Fantasy digital library job description: content partnerships coordinator

[Cindy]

Hi Jenn,

Are you set on this being a "library" job? I know that New York City and
New York State both have active open data initiatives that host hackathons,
though I don't know of any open positions at the moment. There are other
American cities like Chicago and San Francisco with similar programs. There
may be some private sector jobs as well, but I've mostly been working in
government.

>From what you're describing, it sounds like you want to expand your search
outside of the traditional "library" setting.

Best of luck,
Cindy

Cynthia Zweier
Librarian
NYC 311 Content Management Analyst and Website Lead



On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Phillips-Bacher, Jennifer <
J.Phillips-Bacher at wellcome.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Hello all
>
> It's Friday, so what better time is there to draft a new fantasy job
> description?
>
> I'd be interested to find out if anyone employs someone in the role of
> 'content partnerships coordinator' [working title], someone who is
> responsible for:
>
> - seeking out opportunities to share open library data + digitised content
> with partner platforms, and managing those relationships
> - organising open data events like hackdays, edit-a-thons, and so on
> - advocating for an organisation's digitisation + open data programmes to
> external stakeholders
> - coordinating transfer of data from one platform to another (requiring
> technical skills, understanding of metadata schemas, APIs etc)
> - and generally just being the person who gets to have fun going to all
> the digital library/digital humanities events, meeting interesting people
> and pushing open data to the broadest possible audience.
>
> Does this sound like anything that exists? I'm putting this out to a few
> other lists and to Twitter, but I'd welcome any thoughts you might have
> (besides 'good luck getting approval for that post!').
>
> Best wishes
> Jenn
>
>
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