Title / Category: Nomenclature Taxonomist / Librarian Summary: The Disney Corporate Taxonomist serves as a subject matter expert for media metadata and as a committee facilitator involving Companywide media asset management (MAM) initiatives. The Disney Corporate Taxonomist is responsible for identifying and guiding a comprehensive strategy for semantic interoperability by researching industry and government standards, technical writing, digital media cataloguing, and advising the Company on metadata standards and practices to support initiatives including digital production, preservation, re-use, and distribution. The position involves four distinct areas in semantic technology: 1. Media content metadata standards 2. Cataloging and indexing procedures 3. Business nomenclatures and vocabularies for media products / brands 4. General application of taxonomy and ontology construction Primary Duties: • Track and coordinate the work of media catalogers throughout the business units of the Company with the goal of synchronizing metadata standards for consistency and technical interoperability. • Champion the implementation of Companywide standards in nomenclature and metadata, influencing relevant decisions within specific business units. • Ensure business compliance by producing, testing, and promoting nomenclature and metadata ‘Best Practices’. • Communicate and facilitate related training, presentations and project meetings. Involves a high level of interaction with both technology and operational management and executives throughout the Company. • Serve as a domain expert and project liaison between corporate media technology initiatives, Disney business units and external industry partners. • Guide, expand, and maintain a comprehensive corporate taxonomy and metadata schemas for the Walt Disney Company. • Provide guidance to various business unit media collections on compatible thesauri and ontology construction. • Guide the business requirements of multi-lingual taxonomies applying to Disney’s global media and entertainment reach. • Collaborate regularly with corporate entities such as Disney’s Media Technology Board, Enterprise Information Technology services, Enterprise Portal, Studio Post Production, Worldwide Media Library Services, Disney-ABC Television Group media librarians, etc. • Actively research and recommend metadata search technology tools, industry developments, and related advances in the academic, entertainment, library, and museum communities. • Represent TWDC at industry associations and organizations including AMIA, ISAN, MPAA (XML related standards), STC Digital Preservation, SMPTE W25 working groups, etc. Required skills: o Possess an advanced degree in Library Science, Museum Studies, Linguistics, or equivalent knowledge management experience. o 3-6 years of experience in information architecture, knowledge and/or content management, library, or other collection-related disciplines. o Familiar with current concepts, practices, and trends in media asset management, digital asset management, search engines/portals, database and data modeling structures, etc. o Ability to synthesize complex technical concepts, protocols and standards, and communicate them into meaningful business activities and/or priorities. o Experience developing controlled vocabularies. o Experience with thesaurus construction and maintenance. o Experience with creating metadata models or schemas. o Familiar with various ontologies and current Internet standards developments in Web 2.0, etc. o Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and facilitate diverse, global business needs with active participation and group consensus. o Possess very strong communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to communicate sophisticated taxonomy/ontology/nomenclature concepts to audiences of all levels.
posted to MeFi Jobs by Argyle at 6:05 AM on August 15, 2008

We've got an opening at the Mouse-related company where I work for a Digital Media Engineer. It's a contract position, responsible for development and support of transcoding and other digital video systems. Here is the detailed job description: Job Title: Digital Media Engineer Department: Post Production Engineering Reports To: Manager of Post Engineering Position Summary: * Install, configure, maintain and support transcoding and tape ingest software used to transform media content into file formats useful to a wide range of content distribution partners. Responsibilities: • Establish and maintain transcoding profiles for various types of content and end uses including, broadband, mobile, VOD and broadcast. • Establish and maintain network directories for operational personnel to locate, transcode, package, QC and deliver media files and data packages to content distribution partners. • Generate technical documentation that will be useful to those who follow in similar positions and to those who operate the software and equipment in day to day production. Conduct training for operational personnel. • Thoroughly understand transcoding software and perform basic troubleshooting. This may include opening and examining XML files, configuring system preferences and settings, and viewing media files for quality and properties. Maintain communication with technical support departments of vendors to resolve problems and feature requests. * Develop and maintain workflows with other departments. Diagram and communicate such workflows with Powerpoint and Visio. Maintain a working knowledge of hardware and software including but not limited to Avid, Apple, HP and Seachange. * Perform PC and Mac configuration and troubleshooting in regard to video and transcoding functionality. Job Related Experience: * At least 2 years experience with post production hardware and software, particularly content transformation applications from companies such as Autodesk, Telestream, Sorenson, and Anystream. Also helpful would be experience with content generation software such as After Effects, Combustion and Final Cut. * Knowledge of the technical aspects of various media file formats such as VBI, closed captioning, frame rates, pixel dimensions, aspect ratios, bit rates, color space, GOP structure, metadata packaging and differences in video standards. * Sufficient work history with Final Cut, Avid Media Composer and Unity systems to be able to communicate clearly with NLE editors, data wranglers and management personnel. * Basic familiarity with IP addressing, file and directory permissions and networking concepts and terminology. Job Related Education: * Helpful but not required: AA or above degree in Film and Television Production or Computer Graphics. Linux and Perl scripting. * Avid, Apple, Linux, A+ certifications are a plus
posted to MeFi Jobs by Argyle at 6:32 AM on February 6, 2008