The Land Portal Foundation is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated (Open) Data Officer to join our dynamic data team in charge of leading the
information and data sharing needs of the Land Portal. The (Open) Data Officer will ensure all data harvested and published by the Land Portal is
highly curated and managed and respond to open data standards and FAIR principles. The (Open) Data Officer will also contribute to advocacy and capacity
building strategy and ensure uptake of such principles by the land community.
The successful candidate will also be welcomed into a small, dedicated and disbursed team of international professionals that make up the Land Portal.
The Land Portal is an inclusive space and we encourage applications from women, and candidates from the Global South.
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| - The Land Portal Foundation is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated (Open) Data Officer to join our dynamic data team in charge of leading the
information and data sharing needs of the Land Portal. The (Open) Data Officer will ensure all data harvested and published by the Land Portal is
highly curated and managed and respond to open data standards and FAIR principles. The (Open) Data Officer will also contribute to advocacy and capacity
building strategy and ensure uptake of such principles by the land community.
The successful candidate will also be welcomed into a small, dedicated and disbursed team of international professionals that make up the Land Portal.
The Land Portal is an inclusive space and we encourage applications from women, and candidates from the Global South. (en)
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| - Land Portal Foundation Job Opportunity: (Open) Data Officer (en)
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| - Proven experience in data management (2 to 5 years) (en)
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| - Provide IT support to the LandVoc website, www.landvoc.org (en)
- Write the Open Data Compliance assessment upon identified datasets and repositories based on SOLI scoping country exercises (en)
- Contribute in improving research methodology and performing of Open Data Assessments on Land PortalâÂÂs State of Land Information (SOLI) (en)
- Scope and triage new statistical, spatial and project datasets and bibliographic repositories to ingest that are relevant for Land Portal priority themes; (en)
- Further enhance project (meta-)data model and identify possible new (standard) taxonomies to use (en)
- Develop scripts to ingest data, working with API and CSV files (en)
- For bibliographic data importers, analyze and curate external metadata, map external data (metadata models, taxonomies, etc.) to the LibraryâÂÂs data model and,
finally, profile missing publishers as organizations on the Portal (incl. documenting number of new publishers) before running the importer and ingesting data in
the Library and Virtuoso (en)
- Provide support to the development of LandVoc (en)
- In close collaboration the Land Data Advocacy & Management Officer, scope for, prioritize and triage potential land project databases and land individual
projects/programs to ingest into the new Land Portal Database and assist in communication with data owners and other external parties (en)
- Run importers to generate RDF and upload RDF data to Virtuoso (en)
- Document process of ingestion for each importer on the process and the code for developers (en)
- Support the process of migration of Land Governance map Database into the land Portal; develop specification and oversee user needs assessment, development
of specifications and web development in close collaboration with the GDWGL, Land Portal data and ICT teams (en)
- Provide advice and guidance on the future strategy and development of LandVoc based on expertise in semantic web and ontology management. (en)
- Ingest new Statistical, Bibliographic, and Project data in the Land Portal database, based on Land Portal priority themes. (en)
- Collaborate with the Information Management & Advocacy Officer to develop quarterly data plans and prioritize sources for ingestion; assist in communication
with data providers and other external parties; (en)
- Maintain and ensure consistent lists of concepts are recorded in all places Landvoc is used and/or stored (i.e. LandVoc website, AGROVOC Vocbench, internal Drive
documentation and in Drupal) in collaboration with the Information Management Officer (en)
- Keep documentation for all re-run importers up-to-date. (en)
- Keep the Land Portal Database constantly up-to-date and curated by updating Statistical, Bibliographic, and Project data importers and checking it against errors; (en)
- Review and provide comments to the Open Data Assessment Report written by the Land Data Advocacy & Management Officer (en)
- Generate new project importers based on priority list. Analyze and curate external metadata, map external data model (metadata models, taxonomies, etc.) to
the Land Portal's model and, finally, profile missing project owners as organizations on the Portal before running the importer and ingesting data in Drupal
and Virtuoso (en)
- Curate and perform preliminary quality checks for the data (en)
- Contribute to the continuous development and refinement of the research methodology of the State of Land Information (SOLI) (en)
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| - Knowledge about data standards and metadata standards (en)
- Fluency in English. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset (en)
- Disciplined - good at managing time (en)
- Knowledge of Drupal; Vocbench, Skosmos, Bootstrap (en)
- Knowledge of Virtuoso (en)
- Programming skills (eg. Python, Java) (en)
- Superior attention to detail (en)
- Good drafting, communicating and presenting abilities (en)
- Knowledge of land governance related issues and land data landscape (en)
- Strong knowledge about open data, semantic web, linked data, controlled vocabularies and data sharing technologies (en)
- Experience working as part of an international distributed, remote team (en)
- Strong capacity to work in a team, autonomously, and respect tight deadlines (en)
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| - Masters level or higher, or equivalent (en)
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