The Position
| Job Title: | Library Linked Data Metadata Specialist |
|---|---|
| Location/Department: | Seattle Campus – Cataloging and Metadata Services Department |
| Rate: | $21.59 |
| Hours: | 10-19.5 hours per week Work days or specific shifts: Negotiable |
| Positions available: | 2 |
| Date posted: | April 2, 2025 |
| Closing date: | April 16, 2025 |
| Start date: | As soon as possible (negotiable) |
Duties
- Create and review XSLT-based transformation code between MARC21 and RDA/LRM.
- Develop and publish local RDF vocabularies.
- Attend project-based meetings.
- Create or contribute to documentation of workflows.
- Coding tasks.
- XSLT, Python are the main programming languages used.
- Data transformations.
- Entity lookups across datasets De-duplication in medium-sized datasets.
- Create and document metadata application profiles.
Required Qualifications
- Experience with at least one coding language.
- Some awareness of library data models, especially MARC and RDA
- Interest in metadata.
Desired Qualifications
- Ability to code in XSLT and Python.
- Experience with linked data.
- Ability to use SPARQL to query RDF data.
- Experience cataloging library resources.
- Awareness of Official RDA (the new RDA rules).
- Eagerness to learn new skills and technologies as needed.
Other Job Details
Work is either in-person or remote.
How to Apply
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