Cultural Heritage Digitization Specialist

Daralraqmana; Doha; In loco; QAR 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Dar Al Raqmana seeks a meticulous Digitization Specialist to lead high-quality digital projects for libraries, museums, and archives. You will manage the full digitization lifecycle, from handling fragile materials to image capture and post-processing, ensuring fidelity and long-term preservation.

Responsibilities include setup of workflows, QA checks, metadata creation using MARC/Dublin Core, and collaboration with cataloging staff to ingest into digital repositories.

Competenze

• Experience in professional digitization environments (libraries, archives, or service providers).
• Strong familiarity with digital preservation standards and imaging workflows.
• Experience with Arabic manuscript handling and OCR tasks.

Mansioni

• Prepare and handle fragile materials for digitization following best practices.
• Operate high-end scanners and cameras for digital capture.
• Perform post-processing to optimize image quality while preserving authenticity.
• Implement scalable digitization workflows and conduct QA at page/item levels.
• Manage metadata creation and alignment with MARC/Dublin Core standards.
• Troubleshoot equipment and software issues.

Conoscenze

High-end scanners

Image editing

FADGI standards

METS/ALTO

Arabic OCR

Metadata creation

Arabic & English comms

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in Library Science, Archival Studies, Information Technology, or a related field

Strumenti

i2S

Phase One

Photoshop

Lightroom

Descrizione del lavoro

Dar Al Raqmana seeks a meticulous Digitization Specialist to lead high-quality digital projects for libraries, museums, and archives. You will manage the full digitization lifecycle, from handling fragile materials to image capture and post-processing, ensuring fidelity and long-term preservation.

Responsibilities include setup of workflows, QA checks, metadata creation using MARC/Dublin Core, and collaboration with cataloging staff to ingest into digital repositories.