Archival Metadata Specialist

2 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Digital Preservation Coalition Full time

The Digital Preservation Coalition is seeking an experienced Archival Metadata Specialist to join their research project. This fixed-term contract opportunity will allow the successful candidate to work with a powerful partnership of researchers, archives, and institutions to develop the people's national collection.

The Archival Metadata Specialist will lead on archival data and metadata for the project, maintaining an up-to-date and documented overview of all datasets and data flows associated with the Our Heritage, Our Stories project. They will bring expert knowledge of the field to advise, guide, analyse and make recommendations to the project to establish, maintain and document a robust, secure and ethical data sharing and governance framework.

The estimated annual salary for this role is around £40,000-£50,000 depending on experience, plus benefits such as a pension scheme and professional development opportunities.

This is a unique chance to work collaboratively with internal and external project partners to deliver for the project, taking joint responsibility with the local project team for The National Archives' commitments to this nationally important programme.



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