Digital Preservation Specialist

6 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Digital Preservation Coalition Full time
Vacancy for Digital Preservation Archivist at the Digital Preservation Coalition

We are seeking a highly skilled Digital Preservation Archivist to join our team on a fixed term basis until 31 March 2026.

This role is part of our newly launched Our Screen Heritage project, which aims to bring our digital collections up-to-date by acquiring and preserving the story of moving image in the digital/online era and reflecting the diversity and richness of contemporary Britain today.

The successful candidate will focus on developing, implementing, maintaining and documenting digital preservation and access workflows and policies for born digital document archives collected via acquisitions from Special Collections Archivists or Special Collections Digital Archivists.

Key responsibilities include:

  1. Collaborating with Special Collections Archivists and collections donors to create a shared understanding of the digital materials in scope for collecting, and designing effective digital preservation workflows for those materials.
  2. Contributing to the development of digital preservation workflows for born-digital document archives, carrying out quality assurance, and testing new or proposed workflows.
  3. Contributing to the selection and implementation of relevant digital preservation metadata standards and capturing metadata in line with those standards.
  4. Transferring data from various physical devices - such as computer hard drives, optical disks, flash drives - with attention to digital preservation principles to ensure lossless transfer, and in compliance with our cybersecurity policies.

We are looking for candidates who have:

  1. Experience working in a digital preservation context with born digital material in current and legacy digital formats.
  2. Experience of transferring data from physical devices - such as computer hard drives, optical disks, flash drives - and cloud-based data storage solutions, for the purpose of long term digital preservation.
  3. Proven ability to create digital preservation workflows for born digital document archives.
  4. Knowledge of digital preservation standards including technical requirements, and experience of implementing those in good practice digital preservation workflows.


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