Metadata Curator Wanted

Being a metadata curator means most won’t exactly understand what you do. You can certainly forget about explaining your job to your mom.  Traditionally, curators have managed collections of old stuff, like what you might find in a museum.  In today’s world of informatics and big data, however, metadata curators play an essential role in enabling metadata driven automation and semantic interoperability.

At CDISC we are implementing the SHARE metadata repository to manage the latest standards metadata, as well as the older stuff. The SHARE metadata curators will play a critical role in defining and administrating the processes and policies for governing the metadata that will become the CDISC standards. They will help to lead the CDISC community towards new ways of standards development.  In this capacity, the metadata curator must be a passionate advocate for clinical research data standards, a strong communicator, as well as an energetic collaborator. Since SHARE represents a new approach to standards development, creative chops are a must.

The SHARE metadata curator role demands basic technical and modeling skills.
SHARE benefits from new types of metadata. Relationships are explicitly represented to create an end-to-end standards model. The ISO 11179 standard and the BRIDG model now play a direct role in the standards development process. The metadata curator also participates on the SHARE project team to configure governance workflows, write metadata load scripts, and test the application.

CDISC is seeking a SHARE Metadata Curator who will be responsible for the creation, maintenance, curation and quality assurance of CDISC standard metadata in the SHARE Metadata Repository. The Metadata Curator will collaborate with the CDISC teams developing metadata in SHARE. If you’re interested in the CDISC SHARE Metadata Curator position, check out the job description here. If you don’t see the position listed, it means you’re too late.



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