munging metadata

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 energ...