Deadline: 2016-09-01
Region: Europe
Job description:
The Scientific Information Service within CERN Research and Computing Sector supports the worldwide High-Energy Physics community to find, access and re-use information to accelerate scientific discovery.
The INSPIRE digital library is the Service's flagship. It is run in collaboration with partner laboratories in China, Germany and the United States, and serves the scientific community since almost 50 years. Previously known as SPIRES, it was the first web site outside Europe and the first database on the web. Today, INSPIRE is searched about twice per second and connects 100'000 users worldwide, virtually all scientists and students in High-Energy Physics, with over 1 million scientific articles (but also software, data, a conference announcement tool and a job database). A new, popular, feature are tens of thousands scientific profiles of authors in the field.
INSPIRE is about to launch a profoundly redesigned interface and planning a suite of services to crowdsource the addition of relevant scientific content, the curation of scientific profiles, and the possibility for authors and readers to improve information. In additions, ways to visualise information, and its relations, are being considered.
In partnership with scientists, software developers, and information specialists the Community Engagement and Product Manager will be responsible for the successful transition of INSPIRE to a new interface, and for the user uptake of crowdsourcing services.
You will:
- • Product-manage the launch of an INSPIRE "labs" site, with a redesigned user interface, and the incremental roll-out of new features, including scientific profiles, crowd-sourcing capabilities, and a public API.
- • Understand and prioritize users' needs, drivers and barriers; feeding into the design of the new INSPIRE crowdsourcing services; taking responsibility for usability considerations and user testing, including the analysis of users' behaviour.
- • Engage with the INSPIRE user community through focus groups, one-to-one interactions, tutorials and social media, continuously collecting and analysing user feedback and providing guidance to the development team in an agile way.
The duration of the post is 3 years. For further information, and to apply, please see the url below.
More Information:https://jobs.web.cern.ch/job/12069