Digital Archive Assistant at University

• Vacancy for Digital Archive Assistant at University of Bristol

19 September 2023

Bristol, UK

Fixed Term

This role offers the exciting opportunity to work across the University of Bristol’s Special Collections and Theatre Collection which both hold unique and distinctive archives and rare materials in physical and digital form.

You will have a particular focus on digital collections and will work with the Digital Archivist to keep procedures for working with digital archives up to date, to take in new digital collections and to manage existing ones using the library’s digital preservation system (Preservica).

Providing excellent customer service and support to deliver a high quality and responsive service supporting research, education and public access to archive materials with a particular focus on the management and preservation of digital collections

Ingesting material to the digital preservation system Preservica

Keeping the Digital Asset Register updated

Using Preservica to crawl websites

Assisting with the creation and documentation of digital workflows and procedures

Other activities supporting the overall preservation of digital archive material