Vacancy for Digital Archive Assistant at University of Bristol

Digital Preservation Coalition; Bristol; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in digital preservation is looking for a Digital Archive Assistant to work with the University of Bristol's Special Collections. This role focuses on digital collections management, customer service, and preservation workflows while using specialized software like Preservica.

Responsibilities

• Providing excellent customer service to support research and education.
• Ingesting material to the digital preservation system.
• Keeping the Digital Asset Register updated.

Tools

Preservica

Job description

• Vacancy for Digital Archive Assistant at University of Bristol

Vacancy for Digital Archive Assistant at University of Bristol

19 September 2023

Bristol, UK

Fixed Term

The role

This role offers the exciting opportunity to work across the University of Bristol’s Special Collections and Theatre Collection which both hold unique and distinctive archives and rare materials in physical and digital form.

You will have a particular focus on digital collections and will work with the Digital Archivist to keep procedures for working with digital archives up to date, to take in new digital collections and to manage existing ones using the library’s digital preservation system (Preservica).

What will you be doing?

Providing excellent customer service and support to deliver a high quality and responsive service supporting research, education and public access to archive materials with a particular focus on the management and preservation of digital collections

Ingesting material to the digital preservation system Preservica

Keeping the Digital Asset Register updated

Using Preservica to crawl websites

Assisting with the creation and documentation of digital workflows and procedures

Other activities supporting the overall preservation of digital archive material