Data Manager

The National Archives’ Legislation Services team is responsible for legislation.gov.uk, the official home of enacted and revised UK legislation and the only comprehensive free-to-use source of updated UK legislation.

Open data is at the heart of our legislation services. The legislation data we curate and create comprises document data in XML, graph-based data in RDF, and website usage data, metadata about legislation, including amendment and application data, bibliographic information as well as exhaust data from our publishing processes and website operations. Ensuring this data is correct, complete, high quality and consistent is vital, underpinning our ability to deliver new functionality and to aid legal certainty for users.

The Data Manager will quality assure and maintain legislation data in all its formats in line with our data strategy and reporting to our Legislation Data Service Owner, making sure that the data we hold is valid against our schemas, meets agreed standards and is as correct and consistent as possible. They will look for opportunities to improve the quality, consistency and accessibility of the data to support the continual improvement of our legislation services. Confident in working with XML, they will give advice to our contractors on the structure of published legislation and assist the editorial team in maintaining revised legislation by supporting the more complex and technical corrections and help with filling in gaps in the legislation data. The Data Manager will become expert in our various RDF datasets, carrying out analysis and seeking out improvements to the data modelling where they would bring efficiencies. Managing data projects with our contractors as required.

This is a full time post. However, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the Department.

A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site.

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Museum Website: https://nationalarchives.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/Kew/Data-Manager_JR200730