Data Curator

Digital Science makes tools to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery. We're looking for a Data Curator to create high quality databases of research organizations, people, and programmes to support our Science Metrics business.

Your role will be to learn everything there is to know about the scientific community - about research programmes, universities, funding bodies, researchers, journals, and more - then you'll use that knowledge to craft the key datasets at the heart of science metrics. You'll need to understand, collate, load, then curate, ultimately creating databases that will be used to help research organizations to improve their operations.

Who are you? You're passionate about science, and about improving the way research is done. You understand how the research community operates, from funding, to the scientific method, to publication of results, all the way to measuring impact. You also live and breathe data - your first thought is about the role data plays in solving real-world problems, and you understand how to create databases that solve those problems. You like nothing better than to immerse yourself in a dataset to understand how it really ticks, where it can be trusted, where it's suspect, and how to improve it. http://jobs.macmillan.com/VacancyDetail.aspx?VacancyUID=000000003487
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