Description
Selection reference: OP/COM/2023/2049
Function Group: Assistant
Grade: AST 1-3
Job title: Archivist – Electronic Archives
Job N°: 426953
Where: OP.A.4.003 - „Long-term Preservation”, Luxembourg
Publication deadline: 29/09/2023 - 12.00 (Brussels time)
We are
The Publications Office of the European Union is the official provider of publishing services to all EU institutions, bodies, and agencies. As such, it is the central point of access to EU law, as well as to publications, open data, research results, procurement notices and other official information. The Office thereby plays a central role in making it known to the public what the EU does and means for them, and in unlocking the power of data. Its mission is to support EU policies as a recognised competence center for information, data and knowledge management, and to ensure that this broad range of information is available to the public as accessible and reusable data to facilitate transparency, economic activity and the diffusion of knowledge. The Publications Office publishes in all the official languages of the European Union and continuously adapts its services to a rapidly evolving technological environment (e.g. data services, cloud computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence). The A4 unit is the lead unit for a strategic objective at the Publications Office, Connecting and preserving content and knowledge. This is at the heart of its activities. It is responsible for delivering library and information services to the European Commission through its management of the EC Library. At an inter-institutional level, it provides a range of library and preservation services, covering the assignment of identifiers (ISBN, ISSN and DOI), cataloguing of EU publications, and the long-term physical and digital preservation of publications produced by EU institutions, including web content. It also manages large-scale digitisation projects on behalf of all the EU institutions. The Sector A4.003 has as the principal part of its mission to preserve all (physical and electronic) publications and websites on behalf of the EU institutions and bodies. This works aims to establish the OP as an authoritative, trustworthy and reliable source of information about the work of the EU institutions and the history of the European project, and this for both current and future generations of researchers and citizens. This activity directly contributes the Sustainable Development Goal 16, supporting strong, trustworthy European institutions.
We propose
The colleague who will be selected for this position is expected to contribute, with their technical expertise, to the activities linked to web and long-term digital preservation. S/he will contribute to the supervision and monitoring of the OP’s digital archives to ensure the quality and integrity of their collections. S/he will investigate the use of available open-source tools to improve internal quality control of the digital collections, as well as the crawling of websites. S/he will lead the planned project to integrate the web archives within the long-term digital archive.
S/he will also contribute to other activities, with the rest of the digital preservation team, which include:
- Implementation of the coming phases in the EU Legal Deposit scheme at the level of the web and long-term digital archives;
- Implementation of the ‘Technology Watch’ activity to follow-up on the evolution of standards and technologies used in the field;
- Participation to the decision-making process related to the evolution of the web preservation and long-term digital preservation services;
- Follow up of the ingestions in the long-term digital preservation system and monitoring of the treatment of errors;
- Follow up and reporting on KPIs and statistics;
- Participation in technical working groups and meetings with the project team, stakeholders and end-users.
We look for
We are looking for a colleague who is interested in being part of the new and emerging initiatives in the field of web and long-term digital preservation and who can bring with them energy, commitment and ideas. In particular, the ideal candidate would have at least some of the following:
- Experience in the field of long-term digital or web preservation (minimum two years - desirable);
- Formal IT education or experience as an IT consultant/project manager (minimum two years - desirable);
- Familiarity with semantic web concepts and technologies, data modelling and standardisation of metadata;
- The ability to work in a proactive and autonomous way, with good skills in analysis and problem solving.
Working languages are French and English.
How to apply?
Interested candidates should send their CV and motivation letter in a single PDF document by the publication deadline to the following email address: HR-LUX-TA-VACANCIES
ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (HR-LUX-TA-VACANCIES[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu) indicating the selection reference OP/COM/2023/2049 in the subject.
No applications will be accepted after the publication deadline.
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