Digital Collections Specialist

4 weeks ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Digital Preservation Coalition Full time

Vacancy for Digital Collections Specialist at Digital Preservation Coalition

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire

Employment Type: Full-Time

We are seeking a skilled Digital Collections Specialist to join our team at the Digital Preservation Coalition. The successful candidate will have a passion for archive collections and making them accessible.

The Digital Preservation Coalition holds outstanding collections, encompassing rare books and archives, and the processing, management, and discovery of these collections and their related data are major challenges for the service.

Responsibilities:

  1. Surveying, processing, and cataloguing born-digital archive materials.
  2. Extracting metadata and establishing archival structures.
  3. Creating and verifying metadata according to agreed standards.
  4. Collaborating with the Digital Archivist to implement standards across collections.
  5. Processing collections from their arrival or capture through to ingestion.
  6. Creating catalogue records for born digital items.
  7. Managing rights and permissions metadata necessary for ingestion and access.
  8. Working closely with colleagues across all aspects of the Digital Preservation Coalition team.

Qualifications:

You will have a good understanding of archival principles and the challenges presented by digital archives and be comfortable in analysing and understanding their structure and format. You will be a confident user of IT, willing and able to quickly learn and apply new systems, and have excellent problem-solving skills, able to identify and develop practical solutions. You will be a team-worker, able to collaborate productively, and have excellent communication skills – able to explain often complex policies and procedures to a wide range of stakeholders.



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