The Digital Preservation Coalition is pleased to announce its judges for 2018:
David Tarrant, Open Data Institute
David is the learning skills lead at the Open Data Institute responsible for the direction and quality of the ODI’s teaching products. David has over 15 years experience of working in the open as well as digital preservation. He holds a PhD on measuring the impact of open science. Before joining the ODI, Dave created the preservation extensions to the ePrints repository software. He has a number of significant publications in semantic web, linked data and digital preservation and is a member of steering and programme committees for renowned international conferences in digital preservation and open technologies. Since joining the ODI David has put in place key educational content that has helped transform governments and unlock over $15m for startups.
John Sheridan, The National Archives
John Sheridan is the Digital Director at The National Archives, where he is responsible for its work as a digital archive and a range of digital services. John is leading The National Archives strategy to become a digital archive by instinct and design. A former co-chair of the W3C e-Government Interest Group, John has a strong interest in web and data standards. He serves on the UK Government’s Open Standards Board which sets data standards for use across government. John was an early pioneer of open data and remains active in that community.
Karen Sampson, Lloyds Banking Group
Head of Archives & Museum at Lloyds Banking Group, Karen has over 20 years’ experience in the corporate archive sector. At Lloyds she heads a museum and two archive services, where she is currently overseeing the implementation of a digital preservation system. Karen is a Trustee of the Business Archives Council, serving as Hon Secretary. She wrote the business archives module for the distance-learning archives and records management MLitt at Dundee University, on which she tutored until 2011. She has previously worked in both local government and university archives.
Laura Molloy, Oxford Internet Institute
At the Oxford Internet Institute, Laura focuses on digital curation and digital literacy skills in UK visual art professional practice. Laura has delivered a number of projects and initiatives in the digital preservation, digital curation and research data management (RDM) spaces. These include the management of a pilot UK research data discovery service for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC); production of a pan-European digital preservation training series for the FP7-funded Planets project; development of the original ‘Digiman’ animation series for DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE); mapping of the JISC Managing Research Data (MRD) programme training outputs to the Vitae Researcher Development Framework and the SCONUL Seven Pillars models for JISC DaMSSI; production of the EC-funded DigCurV digital curation curriculum framework for cultural heritage. She also co-chairs the Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Education and Training for the Handling of Research Data, and the RDA IG Archives and Records Professionals.
Marcel Ras, Dutch Digital Heritage Network (DHN)
Marcel is Program Manager for the activities related to Digital Preservation at the Dutch Digital Heritage Network. This network was established in 2015 with the aim to improve the visibility, usability and sustainability of Dutch digital heritage collections; this is essential to ensure the long-term accessibility of digital information through the establishment of a national network of facilities. From 2014 until 2018 Marcel was the Program Manager of the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation (NCDD), a network to foster exchange of knowledge and national collaboration in digital preservation. Since March 2018, the NCDD has become part of the Digital Heritage Network. His first steps in the world of Digital Preservation was at the national library of The Netherland (KB) where he started the KB’s Web Archiving program. From 2007 until 2011 Marcel was manager of the e-Depot department at the KB and responsible for the operational acquisition, ingest and long term storage of digital publications in the library. As Program Manager for the International e-Depot he became responsible for the development of the international e-journals archiving program of the KB in 2011.
Natalie Harrower, Digital Repository of Ireland
Dr. Natalie Harrower is the Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland, located at the Royal Irish Academy. She was appointed to the European Commission's high level expert group on FAIR data implementation, and is a member of Ireland's National Archives Advisory Committee (NAAC) and the OECD high level expert group on Business Models for Data Repositories. Natalie is on the Governing Board for the Research Data Alliance's H2020-funded EU support activities, she is an expert reviewer for the European Commission, and she chairs the ALLEA E-Humanities Working Group. In 2014 Natalie established the international conference series DPASSH: Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, and chaired its inaugural conference in June 2015. Natalie has interests in the preservation of digital cultural heritage (in particular via the DRI’s www.inspiring-ireland.ie collaborative portal), as well in the preservation and sharing of research data in the humanities and social sciences.
Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute (SSI)
Neil is the founding Director of the Software Sustainability Institute. He began his career at the University of Edinburgh's EPCC, becoming Project Manager there in 2003. He is presently responsible for representing both the Institute and UK researchers at a national and international level. His current research is in cloud computing, computational chemistry, software ecosystems, and digital repositories. He is also on the advisory boards of several related organisations, such as ASEArch CCP, Future Compute, the Water Science Software Institute, the Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyber-Infrastructure, and e-Research South, the editor of the Journal of Open Research Software, and an advocate for Software Carpentry.
