Digital Humanities Website Graduate Student Assistant
Core
Maintain and update the AlabamaMosaic digital repository of historical materials by managing collections, checking links, and generating usage statistics.
Role type
Graduate Student Assistant (Digital Humanities)
Builds
A single-search site for primary source documents relating to Alabama history
Domain
Digital Humanities / Historical Archives
Required skills
metadata management, link checking, Google Analytics, batch file processing, XML schema enforcement, XSLT, metadata harvesting
Preferred skills
Computer Science, English, History, Geography, Political Science
Technologies
Google Analytics, XSLT, Dublin Core XML
Responsibilities
Maintaining an inventory of active collections, Regularly checking links to participant collections, Using Google Analytics to generate usage statistics, Ingesting new collections into the index, Checking on and reporting website issues, Performing regular check-ins with institutional partners, Working with IT team to develop harvesting scripts, Updating metadata standards, Searching for new online collections
Seniority
Graduate Student