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 ROR
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
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