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Creative Torbay / Opportunities / Wed 21 Dec 2016

Cataloguer, Hidden Histories, Beaford Arts

Cataloguer, Hidden Histories, Beaford Arts

Beaford Arts is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Cataloguer to manage and deliver a key programme of cataloguing within our major new heritage project ‘Hidden Histories of rural north Devon: Opening up the Beaford Archive’.

The Beaford Archive is a photographic record of people and community in rural north Devon containing more than 80,000 images covering the 120-year period 1870 to 1990. According to the Royal Photographic Society, it is “…a unique body of work, unparalleled, at least in this country, for its scale and quality”. However, few of these images are currently accessible to the public.

Beaford Arts has secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out a major conservation and digitisation exercise that will curate and publish online around 10,000 unseen images that together illustrate the late 20thCentury social history of rural north Devon.

Hidden Histories is a three-year project and will include:

Digitising, cataloguing, archiving and publishing to the web approximately 10,000 existing 35mm black and white negatives from the James Ravilious and Roger Deakins Beaford Archives
Production of a new fully searchable website to provide a showcase for existing digitised work, newly digitised images and audio, and new work as it is produced
A programme of oral history, learning and community activity which will create new work and engage people in learning and education
Main duties and responsibilities

The Cataloguer will facilitate access to the collections by initiating and delivering the cataloguing programme to the standards and targets agreed for the project. The Cataloguer will ensure that a rigorous, industry standard catalogue is produced to enable detailed searching, and the production of a back-end function for a new website and for linking into other archive and academic networks. The Cataloguer will be responsible for managing the Cataloguing Programme including monitoring the workflow and regular progress reports to the Hidden Histories Project Coordinator.

For full details including Job Description, Person Specification, and how to apply please download the file at this link -
http://www.beaford-arts.org.uk/uploads/media/Cataloguer_JD_Final_Version.docx

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