Vacancy for Digitisation Technician (Time – based media) Preservation at Imperial War Museum

Digital Preservation Coalition; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A historical preservation organization is seeking a Digitisation Technician to convert analogue time-based media to digital formats. The technician will work with vulnerable audio-visual assets in a laboratory environment, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. Experience with film, video, and sound handling is crucial for this role.

Qualifications

• Experience working with digitisation of time-based media assets.
• Ability to handle vulnerable media formats with care.
• Knowledge of health and safety practices in a laboratory.

Responsibilities

• Convert analogue film, video, and sound collections to digital formats.
• Ensure preservation of vulnerable media assets.
• Work in compliance with health and safety regulations.

Skills

Knowledge of film and video formats

Experience with sound materials

Understanding of health and safety in a laboratory

Job description

• Vacancy for Digitisation Technician (Time – based media) Preservation at Imperial War Museum

Vacancy for Digitisation Technician (Time – based media) Preservation at Imperial War Museum

6 October 2023

£28,017 per annum

Full-Time

The digitisation team converts our analogue collections to enable them to be accessed (for example through collections search) and preserved digitally. The team includes technicians, contract or fee paid staff and volunteers and, in addition, work is also contracted out to third-party suppliers. In all instances the team deliver to internal customers who then connect content with our audiences.

The digitisation team is grouped by why (access or preservation) we digitise the collection and the type of collections that we work to digitise (still or time-based media).

Our access team will deliver on-demand requests to enable the collection to be used in our public, learning and commercial programmes. Our preservation team will digitise our most vulnerable assets now, as many of the assets will no longer be in good enough condition to digitise in five years’ time. This project is called Digital Futures.

As a digitisation technician for the time-based media within our collections you will work with film, video and sound of all types, formats and materials.

Time-based media form some of the most vulnerable assets IWM administer, as such you will be working in a laboratory environment where H&S considerations are paramount.