Applications are invited for the position of Project Manager, WorldFAIR at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), located at the Royal Irish Academy.
Applications are invited for the position of Project Manager, WorldFAIR at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), located at the Royal Irish Academy.
This is a two-year specific purpose contract to deliver DRI’s responsibilities in the WorldFAIR project, which is coordinated by the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (CODATA) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). WorldFAIR is comprised of eleven disciplinary and cross-disciplinary case studies aiming to advance the implementation of FAIR principles and, in particular, to improve interoperability and reusability of digital research objects. Particular attention will be paid to the articulation of an interoperability framework for each case study and research domain. DRI is responsible for the work package on cultural heritage, which will focus on making recommendations for improving and aligning existing image-sharing platforms and standards, developing a framework for FAIR assessment and benchmarking in cultural heritage, and testing and refining recommendations.
The WorldFAIR Project Manager responsibilities are:
- Plan, deliver, assess and report on DRI’s contributions to the WorldFAIR project, liaising and collaborating with other partners on project organisation, dissemination and communication
- Map how various cultural heritage communities – Europeana, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Wikimedia – share digital objects (e.g. metadata standards, vocabularies/ontologies, identifiers and machine readability)
- Propose a harmonised approach to digital object management that aligns with FAIR principles
- Test and refine recommendations at the DRI; seek out additional repository/cultural heritage partners to test implementations
- Document findings and recommendations in line with WorldFAIR project deliverables and milestones
- Evaluate the DRI’s cultural heritage collections for FAIRness using, for example, the RDA FAIR data maturity model and F-UJI tool, and provide feedback to the RDA Maintenance Group on the application of the model
- Engage with relevant RDA and CODATA working/interest groups to track current developments in cultural heritage best practice, potentially developing an RDA Community of Practice for cultural heritage data
- Actively contribute to DRI grant and funding proposals, task forces and other DRI activities as assigned
More information about this job opportunity can be found in the Vacancies section of the Royal Irish Academy website.
The closing date for applications is 3 August 2022.
