Vacancy for EMKP Project Curator: Digital at The British Museum

Digital Preservation Coalition; City Of London; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A cultural heritage organization is seeking an EMKP Project Curator: Digital to enhance digital preservation efforts. The role focuses on improving workflows and public accessibility of digital platforms within the organization. Candidates should possess strong digital skills and a commitment to cultural knowledge preservation. This fixed-term position offers a salary of £33,803 per annum in London.

Qualifications

• Experience in digital preservation and curation.
• Strong understanding of cultural knowledge management.
• Ability to refine workflows and improve data quality.

Responsibilities

• Review and refine digital audit workflows.
• Optimize repository publication workflows.
• Enhance website architecture for better data retrieval.

Skills

Digital skills

Cultural knowledge preservation

Workflow optimization

Public usability and accessibility

Job description

• Vacancy for EMKP Project Curator: Digital at The British Museum

Vacancy for EMKP Project Curator: Digital at The British Museum

8 July 2024

London

£33,803 per annum

Fixed Term

About the role:

This is an exciting opportunity at the British Museum to contribute to the digital vision and implementation of the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme, which focuses on the digital preservation of critically threatened material knowledge globally. This role will look to carry out a wide-ranging audit of digital platforms and functionality, with a focus on improving workflow and architecture and expanding public usability and accessibility. If you have a strong set of digital skills and experience, and a sensitivity to the needs and priorities of cultural knowledge preservation and curation, we would love to hear from you.

Key areas of responsibility will include:

To review and refine digital audit workflows and contribute to the audit of assets submitted for publication to minimize errors and ensure data quality.

To refine and optimize repository publication workflows ensuring efficient team procedures, strengthening risk management practices, and reducing turnaround times.

To review the repository layout, for better retrieval of data and to improve public accessibility, including the development of user-friendly public-facing platforms for repository dissemination to external stakeholders (e.g. website searching platform via repository API).

To review and refresh website architecture and design to expand scope of website as portal for diverse EMKP users and community.