Nintendo of America is hiring a digital archivist to document its history

Nintendo of America is looking for someone to put its own history in order. According to Time Extension, the company has posted a "Digital Archivist" role: a full-time, 12-month contract, hybrid, based in Redmond, Washington.

The remit is broad: catalog the history of Nintendo's hardware and software with its internal and external developers and employees, build archive repositories, define categories and naming conventions, and maintain a searchable repository of historical systems. The hire will also interview developers and long-tenured employees, then check their accounts against archival evidence.

A signal for preservation

Requirements: a degree in library and information science and more than two years of experience in digital archiving and records management. For the preservation community, often forced to reconstruct game history on its own, seeing a publisher organize its internal archives is a positive sign, although nothing says yet that these archives will be public. The full listing is on Nintendo's careers site.

Source: Time Extension