Student Digital Database Coordinator

Description

HERE Arts Center, located at 145 Spring Street at Dominick in New York City, has embarked on an archival project to organize and access archival holdings for the creation of a visual history of HERE, including work as Tiny Mythic and HOME for Contemporary Theater along with HERE’s many theater programs and the evolution of its location in SOHO. The theater archive of HERE encompasses a date range from the late 1980s to the present.

A graduate archival student with an interest in theater is needed to design, program, and configure a database system to work in conjunction with existing systems at HERE in order to capture digital assets for historical web presentations on the HERE Arts Center website. This is an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to acquire hands-on digital asset management experience.

The Digital Database Coordinator will:

• Analyze the systems at HERE and recommend a system based on HERE’s cloud-based (Dropbox) storage platform
• Configure the system to meet HERE’s needs
• Instruct HERE’s staff on the maintenance and use of the system
• Work in consult with a Digital Curator of Theater Collections