Digital Archivist Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Houston Responsibilities:
* The Digital Archivist is responsible for the MFAH Archives digitization program of textual, photographic, architectural, and audio-visual materials * The Digital Archivist serves on the Electronic Record Archive implementation team * Oversees digitization of archival materials, creates and color-corrects sub-masters, and creates access copies * Primarily responsible for the acquisition and maintenance of legacy equipment. * Responsible for description of a/v collection * Responsible for the exportation of data from collection management system. * Will assist with migration of EAD finding aids * Assists with the accessioning, arrangement and description of the MFAH´s institutional records and manuscript collections in electronic form * Monitors digitization and ingestion workflows * Keeps abreast of best practices and standards * Provides training to staff and volunteer * Provides reference service to professional staff and scholarly public Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities: * Knowledge of image technical metadata required * Knowledge of a/v wrappers and codecs required * Strong command of archival theory and best practices required * Demonstrated knowledge of principles of content description * Demonstrated familiarity with MARC, EAD and DACS required * Demonstrated familiarity with OAIS Reference model and TRAC principles required * Significant knowledge of ingestion and preservation tools for born-digital records, specifically disk imaging tools, write blockers, file format authenticators, metadata extractors, and checksum generators * Demonstrated ability to work with databases, data mapping and migration of data * Ability to work independently and collaboratively * Ability to think creatively required * Familiarity with PREMIS * Knowledge of emerging standards such as linked data and semantic web development, specifically FAST, highly desirable * Familiarity with RDA, EAC-CPF and METS preferred Education and Experience: * Masters in Archival Studies, Library and Info Science, History or equivalent degree required * Two or more years of professional archival experience with similar duties required * Experience overseeing digitization and volunteer projects strongly preferred * Experience writing documentation and conducting presentations and training strongly preferred * Experience validating EAD finding aids strongly preferred * Experience with born-digital records archiving and trustworthy digital repository strongly preferred * Experience with developing, utilizing and documenting workflows strongly preferred * Experience acquiring and maintaining legacy equipment for accessing obsolete a/v and digital formats strongly preferred * Art history background strongly preferred. Experience in museum setting highly desirable. * DAS coursework highly desirable * Experience providing reference service and processing records preferred * ACA certification preferred Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/11225/
