* Vacancy for Digital Curation Technical Specialist at the University of Melbourne
Vacancy for Digital Curation Technical Specialist at the University of Melbourne
26 July 2021
Melbourne
$96,002 - $103,921 (UOM 7)
Full-Time
About the role
As the Digital Curation Technical Specialist, you will be a highly flexible, collaborative, and innovative individual, committed to collaboratively establishing, maintaining, and improving the University’s digital stewardship capabilities across a range of digital program initiatives. Based within the Digital Stewardship (Research) (DSR) team in Scholarly Services, you will join a small and dedicated team responsible for establishing and delivering sustainable, continuously improving digital services.
About you
You will bring to the role your knowledge of and experience with developing and implementing procedures and workflows for digital curation, digital archiving, and digital preservation techniques, technologies, and standards, including knowledge of sustainable file formats, metadata, and quality control.
You will also have:
1. A degree in information management, other relevant discipline or training, or experience in digital curation, digital archiving, and digital preservation technology, theory and practice.
2. An understanding of long-term digital stewardship principles, and the skills and practices that maintain digital assets over time.
3. Demonstrated ability to apply technical expertise, workflows and tools to establish or improve the administration and robustness of operational digital systems.
4. Demonstrated experience in working with digital data, metadata, systems and APIs within a repository or data system context. Working knowledge of scripting or programming, and familiarity with JSON, XML, REST and web development.
How to apply
Your application submitted should include a CV along with your responses against the selection criteria found in the Position Description for the role.
Advertised: 13 Jul 2021 12:05 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time
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