Job title: Digital Preservation Curator / Content Manager
Hours: Full time (39.8 hrs hours/week)
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: Pay scale group 9b TV-L
The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology – Program Area A, being Content Development and Metadata, is looking to employ a Digital Preservation Curator / Content Manager for TIB Repositories.
The German National Library of Science and Technology offer future-oriented services that ensure the infrastructural requirements for a high-quality supply of information and literature for research in science and industry. The services as a university library secure the local supply for the Leibniz University Hannover.
Job Tasks
- Conduct completeness and quality assurance checks for data packages from various sources (DSpace, OJS, semi-automatic downloads) after transfer to the digital archive.
- Conduct completeness and quality assurance checks for metadata from various data sources.
- Conduct metadata comparisons and versioned updates for metadata in the digital archive.
- Generate regular statistic reports for data contained in the digital archive.
- Contribute to an interface to preserved data carrier images to be used by document delivery.
- Check and work on corrupted files and consult library teams in handling of such data.
- Participate in pre-ingest analysis of data (file format identification, file format validation, analysis of corrupted files).
- Participate in ingest processes of data into the Digital Long-Term Archive.
Desirable qualities would include experience with file format analysis tools, (e.g. DROID, Siegfried, JHOVE, veraPDF), and digital long-term archiving strategies.
For a more detailed description and how to apply please see the job posting.
