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Basics

Name Prithvi Dinesh Chandra
Label Archivist
Email prithvi.dineshchandra@gmail.com

Work

  • 2026.02 - 2026.05
    Metadata Assistant
    Film Comment
    Assist with the creation, maintenance, and migration of metadata and indexing for Film Comment Magazine's new digital archive
  • 2025.08 - 2026.05
    Digital Scholarship Specialist
    NYU Libraries
    Collaborate on research projects, program development, and providing faculty, students, and staff with technical and service support for digital scholarship
  • 2025.05 - 2025.08
    Web Archives Assistant
    NYU Libraries
    Performed quality assurance measures on crawled websites using the Internet Archives' Archive-It service, and implementing solutions for more accurate captures
  • 2025.01 - 2025.05
    Polytechnic Archives Graduate Assistant
    NYU Libraries
    Worked with professors to integrate archive visits & materials in their currciulum. Responded to external and internal archival records requests
  • 2024.03 - 2024.05
    Registration Administrator
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    Reworked large scale acquisitions workflow to improve communication and efficiency between departments
  • 2023.01 - 2024.02
    Archival Assistant
    NHMLAC Seaver Center for Western History Research
    Identified, described, and digitized the Film Frame Collection which spans the early history of film (1889-1959) and includes rare and unique samples of experimental processes from the time

Internships

  • 2025.02 - 2025.04
    Collections Intern
    New York Historical
    Researched constituent records of Native Americans depicted in online Catlin portrait collection for accuracy and wrote python scripts to automate project workflows
  • 2024.02 - 2024.04
    Collections Intern
    Wende Museum
    Researched, catalogued, and rehoused 100+ Soviet-era 'x-ray records' (bootleg vinyl records made from x-ray film) and created an identification and preservation guide for staff and researchers
  • 2023.09 - 2023.12
    Registration and Collections Intern
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    Investigated LACMA objects that were missing or unidentified through cross-referencing physical records with TMS database

Projects

  • 2025.03 - 2025.05
    Digitization & Access Plan - CENTRO Archives
    As a part of HIST-GA 1011 Digital Archives, I collaborated with CENTRO Archives to produce a Digitization & Access Plan for the Community and Activism sub-series of the Ibrahim Gonzalez Papers
  • 2024.09 - 2024.12
    Record Management Proposal - CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
    As a part of HIST-GA 2018 Community Archives, I created a record management plan for the digital assets on CAAAV's Google Drive to ensure staff and volunteers could more easily navigate and locate relevant records

Education

  • 2024.09 - Current

    New York City, NY

    M.A. Candidate
    New York University
    Archives and Public History
  • 2019.08 - 2023.05

    Los Angeles, CA

    B.A.
    Occidental College
    History, Diplomacy and World Affairs

Languages

English
Native speaker
French
Intermediate
Japanese
Intermediate

Technical skills

Content Management Systems
ArchivesSpace
Axiell EMu
CollectiveAccess
Mimsy XG
TMS Collections
Digital Preservation
Archivematica
Archive-It
OpenRefine
Piction
Digitization
Capture One
Epson Scan Professional
KryoFlux
Silverfast
Editing
Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Adobe Lightroom
Microsoft Office Suite
Languages
Markdown
Python
HTML
Web
cPanel
Manifold
WordPress
Omeka Classic/S