The Library of Congress is recruiting a World Digital Library Content Manager.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
This position is located in the World Digital Library, Office of the Librarian, and reports to the Technical Project Director, World Digital Library. The mission of the World Digital Library (WDL) is to make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, sound recordings, films, photographs, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the WDL are to promote international and intercultural understanding, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research. The WDL is a partnership between several national libraries and other cultural institutions. The Content Manager supports the WDL.
The incumbent coordinates and facilitates the digitization and publication of cultural materials for the World Digital Library's multilingual Web site. Individually and in collaboration with IT and digital media experts, the incumbent coordinates major program components that include internal communication strategies, a centralized archive, new digital content policies, metadata and standards for digital content, and new models for access and delivery of digital content.
