Overview
The Academy is seeking applications for the position of Deputy Digital Archivist at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). The Deputy Digital Archivist is a new role at the DRI, responsible for providing direct assistance to depositors in preparing and uploading their collections for publication on the DRI.
The DRI is a certified trustworthy digital repository for the arts, humanities and social sciences, and is a national infrastructure for preserving and providing access to Ireland’s social and cultural digital data. The DRI also operates as a community hub for policy, advocacy, training and best practice in digital preservation, digital archiving, FAIR data management and Open Science. DRI is headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy. See: https://dri.ie/(link is external)
The Royal Irish Academy is a predominantly publicly funded institution established for the promotion of learning in the sciences and humanities across the island of Ireland. The Academy’s latest strategic plan for 2019–23 is available here: https://www.ria.ie/strategic-plan.
Key purpose of role
The Deputy Digital Archivist will work closely with the Digital Archivist, Training and Engagement Manager and technical team to assess incoming digital collections and provide advice and hands-on assistance to DRI members to facilitate the ingesting, preservation and publication of their collections online.
The Deputy Digital Archivist will have responsibility for analysing and adapting metadata for digital collections to be uploaded to the DRI. The successful candidate will assist depositors with preparing their collections for ingestion to the DRI by providing advice on naming conventions, descriptive metadata and folder structure, by advising on the use of appropriate file formats and by ‘cleaning’ existing metadata using appropriate tools.
The successful candidate will join a busy multidisciplinary team and will also contribute to wider DRI projects, working groups and activities. The position is based at the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy.