General Description:
Digital Assets and Oral History Specialist RSAs work on projects that connect Rhodes with the Memphis community. These include the Rhodes Learning Corridor partnership with schools and neighborhoods near campus, the Crossroads the Freedom Digital Archive project and projects connected to other Memphis Center programs, including the Curb Institute. Crossroads is a digital library of Civil Rights era materials from Memphis that connects with community education and engagement. Digital Assets and Oral History Specialist RSA responsibilities combine community outreach and education with more technical aspects of creating and maintaining a digital library of primary resources such as oral histories.
The primary responsibility of the Student Associates in these positions is project and workflow management and collection and processing of a wide variety of digital assets. RSAs will contribute to other aspects of the project as needed, including (1) technical work (training will be provided) (2) research and data gathering (including gathering oral interviews) (3) organizational and coordination work. Digital Assets RSAs will work closely with the Systems Analysts (Systems and Development Team) who will be focused on the technical aspects of the projects. The home department for these RSAs is Special Projects, in the External Programs division.
Digital Assets and Oral History Specialist RSA responsibilities include:
• Digitizing and processing primary resource collections (interviews, newspapers, letters, etc.) for inclusion in the archive. This includes TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) markup of document/interview transcripts (training provided).
• Preparing and processing select collections in partner institutions.
• Helping to develop and pilot strategies for connecting neighborhoods to their own histories through preservation of oral histories and primary documents.
• Conducting oral history interviews and processing these interviews for inclusion in the digital archive.
• Ongoing refinement of social media strategies that connect community members with archive materials.
• Potential to work with teachers and students in local schools on using archive materials for teaching and learning.
• Basic office productivity software (MS Office)
• Community outreach experience
Minimum Qualifications
• Demonstrated organizational, teamwork and communication skills
• Basic office productivity software (MS Office)
• Community outreach experience
Preferred Qualifications
Some experience with or aptitude for one or more of the following: text-encoding (e.g. HTML), image and/or audiovisual processing and editing, transcription experience, interview experienc