Job Title:
Archives Hub Co-Ordinator
Current Roles & Responsibilities:
- Archives Hub: co-ordinate activity within and manage the work programme, development and maintenance of the Archives Hub, develop and deliver training courses, co-ordinate development of documentation, publicity materials and the Hub website, liaise with contributors, provide specialist support to contributors and users, represent the Hub in commitee and group meetings, at external meetings and at conferences, promote the Hub through articles and presentations
Current work related responsibilities:
- Society of Archivists Data Standards Group Committee member
- Honorary Research Fellow, University of Dundee. Tutor on the Archives and Records Management M Litt at the University of Dundee Centre for Archive and Information Studies
Publications
- Content Architecture: Exploring and Mapping Diverse Resources. Aridane Issue 60, July 2009 [A report on the ISKO UK Confernece]
- The Online Archivist: A Positive Approach to the Digital Information Age. In What Are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: A Reader. Ed. Louise Craven (Ashgate, 2008)
- What Happens if I Click on This? Experiences of Using the Archives Hub. Ariadne Issue 57, October 2008
- Making Sense of Metadata. ARC (Society of Archivists), February 2006
- Jorum Research & Development Report: Digital Preservation of Learning Objects II (July 2006) Report (PDF) (0.45 Mb)
- Jorum Research & Development Report: Digital Preservation of Learning Objects I (July 2005)
Report, PDF (0.47 Mb)
- <requirements>Training<requirements>. Archives Records Management and Conservation (Society of Archivists), February 2005
- What Everyone Wants: An Evaluation of the Zetoc Service. Sconul Newsletter (28) Spring 2003
Presentations
Innovative Ways, Sustainable Means: Archives 2.0 and the Archives Hub, Archives 2.0 Conference (March 2009)
Web 2.0: Substance or Hyperbole, ICA Conference for Univeristy Archives, University of Dundee (August 2007)
The Archives Hub and the Distributed Hub, The National Archives (June 2007)
The New Digital Archivist: from relative isolation to global interoperability. Society of Archivists conference (Sept 2006)
An A-Z of Interoperability at the Seminar for Newly Qualified Archive Professionals (May 2005)
EAD in the Archives Hub, Archives Congress, Burgos, Spain (Nov 2004)
An Introduction to the e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) (Sept 2004; March 2005)
Training
An introduction to indexing for archivists and records managers (October 2006, June 2007)
Web 2.0 introductory courses for archivists and records managers (June 2007-)
XML and EAD training courses to archivists, records managers and archive students (2004-)
Archives Hub training courses for users and contributors (2004-)
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