Neil Grindley, Jisc
Neil is the Head of Resource Discovery at Jisc, a UK-based registered charity that funds and supports technology-related projects and services for the UK Higher and Further Education sector. Neil leads on activities within Jisc to enhance the discoverability of academic resources for research and learning and is responsible for formulating strategies to maintain and develop services that support academic search and discovery in UK. Previously at Jisc Neil lead and managed work in the area of digital preservation and curation and served on the Boards of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), the Open Planets Foundation (OPF) and the Alliance for Permanent Access (APA). He was also the Coordinator for the EC-funded 4C project that addressed the costs, benefits and business models that underpin digital preservation.
Neil Jefferies, Bodleian Libraries University of Oxford
Neil Jefferies is the Head of Innovation at the Bodleian Libraries. He was involved with the initial setup of the Eprints and Fedora Repositories at Oxford and is now working on the development of future library technologies and services. Additionally, Neil is Technical Strategist of the Cultures of Knowledge project and sits on the Strategy Working Group of the associated EU COST action. He served on the Steering Committee of the Fedora Commons Repository platform for four years and was a founding co-author of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). Neil has served on the organising committees of international conferences such Open Repositories, DPASSH, The Preservation and Archiving SIG and Digitalna Kniznica/ILIDE, and runs a regular workshop on Contextual Data and Metadata Standards at the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School.
Paul Wheatley, Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
The DPC's Head of Research and Practice, Paul has a long track record in digital preservation, having worked on diverse projects including the much celebrated ‘CAMiLEON’ project which evaluated strategies for emulation and which is credited with rescuing the BBC Domesday Disk. He has worked at the British Library and the University of Leeds, leading the Jisc-funded ‘SPRUCE’ project which delivered a series of tightly-focused problem-solving hackathons for institutions across the UK. More recently Paul has been working as an independent consultant providing specialist advice on a range of digital preservation issues
Sally McInnes, National Library of Wales (NLW)
Sally is the Head of Unique Collections and collections Chair at the NLW, which includes responsibility for the sustainable preservation of the analogue and digital collections. As chair of the Archives and Records Council Wales, she works in partnership with repositories throughout Wales to enable the preservation of the Welsh documentary heritage.
Sharon McMeekin, Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
Sharon is the DPC's Head of Training and Skills and leads our workforce development activities, including the management and presentation of the successful workshop series’ ‘Getting Started with Digital Preservation’ and ‘Making Progress with Digital Preservation.’ Sharon is an archivist by training with a specialism in digital preservation. Before joining the DPC she spent five years as Digital Archivist with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland where she led the development of digital preservation policy and their repository systems as well as contributing more widely to the archive’s activities.
Sheila Morrissey, ITHAKA
Sheila Morrissey is Senior Researcher at ITHAKA, where her role is to provide technological perspective in researching the impact of the digital transition on the scholarly communications ecosystem, on the sustainability of digital resources, on the scholarly use of digital resources, on digital infrastructure in support of teaching and learning, and on collaborative development of the technical infrastructure of the library of the future. Sheila has worked on ITHAKA's Portico digital preservation service and has written extensively on the complex interactions between digital formats and their mediating software, as well as on the often subtle manner in which software engineering practice complicates the use and intelligibility of digital artifacts, both in the present, and over the very long term.
Steve Daly, BBC
Steve is responsible for setting and implementing the technology strategy of the BBC Archives and his remit covers the full range of physical and digital collections that form this unique archive, including: the BBC’s Written Archives (paper and electronic); Photo Library; Heritage Collection (physical historic artefacts); Commercial Music library; Sheet Music library; Web Archives; and of course the huge audio visual collections of film, video tape, audio tape and digital media.
Susan Reilly, Qatar National Library
Susan Reilly works as the Director of the Digital Content & Engagement at the Qatar National Library. She has a strong background in digital libraries, the development of research information infrastructure and information policy. Previously she was the Executive Director of LIBER (the Association of European Research Libraries). She is currently a member of the IFLA Standing Committee for Copyright & Legal Matters, has served on the Organisational Advisory Board of the Research Data Alliance, the International Joint Task Force on Librarians' Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication, and helped to establish the International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA).
Tim Gollins, National Records of Scotland
Tim took up his role of Head of Digital Archiving at National Records of Scotland in 2015 and focuses on the archiving and preservation of digital records and their associated systems and processes. His extensive experience in digital preservation includes a the same role at The National Archives where he led work on digital preservation, and cataloguing as well as the delivery and procurement workstream of The Digital Continuity Project, and a secondment to the University of Glasgow as an Honorary Research Associate for 18 months working on “technically assisted sensitivity review of digital public records.”
William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
Executive Director for the DPC, William is the Acting Overall Chair of the Judging Panel. In his current role at the head of the DPC, he provides training and support to members as well as supporting the digital preservation community through advocacy work and enabling strategic partnerships. William is a prolific writer and speaker on the subject of digital preservation and has many years’ experience in the field, having previously held senior positions at Glasgow Museums and the Archaeology Data Service.