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

Courtney 

I feel like a bit of a keener for being first to post, but a quick browse of the list of attendees is very humbling and I just wanted to say how much I am looking forward to meeting everyone (or seeing those I've met before) in May. I'm on Twitter, @Snarkivist, though I'm still relatively new and shy about tweeting. My archives has a new blog that I will post to sometimes: www.vancouverarchives.ca  (AuthentiCity) and their own Twitter @VanArchives. 

For the last 2 years, I've been working with our digital archives team and a contractor (Artefactual Systems) towards building and implementing a bare metal install of Archivematica as part of a larger digital archives system that includes ICA-AtoM as its access module. By the end of this year, we hope to have ingested, stored, preserved and described around 25TB of digital materials from the 2010 Winter Games held here in Vancouver, in addition to nearly 200 boxes of analogue materials. I'm also personally very interested in digital forensics for pre-ingest processes.

Matthew Kirschenbaum

Hello everyone. I'm Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Broadly, I work in the emerging field known as digital humanities. More specifically, I'm interested in the issues AIMS is engaging from the standpoint of future scholarship and access, particularly with regard to literary and creative born-digital work. To that end I've worked on these projects and reports: 

Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use (NEH): http://www.neh.gov/ODH/Default.aspx?tabid=111&id=37 

Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections (Mellon):  http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub149abst.html 

Preserving Virtual Worlds (NDIIPP, IMLS), final report here: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/17097 

I also co-teach, with Naomi Nelson, a course on Born-Digital Materials at the Rare Book School. 

Best, Matt 

Helen Broderick

Hello my name is Helen Broderick and I am a curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library. As well as more traditional archivist duties at the library I am also a member of the Personal Digital Manuscripts Project along with Jeremy John who I think that many of you may know (for more information about the project please see - http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives/). 

My involvement with the project has included cataloguing and making accessible copies of born digital archival material that can be used by researchers. As part of this work I visited Emory University last June to find out more about born digital material in the Salman Rushdie archive. 

The library has also started to look at different forms of enhanced curation, which include immersive photography of workspaces. So far my knowledge and experience of working with born digital material mainly relates to processing and stems from my subject knowledge of the archival material but I am looking forward to finding out more about wider work being done in this field at the Symposium. 

Gabby Redwine

My name is Gabby Redwine, and I am an archivist and electronic records/metadata specialist at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. I am responsible for developing our program to preserve born-digital materials. I also process paper holdings and manage and review our EAD finding aids. Most recently, I collaborated with Matt Kirschenbaum (Maryland) and Richard Ovenden (Bodleian) on a Mellon-funded project that explored the overlap between computer forensics and the needs of archivists, curators, and others preserving born-digital cultural heritage materials (http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub149abst.html). More locally, I have been fine-tuning our capture and storage procedures and have begun large-scale imaging of the 3.5-inch disks in the Ransom Center's collection. I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone in May and learning more about your work. 

Sincerely, 
Gabby

Brad Westbrook

I am Brad Westbrook, and I am a metadata librarian / digital archivist in the UC San Diego Libraries. Currently, I oversee object definition and packaging for our Digital Asset Management System (https://libraries.ucsd.edu/digital/), serve as lead analyst for the ArchivesSpace planning project, and provide metadata support to UCSD's curation initiative (http://rci.ucsd.edu/) and Chronopolis (http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/), a digital preservation framework.  In the recent past, I have been the project manager and lead analyst for the Archivists' Toolkit Project and the lead designer for the Union 
Catalog for Art Images, two Mellon-sponsored projects based at the UC San Diego Libraries.  Prior to that, back to 1993,  I served as the Manuscripts Librarian / University Archivist at UCSD.  Broadly, I am interested in tools and workflows for supporting digital library work, but especially those supporting asset description. 

I look forward to meeting you all. 

Brad Westbrook 
Metadata Librarian & Digital Archivist 
UC San Diego Libraries 

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