Job Opening Title: Digital Services Librarian/Digital Preservation Manager
Institution/Organization Name: California Revealed
Job Location (City, State, Province, Country): Sacramento, California
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Link to job posting: https://mailchi.mp/f42a7ed43ade/california-revealed-hiring-digital-preservation-manager
Years of experience required: 2+
Job Description (if URL to posting not available). Please include instructions for how to apply.: Project Description
In partnership with over 200 California libraries, archives and history museums, California Revealed (CA-R) is a multi-year project providing digitization, digital preservation, and online access to books, documents, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and ephemera that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State.
The California Revealed Project gathers best archival practices for digitization and digital preservation, establishes low-cost, practical standards, and then manages digitization, online access, and digital preservation activities on behalf of Project partners. Free public access to the online collections is provided via the California Revealed collection and the Internet Archive. In addition, records are shared with Calisphere, WorldCat, and the Digital Public Library of America.
CA-R is grant-funded by the California State Library. Project operations are located at the California State Library in Sacramento.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The Digital Services Librarian will be responsible for transferring both digitized and born-digital archival materials to the CA-R LTO Digital Repository. The Digital Services Librarian will report to the Director and serve as a work leader primarily for ingesting digital collections submitted by Project partners.
Designs and coordinates workflow for digitization, serving and preserving, with a focus on ingesting born-digital archival materials.
Performs content audits and verify fixity of born-digital collections.
Communicates with and advises partners on file management. Corresponds with partners regarding production issues.
Serves as liaison with digitization vendors.
Confirms invoices.
Troubleshoots production problems.
Assigns to and evaluates work of team members.
Assesses needs and prepares collection materials for shipping to digitization vendors.
Standardizes metadata for ingest in an Islandora content management system.
Communicates with vendors and partner archives.
Performs quality assurance and control of new digital preservation files and metadata records.
Preps files and metadata records for ingest into the CA-R LTO Digital Repository. Writes LTO to be stored offline.
Uploads access files to the Internet Archive.
Uploads, maps and aggregates metadata for californiarevealed.org. Syncs metadata harvests for Calisphere; DPLA; Worldcat.
Assists with development of digital preservation outreach workshops.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Capabilities and Experience
Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
2+ years of experience with cataloging, handling and preservation of archival materials, particularly digital formats, and coordinating digitization workflow activities.
Experience with batch processing digital collections (digitization and/or digital curation). Experience with coordinating digitization and data migration workflow activities.
Ability to write and maintain scripts and workflow to facilitate batch processing.
Working knowledge of library and archives preservation principles, including digitization and metadata standards for long-term preservation and access.
Demonstrated understanding of archival arrangement and description. Knowledge of current and emerging library and information standards such as MARC, PBCore, Dublin Core, MODS, Encoded Archival Description, and various thesauri for cataloging.
Familiarity with digital asset management systems and repositories.
Ability to work creatively, collaboratively, and effectively both as a team member and independently, in an environment where consultation, flexibility and cooperation are essential.
Ability to effectively troubleshoot technical problems, isolate causes and implement solutions. Patience for training and support.
Strong analytical, documentation, and written/verbal communication skills.
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
Proficiency with MS Office applications in Microsoft and Mac environments, particularly Excel.
Preferred Capabilities and Experience
Interest in California history.
Familiarity with open source file identification and conversion tools such as Archivematica (an open source suite of tools), Imagemagick (open source image file converter), optical character recognition processes, and ffmpeg (open source moving image and audio file convertor). Familiarity with Python/Bash/Ruby programming languages.
Knowledge of digital forensics systems and software.
Experience with test driven development, continuous integration, and version control (e.g. Git).
Experience and facility with Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Photoshop (for quality control).
Compensation
$30-39/hour, depending on skills and experience; 32-40 hrs/week, annual contract. Subsequent contracts dependent upon available funding. This position is open until filled and begins immediately.
Please send a resume and cover letter to:
Pamela Vadakan
Associate Director
pvadakan@californiarevealed.org
916.653.5074
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