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Cataloger or Director of Metadata?

Marc Siry posts about Job Descriptions from the Future: Director of Metadata, but it sure sounds like a cataloging librarian to me. Here are the key parts of the job description:

• Fashion metadata requirements for content partnerships
• Determine metadata needs for editorial programming interfaces
• Develop a schema that supports product capabilities for discovery and reporting
• build out the CMS and data entry methods to support the schema
• plan for future expansions and revisions of the schema as the business evolves

A 1200 word post on managing metadata with no mention of librarians. It looks like NBC Universal is going to be reinventing a lot of stuff. To reword Isaac Newton’s famous comment, this is standing on the toes of giants, not their shoulders.

Posted by Walter Underwood (wunder@best.com) at July 7, 2007 09:53 AM | TrackBack