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Freelance Metadata/Documentation Specialist

Help us preserve a unique place! The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust seeks a Freelance Metadata / Documentation Specialist to prepare and enhance metadata for a portion of our rich Antarctic digital data

About the project

UKAHT has been collecting data and media for 30 years to support our work conserving, protecting and advocating for the tangible and intangible heritage of the Antarctic sites in our care. This includes landscape and building imagery, records of objects and personal items, and gifted media from those who lived and worked on site.

In recent years we have also embarked upon the digitisation of our heritage sites and monuments. This data has been collected through a range of methodologies: Terrestrial laser scan, photogrammetry and SLAM scan.

This grant funded project by the Heritage Science Data Service (HSDS) is an opportunity to review and improve our current metadata practices and standards, and to make a portion of this unique digital collection publicly accessible to support scientific heritage research. The primary datatypes and records you will be enhancing are several 3D datasets with a range of laser scan files and photogrammetric images, in addition to a smaller portion of curated 2D media.

About the role

We are seeking someone who is excited to lead on the enhancement and preparation of the rich digital data relating to the heritage we care for in Antarctica and make it accessible and available to a global audience.

You will be a self-motivated freelance metadata / documentation specialist. You will join in discussions with our XR Producer, Head of Buildings and Conservation and others to understand our collection. Through discussions and collection familiarisation you’ll be well placed to help us achieve our current and future digital documentation ambitions by producing a strategic set of sustainable ‘best practice’ recommendations and collection specific metadata templates.

You’ll undertake practical work, applying these metadata recommendations and standards to a limited amount of data, focusing on select 3D datasets for HSDS submission and a curated number of supporting 2D media.

In this role you will have a singular opportunity to shape UKAHT’s long-term digital documentation and metadata management processes, providing a strong foundation for on-going metadata improvements and increased opportunities for future data use and public engagement.

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