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Internship: Content Analyst/Taxonomist, Harvard Business School Baker Library, Boston, MA

Posted November 3, 2014

Wage/Salary:

Negotiable.

Job Description:

The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship is in the midst of creating an online portal for entrepreneurship that redefines the way in which HBS entrepreneurs engage with content, community and each other. As part of this project, the ROCK Center is in need of temporary help from a professional in the field of library/information science to assist in selecting, analyzing, and tagging faculty, external, newsworthy and experiential content for the site, as well as aiding in the development and maintenance of the navigation taxonomy used to tag the content. Timeframe of position: January-June 2015.

Key Responsibilities 

  • Manage the ROCK Center’s Vocabulary, keeping it up-to-date with additions and changes over the course of the engagement 
  • Manage the ongoing mapping of ROCK Center Vocabulary to the Faculty Research Vocabulary, used to classify HBS faculty publications 
  • Assist in setting up search criteria for publication selection 
  • Apply search techniques across the 35K faculty publications, analyze and select those publications that are relevant to ROCK Center’s website based on criteria set up by the ROCK Center (selection criteria to include vocabulary, faculty names, etc.) 
  • Tag the selected publications with ROCK Center Vocabulary terms in a consistent, efficient manner and import into content management system 
  • Tag practical, external, experiential and newsworthy content with appropriate taxonomy and import relevant content into the content management system 
  • Work with the ROCK Center and with Knowledge and Library Services staff in the accomplishing the work on this project 

Requirements

  • Graduate degree in Information or Library Science; or current qualified student 
  • General knowledge of full text and structured data search strategies and techniques and retrieval in Web and non-Web environments 
  • General knowledge of tools required to manage content and vocabularies 
  • Ability to collaborate with teams, bringing a consistent understanding and approach to taxonomy-related information retrieval and information management 
  • Ability to establish and maintain relationships with colleagues across diverse organizations 
  • Knowledge of business and management literature helpful

Application Instructions:

Send resume to:

[email protected] 
Joanne Chi Blotner 
ROCK Center for Entrepreneurship 
Harvard Business School 
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163

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