OCL Digital Collaborative - Library Student Assistant

OCL Digital Collaborative - Library Student Assistant

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Job Summary

The OCL Digital Collaborative is looking for two reliable and responsible students to produce highly accurate OCR (Optical Character Recognition) results for our newspaper digitization project. You will work with one of the industry's best OCR programs, Abbyy FineReader PDF, to create editable and searchable text from scanned images. You must love to read and appreciate the quirky layout of old newspapers. In addition, students will need to be cross-trained on using the Internet Archive's Tabletop Scribe to create digital reproductions of various titles from the library's special and archival collections. Other duties include using AI to assist with metadata creation, research, and content description and writing. Close attention to detail and the ability to stay focused while doing very tedious work is a requirement for this position.

Responsibilities

Typical duties include:

• processing image files using Abbyy FineReader OCR Editor
• verifying and correcting OCR errors and omission
• digitization and scanning
• metadata creation
• data entry
• image processing and editing
• downloading and uploading files to desired location

Qualifications

• able to use library catalogs and databases
• able to use Excel or Google sheets
• able to manage time effectively.
• able to use Windows PC
• able to use or learn to use various types of scanners and image editing tools

Quick Link for Posting https://jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/17790 Compensation

$13.00 per hour

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