Job Opening Title:
Archival Audio Conservation and Digitization Services (Contract)
Name of Employer:
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Job Site Location (City, State) :
Washington, DC
Application Deadline:
August 30, 2024
Minimum Degree Requirement:
Years of experience required:
Salary Range:
Job Opening URL:
https://folklife.si.edu/jobs
Job Description (if URL to posting not available). Include instructions for how to apply.:
The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is currently accepting proposals for contract work in archival audio conservation and digitization. The contractor will prepare approximately 422 ¼” open-reel audio tapes of blues recordings for digitization, digitize approximately 240 ¼” open-reel audio tapes, perform quality control on digitized assets, and ingest files into the Smithsonian Institution’s Digital Asset Management System. The complete project should take an estimated 360 hours, between October 1, 2024, and February 28, 2025.
Quotes should be submitted to audiovisual archivist Dave Walker at WalkerDM@si.edu by 5 p.m. ET on Friday, August 30. See the full request for quote and statement of work.
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