Digitisation Officer (Fixed Term Contract)

Analogue Image Digitisation
• Support the Collection Systems Project Manager with devising the Analogue Image Digitisation project plan and project reporting.
• Undertake the digitisation of analogue materials including glass plate negatives, x-rays, black and white prints, 35 mm slides and colour transparencies to ensure that the Wallace Collection’s image archive is preserved and made accessible.
• Undertake a systematic survey and assessment of Collections analogue images.
• Make a comprehensive Inventory of images including subject matter, current location and condition rating.
• Identify duplicates and prints and re-house with master transparencies.
• Scan or photograph materials to agreed house-standards, prioritising those containing objects that currently have no standard image.
• Re-house all Negatives, Film and Transparencies and Prints into PAT approved Archival Paper and Polyethylene sleeves, in preparation for transfer to cold Storage.
• Correct colour aberrations in scans.
• Undertake basic image editing to backgrounds in scans featuring object photography.
• Add basic Metadata and copyright information to digitised images.
• Add new scans to our CMS Museum+ wherever no colour standard image exists.
• Supervise the Collections Documentation and Digitisation Trainees.

Digital Asset Management
• Work with colleagues across all departments to identify digital assets stored across all Wallace Collection drives.
• Transfer all digital assets to a central, organised system.
• Collaborate with the Photographer and Digital Assets Manager to Rename existing digital images according to The Wallace Collections Approved File Naming Conventions and organise all digital assets into a filing structure that adheres to the museum’s records management policy.

Standards
• Ensure all material is handled safely with the utmost of care and to museum standards.
• Ensure the image digitisation process adheres to Wallace Image standards.

Museum Website: https://www.wallacecollection.org/about-us/join-team/