CrossRef looking to fill Metadata Quality Coordinator position

[Amy Brand <abrand@crossref.org>]

Position: Metadata Quality Coordinator
Reports to: Director of Technology
Benefits: Health, dental, 401k

CrossRef, a membership association for collective scholarly
publishing technologies, seeks a Metadata Quality Coordinator to
maintain and improve the quality of our metadata database of
bibliographic information for scholarly publications. This
position provides technical support to our member publishers
addressing problem resolution and instructional issues related to
the use of CrossRef's services. The Metadata Quality Coordinator
will create and analyze reports to identify issues, notify
members of errors and track developments to make sure that
problems are resolved. The Metadata Quality Coordinator will
report to the Director of Technology and will work with the
Metadata Quality Committee of the Board of Directors on data
quality issues. In addition, the Metadata Quality Coordinator
will work with the Director of Business Development as the
technical liaison with regards to metadata quality for CrossRef
services and compliance with CrossRef guidelines. CrossRef has a
small staff and the ability to work independently, to be flexible
and to perform a wide variety of duties is essential.

Key Tasks

- provide frontline support to member publishers
- proactively track numerous system reports on metadata quality
- proactively contact publishers to fix problems identified by system
   reports and to check for compliance with data submission
   requirements
- track outstanding issues and problem resolution
- management and normalization of journal, book and conference
   proceedings title lists
- provide advice and basic technical support to members regarding data
   quality
- produce data quality reports that will involve analyzing data for trends
- regular ongoing data correction
- make suggestions for ways to improve data quality
- make suggestions for improving overall metadata quality and
   establishing best practices
- maintain skills through attendance of workshops and training courses

This position requires knowledge of XML and experience in
scholarly publishing or an academic library environment. The
qualified individual will have at least two years of full-time
work experience, will have strong communication skills and be
comfortable interacting with both business and technical staff at
member publishers. The qualified individual will have hands on
experience working with databases and XML and preferably have
electronic production experience. Some knowledge of scripting
languages (e.g. PERL, MS Macros) is preferred.

Qualifications/requirements:

- Excellent organizational and written/verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's degree; scholarly publishing experience or MLS preferred
- Electronic publishing production or academic library experience a plus
- Minimum two years relevant work experience in the research
   information, library or scholarly publishing area, with strong
   recommendations
- Strong knowledge of XML and database technology
- Excellent computer skills with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word,
   Excel, Access, Outlook s
- Knowledge of PERL, MS Macros or other languages

Contact: Chuck Koscher ckoscher@crossref.org