Getty Graduate Internship Program 2024-2025

Digital Preservation Coalition; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 47,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Grant amount of $47,500

Relocation expenses up to $1,500

Support for research travel up to $2,500

Job summary

A leading cultural institution is offering a Getty Graduate Internship for the 2024-2025 year. The position focuses on preserving unique digital collections, with responsibilities including troubleshooting workflows, developing archiving strategies, and ensuring the quality of web archives. This hybrid internship allows for 3 days on-site in Los Angeles and 2 days remote, providing a grant of $47,500 and additional relocation support. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply before the November 1, 2023 deadline.

Qualifications

• Intensive experience in digital asset preservation is desirable.
• Familiarity with archiving technologies and methodologies.
• Ability to work in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and test workflows for content management.
• Develop creative strategies for archiving digital content.
• Perform quality assurance on web archives.

Skills

Troubleshooting workflows

Quality assurance

Technical metadata assessment

Web archiving

Education

Currently enrolled student

Job description

• Getty Graduate Internship Program 2024-2025

Getty Graduate Internship Program 2024-2025

1 November 2023

The intern in Collection & Content Management Systems (Getty Digital) will gain intensive experience preserving Getty's unique collections and assets in digital format, which include archives of artists, galleries and art historians and audio/video artworks and documentation as well as websites, institutional born-digital records, and research data. The intern’s primary responsibilities will include troubleshooting and testing workflows for ingesting content of all types into a managed system, and developing creative ways to archive complex web experiences, with other projects assigned according to the intern’s particular skills and interests. Specific tasks may include developing preservation plans for file characterization, migration and normalization, performing quality assurance on web archives and troubleshooting technical issues that arise, assessing technical metadata for digital assets, and participating in the drafting of policies and procedures related to digital preservation.

This is a hybrid internship with 3 days working on-site at the Getty Center in Los Angeles and 2 days remotely. The grant amount is $47,500 for twelve months, plus $1,500 towards relocation expenses if the intern is coming from outside the Los Angeles area. Housing is not provided. Support for research travel is available for up to $2,500.

Please note that internships are open to students of all nationalities. Individuals from groups underrepresented in the field are encouraged to apply. The deadline for applications is November 1, 2023.