Data Support Officer, Biodiversity Heritage Library
Australia’s largest public museum organisation is seeking a Data Support Officer for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) to help make the foundation of the world’s biodiversity knowledge more accessible and discoverable.
Australia’s largest public museum organisation is seeking a Data Support Officer for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) to help make the foundation of the world’s biodiversity knowledge more accessible and discoverable.
ABOUT MUSEUMS VICTORIA:
Museums Victoria cares for the State scientific and cultural collections, providing visitor access, activities and events at five distinct venues: Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum, Scienceworks, IMAX Cinema and world heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building.
To learn more about Museums Victoria, please visit About us – Museums Victoria
ABOUT THE POSITION:
The primary responsibility of the Data Support Officer will be to assist the BHL Manager in the collection, enrichment and administration of the bibliographic data associated with the historic biodiversity literature on the BHL website: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org.
The BHL is the world’s largest online library of biodiversity heritage literature and archival materials. The project consists of over 500 organisations around the world digitising the biodiversity literature in their collections to make the foundation of our biodiversity knowledge freely accessible for everyone. Museums Victoria hosts the Australian branch of this global project.
To find out more about how we’re making the invaluable knowledge in our online collection more discoverable, see:
- The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 60 million pages spanning 1469-2021
(Plenary Talk at Otago’s Centre of the Book Symposium, Nov 2021) - RetroPIDs: making historic platypus infinitely discoverable
(PIDapalooza Conference, Jan 2021)
The successful applicant will have:
- Demonstrated experience using spreadsheets, cleaning data and using databases
- Familiarity with bibliographic data and persistent identifiers (particularly DOIs)
- An interest in biodiversity and library, museum and/or herbaria collections
For more information or to apply visit: JobsVic.
