Repository Management User Profile - Repository Engineer
Prepared by: Management FRG
Last Revised: Jan 2018
Status: Draft
Reviewed by:
Approved by:
Demographics/User Characteristics
- Familiar with Hyrax, Samvera and Fedora repository technologies
- Familiar with repository concepts and standards
- Familiar with metadata standards and encoding
- Familiar with related Library/broader Emory systems infrastructure
- Familiar with file systems and permissions management models
- Familiar with cloud/distributed environments
- Familiar with storage environments
- Familiar with repository system services and deposit workflow processes
- Familiar with the mission of digital libraries and institutional repositories
Frequency of Repository Use
- Daily to weekly
General Motivators/Goals
- Providing technical oversight for the overall repository product solution
- Working with Library staff system users to develop and support features in the interface
- Integration of repository system services with other Library/Emory systems
- Troubleshooting technical issues impacting digital repository products and content
- Supporting user and group permissions infrastructure
- Coordinating repository system upgrades and enhancements
Key Repository Management Tasks
- Maintains system roles, user, and group permissions for the overall repository
- Develops integrations with external Emory/Library systems
- Maintains integrations with storage services
- Works with Metadata Specialists to maintain metadata profiles over time
- Maintains preservation activities and utilities over time
- Troubleshoots issues related to ingest, indexing, display, and permissions
Repository Content/Information Desired
- User management dashboard/interface
- Staff activity audits and processing reports
- Storage utilization reports
- Overall repository health/preservation reports
- Administrative Set management
- Repository inventory reports
Library/Unit Interactions
- Primary affiliation is the Emory Libraries or LITS
- Provides repository support to all depositing Libraries