Metadata Standards Analyst - Bibliographic Data Expert

The Digital Asset Management Consortium, Inc.; Boston; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

The British Library is seeking a Collection Metadata Analyst to help coordinate bibliographic standards that describe the Library's collections and enable discovery of items worldwide. The role focuses on international standards development and local metadata transformation to meet user needs.

You will work with colleagues and external partners on standards developments, with proven technical skills in bibliographic metadata (RDA, MARC 21) and related technologies such as HTML, XML or XSLT.

Qualifications

• Significant, demonstrable employment experience with metadata for bibliographic materials.
• Proven expertise in applying, interpreting and developing metadata standards (e.g. RDA; MARC 21).
• Knowledge of XML, XSLT, HTML; ability to work with related technologies.
• Proficiency in programmatic solutions via command-line, scripting and regex.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; attention to detail and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and converge metadata standards across collections.
• Develop products and services relating to metadata.
• Maintain and enhance the Library's metadata assets.

Skills

Metadata standards

RDA

MARC 21

XML

HTML

XSLT

Regex

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in information processing or library science

Tools

Command line

XML tooling

Excel

Batch scripting

Job description

The British Library is seeking a Collection Metadata Analyst to help coordinate bibliographic standards that describe the Library's collections and enable discovery of items worldwide. The role focuses on international standards development and local metadata transformation to meet user needs.

You will work with colleagues and external partners on standards developments, with proven technical skills in bibliographic metadata (RDA, MARC 21) and related technologies such as HTML, XML or XSLT.