Job vacancy : Digital Film / Video / Stills Archivist

Position: Digital Film/Video/Stills ArchivistReporting to: Head of CommunicationsBased in: UK, London Office (Hybrid working negotiable)Starting date: ~September 2023Salary: Circa £40,000 (NB: this is for an applicant with at least one year’s experience working with film/photographic archives)Contract: Initially one year, with the likelihood of a second year

Application closing date: 31 August 2023

Overseeing Phase One of EIA’s ‘All Our Yesterdays’ project.

‘All Our Yesterdays’ is an ambitious and long-term project to create and curate a comprehensive and easily navigable digital asset management system (DAM) which will initially involve reviewing, ingesting and cataloguing four decades’ worth of EIA’s originally shot footage and stills.

It’s quite a challenge. The material, stored in 35 large boxes, was filmed and shot over the past four decades. It is on many different formats – 8mm, Hi8, BetacamSP, Umatic, DVD, MiniDVD etc. At present, it is impossible to know precisely what is on each reel of film or tape or whether what they contain is worth archiving.

There are almost 6,196 hours of footage and nearly 47,880 transparencies, but unfortunately very few shot lists accompanying the material and some of it may be copies.

In this first phase, the archivist will be required to view all the material in real time to eliminate duplications and, with the help of campaigners, to make decisions and selections on what materials to archive and what to delete.

The object is to have a state-of-the-art audio/visual archive, with back-ups, containing EIA’s vast imagery and audio bank – film, video, and sound tapes – properly organised with relevant metadata in a system that can be continually refined and updated for internal and external use.

To be successful in this role, the archivist should have:

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