Job Title: Audio Preservation Intern
PVN ID: VU-2304-005541
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 this internship project include:

- built upon workflows for scanning and processing radio scripts to cover collection ephemera and papers.
- quality control services on the digital results of audio objects
- migration of data derived from audio digitization and film scanning from existing LTO-5 tapes to newer LTO 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:

• Conduct technical experimentation
• Review and optimize 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
• 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 or recent graduation from a graduate program in library science, archival studies, or audiovisual preservation
  • 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 Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.

RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.

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
$20.00-$20.00
Hour(s) a week
16.00
Closing Date
Jun 05, 2023 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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