Digital Curation Centre: Research Officer
(Scarp Project) (Ref 07/127)
UKOLN, University of Bath

Person Specification

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Further details

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was funded by the JISC and EPSRC in 2004 to provide a range of research and development expertise, advisory and information services and outreach activities to the community of researchers, curators and data creators. The Centre is a distributed organisation, led by the University of Edinburgh, and based at four partner sites including UKOLN at the University of Bath, which is leading on the Community Development Programme, and CCLRC at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in Oxfordshire. More information is available at http://www.dcc.ac.uk

The JISC-funded SCARP Project forms one element of the DCC Community Development Work Programme and will investigate disciplinary attitudes and approaches to data deposit, sharing and re-use, curation and preservation. It will do this through a range of methods, combining traditional survey/literature review approaches with up to 10 immersive case studies in selected discipline areas. The result will be a significant increase in the understanding of this critical area, documented in a number of reports and represented to the community through a major dissemination event. In addition, practical advances to curation practice in the relevant disciplines are expected.

A researcher will be based at each of the DCC partners: at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Bath, and CCLRC in Oxfordshire, but with flexibility to undertake 4-6-monthly case studies in their region. The researcher to be based in Bath will co-ordinate and manage the DCC SCARP project.

Attributes and skills

The post-holder will require good communications skills, good technical expertise in the digital curation and preservation fields and experience in managing primary research data.

The Research Officer should be able to demonstrate the following skills and attributes:

Essential:

Knowledge of the digital curation and long-term preservation of digital resources and associated technical issues
Experience of working with primary research data
Good communication skills including the ability to produce a range of publications (including research reports, journal articles and briefing papers) and presentations
Ability to work with small groups
Good inter-personal skills
Able to work independently, prioritise tasks and be confident in dealing with a range of external contacts.

Desirable:

Knowledge of either engineering or architecture or complex modelling approaches
Expertise in curation and preservation technologies and standards of research data sets
Understanding of technical and interoperability issues related to digital curation
Awareness of related issues including open access approaches, research user requirements and eScience developments
Experience of curatorial practice for large datasets
Project management expertise.

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