Digital Asset Specialist
Los Angeles Philharmonic Expired |
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Los Angeles, CA, USA |
Description
The Digital Asset Specialist performs duties that require working knowledge of archives and digital asset management principles to ingest, organize, describe, retrieve, and disseminate born-digital and digitized historical materials in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's collections. The Digital Asset Specialist reports to the Digital Asset Manager. This is a part time role.
Position Elements:
The Digital Asset Specialist performs duties that require working knowledge of archives and digital asset management principles to ingest, organize, describe, retrieve, and disseminate born-digital and digitized historical materials in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's collections. The Digital Asset Specialist reports to the Digital Asset Manager. This is a part time role.
Position Elements:
- Perform file analysis, create inventories, form collections, and create metadata for materials in the Digital Asset Management System (DAM).
- Identify and evaluate destinations in the DAM for a wide variety of historical assets under the care of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
- Assist in managing high-volume asset ingest projects, and perform detail-oriented inventory, staging, mapping, tagging, and quality control of asset metadata.
- Ensure database of record accuracy by conducting performance history research and other research as needed.
- Maintain and suggest revisions for best-practice documentation, naming conventions, metadata models, and taxonomies.
- Support ease of system access for internal and external DAM users by offering feedback and solutions for streamlining procedures to improve user experience.
- Assist with training new users and create training documents and quick guides.
- Perform quality assurance tests for new system enhancements and upgrades.
- At least one academic year of completed study in a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree program or M.A. with concentration in Archival Studies, Digital Curation, Data Science, or equivalent experience.
- Background in musicology preferred, including music literature and history.
- At least one year of relevant cataloging or data entry experience, such as creating and updating information in a digital asset management system, digitizing, or applying metadata to digital objects.
- Ability to synthesize and analyze large sets of data.
- Highly proficient with MS Office suite, especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to plan, organize, and execute multiple projects and activities with a high degree of initiative and independence, and communicate progress via collaborative tools like Slack, Google Sheets, or SharePoint.
- Advanced research proficiency with demonstrated accuracy and attention to detail.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Video editing experience or audio/visual preservation interests.
- Dedication and commitment to engage in and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within the staff, vendors, and within interactions with the surrounding community is a must
- Secondary language fluency is a plus