The document discusses requirements and skills for the role of managing a research repository service. It seeks an individual who can: 1) Manage the daily operations and promote the repository internally and internationally. 2) Provide training and assistance to stakeholders. 3) Oversee strategies and implement policies. The ideal candidate would have a professional qualification in librarianship or information science, experience with repository software and metadata standards, and an understanding of open access, data curation, and digitization processes.

1. Who we are ? What is our role in a dynamic information brokerage market?

4. Be involved in PR specific activities in promoting the repository internally, locally and internationally,

5. Provide assistance to different stakeholders,

6. Provide training and information for others in the organisation (knowledge exchange facilitator),

7. Be involved in overseeing different internal strategies and implement policies and procedures,

8. Have to be well fit to understand data modelling in general,

9. Ensure the effective and robust transfer of information.

11. Familiarity with repository software and metadata standards,

12. Understanding of open access,

13. Understand what curation of data (including electronic preservation and associated technologies) is and what management of research data is,

14. Good understanding of digitisation processes,

15. Good knowledge of Cultural and Heritage Informatics and Digital Humanities,

16. Tertiary qualification in information technology/computer science qualification (database technologies).

17. How fast all job vacancies postings will look like this?

19. the ability to distinguish ways in which the information 'gap' may be addressed,

20. the ability to construct strategies for locating information,

21. the ability to locate and access information,

22. the ability to compare and evaluate information obtained from different sources,

23. the ability to organise, apply and communicate information to others in ways appropriate to this situation,

24. the ability to synthesise and build upon existing information, contributing to the creation of new knowledge. Information Skills in Higher Education: A SCONUL Position Paper Discussions of ‘skills’ in higher education have hitherto conflated ‘information technology’ skills and ‘information skills’. The latter term is much broader and more directly related to the aims and processes of higher education as a ‘knowledge creation’ activity. A clear distinction is made between information skills and information technology skills.

25. call on the internal computer department and request for help as if computer scientists are also those who should be knowledgeable with regards to all the complexity of running such a specialised service as a repository would imply

26. department do not offer strict calibrated responses to those who are producing the digital assets as the latter would've expected to

27. forced move towards externalisation of the needed services with the cost of running a fragmented environment (in the sense that there is no really a full control of the electronic resources)

28. staff perceives such a decision and there are indications that they usually sense that the assets do not belong to them any more and they are just becoming a mere portfolio separated from the core business

29. moving towards establishment of consortia that manage collectively electronic resources according to the specialisations of the partners, a context of symbiotic responses and harmonised articulation of services and contributions

30. Usually the communication channels clog in administrative and coordination issues.

32. “ Despite «memory institutions» being a buzzword in professional and academic literature there is still a lack of an in-depth studies on the perspectives of convergence and/or networking of archives, libraries and museums” - EU LIS. European curriculum reflections on Library and Information Science education. Copenhagen: Royal School of Librarianship and Information Science

34. Where these practices converge and what should be the starting point for a real space that will realise a needed singularity in terms of vision and practice coordination?

35. All of these actors involved are already developing services that stride to offer the best infrastructures to their users and contributors. These involve electronic publication services for the different kind of contributions like research articles and open monographs, for OERs (Open Educational Resources), and also well articulated institutional repositories dedicated to wide dissemination of research and, of course, the associated data sets.

37. these actors have their scholarly roots in one domain but they tend to open and embrace quickly adjacent fields usually following the institutional needs of solving information management situations;

38. they do not have a clear career path and are easily caught on the border of different many little data managing crisis;

39. they find it difficult to retain a feeling of continuous buid-up of skills as the opportunities for training are rare or the funding in these regards is scarce;

41. Document modelling

42. Information modelling

43. Metadata in theory and practice

44. Information storage and retrieval

45. Electronic publishing

46. Preserving information resources

47. Information transfer and collaboration in science

49. database management,

50. research techniques for information management,

51. information system analysis,

52. data mining,

53. data warehousing

54. theory of classification and subject representation

55. data administration concepts and database management

56. designing web-based database systems

57. WISE – Web-based Information Science Education. WISE represents a collaborative model based on three pillars: Quality, Pedagogy and Collaboration. WISE is in fact a consortium (www.wiseeducation.org) of universities that have leading schools in the information field.

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