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| Name | Prithvi Dinesh Chandra |
| prithvi.dineshchandra@gmail.com |
Work
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2026.02 - 2026.09 Film Comment Metadata Specialist
Film at Lincoln Center
Assist with the creation, maintenance, and migration of metadata and indexing for Film Comment Magazine's new digital archive
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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
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2025.05 - 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
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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
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2024.03 - 2024.05 Registration Administrator
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Reworked large scale acquisitions workflow to improve communication and efficiency between departments
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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
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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
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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
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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
Course projects
- 2025.05 - 2026.05
Hybrid Search System for Digital Archives - MA Capstone
Created a demo for a search system that combines traditional keyword searches with semantic searches to increase the accessibility and discoverability of archival records without using resource-intensive Generative AI
- 2026.02 - 2026.05
Film Frame Collection Grant Proposal - Intro to Preservation and Reformatting
Wrote a grant proposal for the digitization and preservation of the Seaver Center’s Film Frame Collection
- 2025.09 - 2025.12
Pauline Leader Papers, 1930-2020 - Advanced Archival Description
Processed this collection at Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a class over the course of a semester
- 2025.02 - 2025.05
Ibrahim González Papers Digitization and Access Plan
Created a comprehensive digitization and access plan for the A/V materials of this collection housed at CENTRO Archives
- 2025.02 - 2025.05
It’s Only Art: An Archival Exhibition - Curating from Archives
Curated a class-led exhibition focused on the late 20th century art and artists of Creative Time, with materials selected from the NYU Special Collections’ Downtown Collection
- 2024.09 - 2024.12
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities Record Management Plan
Developed a new records management plan for CAAAV’s online database to ensure smoother volunteer and intern contributions to the digital archive
Workshops
- 2026.04 - 2026.04
Algorithms and Archives: AI And Historical Research
Presented to NYU’s History Department on the potential use-cases and dangers of AI and Machine Learning in online search systems for archives and libraries.
- 2025.05 - 2026.05
EcStatic Magic: Static Sites for Digital Humanities Projects
Taught attendees about how to use static sites in their personal and professional digital projects
- 2025.05 - 2026.05
Digital Without Tears: Quick & Easy Tools for Digital Humanities
Taught attendees about simple digital humanities tools (e.g. KnightLab suite) that would enhance their digital projects
Education
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 |