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Gretchen Gueguen

I'm Gretchen Gueguen and I've just accepted the position of Digital Archivist for the AIMS project/Special Collections at UVa. I currently work at East Carolina University where I head the Digital Collections department. We've been digitizing special collections and building a digital asset management system (http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/) that is fully integrated with our online finding aids (i.e. digital content dynamically delivered to finding aids) (http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/). 

I've been at ECU since January 2008 and before that I was at the University of Maryland, first as a grad student at MITH, then in the library's Digital Collections and Research department, where we worked on a fedora repository for digital collections. 

I'm really excited about starting at UVa and meeting you all in a few weeks.

Dave Thompson

My name is Dave Thompson (dnt) and I'm the Digital Curator at the Wellcome Library in London. http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/  I'm looking forward to meeting everyone at AIMS in Charlottesville in May.  I've been at Wellcome since 2004 and was previously at the National Library of New Zealand. My main interest lies in working with born digital archival material. 

The Wellcome Library has been accepting born digital archival material for about three years now and we've amassed just under a TB of material. Some personal papers, some organisational material. I support our archivists in the technical aspects of digital archiving and help develop policy and procedures. 

I'm currently working on the Library's new digitisation project, http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2010/News/WTX062533.htm This project represents a major change in the way we plan to make material available, it will encompass digitised as well as born digital material.  I'm presently working on the procurement of a workflow tracking system that will help us manage the production of content for this project. 

I've had the pleasure of visiting the University of Virginia before, dropping in at the e-Text Centre some years ago. 

Kind regards, dnt 

Dave Thompson, Digital Curator 
Digital Services 
Wellcome Library 
183 Euston Road 
London NW1 2BE, UK 

Susan Thomas

I'm Susan Thomas. I work for the Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford) where I'm responsible for the service underpinning preservation, management and delivery of our born-digital archives (Bodleian Electronic Archives & Manuscripts). A major part of that work is currently being undertaken through the futureArch project, funded by the Mellon Foundation. I also teach 'Digital Archiving' on the University of Dundee's MA/MSc programme at the Centre for Archive & Information Studies. 

In terms of collections, we have digital archives from a number of individuals and organisations. Just over a TB now, and growing all the time... Some collections have a handful of files, while others include thousands. We're doing quite a bit of work at the moment to capture our legacy digital holdings, and we have new digital accessions coming in too. We've processed a handful of 'hybrid archives' and are working on our UI for presenting digital archives with finding aids to researchers. 

Looking forward to the coming discussions! 

Susan Thomas 
Digital Archivist/Project Manager 
Bodleian Library 
Web:  http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/beam and http://futurearchives.blogspot.com 

Aprille McKay

I'm Aprille McKay and I'm a digital archivist at the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library in the University Archives and Records Program (http://bentley.umich.edu/uarphome/index.php).  I'm currently working on a Mellon-funded project aimed at capturing scholarly correspondence of archival value that is transmitted by email .  Other efforts involve improving our workflows and tools for working with born-digital records, and helping to define needs for new policies and procedures. Another current project in our unit is the creation of a university-wide web archive in collaboration with CDL and its Web Archiving Service. 

The University of Michigan is in the midst of negotiating a contract with Google for email and collaboration tools for staff and students. We're challenged by the lack of tools and policy guidance to help us manage this transition. 

Another interest is in figuring out how to ascertain and manage access restrictions that are required by third-party privacy, copyright or institutional policy in born-digital records. 

I'm looking forward to meeting all of you and coming back to Charlottesville -- I'm an alum. 

Aprille Cooke McKay, MSI, JD 

Digital Archivist 
Bentley Historical Library 
University of Michigan 
1150 Beal Ave. 
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1333 

Mark Matienzo

I'm Mark Matienzo, digital archivist at Manuscripts and Archives (MSSA) at Yale University. The majority of my time is spent working on the AIMS project, where I'm the lead digital archivist (a quasi-official project management role). I have also recently been appointed as the functional lead for the development of Hypatia, the Hydra head for AIMS. I've worked at Yale since January 2010, and before that I was a programmer for the New York Public Library's Digital Experience Group and was assistant archivist for systems  at the American Institute of Physics. I'm active in SAA, and I hold or have held positions on the EAD Roundtable, the Technical Subcommittee on EAD,  the Description Section, the Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable, and the Electronic Records Section.

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