Digital Services Responsibilities
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
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##<font color="red">Oversight of Digital Services</font> focus, direction, and progress | ##<font color="red">Oversight of Digital Services</font> focus, direction, and progress | ||
##<font color="red">Developing unit goals and tracking progress</font> | ##<font color="red">Developing unit goals and tracking progress</font> | ||
##Annual access statistics and production statistics compilation | ##Annual access statistics and production statistics compilation | ||
##<font color="red">Developing and maintaining cross-departmental collaborations</font> that effectively support the goals of Digital Services production | ##<font color="red">Developing and maintaining cross-departmental collaborations</font> that effectively support the goals of Digital Services production | ||
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#Programming and automation | #Programming and automation | ||
##Monthly production statistics | ##Monthly production statistics | ||
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### reports of new and changed content for Ebsco Discovery service (monthly) | ### reports of new and changed content for Ebsco Discovery service (monthly) | ||
### analysis of problems with OAI feeds and collaborative record sharing, with development of solutions | ### analysis of problems with OAI feeds and collaborative record sharing, with development of solutions | ||
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#Presentations and publications to publicize UA Libraries and Digital Services efforts | #Presentations and publications to publicize UA Libraries and Digital Services efforts | ||
| + | #Support of other library efforts | ||
| + | ##E-research support | ||
| + | ##<font color="red">Electronic records support<font> | ||
| + | ##<font color="red">Born-Digital special collections support</font> | ||
Revision as of 16:35, 2 November 2012
This is a list of the basic responsibilities for our staff members. Crucial tasks are indicated in red; blue indicates critical fallback responsibilities.
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Repository Manager Responsibilities
- Backup person for programming work by Digitization Manager and Unit Head
- Digitization
- content capture
- metadata verification/creation
- quality control
- uploads
- Backup person for Marketing (Outreach Coordinator)
Digitization Technologist Responsibilities
- Digitization
- content capture
- metadata verification/creation
- quality control
- uploads
- Accessibility and usability research & development
- Technical metadata research and recommendations
- Digitization side script support
- Backup person for Marketing (Outreach Coordinator)
Outreach Coordinator Responsibilities
- Marketing (blog, Facebook, etc.)
- Usability studies
- Developing feedback mechanisms and sharing feedback obtained
- Developing projects for, locating, obtaining, and overseeing practicum students and interns
- Seeking collaborations
- Digitization
- content capture
- metadata verification/creation
- quality control
- uploads
Digitization Manager Responsibilities
- Continuous and appropriate assignments of pipeline content
- Oversight of all digitization
- Maintenance of all equipment
- Identifying and solving problems in digitization production
- Training and direct supervision of staff
- Backup person for administrative functions of unit head
Unit Head Responsibilities
- Administrative functions
- Representation of unit needs to collaborative groups and Associate Dean
- Oversight of Digital Services focus, direction, and progress
- Developing unit goals and tracking progress
- Annual access statistics and production statistics compilation
- Developing and maintaining cross-departmental collaborations that effectively support the goals of Digital Services production
- Programming and automation
- Monthly production statistics
- OCR creation and distribution
- Monthly archiving: EADs, digital content, transcriptions, born digital, user tags
- Semi-annual archiving: descriptive metadata
- Linking content into EADs and providing documentation of issues preventing this
- Maintenance and oversight of archive and LOCKSS involvement, including database tracking of content harvested
- Implementation of digital preservation policies
- Maintenance and oversight of checksum capture, storage, and verification system
- Monthly backups of critical databases, and removal of old backups
- Server administration on libcontent1.lib.ua.edu and encompass.lib.ua.edu, including support for staff/faculty working on servers
- Management of ingest, extraction, and deletion of content for tagging and transcription software, with incorporation of new content into Acumen/archive
- Management and support for local persistent URLs, including software to support others to obtain new ones
- Database tracking of information about collections (digital and analog), their items, number of pages, etc.
- Verification of correct browse display pulled from databases
- Development of software as needed to automate or implement necessary tasks
- Support of cross-departmental tasks, including:
- automation of pre-processing ETDs
- automation of uploads to Acumen, including derivative creations and quality control
- automation of uploads of archival files to server
- automation of support for ETD embargos, including notifications of embargo lifting, movement of files, anomalies
- automated monthly reports of current and new content in Acumen, including PURLs, in XML or tab-delimited form as needed
- reports of new and changed content for Ebsco Discovery service (monthly)
- analysis of problems with OAI feeds and collaborative record sharing, with development of solutions
- Presentations and publications to publicize UA Libraries and Digital Services efforts
- Support of other library efforts
- E-research support
- Electronic records support
- Born-Digital special collections support
