Digital Preservation Archivist - Libraries

Job Description
- Digital Preservation Archivist
- Libraries (30502)

Digital Preservation Archivist
- Libraries - 30502

The Digital Preservation Archivist leads the West Virginia and Regional History Center’s program for managing, preserving, and providing access to born-digital material to meet the needs of researchers and students through responsible collection stewardship and increased access to digital special collections. The Digital Preservation Archivist plans for and manages born-digital objects throughout their lifecycle to facilitate long-term preservation and use; is responsible for and consults on acquisitions, accessions, and processing activities for born-digital materials;

and leads a web archiving program.

This position reports to and is supervised by the Head of Collections Management and Processing of the West Virginia and Regional History Center. This position may supervise staff, graduate assistants, student workers or interns.

• Leads digital preservation strategy for the WVRHC and manages the acquisition, accessioning, processing, preservation, and lifecycle management of born-digital archival materials in consultation with WVRHC archivists, the WVRHC Director, and other stakeholders.
• Conducts and consults on acquiring, accessioning, and processing of born-digital materials.
• Develops, implements, documents, and maintains workflows, policies, and procedures for the appraisal, accessioning, processing, reformatting, preservation, repository ingest, discovery, access, security, and long-term stewardship of born-digital collections.
• Creates and maintains preservation metadata and applies appropriate metadata schemas and standards in coordination with the Digitization Archivist and other library stakeholders.
• Reviews born-digital collections for donor and legal restrictions, sensitive information such as PII, and sets appropriate access levels.
• Develops and manages the Libraries’ web archiving program in consultation with WVRHC archivists, identifying and capturing web content that complements and enhances the WVRHC’s collecting areas.
• Collaborates with the WVRHC, Libraries’ Systems Department, Knowledge Access and Resource Management (KARM), and other stakeholders to develop, configure, implement and update systems, applications, and workflows that support born-digital special collections materials.
• Coordinates repository ingest and preservation activities for born-digital collection materials and troubleshoots technical issues in collaboration with appropriate Library departments and Systems staff.
• Coordinates with Head of Processing to ensure digital content is represented in Archives Space, as needed.
• Recommends and implements metadata schemas, descriptive standards, and approaches to reparative description for born-digital materials in coordination with the Digitization Archivist and the Digital Collections and Systems Librarian.
• Participates in the development and continuous improvement of born-digital acquisition strategies, policies, and procedures, including consultation with donors and other stakeholders.
• Trains and directs staff, students, and interns working with born-digital archives; reviews work products for quality, accuracy, consistency, and adherence to established standards and procedures.
• Provides specialized information services related to digital archives, including limited instruction, reference, and research consultation for students, faculty, and community researchers in coordination with the Instruction Archivist and public services staff.
• Maintains and reports accurate statistics, documentation, and project records related to born-digital collections and processing.

• Serves and actively contributes to relevant committees, task…