Metadata Archivist

Job Details

General Notes

The Briscoe Center for American History is one of the nation’s leading research centers for historical study. The center’s archives, libraries, museums, and historic buildings are part of The University of Texas at Austin’s commitment to collecting, preserving, and making available the evidence of the past.

The center’s exhibit spaces, classrooms, and Reading Room are located on The University of Texas at Austin campus. The center also operates the Briscoe–Garner Museum in Uvalde, Texas; the Sam Rayburn Museum in Bonham, Texas; and Winedale, a research collection of nineteenth-century structures, material culture, and decorative arts located near Round Top, Texas.

The Briscoe Center promotes the university’s teaching and research mission through classes and seminars, academic fellowships, faculty collaborations, and student internships. The center fosters public exploration of history through research services, exhibits, books, public programs, and digital humanities projects inspired by archival holdings.

Purpose

The Briscoe Center for American History seeks a detail oriented and collaborative metadata archivist who will be responsible for coordinating and managing the development and implementation of metadata strategies that support the discovery of the Centers digital and analog materials, across platforms and data types, including collection description, collection management data, born-digital archives, curated digital collections, and institutional digital assets. The Metadata Archivist will report to the Assistant Director for Digital Content Strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement metadata strategies for current and future platforms to support the discovery and preservation of the Center's digital and analog materials. This includes collection descriptions, management data, born-digital archives, curated digital collections, and institutional digital assets.
• Maintain and develop metadata standards, ontologies, policies, and workflows for digital resources. Provide training to staff on metadata practices and procedures.
• Serve as the primary contact for user experience and usability in staff metadata creation and editing. Lead authority control efforts to ensure consistent use of names, places, and subjects in metadata.
• Normalize, map, and migrate legacy metadata for use in evolving systems and applications.
• Participate in center-wide activities, working groups, and other center committees as assigned. Work in the reading room regularly and respond to reference inquiries from a wide variety of individuals and entities.
• Recruit, train and supervise student interns.
• Collaborate with campus colleagues in Information Technology Services, University Libraries, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and Records Management to integrate linked data technologies.
• Keep abreast of national standards and emerging technologies in resource description, applying relevant developments and advising colleagues on their potential impact.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Salary Range

$63,000

Working Conditions

Work Shift

Required Materials

Resume / CV

Important   for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers :  You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers :  As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

Employment Eligibility :

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion / transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

Retirement Plan Eligibility :

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

Background Checks :

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.