Digital Archivist in District Of Columbia

LAC Federal is seeking a remote Digital Archivist to assist with enhancing metadata for digital collections to improve the discoverability of archival materials pertaining to women's history. The Archivist will work collaboratively with museum, library, and archives staff to evaluate existing digital collections and make recommendations for enhanced or additional metadata to describe women using recognized metadata standards for libraries, archives, and museums including MARC, Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families, Encoded Archival Description, etc. The Archivist will meet with custodial units to identify collections that require enhancement and will help devise a streamlined workflow for creating, updating, and validating metadata.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Evaluate datasets and digital collections and recommend authority identifiers to enhance discoverability of women's history
• Prepare recommendations...

Seeking a Digital Archivist to appraise a DC-area museum's historically significant digital institutional records for disposition, to prepare permanent, official records for long-term preservation and access, to ingest assets into the Collection Information System (CIS), Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), and to dispose of records with limited or short-term value in accordance with established records retention policies. Files consist of images of archaeological and ethnographic objects, archival photographs, catalog cards, acquisition documentation, conservation and scientific analysis records, treatment photos, exhibit, loan, publication, repatriation records, audiovisual production assets, community engagement documentation, museum documentation images, third-party exhibition images, and other project documentation that involves multiple departments including education and outreach, exhibition planning and design, publications, and research and curatorial materials.
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LAC Federal is seeking an Archivist to provide archival processing and reference services for a federal archival program in Washington, D.C. The Archivist will serve a Program Manager overseeing a team consisting of an Archivist and Scanning Technicians and report the agency Historian to plan and coordinate work. The Archivist will use professional judgment in arranging, describing, and preserving historical materials in accordance with recognized archival best practices. The archivist will supervise and direct large scale digitization and processing of physical materials, primarily paper and image-based into a digital archive.

Position Responsibilities:

• Train and supervise archival staff
• Review work products of staff for quality and accuracy
• Compile detailed monthly and quarterly reports of activities
• Oversee large-scale digitization of paper and image-based archival materials
• Coordinate workflow in...