Job Opening Title:
Digital Projects Coordinator
Name of Employer:
Center for Railroad Photography and Art
Job Site Location (City, State) :
Madison, Wisconsin
Application Deadline:
September 30
Minimum Degree Requirement:
Bachelor’s degree
Years of experience required:
0-2
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Job Description
The Center for Railroad Photography & Art (CRP&A) seeks a Digital Projects Coordinator to assist with our continued implementation of Odyssey, the CRP&A’s new collections management software. In this role, the Digital Projects Coordinator will maintain our online collections portal on Odyssey as well as contribute to the internal and public adoption of the new system. Further, this position will act as a liaison between the Center’s staff and HistoryIT, Odyssey’s developer. When not working with the portal, the Digital Projects Coordinator will take on archival processing and digital preservation tasks. This is a full-time, limited-term appointment from November 2023 through May 2024. Emerging professionals and recent iSchool graduates are encouraged to apply.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Oversee updates and routine maintenance in Odyssey’s backend
• Manage Odyssey’s controlled vocabulary lists, contributing additional entries from LCSH, TGM, TGN, AAT, and local vocabularies as needed.
• Respond to public feedback regarding Odyssey
• Communicate with HistoryIT’s technical staff to troubleshoot issues and advocate for new features
• Advise on staff-application of metadata standards and naming authorities as outlined in the Center’s data dictionary
• Work with director of archives and collections and other collections staff to establish a cataloging workflow
• Cross-walk the Center’s legacy metadata as needed
• Archival processing and digital preservation responsibilities (depending on availability)
Minimum Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree
• Strong sense of independence and work ethic
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge of descriptive metadata schemas such as Dublin Core as well as various subject headings and naming authorities
• Well-developed computer skills, particularly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
• Familiarity with archival concepts and terminology, demonstrated experience working in an archives, library, or museum setting is a plus
• Ability to travel when needed
• Ability to occasionally lift 40+ lbs. boxes
Preferred Qualifications
• Master’s degree in library science or related field
• Experience cataloging within and/or administering archival or museum collection management systems or databases such as PastPerfect, ContentDM, ArchivEra ect.
• Experience working in the backend of content management systems like WordPress
• Interest in digital preservation and digital asset management
• Knowledge of, or willingness to learn, railroad and North American history, photography, and the terminology related to railroading
Benefits
• Flexible schedule
• Hybrid work environment
• Competitive hourly wage, commensurate with experience
About the Center for Railroad Photography & Art (CRP&A)
Railroads helped build the United States—and the world—as we know it, uniting people across vast distances while redefining concepts of space and time. Railroads and photography grew up together, and the visual arts are particularly well suited to portraying and interpreting the enormous impact of the railroad on history, society, and culture. Since its founding in 1997, the CRP&A has been passionately committed to telling railroading’s stories through imagery: interpreting the past creatively, connecting it to the present while looking to the future.
The CRP&A, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit arts and education organization, achieves its mission through exhibitions, conferences, and publications that spring from its core commitment to collect, preserve, and then make widely available imagery that portrays the nearly 200-year history of railroads. While based in Madison, Wisconsin, the CRP&A does not maintain a museum space or large facilities, but instead collaborates on its many projects with individuals and institutions ranging from museum and universities to libraries and historical societies. The Center’s modest footprint allows it to focus its expertise on railroad imagery and the profound and moving stories it can tell.
How to Apply
Send a cover letter and resume by email to Adrienne Evans, director of archives and collections: adrienne@railphoto-art.org
The deadline to apply is September 30.
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