Job Title: Collections Accessibility Intern
PVN ID: VU-2103-003933
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. 

Uncovering CUNY’s Audiovisual History internships focus on supporting the accessibility, publication, and preservation of public television collections found in archives across the CUNY network. Interns work closely with the project’s Collection Coordinator and mentored by all of CUNY TV’s library staff. More detailed information about the project can be found here: https://github.com/cunytv/UncoveringCUNYTV/blob/main/README.md/ 

The Summer 2021 internship is remote and will focus primarily on three public access television collections from The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, HoMovisiones, Centro Records, and Politics con Sabor, programs that served Spanish-speaking communities in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. The anticipated duties of the internship include: 

  • Coordinating Spanish-language captioning of videos prior to publication by correcting and verifying auto-captioned transcripts
  • Quality control on the digital results of the videotape transfers
  • Ingest and migration of digital results to LTO-7 tapes with fixity verification and reprocessing as needed
  • Cleanup and refinement of related descriptive, technical, and administrative metadata in English and in Spanish. 

Other Duties

Working under the mentorship of the CUNY staff, the internship may include other tasks, which are flexible depending on the intern’s interest. 

  • Participate in social media and outreach to promote the collections to a wider audience 
  • Review and optimize preservation-to-publication workflow
  • Experiment with remote digitization of digital videotape 
  • Submitting access and accessibility content for upload to Youtube and Internet Archive

Qualifications

  • Enrollment within a library science, archival studies, or moving image preservation program is preferred, but we would also be interested in students working on their masters in disability studies, or the Spanish language. 
  • Fluent in both English and Spanish with strong writing skills in both
  • Experience with the application of metadata standards
  • Experience with collection management and audiovisual inventory
  • Familiarity with basic command-line operations
  • Familiarity with videotape digitization 
  • Strong interest in Latina/Latino/Latinx politics and history
  • Pro-active, self-starting and able to work reliably from home

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

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
Apr 28, 2021 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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