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Introductions from the AIMS Symposium Google Group, brought here so it is all in one place.

Courtney Mumma

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My areas of interest concerning born-digital archives have to do with the way in which personal digital archives are currently being created and maintained in both more traditional desktop environments and in dispersed cloud computing, the web, and portable devices.  In order to break open some of these questions and get fresh perspective, I've hosted I’ve hosted two dialogues in the SISPA group: one with Cathy Marshall of Microsoft and one with Susan Thomas of the Bodleian (about the PARADIGM project--looking forward to meeting you Susan!).  Last year, I led the Institute on Personal Archives through the ACA and we hosted Laura Carroll who spoke about Emory's Emory’s Salman Rushdie Digital Archives Project.

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Looking forward to participating in the symposium with you...you….

Catherine

Simon Wilson

I'm I’m Simon Wilson, digital archivist at Hull University Archives as part of the AIMS project. I have worked at Hull since November 2009 when my main task was to prepare the collections for a move into the new Hull History Centre - a new award winning building that provides a single point of access for the collections of the Hull City Archives, Hull Local Studies Library and the Hull University Archives. The building opened in January 2010 and has already welcomed over 52,000 visitors.

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Looking forward to meeting you all.

Best,

Ben

Erin O'Meara

Catherine Stollar Peters

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My name is Erin O’Meara and I’m the Electronic Records Archivist and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here at UNC, I’m developing workflows and procedures for the various collecting units in Wilson Special Collections regarding born-digital materials. I’m also the front-facing library staff member for services regarding the Carolina Digital Repository, a preservation-focused IR that uses Fedora and iRODS as its core technological infrastructure. I’m helping to develop the Curator’s Workbench, an open-source ingest workflow tool for digital content.

A bit of background: I got my Master of Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia in 2004. While I was in Vancouver I worked as a graduate assistant on the InterPARES 2 Project mostly with Richard Pearce-Moses and the Science Focus Group. My case study focused on the preservation of archaeological records within Geographic Information Systems. Before coming to UNC, I was the Electronic Records Archivist at the University of Oregon.

My main interests are in operationalizing a strong born-digital workflow in a working archives/special collections that has linkages to archival theory.

Michael Forstrom

My name is Michael Forstrom, and I'm an archivist at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale. At Beinecke I spend a good part of my time processing and cataloging modern literary manuscript material, but I'm also responsible for managing the work around born-digital material in collections. I'm part of the Yale AIMS team, along with Mark Matienzo and others, and in addition to AIMS-related work, over roughly the past 18 months my efforts have been focused on establishing a digital preservation workbench here at Yale, standardizing workflows with colleagues in Manuscripts & Archives, and developing Beinecke's curatorial services and documentation.     

Looking forward to next week,

Michael Forstrom

Catherine Stollar Peters

Hello, everyone. My name is Catherine Stollar Peters and I am a PhD student at the University at Albany in their Informatics Department. My current research interest is examining the data creation, maintenance, sharing, use, and preservation of large electronic data sets by museum scientists. I am trying to determine if the models archivists have created in terms of data curation really match up with what scientists really do.  Some recent findings that I would like to talk about at the symposium are social factors that play a role in data curation. 

Professional background: Before starting on my PhD, I worked for the New York State Archives in their Information Services Unit. In that position I did a lot of systems development work and participated in their efforts to create a state preservation system (through conducting technical appraisals and fine tuning requirements for a digital repository.) Prior to working at the State Archives, I was an electronic records archivist at the Harry Ransom Center.  I contributed to their early efforts in developing procedures and workflows for their digital preservation program.  

I am looking forward to see you all in Virginia!

Ricc Ferrante

Hi, I’m Ricc Ferrante, the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Information Technology Archivist and director of Digital Services. Digital Services here includes our digital preservation and curation, digitization, electronic records management  and our web-based outreach activities. My primary focus since joining the Archives has been to tackle the preservation and curation of our more “thorny” formats and born digital objects, including email accounts, websites and social media. We have also been doing a lot in the area of digital video, DAT tapes and computer-aided design documents – some solutions but also a number of painfully discovered dead-ends.  Standards and best practices are near and dear to my heart, so I’m grateful to participate in the video and technical metadata part of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative effort and, previously, in the work to define the Audit and Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories standard (CCSDS 652.0 / ISO 16363) that is currently open for public comment. I also enjoy hosting internships as a way to invest in the future curation and preservation successes of archives a few generations down the road.

Bradley Daigle

Greetings, everyone. I am Bradley Daigle, Director of Digital Curation Services and Digital Strategist for Special Collections. I am also PI on The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's funded project: Born Digital Materials: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (AIMS) along with Martha Sites. I have worked at UVa for over 10 year and in varying capacities. Currently, I am responsible for the life-cycle of the digital object here at UVa Library. That means from digitization to repository environment to collections strategy to digital preservation (stewardship). I directly oversee digitization and stewardship but am largely responsible for the functional requirements for said content in our managed environments. I also do a great deal of work with intellectual property and reuse of our digital assets. My area will be working very closely with Special Collections with respect to born digital materials.

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