Description
Full-time (41 hours per week) Fixed term (23 months) £28,144 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 10 January 2025
About the role:
To produce digital images (either by scanning or photography) of money and medals objects, to process images, match them to MI+ collections management database records, and upload them to the Museum's image asset management system.
About you:
- A levels (or equivalent)
- Experience of and expertise in collections management databases and Adobe Photoshop.
- Confident user of digital cameras and scanners.
- Ability to instruct others in photographic processes.
Key areas of responsibility:
- To produce record standard digital images, using scanners or static photography set-up of the money and medals collection of c.800,000 objects
- To process images including, where appropriate, standardising backgrounds, pairing obverse and reverse files using established automated batch processes.
- To ensure images are labelled with their MI+ PRN to enable bulk upload to the asset database
- To identify any issues with the MI+ records of the imaged objects and to work with curators and other staff to correct problems