Job Opening Title:
Digital Archives Intern
Name of Employer:
Okefenokee Swamp Park
Job Site Location (City AND State):
Remote
Application Deadline:
December 1, 2025
Minimum Degree Requirement:
High School Degree, and some college experience required.
Years of experience required:
Salary Range:
volunteer
Job Opening URL:
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Company 1433 Project — Digital Archives Intern
Term: January–June 2026 (6 months)
Schedule: 10 hours/week, fully remote, flexible
Supervisor: Project Archivist
Compensation: Unpaid (academic credit may be arranged with your institution)
About the Project
The Company 1433 Project is building a born-digital archive documenting Black Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps and companies in Georgia, with a primary focus on Company 1433. Core materials include digitized camp newspapers, photographs, clippings, and related ephemera held across public repositories and private collections.
Role Summary
You’ll support the end-to-end digital description pipeline—organizing digitized issues of camp newspapers, creating interoperable metadata, performing structured data entry and quality control, and conducting targeted archival research to enrich description and context.
Core Responsibilities
● Organize digital surrogates of camp newspapers (issue/item-level) within shared drives; apply file-naming conventions (ISO 8601), versioning, and folder logic.
● Create metadata using project templates (Dublin Core core fields; rights/notes), including subjects, personal/corporate names, places (with Georgia county coverage), and temporal coverage.
● Data entry & quality control in Google Sheets/Airtable for DLG (Gallelio) import (controlled vocabularies).
● Text processing: run/verify OCR, light transcription and cleanup, page-level notes; flag low-quality scans for re-capture.
● Authority & vocab work: help build/maintain name and place authority lists (e.g., Company numbers, camp names, Charlton/Ware/Clinch County sites), plus project subject taxonomy.
● Archival research: locate references to Black CCC companies in catalogs, newspaper databases, and finding aids; compile brief citations/annotations to enhance description.
● Descriptive writing: draft scope/content notes, exhibit captions, and short collection/series summaries for the digital site.
What You’ll Learn
● Practical digital-archives workflows (from intake to description to publication).
● Metadata creation for newspapers and ephemera;
● Data hygiene
● Context on Black CCC history in Georgia and strategies for community-centered description.
Qualifications
Required
●Detail-oriented, consistent with data entry and documentation.●Comfortable with Google Drive/Docs/Sheets and basic spreadsheet functions.●Strong written communication; ability to work independently in a remote setting.●High School Diploma required, and some college experience preferred.
Preferred (nice to have)
●Coursework/experience in archives, LIS, public history, African American Studies, or digitalhumanities.
●Familiarity with Dublin Core, LCSH/LCNAF (or willingness to learn).●Exposure to any virtual library system or open-source archives information managementapplication; Omeka (classic or S); storycorp; wordpress
Schedule, Tools & Support
●Fully virtual; weekly 30–45 min check-ins with supervisor
●Bi-weekly checkins with supervisor and Company 1433 Project Manager
●Tools include Google Workspace, Airtable, WordPress
●Reasonable accommodations available.
Deliverables by June 2026
●Validated metadata spreadsheet (issue/item-level) for a defined set of camp newspapers, ready for DLG (Gallelio) import.
●Authority/vocab starter set for names, places, and subjects (with notes on sources).
●Brief descriptive copy suitable for the digital archive and/or a mini-exhibit page.
Compensation & Credit
This is an unpaid educational internship. Many students arrange academic credit—we’re happy to provide supervision details and evaluations required by your program.
How to Apply
Email one PDF to jesssica.neal@okeswamp.org with subject line: Digital Archives Intern by December 1, 2025. Include:
1.Résumé
2.Cover letter (300–400 words) describing your interest and relevant experience
3.One reference (name, role, email)
Equal Opportunity
We welcome applicants from historically underrepresented communities in archives/history. If you need any accessibility accommodations for the application or internship, please let us know.
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