Vacancy for Metadata & Publisher Outreach Specialist at Thoth Open Metadata

Digital Preservation Coalition; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

Vacancy for Metadata & Publisher Outreach Specialist at Thoth Open Metadata

27 August 2023

Fully remote, work from home. Flexibility as to country of residence.

Between £30,000 and £40,000 per annum, negotiable depending on experience.

Fixed Term

Who we are

Developed in the context of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project between 2019-23, Thoth Open Metadata is an open metadata management and dissemination platform which has recently been incorporated in the UK as a Community Interest Company (CIC). We are all about embracing infrastructural and platform diversity as an inherent component of a flourishing scholarly communications landscape.

Thoth Open Metadata strives to provide high-quality solutions and services for metadata creation, management, dissemination, archiving and preservation. Our work on Thoth focuses on the creation, curation, and dissemination of enriched and truly open metadata records which we deem essential for the advancement of public knowledge. Our ethos is guided by a variety of approaches to openness in scholarly communications, including open access, open licensing, free and libre open source software (FLOSS), open data, open metadata, and open standards and protocols.

About the role

Under the remit of the recently-launched Open Book Futures project funded by Research England and Arcadia, we are working to accelerate Thoth’s outreach to publishers.

To help us with facilitating this, we are looking for a motivated Metadata and Outreach Specialist.

In this exciting role, you will act as the main publisher-facing point of contact at Thoth for all metadata-related questions, and work with publishers to ensure careful creation and management of associated book metadata in Thoth.

You will support existing publishers working with the Thoth Open Metadata management and distribution platform regarding the formatting of book and chapter metadata, backlist ingest, and metadata validation and enhancement, while also supporting the Thoth team in reaching out to prospective publishers interested in using Thoth.

This is a fully remote position, with an understanding that the role holder will be available for five hours per day between 9am and 5pm (UK time) to attend team meetings.