Digital Preservation Coalition

Biographies of the Authors

Neil Beagrie took up appointment as an Assistant Director in the Executive of the Joint Information Systems Committee in June 2000. He is responsible for JISC digital preservation programmes and for establishing and developing the Digital Preservation Coalition. He was previously Assistant Director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. At the AHDS he developed digital collections policy and standards and published extensively on digital preservation issues. He was joint author with Daniel Greenstein of the LIC funded study "A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections". Prior to joining the AHDS in 1997, he was Head of Archaeological Archives and Library at the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England.

Maggie Jones is currently working as manager of the Cedars digital preservation project. Prior to this she was employed as a researcher and co-author of Preservation Management of Digital Materials, at the Arts and Humanities Data Service. Before returning to the UK in 1998 she worked at the National Library of Australia for seventeen years. Her last position at the NLA was Director of Collection Management and Retrieval Services which combined the preservation of the Library's collections, and the stack retrieval service. She became very interested in the preservation of digital materials during this time and was one of the founder members of the PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) working group.