Vacancy for Metadata & Publisher Outreach Specialist at Thoth Open Metadata

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

Job summary

A leading organization in digital preservation is looking for a motivated Metadata and Outreach Specialist to enhance collaboration with publishers on metadata management. This remote role focuses on supporting current publishers and expanding outreach initiatives within the scholarly communications landscape.

Qualifications

• Experience in metadata management and outreach.
• Strong communication skills for collaboration with publishers.
• Familiarity with open metadata principles is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Primary contact for publisher inquiries regarding metadata.
• Support publishers with book metadata formatting and ingestion.
• Facilitate outreach to potential new publishers for the Thoth platform.

Skills

Metadata management

Publisher outreach

Collaboration

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 committed to embracing infrastructural and platform diversity as a vital component of a thriving scholarly communications landscape.

Thoth Open Metadata aims to provide high-quality solutions and services for metadata creation, management, dissemination, archiving, and preservation. Our work focuses on creating, curating, and disseminating enriched and truly open metadata records, which are essential for the advancement of public knowledge. Our ethos is guided by principles of openness in scholarly communications, including open access, open licensing, open source software (FLOSS), open data, open metadata, and open standards and protocols — all reflected in our outputs.

About the role

Under the recently launched Open Book Futures project funded by Research England and Arcadia, we aim to expand Thoth’s outreach to publishers.

We are seeking a motivated Metadata and Outreach Specialist to facilitate this effort.

In this role, you will serve as the primary publisher-facing contact at Thoth for all metadata-related inquiries and collaborate with publishers to ensure accurate creation and management of book metadata within Thoth.

You will support existing publishers using the Thoth platform with tasks such as formatting book and chapter metadata, backlist ingestion, and metadata validation and enhancement. Additionally, you will assist the Thoth team in reaching out to prospective publishers interested in utilizing Thoth.

This is a fully remote position, requiring availability for five hours per day between 9am and 5pm (UK time) to attend team meetings and related activities.