Job Description
Data Engineer, Baker Library, Harvard Business School (Boston)
HBS’s Baker Library is seeking a temporary Data Engineer to help launch a faculty citation data project aimed at better understanding how its collections support and influence scholarly research. This initiative involves identifying faculty publications, extracting their cited references, and analyzing the relationships within this data to generate meaningful insights into patterns of use and library collection impact. By analyzing citations, the project seeks to surface evidence of how Baker’s resources contribute to the research ecosystem at HBS.
Reporting to Baker Library’s User Needs and Assessment Librarian, this temporary Data Engineer role will focus on the final phase of the project, where a corpus of raw citation data has already been collected and aggregated from multiple sources. At this stage, the data requires careful cleaning, normalization, and transformation to ensure it is accurate, consi...