Vacancy for Digitisation Officer (Hong Kong Project) at University of Bristol

Digital Preservation Coalition; Bristol; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading university seeks a part-time Digitisation Officer to support the Hong Kong History Centre by producing digital images of archival materials. The ideal candidate will work closely with archive teams, ensuring materials are accessible for research and education. This role offers the opportunity to develop skills in image processing and metadata record management.

Qualifications

• Experience in capturing and processing images using appropriate technology.
• Ability to collaborate on metadata enhancement.

Responsibilities

• Capture images of archival materials using appropriate equipment.
• Process files in image-handling software.
• Record metadata and collaborate on enhanced metadata provision.

Skills

Creative judgment

Technical judgment

Image processing

Metadata recording

Job description

• Vacancy for Digitisation Officer (Hong Kong Project) at University of Bristol

Vacancy for Digitisation Officer (Hong Kong Project) at University of Bristol

28 January 2024

Bristol, England

Part-Time

The role

The role-holder will support the work of the Hong Kong History Centre by providing high-quality digital images of archival material held in the Hong Kong collections. You will work closely with the Project Archivists, Senior Digitisation Officer and Digital Archive Assistant on workflow to integrate these images into our Digital Asset Management Systems, archival management system and web pages. Supporting the wider team to ensure the archives can be made available for research, education and wider engagement activities.

You will be based in Special Collections (Library Services) and will work closely with the Special Collections team as well as the Hong Kong History Centre, which is a research centre encouraging and facilitating the study of the history of Hong Kong and its peoples, and outreach, engagement and international exchange and collaboration in the field.

This is a part-time position working 21 hours per week.

What will you be doing?

You will capture images of archival materials using camera or scanners appropriate to the material being copied, and process the files in image-handling software

Record metadata and collaborate with colleagues on enhanced metadata provision

You will use creative and technical judgment to optimise images for a variety of uses

Work alongside the Senior Digitisation Officer and other colleagues to develop your skills