archivist/references/skills.md

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• appraise historical documents (skill/competence)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)

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 %