BCALA Internship Announcement *Deadline: March 15th, 2013 *Graduate students (or recent graduates within 6 months of graduation date) in archives or imaging programs ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Project Description: Digitizing the NMNH Two‐Dimensional Materials for Greater Electronic Access through Rapid Capture The National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, is offering a paid internship in its Digital Imaging Program during the summer of 2013. The NAA operates one of the Smithsonian's most successful imaging programs, having produced more than 300,000 high-resolution images of photographs and artwork from its collections. Digitizing the NMNH Two‐Dimensional Materials for Greater Electronic Access through Rapid Capture is a project that will establish methods that can be applied to the extensive textual documentary materials throughout the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). The project will be sited within the National Anthropological Archives (NAA), which has a well-established digital imaging program and has already begun exploring methods and issues in rapid capture. The goal is to define issues, test methods, and develop guidelines that can be applied throughout NMNH as well as in other parts of the Smithsonian. This pilot project will include materials that are primary objects in themselves and materials that are most important as documentation for other collection items, and will cover a range of formats from small cards to bound volumes to oversized maps. This effort will serve as a prototype model that will make a large volume of two‐dimensional analog material electronically accessible through Smithsonian online catalogs and websites. Under the supervision of the Digital Imaging Manager, the intern will gain hands-on experience in the technical aspects of digital image creation (overhead digital camera capture) while learning about imaging standards, image data and its preservation and storage, technical and embedded metadata, digital asset management, and project management. Specific tasks include: digital camera capture; file processing; metadata creation; creation of multi-page pdfs; and digital asset management. Qualifications: Graduate students (or recent graduates within 6 months of graduation date) in archives or imaging programs who are interested in digital technologies as applied to archival care and management of historical collections. Deadline: March 15th, 2013 Stipend: $2600.00 The internship is located at the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution Museum Support Center (MSC), 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746. Please submit a cover letter describing your qualifications and interest, resume, and contact information for three references to Stephanie Christensen at: christensens@si.edu<mailto:christensens@si.edu> Adam Minakowski Reference Archivist -------------------------------------------------------------- National Anthropological Archives Smithsonian Institution Museum Support Center 4210 Silver Hill Road Suitland, MD 20746 301-238-1310<tel:301-238-1310> phone 301-238-2883<tel:301-238-2883> fax http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa naa@si.edu<mailto:naa@si.edu> Access our online catalog at http://siris-archives.si.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "IBLN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ibln+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<mailto:ibln+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to ibln@googlegroups.com<mailto:ibln@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ibln?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.