Digitization and Metadata Student Worker
- Official job title: Metadata and Digitization Student Worker
- Name of the organization where you worked: Temple University
- Job date: 11/09/2017 – Current
- Job description paragraph (all four items below are required).
- Information about the organization: My workplace is now located on the third floor of Charles Library in the staff reception area. Previously we were located on the ground floor of Paley Library in the Urban Archiving section.
- “The digital libraries/archives student worker is responsible for an array of duties related to the maintenance of the Library’s web presence. The student will work on the digitization of archival materials held by Temple University Libraries, including historically significant photos, prints, negatives, and rare books. Materials are scanned, cataloged, and then uploaded to digital.library.temple.edu, the Library’s online digital repository. The student will also work on Elements, an online system managed by the library that holds article citations from Temple professors. This position occasionally involves miscellaneous data entry, web editing, graphic design, and the proofreading and correction of uploaded content for quality assurance.”
- Examples of projects: Creating a professor publication database via Symplectic Elements, Digitizing and cataloguing newspaper collections (Philadelphia Inquirer and Bulletin), Responding to special requests of digitization by Scholars, Scanning and Running OCR scripts on the Sci-Fi Corpus project for DSC.
- Some key takeaways from this position are: learning how to use and understand public and private databases, learning how to catalogue and organize metadata, understanding how to use multiple different Library digitization applications (ContentDM and ABBYY Reader), and understanding attention to detail in project oriented work, Coordinating with multiple other departments in an organization (IT, SCRC, DSC).