[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Vacancy - Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program Team

[Liam Wyatt]

Dear Australian Wikimedians,

I have just been informed there's a job going at the National Library
helping to run their newspaper digitisation project. This is an amazing
project and is one of the most important resources historians and social
researchers have in the country. Furthermore, they have a really cool
wiki-like system for allowing people to help improve the OCR text. This is
taking crowdsourcing to the next level. Please see below for the full
details. I'd love to see a Wikimedian get this job! Furthermore, Rose
Holley, the director of this project, will be a presenter at our upcoming
GLAM-WIKI glam.wikimedia.org.au conference in Canberra. As it turns out, she
has been personally creating Wikipedia articles about old Australian
newspapers and linking to that article from within her newspapers project -
a mutually beneficial relationship!

All the best,
-Liam [[witty lama]]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rose Holley <RHOLLEY at nla.gov.au>
Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Subject: Vacancy - Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program Team
To: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com>

*Vacancy:  National Library of Australia- Australian Newspaper Digitisation
Program (ANDP)*

Newspaper Digitisation Logistics Officer ($63,817 - $73,533 pa plus
superannuation). 1 year contract initially.

This position will provide support to the Manager of the Australian
Newspaper Digitisation Program (ANDP)
*http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp*<http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp>.
Under minimal direction the position will manage day to day newspaper
digitisation operations, including scheduling and monitoring of digitisation
and overseeing the work of a small team of quality assurance staff.

The ANDP was established in 2007. The initial project phase which was
completed in 2009 achieved establishment of a national infrastructure,
development of a newspapers content management system (NCM), development of
a public search and delivery system (Australian Newspapers beta *
http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au* <http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au>), and commencement of
operational mass scale digitisation. Further enhancement of software,
systems and workflows is now being undertaken to ensure that mass
digitisation can be effectively managed into the future.  The position will
be involved with ongoing development of the Program, helping to set business
requirements for software, reviewing specifications, undertaking software
acceptance testing; liaison with State and Territory Libraries in their
capacity as stakeholders, and ongoing development of contributor scenarios
for the future.

Staff at this level are required to demonstrate initiative, flexibility and
problem solving skills. They should demonstrate their ability to exercise
independent judgement to resolve issues. They are likely to be required to
undertake research in relevant areas, including the development and review
of policies and procedures, and to provide technical and administrative
advice to the Manager – ANDP. Strong written and oral skills are required.
Budget monitoring and reporting is required.

It is desirable to have a professional Library/Archive/Information
Science/Cultural Heritage qualification and expertise in digitisation,
digital collection management and digital library systems.

Closing Date: Sunday 9 August 2009

Job description:
*http://www.nla.gov.au/jobs/documents/1635.pdf*<http://www.nla.gov.au/jobs/documents/1635.pdf>

Application process:
*http://www.nla.gov.au/jobs/information.html*<http://www.nla.gov.au/jobs/information.html>

Enquiries to:
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Rose Holley
Manager - Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program (ANDP)
National Library of Australia
e-mail: rholley at nla.gov.au
website: *http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp* <http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp>
Phone: +61 2 6262 1224
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