Page History

...

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

...