Repository Librarian job with CERN | 60437

"You will join the Research and Computing Sector, where the Scientific Information Service supports scientists at CERN and beyond to make their own content available and to find any information they need for their research. The Scientific Information Services is responsible for the curation of the content and facilitates to make a maximum of the scientific artifacts available open access under Creative Common licenses.

As repository librarian in the Library section, together with senior members of the team, you will act as the main liaison between the Library and the CERN experiments for what concerns ingestion of the scientific production in the repositories; you will supervise and operate the harvesting of metadata and files from external systems and participate in the curation and enrichment of the data, you will give input to design/revision of submission forms and the corresponding data structure; you will coordinate digitization of legacy content; you will take part in regular library operations and you will have the opportunity to support and mentor the junior cataloguers at the core of the team.

Functions

As repository librarian in the Library section you will:

• Take responsibility for the entire ingestion and curation of the CERN scientific output in the institutional repository (CDS).
• Take part in the cross-laboratories curation team operating the Inspire repository and participate in its coordination.
• Contribute to the documentation of procedures, design of workflows and definition and evolution of data structures.
• Monitor the ingestion workflows for new and existing service features.
• Articulate technical solutions and ensure compliance with CDS and Inspire requirements.
• Coach junior cataloguers to curate documents in accordance with modern standards and methods.
• Participate as needed in standard library operations and services."