Hi all, The Harvard Art Museums has an exciting new opportunity for those who get jazzed by the prospect of organizing visual data. The Art Museums is looking for someone to wrangle all of the museums' multimedia content and to help build systems for distributing it to the world. Details below.
Jeff Steward Director of Digital Infrastructure and Emerging Technology Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 www.harvardartmuseums.org<http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/> Title: Digital Archivist Department: Digital Infrastructure and Emerging Technology Location: USA, MA, Cambridge, Harvard Art Museums Time Status: Full-time Harvard Art Museums' increased use of technology has generated a wealth of digital content. The Digital Archivist provides leadership, strategic planning, and management of this content. The Digital Archivist is responsible for the long term preservation, organization, and distribution of the museums' digitized and born-digital material. The Digital Archivist works closely with the museums' Media Resources department and the Collections Information and Database Specialist to create a sustainable system to meet these goals. The incumbent also works across Harvard University departments to meet our shared goals of preservation and dissemination of digital materials. Roles and Responsibilities: * Research, plan, propose and implement systems for the management of the Art Museums' digital material ensuring effective acquisition, appraisal, deposit, description, persistence, and interoperability for all digital objects. * Research and import comprehensive audio, visual, multimedia, and textual digital materials related to the Art Museums' collection, exhibitions, publications, public programs, etc. * Organize, catalogue, and classify existing digitized and born-digital materials for use internally and externally. * Prepare digital files for depositing in the Harvard Digital Repository and the Art Museums' digital archive. * Create procedures and protocols, train museum staff, and establish a sustainable workflow for the digital archive infrastructure. * Create, propose and execute a plan for periodic auditing of the archive that ensures the long-term persistence and usability of the digital material. * Work with museums and university staff to ensure that the digital archive is used to its highest potential-widely disseminated to the public, universities, libraries, archivists, scholars and museum professionals. * Work with museums and University IT staff to plan the installation, upgrades, and maintenance of digital archive and asset management systems. * Configure digital archive software, manage user accounts, and control access. * Maintain a thorough and up-to-date understanding of digital file formats, electronic records management, and digital persistence practice and theory. * Work collaboratively and independently across a wide spectrum of staff. * Demonstrate a deep curiosity and problem solving capacity with unfamiliar technology and rapidly changing environments. You can find more info and apply at http://www.employment.harvard.edu/. Search Keyword = Digital Archivist.
