Audio Visual Metadata and Training Data Internship - Summer 2026

Public Media • Boston, MA

1d • $17 - $17 • Hybrid

About The Position

GBH enriches people's lives through programs and services that educate, inspire, and entertain, fostering citizenship and culture, the joy of learning, and the power of diverse perspectives. At GBH, we believe in the advantages of coming together to build community, mentor and learn from colleagues, and connect more deeply with our mission. As a result, the majority of our staff are hybrid and work both from home and onsite. Our current hybrid approach requires staff to work onsite a minimum of two days each week, every Tuesday and Wednesday, Hybrid staff are also welcome to come in additional days each week or may be asked to come in on other days by their manager. DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW The GBH Archives catalogs, tracks, organizes, and preserves the media used to create GBH productions. The GBH Archives holds physical and digital media and paper records, including materials that need to be retained for production, legal, financial, historical, or administrative purposes. GBH Archives also collaborates with the Library of Congress to coordinate the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a national effort to preserve and make accessible historically significant public radio and television programming that has aired over the past 70+ years. JOB OVERVIEW The GBH Archives is offering a part-time paid internship for a student in an accredited undergrad or master’s program. The intern will work with members of the GBH Archives team, focused on preservation of archival CDs for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Requirements

• Experience or interest working with optical media
• Working knowledge of the basic archival principles for arrangement, description, preservation, and access
• Experience with asset management systems, database systems, or cataloging
• Strong attention to detail
• Candidates must be in an Undergrad or Grad program and have work authorization for the United States.

Responsibilities

• Test and update workflows for preserving CDs in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
• Create automatically generated transcripts and captions from public media programs
• Perform item-level cataloging of audio material in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
• Become acquainted with the PBCore metadata schema
• Meet and receive mentorship from GBH Archives staff
• Write a capstone blog post with reflections on the preservation of archival audio

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed