FW: AV Preservation Specialist Position Available at NARA
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From: Kate Murray1 <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Digitization Working Group <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:13:50 -0500
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Subject: AV Preservation Specialist Position Available at NARA
Colleagues,
Please excuse cross-posting. Feel free to pass this along. The position is open to all US citizens.
As an Audio-Video Preservation Specialist in the Office of Records Services - Washington, DC, Special Media Preservation Division, College Park, MD, you will perform duties associated with digitizing original archival audio and video records, managing digital surrogates and derivatives, creating technical/administrative metadata, and producing physical media copies.
In a lead capacity digitizes original, obsolete, deteriorated, and archival legacy analog and digital audio recordings such as analog open reel audio tape with varying track configurations, logging tapes, audio cassette formats, transcription discs, memovox discs, soundscriber discs, audographs, dictation belts, wire recordings, DAT tapes, and many other obsolete media formats.
In a lead capacity digitizes original, obsolete, deteriorated, and archival legacy analog and digital video recordings such as 2" Quad tapes, 1" open reel video tape, and 1/2" EIAJ open reel tapes; broadcast cassette formats such as 3/4" U-matic, Betamax, Beta SP, VHS, S-VHS, D-2 composite digital, 8mm, Hi-8, MiniDV, DVC-Pro, HD D-5, HDCAM, DVCPRO-HD, HDCAM SR, MPEG IMX; and many other standard Definition and High Definition tape-based formats.
Creates technical and administrative metadata contained within the file as well as in external databases documenting the digitization process, technical specifications, quality control, and quality assurance validations.
Reads service or project requests and determines the appropriate equipment and approach to be used that will best meet quality and time expectations.
Leads planned projects using project management tools and practices such as the creation of GANTT charts, project teams, steering committees, projects plans and utilizing software such as MS Project Management and Visio.
For more information including application instructions, see: http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?OPMControl=2184996
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Kate Murray
Digitization Process Development Specialist
Special Media Preservation Division
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
301-837-2924
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