EHRI Job Offer in Vienna | VWI Is Looking for an Archivist with Digital Expertise
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Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
Starting immediately, 30 hours/week | Limited until 30 September 2024
Application deadline: 6 November 2022
EHRI is a multinational consortium aiming to develop a sustainable, state-of-the-art research infrastructure for European Holocaust research, while working to integrate and link up the repositories and expertise of archives, libraries, museums, memorials, and research institutions holding Holocaust-related sources. EHRI is implemented at the international level through several Horizon 2020 projects and in Austria at the national level through EHRI-AT, a third project funded by the BMBWF (The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research).
The aim of the projects is to
- transform EHRI into a permanent European research infrastructure with its own legal personality and long-term funding conditions;
- integrate holdings of dispersed Holocaust collections, knowledge and expertise, and to drive the development of new and improved services;
- establish a binding Austrian consortium, EHRI-AT, linking archives, museums, memory institutions and research institutions in the field of Holocaust studies.
Duties
- Management of digitally produced, digitised and analogue resources (ordering, acquisition, description, storage, preservation, and accessibility)
- Maintenance of long-term archiving and digital processing environments
- Supporting the processing, design and organisation of the front- and back-end of repositories
- Support ongoing digitisation projects and conservation work
- Application of professional research and archiving techniques for digital and analogue resources
- Processing digital and physical resources for long-term storage
- Troubleshooting technical archival problems and implementing creative solutions
- Individual collection and research projects will be assigned as needed
- Collaboration in the EHRI projects
Are you interested in applying? Look at the VWI website for more information. The deadline for applications is 6 November 2022.