Digital Collections New Acquisitions Manager
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 6th October 2024
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We are looking to appoint an individual experienced in herbarium specimen digitisation to manage a small team digitising incoming material.
The post-holder will be a member of the Digital Collections Team responsible for maintaining high standards in the management of Kew’s internationally important digital collections. The post-holder will have a focus on developing new digitisation workflows for new acquisitions and embedding them into current procedures.
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This role will help support the Science Collection Digitisation Project, an exciting and unique project to digitise RBG Kew’s 8.5 million plant and fungal specimens and create a complete catalogue of our internationally significant collections. This will make specimen records and images freely available online and accessible to researchers across the globe.
The outcome of this project will provide a unique, world-leading resource making accessible data from more than 260 years of scientific exploration, placing them at the centre of efforts to combat urgent global challenges such as habitat degradation, climate change and human health.
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This role will manage the workflow for the digitisation of incoming herbarium specimen material and pilot and develop workflows for the incorporation of digital record data, from field collected material and from duplicate specimens received from partner institutes, into Kew’s integrated collections management system.
Essential skills and experience required for this role include; experience of transcribing and imaging herbarium specimens; experience of developing new workflows and procedures; and experience of managing or supervising staff along with technical and data management skills.
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