If you're a seasoned electronic records archivist and would like to work at the flagship campus of a large Midwestern state university, Purdue University may have a
position waiting for you.
Description
Reporting to the University Archivist and Head, Archives and Special Collections
Division, the Digital Preservation and Electronic Records Archivist will be responsible for the management, acquisition, appraisal, description, and preservation of born-digital records with historical, evidential, research, or administrative value to the university. Will collaborate with faculty and staff to collect, manage, preserve, and provide access to born digital and digitally reformatted collections. Will participate in the active management and preservation of a wide array of types of digital collections, including but not limited to university electronic records and websites, born digital manuscripts and personal papers, faculty research datasets and scholarly publications.
Qualifications
Required
- Master's in Library Science or MIS from an ALA-accredited
institution with graduate level course work in archives or a Master's
degree in History, Archives or a related field with completion of
graduate level course work in archives.
- One year of experience applying archival theory and practice of
managing, preserving, and providing access to born digital objects.
- Demonstrated experience with repository platforms (e.g., Fedora, DSpace).
- Knowledge of preservation technologies (e.g., BagIt, JHOVE, micro
services architectures) and other related technologies (e.g., XML,
relational databases, scripting languages).
- Knowledge of preservation metadata, archival storage methods and preservation systems, data security, and format migration.
- Knowledge of OAIS and issues relating to long-term preservation and
archiving of electronic records or other types of digital collections
- Ability to effectively use current technologies, acquire new
technological skills, and resolve problems in a resourceful and timely
manner.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, analytical, time management and organizational skills.
Preferred
- Degree specializing in archival science, digital curating or digital preservation.
- Project management experience as it applies to management of born digital content.
- Experience generating checksums, creating preservation metadata, and
working with tools that verify file authenticity and tools that
identify potentially restricted content.
- Familiarity with preservation planning, including creation of preservation policies, procedures, and/or disaster recovery plans.
- Demonstrated expertise in dataset management or management of other born digital content.
- Knowledge of web archiving, working with born digital personal
papers or university records, and issues related to working with large
and complex research data sets and related collections.
- Expertise in format migration, preservation metadata, archival
storage methods and systems, data security, and related issues inherent
to long-term preservation and access.
- Awareness of emerging technological advances relating to digital
preservation as well as awareness of tools and techniques for
identifying and working with information of a sensitive or confidential
nature.
- Awareness of copyright law as it applies to both published and
unpublished digital content along with an understanding of the research
process, the data life cycle, and scholarly communication trends,
including knowledge of applications for organizing and managing research
data.
- Demonstrated commitment to the archives and/or library and
information science professions, through active involvement in
professional organizations.
Additional Information
For more information, consult the
position description,
fringe benefits overview,
compensation information, and supplemental (and really helpful!)
job seeker resources,
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