Digitisation Officer

You’ll work on the College of Bristol’s Theatre Assortment on the archive of the humanities organisation, Welfare State Worldwide (1968-2006), as a part of the Wellcome funded Fireplace starters venture to make the archive accessible.

The role-holder will help the Fireplace starters venture by offering high-quality digital pictures of chosen materials from the Welfare State Worldwide archive to allow and enhance public entry to the gathering for analysis, training and inspiration.  The archival materials chosen for digitisation will reply to key analysis themes and can embrace paperwork created as a part of producing performances akin to planning notes and sketches, advertising materials like programmes and posters, in addition to photographic materials together with prints, slides, transparencies and negatives.  The venture goals to digitise one evocative merchandise from every manufacturing, in addition to intensively digitise materials from 10-20 key productions to allow distant in-depth analysis entry, creating 2250-2500 pictures.

Working as a part of a small workforce and underneath the supervision of the Undertaking Archivist, the role-holder will work to combine the photographs into our Digital Asset Administration System for digital preservation, in addition to into our archival administration system and internet pages to extend discoverability and entry. 

You’ll:

• seize pictures of archival supplies utilizing digital camera or scanners acceptable to the fabric being copied, and course of the recordsdata in image-handling software program
• document fundamental descriptive, copyright and technical metadata
• use inventive and technical judgment to optimise pictures for quite a lot of makes use of
• autonomously organise and prioritise duties, while monitoring the progress of digitisation towards venture targets

You’ve:

• specialised photographic expertise together with the operation of cameras, lighting and scanners
• superior expertise in post-capture picture manipulation and optimisation utilizing picture optimisation software program
• expertise of dealing with uncommon or fragile gadgets and the power to unravel issues regarding the age, measurement or situation of such gadgets
• good communication expertise with expertise of working in a workforce
• an curiosity and enthusiasm for working with archival supplies

Contract sort: Mounted-term contract for 12 months

Work sample: Full-time

Grade: F

Wage: £26,444-£29,605 each year

Faculty/Unit: Library Providers

For casual queries, please contact Siân Williams, [email protected], 0117 455 8602

This advert will shut at23:59 GMTon 07/04/2024. Interviews are anticipated to happen on 25/04/2024.

We lately launched our technique  to 2030 tying collectively our mission, imaginative and prescient and values.

The College of Bristol goals to be a spot the place everybody feels capable of be themselves and do their finest in an inclusive working surroundings the place all colleagues can thrive and attain their full potential. We wish to draw, develop, and retain people with completely different experiences, backgrounds and views – notably individuals of color, LGBT+ and disabled individuals – as a result of variety of individuals and concepts stays integral to our excellence as a world civic establishment.

Obtainable paperwork

You’ll work on the College of Bristol’s Theatre Assortment on the archive of the humanities organisation, Welfare State Worldwide (1968-2006), as a part of the Wellcome funded Fireplace starters venture to make the archive accessible.

The role-holder will help the Fireplace starters venture by offering high-quality digital pictures of chosen materials from the Welfare State Worldwide archive to allow and enhance public entry to the gathering for analysis, training and inspiration.  The archival materials chosen for digitisation will reply to key analysis themes and can embrace paperwork created as a part of producing performances akin to planning notes and sketches, advertising materials like programmes and posters, in addition to photographic materials together with prints, slides, transparencies and negatives.  The venture goals to digitise one evocative merchandise from every manufacturing, in addition to intensively digitise materials from 10-20 key productions to allow distant in-depth analysis entry, creating 2250-2500 pictures.

Working as a part of a small workforce and underneath the supervision of the Undertaking Archivist, the role-holder will work to combine the photographs into our Digital Asset Administration System for digital preservation, in addition to into our archival administration system and internet pages to extend discoverability and entry. 

You’ll:

• seize pictures of archival supplies utilizing digital camera or scanners acceptable to the fabric being copied, and course of the recordsdata in image-handling software program
• document fundamental descriptive, copyright and technical metadata
• use inventive and technical judgment to optimise pictures for quite a lot of makes use of
• autonomously organise and prioritise duties, while monitoring the progress of digitisation towards venture targets

You’ve:

• specialised photographic expertise together with the operation of cameras, lighting and scanners
• superior expertise in post-capture picture manipulation and optimisation utilizing picture optimisation software program
• expertise of dealing with uncommon or fragile gadgets and the power to unravel issues regarding the age, measurement or situation of such gadgets
• good communication expertise with expertise of working in a workforce
• an curiosity and enthusiasm for working with archival supplies

Contract sort: Mounted-term contract for 12 months

Work sample: Full-time

Grade: F

Wage: £26,444-£29,605 each year

Faculty/Unit: Library Providers

For casual queries, please contact Siân Williams, [email protected], 0117 455 8602

This advert will shut at23:59 GMTon 07/04/2024. Interviews are anticipated to happen on 25/04/2024.

We lately launched our technique  to 2030 tying collectively our mission, imaginative and prescient and values.

The College of Bristol goals to be a spot the place everybody feels capable of be themselves and do their finest in an inclusive working surroundings the place all colleagues can thrive and attain their full potential. We wish to draw, develop, and retain people with completely different experiences, backgrounds and views – notably individuals of color, LGBT+ and disabled individuals – as a result of variety of individuals and concepts stays integral to our excellence as a world civic establishment.

Obtainable paperwork