Digital Production Specialist
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg

The Digital Production Specialist provides daily support for digitization of
archival and academic materials. The incumbent provides technical expertise
and support for the digitization of a variety of analog and digital resources
by means of scanning, photographic duplication, audio and video conversion.
This position provides training and supervision of staff on the technical
tasks related to reformatting images, text, video, and audio into digital
formats according to technical specifications; carries out and assists with
the post-processing tasks including quality control, additional metadata
description and ingesting of digitized content into W&M's digital collections
systems. Incumbent develops and maintains digitization workflows, guidelines
and other documentation related to digitization and project management.
Position serves as lead technician and troubleshooter on digitization software
and equipment for W&M Libraries. The Digital Production Specialist reports to
the Head of Digital Services and works closely with the Head of Digital
Services, Special Collections and other library and campus stakeholders on
digital projects and analog to digital conversions.

  
Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Experience in photography, digital media, graphics, audio or video field(s).

• Demonstrated experience with software and hardware used in analog and
digital reformatting and creating, capturing, editing, and managing digital
objects.

• Project management experience to include large and small projects and
experience with workflow processes.

• Highly organized with ability to meet deadlines and manage competing
priorities.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

  
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience, knowledge, and understanding of digitalization and metadata
standards and how to implement them.

• Experience managing people and teaching technical tasks.

• Demonstrated experience in a production oriented environment.

• Experience or knowledge of handling delicate and fragile special collection
or archival materials.



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