Digital Preservation Expert

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Digital Preservation Coalition Full time
Vacancy for Archival Metadata Specialist at The National Archives UK

Type: Fixed Term

The National Archives is seeking an experienced Archival Metadata Specialist to join their research project, Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection, part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's programme Towards a National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the World (TaNC). This project brings together a powerful partnership of researchers in digital humanities, archives, history, linguistics, and computer science at HEI partners, the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester, with research and development in archive and digital infrastructure at The National Archives.

The successful candidate 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 project. They will bring expert knowledge to advise, guide, analyse, and make recommendations to the project team to establish, maintain, and document a robust, secure, and ethical data sharing and governance framework.

The role involves providing data modelling and ontology advice and guidance to the project, as well as building on knowledge of archival practice to research developments in Linked Data in cultural heritage. They will oversee the progress of data through the project's workflows, from community-generated digital content to Linked Data, its representation, and testing through interfaces developed by the project.

This opportunity offers a chance to work collaboratively with internal and external project partners to deliver results for the project. The selected candidate will join the creative, motivated multi-disciplinary project team within the wider Research and Academic Engagement Department at The National Archives.

Salary: £40,000 per annum, plus benefits



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