Description:
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Regular collaboration with all relevant museum departments to ensure adequate organization, description, and ingestion of digital material into the DAMS for efficient and effective access.
- Provides staff training and support; oversees DAMS user accounts, permissions, and security.
- Track statistics and report on DAMS usage to administration and key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with IT and other key stakeholders on system development projects including but not limited to integration with other systems, metadata cleanup, and remediation of duplicates.
- Digitizes print, audio, and video materials according to professional standards. Responsible for accuracy at the level of individual digital materials, as well as ensuring standards are executed accurately throughout the process.
- Working in collaboration with curatorial staff, coordinates and oversees digitization projects including archival and 3D materials from the museum’s collections performed by either internal staff or external vendors. Assi
- Asist in digitizing collections and projects.
- Maintains equipment and software for all digitization efforts.
- Monitors the progress of digitization projects and ensures timely and accurate ingestion of digitized assets into the DAMS, aligning with established workflows and metadata standards.
- Works with archivists to create, maintain, and regularly update a DAMS taxonomy and cataloging practices policy and protocols document.
- Provides oversight of digital file specifications for both museum collection and non-collections digital material.
- Develops and implements standardized workflows for the description, organization, and ingestion of all digital assets into a DAMS.
- In collaboration with staff archivists, creates and/or reviews original descriptive metadata for digital collections according to professional standards and best practices.
- Collaborates cross-departmentally to ensure file quality, consistency, organization, and efficient access of non-collection digital assets for non-curatorial stakeholders.
- Stays informed about developments and trends in digital asset management and archival practices and incorporates relevant advancements into existing workflows and processes where warranted.
- At times, supervises the activities of student interns, volunteers, project staff, and/or external vendors.
- Participates in required events on evenings or weekends.
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Master’s degree required in library science or archival studies, or Bachelor’s degree of Information Technology, Master’s preferred.
- Minimum 5 years professional experience with digital collections and digital asset management software administration.
- Experience working with both born-digital and digitized material.
- Experience with cloud storage environments.
- Understanding of current library, archival, and collections processing methodologies.
- Familiarity with copyright, donor restrictions, and permissions issues related to accessing library, archival, and museum collections.
- Fundamental knowledge of the art, history, and culture of the American West is a plus.
- Ability to lead cross-departmental teams effectively and efficiently in complex projects.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Critical thinking skills and excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work well with others and maintain professional manner using tact, initiative, good judgment, and confidentiality.
- Deadline driven and ability to prioritize competing tasks, while maintaining efficiency.