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Metadata Assistant III
Job Family
Library
Type
Regular Full-Time
Position Status
Getty Center
Workplace Type
Hybrid / Partially Remote
Salaried / Hourly
Hourly
Hiring Pay Scale
$23.02 - $28.77 Hourly
Salary
Commensurate with experience and internal equity
Program / Department
Research Institute - 0420-Special Collections Management
Requisition Number
2024-4419
ERRP Eligible
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Job Summary
The Getty Research Institute's (GRI) Special Collections Department seeks a full-time Metadata Assistant III to assist in the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of descriptive and technical metadata.
The Research Institute is in the process of reevaluating a variety of its metadata workflows and practices to provide more consistent, usable, and repurposable metadata to the arts and research communities it serves.
Reporting to the Head, Special Collections Management, the position will work both under little to no supervision, and in partnership with current staff, to carry out data clean-up and data enhancement projects, assist with metadata creation and file management for both born-digital materials and digitization projects, and participate in the development of new projects, such as the future incorporation of alt-text and closed-captioning.
The successful candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment of shifting priorities and deadlines, working in partnership effectively with internal staff, Getty Digital, and other departments across the GRI and Getty community.
Located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Getty Research Institute is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing awareness of the visual arts and their histories.
Serving an international community of scholars and the interested public, the Getty Library is one of the largest art and architecture libraries in the world, with holdings of more than 1.
5 million volumes and digital resources. Special Collections include rare books and journals, rare photographs, prints, and drawings dating from the 15th century to the present, architectural drawings and models, art multiples, film, audio and video recordings, digital content, and extensive archives and manuscript collections.
Major Job Responsibilities
Assists in complex metadata creation, selection, evaluation, capture, manipulation, remediation, and editing for collection access, description, and management
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
ability to use PERL to run legacy scripts
Benefits and Perks
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Last updated : 2024-05-21
Full Time
$72k-95k (estimate)
05/23/2024
08/22/2024
getty.edu
Los Angeles, CA
1,000 - 3,000