DASG Senior Corpus and Audio Archive Assistant

at  University of Glasgow

JOB PURPOSE

To undertake high-quality corpus and audio archival support and team leadership to the Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic (DASG) and Corpas na Gàidhlig projects.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To supervise the work of corpus assistants working on the DASG project, and, where appropriate, to train new staff.
2. To maintain accurate records of work in progress in line with project requirements and completed work, and to prepare regular reports.
3. To use OCR (Optical Character Recognition Software) in order to capture the texts digitally, proofread and edit OCRed texts and save them as appropriately named files.
4. To scan Gaelic texts using digital scanning equipment, file and correctly label scanned images and texts, and edit scanned images according to project protocols.
5. To develop links with other corpus-related projects, and with libraries, archives and electronic repositories as appropriate.
6. To travel to and work in repositories as necessary such as the National Library of Scotland or Edinburgh University Library in connection with DASG duties.
7. To deal with copyright issues as appropriate.
8. To liaise with IT and computing staff, and with commercial printers, as appropriate.
9. To assist the DASG systems developer with the DASG Audio Archive, maintaining the database of reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes, transcribing and / or overseeing the transcription of the digitised recordings, aligning the transcriptions and recordings, and adding functionality to the web interface.
10. To oversee DASG social media output, in particular the DASG blog, and to regularly monitor the DASG email account.
11. To undertake training as required relating to corpus and archival duties.
12. To undertake other duties relating to the DASG project as requested by the Director of DASG and the Project Manager.