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Museums Victoria
Digital Preservation Specialist
Melbourne
FULL TIME
October 22, 2024
Australia's largest public museum organisation is seeking a Digital Preservation Specialist at Museums Victoria.
ABOUT MUSEUMS VICTORIA:
Ever dreamed of working in a place where dinosaurs roam, stars explode, and the world's most intriguing stories come to life? Welcome to Museums Victoria (MV), where every day is a new chapter in the book of discovery. As one of the southern hemisphere's largest and most iconic museum organisations, we're not just about exhibits; we're about experiences that inspire, challenge, and amaze. From the awe-inspiring Melbourne Museum, culturally significant Immigration Museum, mind-blowing Scienceworks, and the historic Royal Exhibition Building, we're a team that turns curiosity into reality.
And guess what? We're on the lookout for a Digital Preservation Specialist. If you've got the drive, the creativity, and the passion to make MV's stories echo across the globe, keep reading. This could be your next big adventure!
ABOUT THE POSITION:
The purpose of this position is to lead the development and implementation of digital preservation standards, workflows, and industry-standard processes and associated needs for Museums Victoria.
Some of the key duties include:
- Working with relevant disciplines, lead the development of workflows across existing and emerging formats for the digital preservation of the Museum's digital collections (both digitised and born-digital).
- Confirm metadata requirements by format at each stage of the Museum's digital preservation workflows and confirm the preservation of information packages throughout the digital preservation lifecycle.
- Analyse metadata using OAIS or other international standards to ensure metadata and information packages are preserved with the digital asset throughout the digital preservation process.
- Identify and establish the hardware, software needs and associated ingestion and quality assessment processes for the Museum's forensic data workstation.
- Provide specialist digital preservation advice and information to internal stakeholders and assist in their learning and skill development related to digital preservation.
- Specialist knowledge of and considerable experience in applying contemporary digital preservation frameworks and practices in major collecting and cultural institutions.
- Specialist knowledge and considerable experience in applying metadata schemas and workflows for traditional and/or complex digital formats across the full digital asset lifecycle, and in the use Digital Preservation and/or Digital Asset Management systems.
- Experience in establishing the technical requirements and workflows/processes for a forensic data workstation for digital ingestion.
- Experience working collaboratively with cross-disciplinary teams in a technology-driven environment where there is constant change, requirements for adaptation and new workflows and delivery to described standards.
- Experience in interpretation and preparation of technical documentation.
This is a full time, fixed term (24 months). The salary on offer is $92,332 pro rata (base of grade) + 11.5% superannuation.
HOW TO APPLY?
To view the position description, visit Careers - Museums Victoria. From our Current Vacancies page, select “All Jobs” and click on the link for this job's listing.
To apply, please click “Apply for this Job” at the bottom of the job listing page.
For more information about this position, please contact Maryanne Mc Cubbin at mmcubbin@museum.vic.gov.au.
Please submit the three following three documents with your application:
- Your Cover Letter
- Your Resume
- A written response addressing the Key Selection Criteria as outlined in our Role Statement (Please refer to attached document)
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 8 November 2024 (11:59pm)
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