Presenters
Kevin Ashley
Kevin Ashley is Head of Digital Archives Department, University of London Computer Centre (ULCC). For the past ten years, Kevin has led a group of IT and archives specialists working on a wide range of digital preservation projects, involving many types of information (databases, text, video and audio) with different access patterns and cataloguing requirements. Kevin represents ULCC on the board of the Digital Preservation Coalition, was a member of the Advisory Council for Erpanet and is part of the RLG-NARA task force seeking to develop an audit and certification mechanism for trusted digital repositories. He speaks frequently on digital preservation and management topics and has contributed to training through the Society of Archivists and the DPC, as well as other organisations.
William Kilbride
William Kilbride, recently appointed as the new Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition, was formerly the Research Manager at Glasgow Museums. As assistant director of the Archaeology Data Service, he was involved in a large number of digital preservation activities. He was on the steering committee for the UK Needs Assessment, and has contributed to numerous workshops, guides and advice papers on the topic.
Rory McNicholl
Rory McNicholl is ULCC’s Senior Developer for digital repository systems. At ULCC, he is currently involved with Linnean-Online, an image repository deftly combining EPrints and Erez with FSI viewer for the Linnean Society; Their Past, Your Future, a preservation, conversion and repository setup for various media related to Their Past, Your Future project; and PRIMO, “Practice as Research in Music Online”, a digital repository for multimedia musical research resources for the Institute of Musical Research. He has eight years’ experience as a web and database developer, and also has experience of developing financial web charting tools and e-commerce systems, amongst other things.
Ed Pinsent
Ed Pinsent comes from a traditional archives and records management background, and has worked with digital archives at the University of London Computer Centre since 2004. He has worked on various projects for the JISC: archiving websites (as part of the UK Web-Archiving Consortium), the development of an Asset Assessment Tool, a report on Significant Properties, and a Handbook on the Preservation of Web Resources. He was previously archivist and records manager for the Church of England (1988-2001), and the Departmental Record Officer for the National Archives 2001-2003, where he worked on the implementation of an electronic records management programme.
Patricia Sleeman
Patricia Sleeman is an archivist who has worked on the National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) at ULCC for 10 years. She has been the Project Leader of the Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) since its creation as a JISC funded project in 2004. Other experience in digital preservation training includes providing various training events on the National Digital Archive of Datasets as well as providing a four day workshop in 2003 with a colleague in Havana, Cuba for the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment funded by the Social Science Research Council, New York.
Simon Tanner
Simon Tanner is the founding Director of King’s Digital Consultancy Services (KDCS) at King’s College London, and part of the senior management team at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH). Before joining King’s, he was Senior Consultant at the Higher Education Digitisation Service and had a key role in its successful development as a JISC Service. Simon is an independent member of the UK Legal Deposit Advisory Panel and Chair of its Web Archiving sub-committee. He has been a consultant to UNESCO, the National Library of Scotland, Kew Gardens, the Royal Academy of Arts, Imperial War Museum, Oxford University, the British Library, the National Library of Ireland, Birmingham Public Libraries, the House of Commons and advised Denmark’s national digitisation programme amongst many others.
