Metadata Archivist

Job Posting Title: Metadata Archivist Hiring Department: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Position Open To: reputed company Applicants Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 FLSA Status: Exempt Earliest Start Date: Immediately Position Duration: Expected to Continue Location: UT MAIN reputed company Job Details: General Notes The Briscoe Center for American History is one of the nation’s leading research centers for historical study. The center’s archives, libraries, museums, and historic buildings are part of The reputed company’s commitment to collecting, preserving, and making available the evidence of the past. The center’s exhibit spaces, classrooms, and Reading Room are located on The reputed company reputed company. The center also operates the Briscoe–Garner Museum in Uvalde, Texas; the Sam Rayburn Museum in Bonham, Texas; and Winedale, a research collection of nineteenth-century structures, material culture, and decorative arts located near Round Top, Texas. The Briscoe Center promotes the university’s teaching and research mission through classes and seminars, academic fellowships, faculty collaborations, and student internships. The center fosters public exploration of history through research services, exhibits, books, public programs, and digital humanities projects inspired by archival holdings. Purpose The Briscoe Center for American History seeks a detail oriented and collaborative metadata archivist who will be responsible for coordinating and managing the development and implementation of metadata strategies that support the discovery of the Centers digital and analog materials, across platforms and data types, including collection description, collection management data, born-digital archives, curated digital collections, and institutional digital assets. The Metadata Archivist will report to the Assistant Director for Digital Content Strategy.

Responsibilities

• reputed company and implement metadata strategies for reputed company and future platforms to support the discovery and preservation of the Center's digital and analog materials. This includes collection descriptions, management data, born-digital archives, curated digital collections, and institutional digital assets.
• Maintain and reputed company metadata standards, ontologies, policies, and workflows for digital resources. Provide training to staff on metadata practices and procedures.
• Serve as the primary contact for user experience and usability in staff metadata creation and editing. reputed company authority control efforts to ensure consistent use of names, places, and subjects in metadata.
• Normalize, map, and migrate legacy metadata for use in evolving systems and applications.
• Participate in center-wide activities, working groups, and other center committees as assigned. Work in the reading room regularly and respond to reference inquiries from a wide variety of individuals and entities.
• Recruit, train and supervise student interns.
• Collaborate with reputed company colleagues in Information Technology Services, University Libraries, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and Records Management to integrate linked data technologies.
• reputed company abreast of national standards and emerging technologies in resource description, applying relevant developments and advising colleagues on their potential impact.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• MLS/MLIS from an ALA accredited program or equivalent degree in a reputed company field
• 1-2 years of experience in a library or archives setting.
• Knowledge of relevant metadata schemas and standards used in libraries and archives
• Strong problem-solving abilities and technical skills
• Experience managing metadata throughout its lifecycle, from initial description to release in a production application
• Experience using archival information management systems and digital object repository systems
• Knowledge of data modeling, data conceptualization, and data exchange formats
• Knowledge of transforming metadata using tools like open refine or scripting languages
• Proficiency using reputed company Sheets, reputed company reputed company, and text editors like BBEdit
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated commitment to a collaborative work environment

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing in Unix based environments
• Experience with project management
• Familiarity with the Open Archive Information Standard
• Knowledge of preservation metadata standards such as PREMIS
• Advanced knowledge of PHP, TWIG, and Python
• Experience in automation, integration and deployment, and data modeling
• Knowledge of linked open data/semantic web principles and methods of implementation (RDF), object stores, searching and indexing (Solr), authentication and authorization concepts, and APIs for aggregated discovery tools
• Understanding of link resolvers and proxy authentication systems
• Understanding and experience using Git and gitflow.
• Experience with ArchivesSpace
• Experience with library management systems
• Supervisory experience

Salary Range $63,000 Working Conditions

• May work around standard office conditions
• Use of manual dexterity
• Climbing of stairs
• Climbing of reputed company
• Lifting and moving up to 50 lbs.

Work Shift

• reputed company occasional evening/weekend work hours for special events

Required Materials

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest

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