Museum Metadata Specialist

Goals: Our museum’s team manages and preserves digital assets and ensures that appropriate access systems exist for the Museum’s digitized historic collection. As part of an effort to improve the discoverability and accessibility of its time-based media collections, our technology oversees the creation of time-coded metadata. Over the next fiscal year, the goal is to make these time-coded transcripts available in the Museum’s online Collections Search. These time-coded transcripts are machine generated and then improved in a 2-step process by human editors. Editors “flag” words or phrases they are unsure of. These “flags” must be reviewed and fixed, when possible, by a person with specialized knowledge of the related terminology in order to be used in collections search.

Location: The position is located at a Museum Bowie, MD 20715

Duration of assignment: October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024

Pay: $30-34/HR

Scope of Work:

· Responsible for working within the museum’s user platform to correct words and phrases flagged by editors according to the museum’s guidelines.

· Perform quality assurance on transcripts to ensure they meet the museum’s standards.

· Perform basic research on place names, personal names and foreign language words in order to improve accuracy of time-coded transcripts.

· Communicate with the project manager if there are any issues that are not addressed. Once a transcript has been reviewed, contractor(s) will mark it “complete”.

· Contractor(s) should have familiarity with German history.

· Experience working with oral history or historical film and sound media is necessary.

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Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $30.00 - $34.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bowie, MD: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Museum: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person