Our IT world of work
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Working as a computer scientist at the German National Library
Digitisation is changing the status quo in almost every area of the German National Library’s work. New archiving and educational formats, services, and user expectations require corresponding software developments, IT architectures and processes, and data workflows.
More than ever all departments of the German National Library depend on a digital working environment that is reliable. Our IT colleagues provide a modern IT infrastructure, a high-performance computer centre as well as competent IT services and maintenance of all running IT applications.
Moreover, you will be helping with our digital long-term preservation work or the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB). The German National Library consequently offers a lot of interesting tasks for IT experts with team spirit, communication skills and a basic understanding of culture and libraries.
Diverse tasks and topics – a selection
Long-term archiving
Koala is the acronym of our digital “Cooperative Long-Term Archiving System”. Digital objects are reviewed and prepared for long-term preservation right from the time they are deposited. We preserve the stored information for future generations, send the media works and metadata to koala, import the data into our catalogue, and make it available to users via a local repository. The koala system, which is based on open source software, is constantly undergoing further development to ensure it remains viable in the future.
Further development of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library – DDB)
Browsing through digitised books, researching files and records online, playing films and sound recordings – the DDB, of which the service desk is based at the German National Library, makes it all possible. DDB facilitates access to more than 40 million cultural objects from several hundred cultural institutions – and the number is constantly rising. With the project “User-oriented restructuring of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB)”, we aim to remodel the user experience so that collections can be searched and used in a user-friendly way with as few barriers as possible.
NFDI - German National Research Data Infrastructure
The mission of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) is to systematically catalogue valuable data generated by research in a wide range of disciplines, link it, and make it available in the long term for use by the entire German science system. We are members of the Text+ and NFDI4Culture consortia. Through open access information such as metadata and digitised tables of contents we contribute to the Text+ data corpus. As part of NFDI4Culture, we are involved with format standards, data quality and data linkage through authority data and are also committed to developing and opening up the Integrated Authority File for use by scientists.
What our executives say
“Being part of a motivated team which is building the best possible information technology for our cultural memory is one of the most fascinating parts of my work. It’s surprising how many exciting topics we get to deal with.”
Dr. Peter Leinen, Head of Domain Information Infrastructure
What our employees say
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"The German National Library’s physical and digital collections are a valuable asset which can be enhanced still further with IT support. We can use methods from the fields of machine-based learning and data science to help do this.“
Matthias Hohner, Domain Information Infrastructure
Last changes:
20.06.2022
Contact:
personalgewinnung@dnb.de
