Vacancy for Archival Metadata Specialist at The National Archives UK

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City Of London, United Kingdom Digital Preservation Coalition Full time

Vacancy for Archival Metadata Specialist at The National Archives UK 30 April 2023 London Fixed Term The National Archives is looking for an Archival Metadata Specialist to join an existing 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). The project brings together a powerful partnership, including researchers in digital humanities, archives, history, linguistics, and computer science at our HEI partners, the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester, with research and development in archive and digital infrastructure at The National Archives, the project's lead Independent Research Organisation. Person specification The Archival Metadata Specialist will lead on archival data and metadata for the project, maintaining an up-to-date and documented overview of all the datasets and data flows associated with the Our Heritage, Our Stories project, including those of external project partners. 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 ethical data sharing and governance framework. will provide data modelling and ontology advice and guidance to the project, and build on their knowledge of archival practice to research developments in the use of Linked Data in cultural heritage. They will oversee the progress of data through the project’s workflows, from community-generated digital content (CGDC) to Linked Data, its representation and testing through the interfaces the project is developing. At The National Archives, they will join the creative, motivated multi-disciplinary project team within the wider Research and Academic Engagement Department. They will 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr



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