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Gezocht: projectmedewerker digitalisering

The Flanders Architecture Institute is looking for a project assistant to help with a catch-up project on the digital collection.

team Vlaams Architectuurinstituut © Franky Verdickt

The Flanders Architecture Institute

The Flanders Architecture Institute is open to talents from everyone in our rich and diverse society. We attach great importance to diversity and welcome any applications from people now under-represented in our organisation.

The Flanders Architecture Institute is the main centre for information about architecture from Flanders and Brussels. We want to draw the public’s attention to the importance of a well designed living environment, we want to encourage the social debate about the design of buildings/cities and spread information about architecture. Since 2018 the Flanders Architecture Institute manages an exceptionally rich and growing collection of architectural archives and constantly expanding library. Through the collection, the institute links past, present and future of architecture.

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JOB DESCRIPTION

The Flanders Architecture Institute is currently working on digitising thousands of slide films in the collection. The slide films stem from the archives of architects Lou Janssen, George Baines, Christian Kieckens and many more. By digitising these slide films we preserve the information on them and and save the information from degradation. In doing so we also make the information avalaible to the public.

In the first year, with support form other colleagues, the project assistant will work on:

  • The training and evaluation of image recognition software
  • Register and make inventories of the series of slide films
  • Prepare and do follow up on the digitising process and quality checks

In the second year of the project the project assistant will explore and perform strategies to make the digital collection of slide films and accompanying metadata avalaible to the public.

YOUR PROFILE

  • You have a Bachelor’s degree
  • You have excellent computer skills and knowledge of scripting
  • You have experience in digitising archives and photo collections
  • You have an affinity for and experience with artificial intelligence, in particular image recognition software (MS Azure, Google Vision, Clarifai)
  • You have experience with object registry and making inventories of archives and photo collections in archival databases
  • You have an affinity for architecture (history) and architecture terminology
  • Knowledge about conservation of photo collections (slide film), practical knowledge about the materials is a plus
  • Knowledge of the legal frameworks of privacy and copyright in the heritage sector is a plus
  • You use your insights and independent attitude to tackle upcoming issues
  • You are a well organised, tidy and precise person and you are able to keep the overview on a large amount of information
  • You are a communicative person and you like to operate within a team
  • You are able to communicate easily in both English and Dutch

OUR OFFER

  • A fixed term, parttime function 4/5
  • Project of one year, renewable for one more year
  • Payment according to the scales of PC 329.01
  • Free commuter-traffic for public transport or cycling allowance
  • An interesting and enriching job with a dynamic and cultural work context
  • You will be working from our archives in the Parochiaanstraat 7 in Antwerp

Practical

    Please send your application and motivation letter of 1 page maximum to info@vai.be addressed to Kaat Verdickt before February 1st 2021. For more information about the position you can contact us through mail (info@vai.be).