# Competences — archivist

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e3b08984-19fe-4d51-a1b0-990676fc7234).

## Essential

- **aid archive users with their enquiries** (skill/competence)
- **appraise historical documents** (skill/competence)
- **collection management** (knowledge)
- **conservation techniques** (knowledge)
- **contextualise records collection** (skill/competence)
- **create semantic trees** (skill/competence)
- **digitization** (knowledge)
- **facilitate access to information** (skill/competence)
- **manage archive users guidelines** (skill/competence)
- **manage digital archives** (skill/competence)
- **perform records management** (skill/competence)
- **respect data protection principles** (skill/competence)
- **store archival documents** (skill/competence)
- **study a collection** (skill/competence)
- **write scientific publications** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- coordinate educational programmes (skill/competence)
- develop classification systems (skill/competence)
- digital curation (knowledge)
- digitise documents (skill/competence)
- manage budgets (skill/competence)
- manage digital documents (skill/competence)
- manage human resources (skill/competence)
- manage information access aids (skill/competence)
- perform customer management (skill/competence)
- recruit employees (skill/competence)
- use databases (skill/competence)
- use software for data preservation (skill/competence)

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## Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 55 ads, as of 2026-07-08)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

### Hard skills

- archival processing — **22 %**

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