Maybe, maybe not
I’m not entirely sure how the phone interview went. I didn’t bomb, but I could have been better.
Ruritania U wants somebody who puts the “meta” in metadata. Now, I know my way around metadata reasonably well, and can pick up the finer points as I go—but I’m not a metadata geek quite the same way I’m a text geek, and I fear it showed. (Plus, their collections are heavy on the maps and the geography, and I don’t know nothin’ ’bout integratin’ with no GIS. Not that I couldn’t learn, of course. But that’s the truth.)
I was basically right about the parameters and politics of the position, though, which shows that I’m learning to read between the lines of a job description. Not at all a bad thing.
I can’t really guess at my chances at this point. It depends heavily on what else they’re getting by way of applications. I don’t think I did anything to knock myself immediately out of contention, but if I’d been on the other side of the phone line listening to me, I don’t think I’d be at the top of my list. Er, if that makes any sense.