Digital Asset Management Internship (September-May)
Digital Asset Management Internship
New York Public Radio’s (NYPR) Digital Asset Management Team and Data Governance Council seek an intern to enhance archival collection access by helping us move from an uncontrolled folksonomy with over 214,000 unique tags to a structured topic taxonomy consisting of just over 4200 topics.
Throughout the school year, the intern will get hands-on experience forward-mapping legacy topic tags from three separate content information systems to one newly selected controlled vocabulary of topics (based on the Associated Press Metadata Services). The forward-mapped topics will be applied to assets in NYPR’s newly acquired digital asset management system (DAMS).
These efforts will bring collections to a more advanced stage of digital preservation following recommendations from the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix. This work will also improve access to these collections following recommendations from the DLF Levels of Born-Digital Access Model.
Responsibilities
- Forward-mapping folksonomy tags from legacy content information systems to new structured taxonomy and applying tags in DAMS.
- Using transcripts and other extant metadata to perform original topic-focused cataloging for previously untagged or insufficiently tagged assets in the DAMS.
- Reviewing newly introduced “candidate topics”, and coordinating Data Governance Council change-request meetings
Qualifications
- Interest in a taxonomies, ontologies, or knowledge information management
- Enrollment in library and information science or archives course of study
- Knowledge of metadata and archival encoding standards, and experience with cataloging standards and practices preferred, but not required
Eligibility
In order to be eligible for an internship at New York Public Radio you must be currently enrolled in, or have graduated no more than 12 months prior to the start of the internship to which you are applying for, from an accredited undergraduate or graduate program.
Additional Information
This role is a paid internship with eligibility for college credit. WNYC internships pay $17.50/hour. The internship will commence on September 12th and run through May 5th and interns are expected to work 15 hours per week. The exact schedule and hours will be determined with the finalist.
This internship accepts candidates who will work fully remotely or, if they prefer, in a hybrid (remote/in-person) environment. The intern hiring process will not be impacted by whether or not candidates are interested in the hybrid option.
Candidates who opt for the hybrid (remote/in-person) option must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless NYPR has approved a specific religious or medical exemption in advance of the first day of work. At this time, NYPR defines being fully vaccinated as having received two Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations or one Johnson and Johnson vaccination.
In order to be eligible, you must be authorized to work in the United States and must be working from one of the following locations while working for NYPR: CA, CO, CT, GA, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, PA, RI, VA, WI, Washington DC.
Application Requirements
Only complete applications will be considered.
- Please include a resume and cover letter in your application
- Please answer the following question (in your cover letter or as a separate attachment): What do you hope to learn by interning with the Digital Asset Management team at New York Public Radio?
The application deadline is Weds, July 20th at 5pm ET.
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Equal Opportunity
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