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