Digital Services Responsibilities
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
This is a list of the basic responsibilities of our staff members: crucial tasks and critical fallback roles, as well as other responsibilities.
Contents
Repository Manager Responsibilities
- Coordinate oversight of pipeline
- Assigns pipeline content as needed
- Server-side work including:
- Monthly archiving: EADs, digital content, transcriptions, born digital, user tags
- automated monthly reports of current and new content in Acumen, including PURLs, in XML or tab-delimited form as needed
- semi-automated monthly reports of progress
- reports of new and changed content for Ebsco Discovery service (monthly)
- quarterly extraction and archiving: descriptive metadata
- Digitization
- content capture
- metadata verification/creation
- quality control
- uploads
- Backup person for programming work (Unit Head, Digitization Technologist)
- Backup person for audio digitization (Digitization Technologist)
Digitization Technologist Responsibilities
- Digitization
- content capture, including audio
- metadata verification/creation
- quality control
- uploads
- support for automated uploads to Acumen and deposits
- Technical metadata research and recommendations
- Digitization side script support, including quality control
- Backup person for identifying and solving problems in digitization production (Digitization Researcher)
- Backup person for accessibility and usability research & development (Outreach Coordinator)
- Backup person for maintenance of equipment (Digitization Researcher)
Outreach Coordinator Responsibilities
- Marketing(blog, Facebook, etc.)
- Developing feedback mechanisms and sharing feedback obtained (This includes usability studies.)
- Accessibility and usability research & development
- Digitization
- content capture: particularly difficult or complex projects
- metadata verification/creation
- quality control
- uploads
- Primary responsibility for student oversight
- Developing projects for, locating, obtaining, and overseeing practicum students and interns
- Seeking collaborations
- Backup person for digitization oversight (Repository Manager)
- Backup person for coordination of pipeline and content assignments (Repository Manager)
Digitization Researcher Responsibilities
- Research and development of improved methodologies for capture and delivery
- Maintenance of all equipment
- Identifying and solving problems in digitization production
- Training of staff in digitization processes
- Backup person for administrative functions of unit head?
- Digitization
- content capture
- metadata verification/creation
- quality control
- uploads
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
- Management of personnel
- Developing and maintaining cross-departmental collaborations that effectively support the goals of Digital Services production
- Programming and automation
- 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 libcontent.lib.ua.edu and etd.lib.ua.edu, including support for staff/faculty working on servers
- Extraction and storage of crowdsourced information
- 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:
- pre-processing ETDs
- support for ETD embargos, including notifications of embargo lifting, movement of files, anomalies
- analysis of problems with OAI feeds and collaborative record sharing, with development of solutions
- Development of alternative access/browse mechanisms
- Presentations and publications to publicize UA Libraries and Digital Services efforts
- Support of other library efforts
- E-research support
- Electronic records support (forthcoming)
- Born-Digital special collections support (forthcoming)
- Backup support for all staff