Job Title: Audio Preservation Intern
PVN ID: VU-1907-003162
Category: Research
Location: OFFICE OF SR VC FOR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS

Job Description

General Description

Interns within CUNY TV's archive participate in digital preservation, digitization, collection management, and media cataloging projects. Interns will work with a variety of analog and digital audiovisual formats, help facilitate better access to collections, catalog media with the PBCore metadata standard, apply OAIS principles, learn various command-line tools, and learn how to apply and develop microservices. The intern will also have the opportunity to work on a number of projects including collection inventory, born-digital processing, quality control, access, and assessment along with ongoing audiovisual digitization projects.


The audio preservation intern focuses on supporting the processing of collections and preservation activities within the Himan Brown collection at CUNY Television. The work will be closely mentored by and collaborative with CUNY Television's archivists. The anticipated duties of the fall 2019 internship project include:

- documentation, testing, research, and refinement into a preservation workflow for Audio DAT tape.
 
- quality control services on the digital results of analog audiotape transfers.

- migration of data derived from audio digitization and script scanning from existing LTO-5 tapes to newer LTO-7 tapes with fixity verification and reprocessing as needed.

- updates to audio and script derivative workflows in order to produce accessible and technically accurate derivatives

- clean up and refinement of related descriptive, technical, and administrative metadata
 

 

Other Duties

Working under the mentorship of CUNY staff, the internship shall include tasks to:
• Conducting technical experimentation
• Reviewing and optimizing audio digitization quality control procedures
• Document segmented or temporal access requirements for audio
• Generate methods to assess CUNY TV's archival information package (AIP) as it applies to audio digitization results
• Research and experimentation in regards to producing a high-quality, single channel access master from a multi-channel digitization efforts
• Develop features and address issues based on institutional needs and those of the wider audiovisual archiving community that also uses these scripts
• Working on library databases in order to better align these workflows with preservation standards, local needs, and digital sustainability
• Preparing born-digital audio data (contained in optical discs and other carriers) for long-term preservation
 

Qualifications

- enrollment within a library science, archival studies, or moving image preservation program.

- experience with digitization

- experience with audiovisual formats

- experience in digital preservation practices

- experience in the application of metadata standards

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).

RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
CUNY Television
Status
Part Time
Pay Range
$15.00-$15.00
Hour(s) a week
14.00
Closing Date
Jul 30, 2019 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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