Hello everyone, NYU CUSP is recruiting a Research Information Scientist, a nice blend of tech skills and library training, to help manage their data.
A summary of responsibilities is below. The full description can be found here: http://cusp.nyu.edu/career-prospects/careers/research-information-scientist/ The CUSP NYU data facility has been established to support the empirical study of cities in conjunction with New York based researchers, agencies, and citizens. It uses modern approaches to reduce the multiple technical, legal, bureaucratic, capacity, and cost barriers to access so that the full research and policy benefits can be realized. The facility has two goals: (i) ensure that new and existing urban data are made available to and used by current and future members of the research community in a state of the art facility, and (ii) staff in government agencies and local citizens are engaged by the ability to use the facility to addressing important urban problems. The research information scientist will serve as an information specialist, programmer, and ETL engineer, in order to support the full CUSP data life cycle, including data curation, data ingestion, data discovery, and researcher access. The research information scientist will be responsible for collecting, developing, collating, archiving and communicating information about research datasets in the CUSP data facility. In that role, s/he will oversee the metadata management system and design/implement new features or services as needed, which requires strong programming and database skills. S/he will provide programming support to software engineers, in order to adapt in-house data profiling and discovery software to build and update in-house software. A successful research information scientist candidate will also be able to develop basic and execute complex ETL scripts for data ingest and researcher database development. This person will lead CUSP’s metadata knowledge management – structural and domain information about data assets. In this role, s/he will communicate with domain experts on NYC and related open data, urban policy research data, and physical measurement data, creating a database to facilitate data discovery beyond the standard laundry list approach. Cheers, Vicky Steeves -- Vicky Steeves Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian 212-992-6269 | Bobst Library 517 NYU Libraries Data Services | NYU Center for Data Science