Officer acquisition digital media and metadata with linked open data (0.8 fte)

Publishers are increasingly offering options for purchasing (digital) content, particularly e-books. You will help us find the right purchase regarding price and restrictions on e-books, which will be used by students and teachers in education and research. You will also actively help ordering the media for the University Library. A small part of your time will be spend on taking care of the financial processing of the orders. 

The digitisation of society has a major impact on education and research. With the development towards Open Science and Open Education, it is becoming increasingly important to make information, research data, sources, and collections accessible, retrievable and (re)usable in a sustainable way. UM aims to be completely FAIR by 2023. Information must be retrievable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. This will have its consequences for the field of metadata. How can we, as a University Library, contribute? A huge challenge for us. The metadata of (digital) content is undergoing many changes. For example, there is an increase in technologies and standards that link digital content and systems, and an increase in ways in which content can be found.

Terms such as: Linked Open Data (LOD), semantic web & ontology, Schema.org., Open Archive Initiative, NL-LOM, Clarin, AI, but also identifiers such as uri, isni, Orcid are becoming more frequent. Does it appeal to you to find out which standards, formats and systems are important for us as a University Library and to discover how to apply them? How they contribute to the FAIR principle and how this influences the work area of ​​the University Library? You are able to give advice, to apply and implement. You will do this together with the collection team. You will also participate in projects related to linked open data. For example, projects related to our special collections.

You and your immediate colleagues will look into the various e-book acquisition possibilities. Regarding the subject of metadata 2.0, you will study the new developments in metadata with linked open data. On both subjects, you will monitor new developments, inform your colleagues and participate in finding efficient ways of making the University Library collections accessible in the University Library systems, for example using linked open data. You will be actively participating and executing, which includes part of the financial settlement of the orders.