Contract Digital Archivist

Description

The National Museum of the American Indian is seeking a contract digital archivist to facilitate the appraisal, processing, ingest into Smithsonian Institution's digital asset management system or transfer to Smithsonian Institution Archives, and disposal of NMAI’s digital institutional records. 

The selected contractor shall demonstrate technical experience with digital asset management principles, practices, and standards, particularly with born digital video file formats. The contractor shall also have understanding and specialized experience with software for asset management tasks including creating filesystem inventories, renaming files, migrating file formats, transcoding video, embedding metadata, and running fixity checks.

Quote packages must be sent to Robin Holladay Peak (holladaypeakr@si.edu) no later than 5 pm (EST) on Thursday, February 14th. Please see the request for quote (RFQ) and scope of work (SOW) at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeypwd9u7zgjm2d/RFQ_NMAI_DigitalArchivist_20190201.pdf?dl=0.