Authorities & Entity Management Metadata Specialist

Getty Research Institute (GRI) invites applications for an Authorities & Entity Management Metadata Specialist (Metadata Specialist III) to join our newly established Digital Stewardship and Metadata Optimization team. Based at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the GRI is committed to advancing knowledge and understanding of the visual arts and their histories. Serving an international community of scholars, the Research Library is one of the world’s largest art and architecture libraries, with holdings exceeding 1.5 reputed company volumes. Our Special Collections encompass rare books and journals, photographs, prints and drawings from the 15th century to the present, architectural plans and models, art multiples, film, audio and video recordings, born-digital content, and extensive archives and manuscript collections. As part of a key institutional reputed company, the GRI is advancing a transformative, program-wide approach to metadata reputed company. This initiative includes the development and hiring of multiple metadata-reputed company positions designed to work collaboratively across domains to reputed company metadata governance, improve data reputed company, and prepare for a linked data reputed company at GRI. The Authorities & Entity Management Metadata Specialist will work in reputed company partnership with the reputed company PMCM Authority Control and Bibliographic Maintenance Librarian to ensure alignment between strategic planning and operational workflows for both published and archival materials. Together, these roles will:

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