Description
Appraise, catalog, digitize, and preserve photographic and visual media to ensure long-term access and authenticity. Manage image collections and support research and reuse through accurate metadata, rights management, and outreach.
- • Build and maintain digital asset management systems and image databases, ensuring discoverability and secure, redundant storage.
- • Arrange and describe image collections using controlled vocabularies and consistent file naming to facilitate discovery.
- • Authenticate and appraise photographs, negatives, slides, and digital images for provenance, condition, and significance.
- • Provide reference and reproduction services, fulfilling image requests, licensing, and usage guidance.
- • Lead staff and volunteers in scanning, metadata entry, quality control, and safe handling and rehousing of materials.
- • Create and maintain technical and descriptive metadata (EXIF/IPTC/XMP, Dublin Core) and captions to enable precise search and reuse.
- • Digitize and preserve analog media to archival standards (resolution, bit depth, color profiles) and migrate at-risk digital formats.
- • Implement digital preservation workflows, including fixity checks, format normalization, and lifecycle storage management.
- • Develop and enforce access, rights, and privacy policies for image collections, including copyright and donor restrictions.
- • Identify, acquire, and ingest new photographic collections; manage donor relations and accession documentation.
- • Research photographers, subjects, locations, and processes; document provenance and historical context.
- • Plan and deliver exhibits, online galleries, and educational programs that showcase image collections.
- • Select and prepare images for publication and display, performing non-destructive edits and color-managed output.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
