CDL is recruiting for a new Product Manager. This position will oversee the product management and outreach activities for the Dash project and service, as well as offer research data management and digital preservation consulting for the UC community.
We are looking for an experienced professional with a full understanding of product/service development and production practices. This position (officially titled “UC3 Service Manager, Dash”) will focus on the successful development, outreach, and adoption of the Dash service. A complete revamp of the UI and technical architecture of Dash is nearing completion. More detail about Dash is available here. A recent presentation on the project is also available here. Because this position will focus on continuous development of Dash, it requires an enthusiastic advocate for research data management best practices, open source community building, and digital curation skills development.
A successful candidate will advocate for the needs of our constituents and translate those needs into detailed enhancements of diverse scope, size, impact, and budget This Dash Product Manager will have a large support network: the UC3 Director, other UC3 product managers, UC3 development team, other California Digital Library departments, plus the library/IT teams across the 10 UC campuses.
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What is Dash?
Dash is an open source, online data publication service that makes research data sharing easy. While Dash gives the appearance of being a full-fledged data repository, it is actually a lightweight overlay layer that sits on top of, and freely interoperates with, standards-compliant repositories supporting common protocols for submission and harvesting. UC3 has integrated Dash with its Merritt curation repository. The Dash system provides intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces for dataset submission, description, publication, and discovery. Dash imposes minimal prescriptive eligibility and submission requirements, and automates and hides the mechanical details of DOI assignment, data packaging, and repository deposit from the user. It features a streamlined, self-service user experience that can be integrated easily and unobtrusively into multifarious scholarly workflows.
What is UC3?
This position is within the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library (CDL), an administrative unit of the University of California Office of the President (UCOP). UC3 works within CDL and across the 10 UC campuses to deliver leading-edge digital curation services. We plan, create, maintain, enhance, and operate robust services responsive to the evolving needs of UC stakeholders. UC3’s current initiatives include digital preservation, research data management, data publication, alternative metrics for usage and impact, and web archiving. Reporting to the UC3 Director, this position is responsible for managing the development and maintenance of the Dash service, including playing a key role in promoting and setting the strategic direction for Dash. As a member of this dynamic team, a successful candidate will be asked to contribute to furthering our work advancing digital curation concepts across the UC community. More information about UC3 can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/uc3.
More information about this position can be found here.
