Where a big data archive librarian can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a big data archive librarian already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Big data archive librarians classify, catalogue and maintain libraries of digital media. They also evaluate and comply with metadata standards for digital content and update obsolete data and legacy systems.
Also known as digital documentation archivist, archive librarian, documentation archivist, computer tape librarian, digital archivists.
Technicians and associate professionals 73 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: database integrator, 54%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A big data archive librarian needs 23 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- manage archive users guidelines management skills
- maintain database performance working with computers
- data extraction, transformation and loading tools information and communication technologies (icts)
- maintain database security working with computers
- write database documentation communication, collaboration and creativity
- digital curation social sciences, journalism and information
- maintain data entry requirements information skills
- manage ICT data classification working with computers
- manage content metadata information skills
- database development tools information and communication technologies (icts)
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a big data archive librarian does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- database integrator 47% covered · difficulty 63.7
- chief data officer 43% covered · difficulty 67.3
- database administrator 43% covered · difficulty 67.3
- data centre operator 36% covered · difficulty 72.7
- data analyst 32% covered · difficulty 76.3
- data entry clerk 26% covered · difficulty 80.5
- data entry supervisor 26% covered · difficulty 80.5
- market research analyst 26% covered · difficulty 80.7
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Big data archive librarian is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a big data archive librarian’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.