[CODE4LIB] Open Data Specialist job at Chattanooga Public Library

2013-12-30 Thread Nate Hill
Apologies for the cross-postings. We're searching high and low for an exceptional candidate for the Open Data Specialist job here at the Chattanooga Public Library. As a partner in a Knight Foundation Community Information grant, we're raising and supporting an open data portal hosted by the

[CODE4LIB] Open Data Specialist position at the Chattanooga Public Library

2013-11-20 Thread Nate Hill
Don't hesitate to ask me any questions. # http://chattlibrary.org/jobs/open-data-specialist-ods Open Data Specialist (ODS) The Chattanooga Public Library (CPL) is seeking a qualified candidate for a newly created Open Data Specialist (ODS) position. The

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Data Specialist

2013-10-11 Thread Jodi Schneider
Nate, Sounds cool! For the collection development angle (and any ancillary data curation aspects) I'd suggest checking with IASSIST [1]. You might also see their jobs repository [2] a record of job descriptions posted to the members' email list from 2005 to the present. The OKFN might be another

[CODE4LIB] Open Data Specialist

2013-10-07 Thread Nate Hill
Hi all, I'm working on a job description for an Open Data Specialist at my public library. This person would work for the public library as a builder/maintainer for our open data portal (currently an instance of DKAN) which serves civic (and eventually other) public domain data. They would also

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Data Specialist

2013-10-07 Thread Nate Hill
Thanks Toby... that is exactly where I'm starting to look. This is a great resource: http://project-open-data.github.io/cdo/ What is complicated is finding anything that relates this to classic collection development activities. I might have to just make that up! If you see anything out there, let

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Data Specialist

2013-10-07 Thread Toby Greenwalt
Nate, I'm guessing you're venturing into uncharted territory - at least as the library field is concerned. It's more likely that you'll find more relevant descriptions in either the urban planning or journalism fields. Let me poke around and see if I can dig something up. Toby On Mon, Oct 7,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Data Specialist

2013-10-07 Thread Jena Winberry
Nate -- This might be a good question to post on one of the Open Knowledge Foundation listservs as well: http://okfn.org/contact/. -- Jena Winberry Program Officer Council on Library and Information Resources 1707 L Street NW, Suite 650 Washington, DC 20036 jwinbe...@clir.org www.clir.org |

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Data Specialist

2013-10-07 Thread Ranti Junus
Nate, For classic collection development activities, you might want to explore job descriptions for Data Services librarians. ranti. On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Nate Hill nathanielh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Toby... that is exactly where I'm starting to look. This is a great resource:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Data Specialist

2013-10-07 Thread Nate Hill
Thanks Ranti! I think this is more of an academic library position, right? If anyone on the list has a data services librarian in their world I'd love to speak to them. N On Monday, October 7, 2013, Ranti Junus wrote: Nate, For classic collection development activities, you might want to