Digital Preservation Specialist

3 days ago


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

The British Library is the national library of the UK, with a significant print collection including over 170 million items. We have been conducting major web archiving activities since 2013, including annual crawls of the whole UK web domain and frequent crawls of targeted websites.

In this role as Digital Preservation Specialist, you will lead:

  • Development and improvement of the Library's web archiving technical capability to respond to evolving web technologies.
  • Technical operations, including annual harvests of the whole UK web domain.
  • Evaluation of required technical infrastructure (hardware, software, network) to meet business requirements.
  • Partnerships with Legal Deposit Libraries to ensure their requirements are incorporated into web archiving activities.

This position offers a salary of approximately £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience.



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