Royal Irish Academy - The Digital Repository of Ireland, Dublin
The Royal Irish Academy is seeking applications for the position of Training Manager and Digital Archivist at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI).
The Training Manager and Digital Archivist is a new role at the DRI; the successful candidate will be responsible for leading the training of members and 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.
The Training Manager and Digital Archivist will work closely with the Digital Archivist, Membership Manager and technical team to assess incoming digital collections and provide suitable training and hands-on assistance to DRI members to facilitate the ingesting, preservation and publication of their collections online.
The Training Manager and Digital Archivist will have responsibility for establishing and leading a five-year training programme that aligns with the DRI’s new strategic plan. The successful candidate will also be responsible for amending and conforming metadata for digital collections to be uploaded to the DRI. They will train depositors on how to ingest their collections to the DRI’s repository, offer guidance on naming conventions, descriptive metadata and folder structure, and provide advice on the use of appropriate file formats and how to ‘clean’ existing metadata using appropriate tools.
As a member of a busy multidisciplinary team, the successful candidate will also contribute to wider DRI projects, present the work of the DRI at events and conferences, sit on working groups and participate in other activities as they arise. The position is based at the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy.
Salary range: Salary is on the Senior Programme Manager Scale, €52,588 – €69,884 per annum.
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