Position is mostly remote but needs to be in the DC area
LAC Federal is seeking a Digitial Archivist 1) to appraise a prominent national museum's historically significant digital institutional records for disposition, 2) to prepare permanent, official records for long term preservation and access, 3) to ingest the institutional records into the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) or transfer to their Archives, and 4) to dispose of records with limited or short-term value in accordance with established records retention policies. Files consist of audiovisual production assets, community engagement documentation, museum documentation images, third party exhibition images, and other project documentation that involves multiple departments including education and outreach, exhibition planning and design, publications, and research and curatorial materials.
Specific Tasks
Following Museum’s procedures and working under the supervision of the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR), the contractor shall perform the following tasks which may include but are not limited to:
• Attend all Museum, unit, and team meetings that facilitate project communication, progress, or directly affects the contractor’s work as identified by the COTR
• Appraise records in consultation with COTR and asset creators
• Create file system inventories, eliminate duplicate material, rename files, migrate files to standard preservation and access formats, and verify fixity
• Assign metadata to born-digital and digital surrogate archival records, including audiovisual, still image, and textual digital assets using metadata schemes selected by the museum
• Review media assets and digital collections for legal, ethical, and policy restrictions in consultation with COTR and Museum's Intellectual Property Manager
• Prepare appraised and selected digital assets for import into DAMS or transfer to Archives
• Manage ingested assets and metadata in DAMS
• Update digital archiving workflow and records retention schedule documentation following Museum’s guidelines if necessary
• Work within the established Museum standards for digital asset and digital content management
Qualifications
- Technical experience with digital asset management principles, practices, and standards
- Understanding and specialized experience with software for asset management tasking including creating file system inventories, maintaining data within spreadsheets, renaming files, migrating file formats, transcoding video, embedding metadata, running fixity checks, and deduplicating files.
- Experience or familiarity with one or more of the following applications: Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, BWF Metaedit, Foxit PhantomPDF, Microsoft Office suite, The National Archives’ Digital Record Object Identification tool (DROID), and DupeGuru.
- Must be self-motivated, able to work independently, and meet measurable goals and timeframes.
- Proficiency and practical experience using Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook
- Must be detail oriented and open to taking direction, ability to follow established policies and procedures
- Excellent written and oral communication and customer service skills
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to sit for long periods of time and to maintain focus on projects such as computer screens or detailed paperwork.
LS&S i s an equal opportunity affirmative action employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, genetics or any other category protected under applicable law.
Hours Per Week: 40