Digital Preservation Specialist

8 hours ago


Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Digital Preservation Coalition Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a skilled Digital Preservation Specialist to join our team at the abrdn archive. The successful candidate will collaborate with the company archivist on all aspects of collections development, including policy and procedure review, accessioning, and record acquisition.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Work with the company archivist to review and adapt current collections development processes and practice.
  2. Review and adapt appraisal and accessions policy and procedure to streamline current workflows and enable the archive to collect records effectively on a global scale.
  3. Liaise with the company records management team to implement a retention schedule based accessions workflow.
About the Role

The Collections Development Archivist will be responsible for ensuring that all records of historical value are transferred to the archive for processing.

Salary and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary of $60,000 per annum, plus a range of benefits including health insurance, pension scheme, and paid vacation time.



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