Graduate Internship in Digital Preservation
Location: Los Angeles, CA USA. Contact: tsoleau@getty.edu.
About the role
The intern in Collection Platforms & Data (Getty Digital) will gain intensive experience preserving Getty’s unique collections and assets in digital format, which include archives of artists, galleries, and art historians and audio/video artworks and documentation as well as websites, institutional born-digital records, and research data.
Responsibilities
- Troubleshooting and testing workflows for ingesting content of all types into a managed system
- Developing creative ways to archive complex web experiences
- Developing preservation plans for file characterization, migration, and normalization
- Performing quality assurance on web archives and troubleshooting technical issues that arise
- Assessing technical metadata for digital assets
- Participating in the drafting of policies and procedures related to digital preservation
Requirements
Applicants must be currently enrolled in a graduate program in a field relevant to the internship, or have completed a relevant graduate degree on or after January 1, 2024 with postgraduate experience (paid or unpaid) in the field.
Benefits
- Seven days of paid vacation plus all Getty‑observed holidays
- Eligibility to enroll in Getty’s health care plan
- Research travel support up to $3,000
- Relocation assistance of $1,500
- Housing is not provided
Pay
$52,500 stipend for the twelve‑month term, plus $1,500 relocation assistance.
Schedule
Full‑time position from September 13, 2027 through August 25, 2028 (12 months).