Posted to IASSIST on: 2010-04-20
Employer: UK Data Archive
Employer URL: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
Description
The Data and Support Services Officer will prepare data, documentation and metadata for addition to the UK Data Archive Secure Data Service server. The work involves converting data and accompanying documentation between different software and formats, checking the data and documentation for both new and existing datasets, adding value to them by adding/improving the labelling of variables in data files and creating dataset metadata, including catalogue records and keyword indexes, according to established procedures. The successful candidate will liaise with data creators, staff at other Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) centres and data users. In addition other data-related work within the remit of the Secure Data Service may be undertaken as required.
Archived on: 2010-05-21