards (e.g., Dublin Core, MARC, MODS) and controlled vocabularies (e.g., LCSH, MeSH).
  • Proficiency in metadata management tools and repository platforms.
  • Understanding of database management and query languages (e.g., SQL).

Location
Hybrid (1 day per week in office, remainder remote working)

Additional information
Closing Date: 14/10/24

Intended Interview Date: 18/10/24
Intended Start Date: October 24

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