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Join CDL as a Senior Product Manager

California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting a Senior Product Manager to manage a portfolio of data publishing products and services offered by our digital curation program, the UC Curation Center (UC3). Our new Senior Product Manager will have the opportunity and mandate to set the direction of UC3’s data publishing portfolio, ensuring that UC3 are leading edge in their design and implementation and will provide transformative data publishing solutions that benefit the entire research community. 

 

Data Publishing is an exciting and rapidly evolving field. While it relies heavily on the practices and incentive structures of the wider scholarly communication landscape, data publishing is emerging as a platform for exploring ways to disseminate and interact with research outputs in new, more open and dynamic ways. An ideal candidate will join the UC3 team, explore our current projects and priorities, build a plan for how we can best utilize our resources, and execute on that strategy. This will include working day-to-day as a Product Manager on software projects as well as engaging with community/stakeholders and with national and international initiatives within the digital library and scholarly research landscape.   

 

We are looking for an experienced professional with a full understanding of product/service development and production practices. This Senior Product Manager, Data Publishing position will focus on the successful development, outreach, and adoption of our data publishing services. These services include, through our partnership with Dryad, the product management of the Dryad platform. More detail about Dryad is available at datadryad.org. Because this position will focus on UC-wide engagement on data publishing and continuous development of Dryad, 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 Senior 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 Dryad team and the library/IT teams across the 10 UC campuses.  

 

As we look to recruit for the role, the work will continue and closely collaborate with key UC campus stakeholders and our internal/external partners to assess emerging research and industry trends to determine the trajectory of the data publishing portfolio and to fuel the development of long-range strategic plans and roadmaps.  

 

About 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, persistent identifiers, and data metrics. Reporting to the UC3 Associate Director, this position is responsible for managing the development and maintenance of the Dryad service, including playing a key role in promoting and setting the strategic direction for Dryad. 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.

Apply for the position at https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.[…]pplicant&SiteId=19&JobOpeningId=42429&PostingSeq=1.

 

Library Carpentry Advisory Group Welcomes New Members

Following on from January’s Call for Applications, The Library Carpentry Advisory Group is pleased to welcome seven new members to our team. Selected from a pool of excellent applicants, they will begin their 3-year terms this month. Please join us in welcoming:

Sara King – Australia

Dr Sara King is the Training and Engagement Lead for AARNet. She is focused on outreach within the research sector, developing communities of interest around training, outreach and skills development in eResearch. She is passionate about helping others develop the infrastructure and digital literacies required for working in a data-driven world, translating technology so it is accessible to everyone. This year she is looking forward to working with the university library community to develop skills around active research data management, data analysis with Jupyter Notebooks and how to improve personal resilience in ever-changing technological and work environments.

Mary Filsell – Australia

Mary Filsell is a research librarian & futurist focused on providing academic library research services for researchers, staff, masters by research and PHD students at Flinders University, South Australia. Personal research interests include: Library Carpentry, Open Access Research & Data, the FAIR principles for research data, and Extinction Rebellion. This year she is looking forward to working with digital humanities and GLAMR (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Records) communities, especially opportunities related to AI and TDM (text and data mining).

Annajiat Alim Rasel – Bangladesh

Annajiat Alim Rasel is an academic with broad interests in knowledge management. Being fascinated by multidisciplinary library science, he has been beside the local library through its transformation spanning over a decade. He hopes to increase awareness of Library Carpentry for empowerment of librarians and researchers alike. For example, exploration, the logistics for conducting research, and managing the artifacts before and after publication.

Sarah Schäfer – South Africa

Sarah Schäfer is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and her background is in digital cultural heritage. She has an interest in digital archives, collections management and the intersection of the arts and computing. Sarah loves working in a field that draws and benefits from knowledge in diverse areas, and she hopes that her role on the Advisory Group will help to grow and mobilise the Carpentries community on the African continent.

Ekatarina (Eka) Grguric – Canada

Ekatarina (Eka) Grguric is a Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of British Columbia where she supports faculty and students in computationally informed scholarship via events, training, and embedded project support. In her work she often leans on Carpentries content and is excited to help forge more ways to contribute content to the Library Carpentry curriculum.

Cody Hennesy – United States

Cody Hennesy (he/him) is the Journalism & Digital Media Librarian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he works to develop services and support for text and data mining research. He has been coordinating and teaching Software and Library Carpentry workshops at UMN since 2019. He’s looking forward to exploring opportunities to connect LC with library communities across the midwestern US, as well as possibilities to integrate LC efforts with emerging cloud-based text-as-data platforms.

Elizabeth (Lisa) McAulay – United States

Elizabeth (Lisa) McAulay is the Head of the Digital Library Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In her work, she directs a small team in developing digital access to rare and unique materials from UCLA and through partnership with a range of cultural heritage organizations. She is a certified Carpentries instructor and is an advocate for the Carpentries’ inclusive culture that encourages all learners to develop computational skills in support of their learning and professional goals. She is particularly interested in developing an impact narrative that includes both learner and instructor perspectives on the value of the Carpentries to their work.

Thanks!

We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to the outgoing Advisory Group members: Tim Dennis, Jeff Oliver, John Chodacki, Julie Goldman, Konrad Förstner, David Kane, and Ariel Deardorff. Thank you for your excellent work in promoting and supporting Library Carpentry in your communities, and broadening our networks so that we can link up with other collaborations and initiatives and help each other achieve our goals. May a thousand green stickies bloom in your honor!

Expanding Data and Software Skills Training

The UC3 team consults with the broad UC library community regarding research data management and data publishing in various capacities.  Over the past several years, we have seen a keen interest in expanding skills training opportunities for librarians in the areas of data skills and software skills. In an effort to amplify existing training programs and build capacity across the UC, we are looking forward to continuing our work in 2021 in the following ways:

Collaboration with The Carpentries

When it comes to teaching data science skills in a format that is community-based, hands-on train-the-trainer style, few opportunities can compare to The Carpentries.  In 2017, we established a working partnership with them that has been tremendously successful.  While The Carpentries originally focused exclusively on Data and Software Carpentry, it has been our work together, supported by a generous grant from the IMLS, to expand their remit and to introduce and grow Library Carpentry.  This investment has helped equip our library communities and also led to a large and vibrant international Library Carpentry community of which UC as a whole is now a significant part. In 2020, we completed our project work on expanding The Carpentries across California.

In 2021, we aim to keep that momentum going.  Many of our team members will be actively involved at an organizational level:

Other avenues for collaboration

In addition to the Carpentries, UC3 is consistently looking for skill training programs and events to support in 2021.  

Lots of work ahead

We are always open to hearing your ideas for ways to deepen our work with skills building and training at all levels.  We are especially keen to collaborate on projects that will benefit the library community and look forward to another successful year ahead! 

This is the last post in the “A Peek Into 2021 for UC3” series. 

 

A Peek Into 2021 for UC3

By: The UC3 Team

Across the UC3 team, we specialize in topics in digital curation, digital preservation, and open research. We manage a range of services, leading and participating in initiatives to move these topic areas forward.  

We’ve found that while some collaborators and colleagues may already be familiar with what we do, the full portfolio of our projects and communities may not always be well understood. Reflecting on the breadth of our current work as well as where we are headed, the UC3 team is kicking off this year with a series of posts about the areas of digital curation that we are involved in: 

UC3 has been around since 2009 and the team is ever changing. Considering how our work evolves, both leading and joining efforts in open research practices, our goal for the series is to re-familiarize folks with what areas we are invested in and share more about the thinking and strategy behind where we are headed in 2021.