at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 50109
Department: NUL Digital Prod Data Curation
Salary/Grade: NEX/13
Job Summary:
Assists with digitization and born-digital workflows, long-term preservation of and access to a wide range of digital objects and provides support for digital projects from university and/or faculty collections that advance the teaching and research mission of Northwestern. Consults with the community to make digital objects accessible by generating metadata using AI and other tools for various library, faculty researcher or student-owned content including data sets and accompanying models, text, images, audio, and video.
The target budgeted minimum starting salary for this position is $24.01 hourly. Offers will be based on candidate experience and education, as well as equity within Northwestern University. This position is in a bargaining unit represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 73.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Enhances access to the library’s digital collections through creation of new descriptive metadata and transformation of existing metadata. Provides input into and helps synthesize conversations with subject liaisons, faculty, staff and students to identify metadata needs. Participates in ways to develop efficiencies in metadata creation through ML and AI. Ensures the completeness and accuracy of materials descriptions and adheres to national and local standards for descriptive metadata in a variety of schemas and encodings. Assigns metadata as appropriate from archival records and proofs this metadata for digital collections.
- Intakes and analyzes faculty and library collections identified as candidates for digitization and/or ingestion into the digital repository. Expedites collection requests for digitization and tracks order statuses through the workflow to completion. Conducts independent research as needed to understand issues that may impact these workflows. Creates inventories of materials in library and faculty-owned collections to prepare for digital reformatting or digital accessioning. This task involves making decisions about how to represent these complex objects online. Assesses materials and flags them for review by preservation staff. Coordinates pick up and drop off materials involving several departments of the libraries and/or faculty collections.
- Contributes to the development of procedures to expand the scope and volume of digital objects submitted by the Northwest
