This role will focus on international standards development and their implementation, as well as the local transformation and manipulation of metadata, including catalogue records, to meet British Library user needs. We are looking for someone with proven technical skills and experience of working with metadata for bibliographic or archival resources. The successful candidate will have a demonstrable knowledge of RDA and MARC 21 as well as HTML, XML or XSLT. Significant, demonstrable employment experience in a relevant professional capacity is required, at least part of which will have been working with metadata for bibliographic materials; Enhancement of collection metadata by researching and developing solutions to deficiencies in the data;Job Summary
Job Description
The role requires working with colleagues and external partners to deliver standards developments which benefit the British Library, as well as the library community and metadata supply chain as a whole. Attention to detail and working to deadlines are key requirements; good analytical and communications skills are also essential.Job Requirements
Relevant technical skills and knowledge;
Proven expertise in the application, interpretation, communication and development of metadata standards for resource description (e.g. RDA;
MARC 21; DDC; ONIX);
AND/OR
An excellent working knowledge of relevant technical standards and technologies: XML, XSLT, HTML;
AND/OR
Proven expertise in programmatic solutions via command-line, batch scripting, Excel formulas and macros, regular expressions (regex);
The ability to analyse metadata requirements for systems developments, to prepare specifications and evaluate deliverables;
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly the ability to convey the ideas behind metadata developments and their implications in a comprehensible manner to colleagues, at all levels.Job Responsibilities
Fulfilment of the Library's commitments to standards development;
Development of new and existing metadata services and products;
Dissemination and application of the Library's Collection Metadata Strategy;
Promotion of good metadata practice in the Library including compliance with licensing and data protection regulation;
Management of the processing and supply of bibliographic metadata. Contact Details