Two DRP Positions!
We have exciting news!! Thanks to generous funding we are advertising for the following limited term opportunities to work closely with the Data Rescue Project Steering Committee. If you are interested, please check them out! We are prioritizing applications submitted by May 22. We are hoping for the work to be done in the summer months, so we will try to identify a person for each quickly. If you have questions, get in touch with one of the steering committee members.
- Volunteer coordinator (works closely with Lena Bohman)
- Tasks include (but are not limited to!):
- Track and expand volunteer retention
- Launch new volunteer management system
- Communicate with volunteers, the steering committee, and other stakeholders to facilitate the completion of projects
- Design formal volunteer recognition opportunities
- Metadata analyst (works closely with Kathleen Burlingame)
- Tasks include (but are not limited to!):
- Clean, normalize, and de-duplicate metadata in alignment with new and existing standards
- Obtain, wrangle, and ingest metadata from external sources
- Develop local standards for authority control and the application of persistent identifiers for DRP’s back-end catalog of open data
- Tasks include (but are not limited to!):
At this time, we are promoting these positions to members of our data rescue community. All interested should send a cover letter and resume to datarescueproject@protonmail.com.
