The British Library is looking for someone to join its Heritage Made
Digital team to further improve the access and usability of our digital
collections by integrating a standardised Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) and Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) production process into our
existing workflows, in line with industry best practice. This will allow
for greater discoverability of our content and facilitate digital research
and engagement.

It is expected that the person appointed to the role will become the
established OCR/HTR expert within the Library, be recognised as such across
the wider cultural heritage ecosystem, and will use their knowledge and
expertise to further advance OCR/HTR technologies.

 The successful candidate will have technical and practical experience of
working with digital images and operational workflows, as well as
experience developing or applying digital research methods and working with
the technologies, tools and platforms which enable digital scholarship.
They should also have excellent problem solving skills and the ability to
communicate enthusiastically and effectively with colleagues from a variety
of disciplines.

As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s
intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for
research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present we have well over 170
million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added
every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and
drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes
available to all. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service
providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What
matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge
to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.

In return we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent
benefits.  Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we
offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where
the Library contributes a minimum of 26.6% (this may be higher dependant on
grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of
a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours
flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month
period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and
privilege holidays.

*Closing date: 05 November 2023*

Interview date: 20 and 21 November 2023

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship.

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