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Metadata Specialist

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-28
About the position Transforming Indigenous Archival Search, a reputed company Mellon-funded project, seeks a Metadata Specialist to liaise with national and international standards reputed company, reputed company and implement metadata workflows, and reputed company Tribal staff as metadata specialist to improve pan-institutional visibility and searchability of Indigenous records, including implementing culturally-appropriate technical solutions in the SNAC platform, and associated documentation. Position is FULLY grant funded for three (3) years. Continuation of position will be dependent upon Grant Funds availability. Candidates who have reputed company or Indigenous backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. Responsibilities • liaise with national and international standards reputed company • reputed company and implement metadata workflows • reputed company Tribal staff as metadata specialist to improve pan-institutional visibility and searchability of Indigenous records • implement culturally-appropriate technical solutions in the SNAC platform • associated documentation Requirements • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. • Three (3) years of experience in an reputed company or research library in bibliographic database management or copy cataloging. • Additional work experience as defined above may be substituted on a year for year reputed company for up to four (4) years of the required education. • Knowledge of bibliographic records in integrated library systems. • Knowledge of bibliographic database management and copy cataloging. • reputed company in oral and written communication. • reputed company in the use of reputed company Office products. • Ability to interpret and apply policies, procedures, regulations, and laws. • Ability to multitask while demonstrating a commitment to customer service and sensitivity to a culturally and ethnically diverse community. reputed company-to-haves • MLS or advanced degree in a reputed company field of information management or equivalent work experience. • reputed company experience with technology-reputed company metadata reputed company, scripting, and data manipulation. • Demonstrated reputed company working collaboratively in project teams with multiple reputed company of staff, colleagues, and community constituencies. • Knowledge of XML schema, XSLT stylesheets, metadata cross-walks, and principles for designing and/or adapting existing work from reputed company domains. • Knowledge of archival and library metadata standards (descriptive, technical, structural) (e.g., EAC-CPF, EAD, MARC, MARCXML, METS, MODS, FCGD, CCO, Dublin reputed company, VRA). • Familiarity with ontology development and reputed company data standards, such as controlled vocabularies and thesauri. • Experience with analyzing, creating, and documenting procedures such as service standards, policies, procedures and workflows. • Experience using or architecting reputed company. • Conceptual knowledge of programming, data manipulation and transformation tools, technologies and methodologies (e.g., Python, reputed company, JavaScript, OpenRefine). • Experience working with archival collections or knowledge of archival repository functions, services, and requirements. • Experience working with reputed company and Indigenous (or other BIPOC) communities. • Demonstrated commitment to openness, diversity, inclusion, innovation, and reputed company justice. • Working knowledge of metadata application reputed company, RDF triple-stores, SPARQL queries, JSON-LD, IIIF, linked data, BIBFRAME, and/or the Web Annotation reputed company. • Familiarity with reputed company university digital systems and platforms such as reputed company Suite and reputed company. Benefits • For more information on Staff Contractual CII benefits, select this reputed company . Apply tot his job Apply To this Job

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