[John Chodacki]

The Research Organization Registry (ROR – ror.org) is a community-led registry of open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifiers for every research organization in the world. ROR is looking for a metadata curation lead to coordinate registry updates and maintenance, work with ROR’s community curation advisors, and develop and implement long-term curation policies and practices. This is an exciting time to join the ROR team and support ROR’s emerging independent, community-based curation model.
The job description and application instructions are available at https://ror.org/blog/2021-10-01-hiring-curation-lead/
Responsibilities
(1) Coordinate community-based curation processes
• Triage incoming requests to prepare for community review
• Oversee community review process to make sure requests are reviewed in a timely and accurate manner
• Optimize curation workflow as needed to improve experience for requestors and community curators
• Maintain guidance and documentation for community curators
• Schedule and facilitate regular curator meetings
• Onboard and offboard community curators
(2) Coordinate registry updates
• Maintain regular schedule of registry updates
• Identify which updates will be in a given release
• Prepare metadata for records being added to or updated in ROR
• Work with curators handling metadata records
• Ensure metadata records pass validation/QA
• Review and test release candidates
• Deploy changes to production via Github-based workflow
• Publish release notes and announce releases to users
• Make public data dump available on Zenodo
• Gather data and generate reports on curation processes to track volume, turnaround times, types of requests, etc.
(3) Metadata management and QA
• Maintain schema documentation and metadata policies
• Analyze current registry data to identify opportunities for metadata QA and future improvements
• Work with ROR’s development team on schema updates and metadata clean-up
(4) Community engagement
• Respond to support questions about curation policies and release timelines
• Provide updates at community calls and webinars
• Collect feedback from community to inform curation policies and process
The job description and application instructions are available at https://ror.org/blog/2021-10-01-hiring-curation-lead/ Please consider applying or help spread the word to your networks.
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Job Posting: Metadata Curation Lead. ROR is looking for a metadata curation lead to coordinate registry updates and maintenance, work with ROR’s community curation advisors, and develop and implement long-term curation policies and practices. More info at https://t.co/RmbxgahBT6

— ROR community | @ResearchOrgs@mastodon.social (@ResearchOrgs) October 4, 2021

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