Vacancy For Data Specialist At National Library Of New Zealand

Vacancy for Data Specialist at National Library of New Zealand 10 July 2023

Wellington

Full-Time

Ko matou | About us Working at the Department of Internal Affairs, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of New Zealanders.

The Preservation, Research and Consultancy team supports the National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) digital preservation programme, which protects, manages and provides sustained access to the Library's digital collections.

Mo te tunga | About the role The Data Specialist provides technical expertise and strategic guidance to support the Library's emerging digital research services. This role will liaise with Library staff to develop workflows, training, datasets and services to support digital content related research that requires data transformations and computational approaches.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has both technical and communication skills to be a key part of developing new services at National Library to support digital humanities and other data-intensive research.

Reporting to the Digital Preservation Manager, you will be responsible for supporting digital and data-intensive scholarly activities. You will create datasets for use by researchers from the Library's large digital collections. You will advise on formats, tools, standards (FAIR, CARE, etc.) and infrastructure to enable greater researchers use of the digital collections.

You will also contribute to the technical upskilling of Library staff, users and researchers. You will work closely with research and reference librarians to meet the needs of digital researchers.

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