Job Description
General Description
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.
- 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
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
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout 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
Key Features
CUNY Television
Part Time
$15.00-$15.00
14.00
Jul 30, 2019 (Or Until Filled)