Getty Graduate Internship Program 2025-2026

Digital Preservation Coalition; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 42,750 - 52,250; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid vacation

Research travel support

Job summary

A leading digital preservation organization based in Los Angeles is offering a full-time Getty Graduate Internship for 2025-2026. The intern will gain hands-on experience in preserving digital collections, including art archives. Responsibilities include troubleshooting workflows and developing creative archiving solutions. This position offers a grant of $47,500, plus relocation expenses, and interns receive healthcare benefits and paid vacation. Applications are encouraged from all nationalities, especially those from underrepresented groups in the field.

Qualifications

• Must be a graduate student with relevant coursework in digital preservation.
• Experience with digital formats and archiving processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and test workflows for content ingestion.
• Develop preservation plans for file characterization.
• Assess technical metadata for digital assets.

Skills

Troubleshooting workflows

Quality assurance

Technical metadata assessment

Archiving complex web experiences

Education

Current graduate student

Job description

Getty Graduate Internship Program 2025-2026

4 November 2024

The intern in CollectionPlatforms & Data (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.

All positions are full-time for 12 months from September 8 2025 through August 28 2026. The grant amount is $47,500 for twelve months, plus $1,500 towards relocation expenses. Interns receive seven days of paid vacation and all holidays observed by Getty. Housing is not provided. Support for research travel for up to $2,500 is provided for each participant. Graduate Interns are eligible to enroll in the Getty's health care plan.

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 4, 2024.