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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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Erin O'Meara

My name is Erin O'Meara and I'm O’Meara and I’m the Electronic Records Archivist and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here at UNC, I'm I’m developing workflows and procedures for the various collecting units in Wilson Special Collections regarding born-digital materials. I'm 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 I’m helping to develop the Curator's Curator’s Workbench, an open-source ingest workflow tool for digital content.

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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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