LAC Federal is seeking a remote Digital Archivist to assist with enhancing metadata for digital collections to improve the discoverability of archival materials pertaining to women's history. The Archivist will work collaboratively with museum, library, and archives staff to evaluate existing digital collections and make recommendations for enhanced or additional metadata to describe women using recognized metadata standards for libraries, archives, and museums including MARC, Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families, Encoded Archival Description, etc. The Archivist will meet with custodial units to identify collections that require enhancement and will help devise a streamlined workflow for creating, updating, and validating metadata.

Duties and Responsibilities

Evaluate datasets and digital collections and recommend authority identifiers to enhance discoverability of women's history Prepare recommendations of new authorities for individual creators Use Wikidata and other sources for controlled authorities to select identifiers Create at least 15 new identifiers each week that pertain to women's history Perform quality control of metadata records Attend meetings with museum custodial units to discuss project status and progress