Happy New Year all,
I thought you’d be interested in an analysis I posted last week of openings listed on Twitter that found an explosion last year of digital curation jobs--and their titles. The running joke that no two titles are the same still holds: three-quarters of the 2022 position titles were unique.
In 2019 I found 170 digital heritage and data curation job ads from Twitter; in 2022 that number climbed to 492. Along with the usual libraries, archives, museums, and scientific labs were places like the Coney Island historical society, Paramount Pictures, and the US Marine Corps.
Among the more exotic titles were Hidden Collections Processing Coordinator, Peoples Archive Manager, and Change Management Professional. This year's titles saw an uptick in certain phrases, including "genealogy," "steward," "applications development," and "data curation."
Digital Archivist, Records and Information Management Specialist, and Metadata Librarian were the most popular digital curation job titles, but these still represent less than 10% of all titles.
Another trend that doesn't seem to be going away: the overlap of digital skills is blending previously separate disciplines, as reflected in portmanteau titles such as Archive Curator, Digital Archives Librarian, and Special Collections Instruction Librarian and Curator. More at
https://blog.still-water.net/digital-curation-jobs-more-than-doubled-in-2022I did the analysis for UMaine's online graduate Digital Curation program. (Still seats available for anyone who wants to join me in our digital preservation class starting 18 January.)
Cheers,
jon
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