Rosetta Implementation and
Migration Manager
Overview
The
Center for Jewish History is a collaborative home to five partner institutions:
the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck
Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
The Center and its five partners serve the worldwide academic communities and
the general public with combined holdings of over 30,000 linear feet of
archival documents, a half million books, and thousands of photographs,
artifacts, paintings and textiles – the largest repository documenting the
Jewish experience outside Israel. The
provision of access and preservation oriented services to the collections is
core to the Center for Jewish History’s mission on behalf of researchers and
the partner organizations.
The
Center for Jewish History seeks a project manager for the implementation of the
Ex Libris digital preservation management system, Rosetta. Implementation will
include preparation for and comprehensive migration from Ex Libris digital
asset management system, DigiTool, which currently holds over 3.5 million
digital objects and associated metadata, totaling over 40 TB of material.
Implementation will also include training partner staff on the new system, facilitating
interoperability between descriptive and preservation systems, and
collaboratively developing workflows to support the ongoing deposit of
digitized material into the new system.
The
Rosetta Implementation and Migration Manager will report to the Senior Manager for
Metadata and Discovery. Metadata and Discovery Services is tasked with
coordinating the interoperability and integration between Center systems that
control, describe, preserve, and provide access to the rich physical and
digital holdings of the five Partner institutions. The successful candidate
will work closely with department members in Metadata and Discovery Services,
the Center’s Information Technology Department, vendors, and stakeholders in
the Center and Partner community to ensure that born-digital and digitized
material will be preserved in perpetuity. The position will be a permanent
addition to the department
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Job Description
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Title:
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Rosetta
Implementation and Migration Manager
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Salary:
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Commensurate
with experience
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Hours:
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35
hours per week
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Duration:
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Permanent,
employed at will
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Reports to:
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Senior
Manager for Metadata and Discovery
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Job purpose:
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Preparation
for and management of the migration to and implementation of Ex Libris’
Rosetta, including training Center and Partner staff and day-to-day
operations of the digital preservation management system.
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Main Duties
Manage
short and long term benchmarks for migration and implementation of Rosetta, the
Center’s new digital preservation management system.
Serve
as primary contact with Ex Libris project team to assertively communicate regarding
Center preparedness and preparation for implementation, including needs, expected
outcomes, limitations, and problems with Center’s Digitool dataset and entities
during implementation.
Work
in collaboration with Center Implementation Project Team and Partner Liaisons
to prepare for migration from Digitool to Rosetta, including but not limited to
metadata preparation for import into Aleph integrated library system; deletion
or segregation of digital entities not migrating to the new system; data modeling
and load analysis; and customizing transformations for migration.
Participate
in Ex Libris training and experiment using Rosetta with an eye to developing
and supplementing documentation for depositing both migrated and new material
into the system. After Ex Libris training is complete, train Center and relevant
Partner staff on workflows for depositing new material into Rosetta’s permanent
repository.
Once
successful implementation of Rosetta is complete, manage day-to-day operations
of the system, including troubleshooting problems; assisting with staff
questions; and continuing to improve the workflow for the deposit of material
and interoperability with other Center systems.
Participate
in special projects to promote and increase access to digital material held in
the Center systems and other duties commensurate with the position, including project-based
work both external to Center systems and within Center subsystems.
Stay
abreast of developments and professional best practices in digital asset
management, digital preservation, and related topics.
Education and experience
ALA-accredited
graduate degree or accredited graduate degree in another appropriate
discipline, such as computer science, project management, digital preservation
and curation, or archival science with a specialization in digital archives.
Proven
track record managing projects from planning to completion, preferably, in an
implementation environment or adoption of new technology or platform in a
library, archival, or museum setting.
Extensive
experience working and thinking in Extensible Mark-up Language (XML), including
developing and modifying Extensible Stylesheet Language
Transformations (XSLT); schemas like Metadata Encoding and Transmission
Standard (METS); and MARC data in an XML environment (MARCXML).
Proficiency
working on digital access and preservation projects in a library, museum,
archive or similar environment with increasingly complex or substantive work
depositing or ingesting material into a digital repository as well as
correcting issues associated placing material in a digital repository.
Familiarity
with current standards used in libraries, archives, and museums for description
and preservation, including Dublin Core, MAchine-Readable Cataloging (MARC),
Resource Description and Access (RDA), and Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
Requisite skills
Essential Commitment
to working in and fostering a collaborative environment with diverse
stakeholders of varying levels of expertise in the preservation and description
of born-digital and digitized material.
Ability to devise own objectives, meet deadlines,
and see projects through to completion.
Knowledge of and aptitude for
articulating digital preservation best practices for born-digital and digitized
material.
Ability to communicate effectively and
collaboratively with capacity to translate from vendor to ordinary language,
and where necessary expand, design, or articulate workflows for purpose of documentation
and training others.
Preferred Experience working with databases and
utilities such as Oracle and SQL*Plus, or database management systems like
MySQL.
Comfort using and
administering digital asset management systems, integrated library systems
and/or database management systems, especially Ex Libris products Aleph,
DigiTool, or Rosetta.
Understanding of library systems structure and
environments, including interoperability between systems and how systems
communicate via protocols, especially OAI-PMH.
Familiarity with Linux operating system, such as
Red Hat.
Review of
applications will begin immediately.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Send cover letter, resume, and contact
information for three references to Eric Fritzler, Senior Manager for Metadata
and Discovery, at eafritzler@cjh.org. No
phone calls please.
