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My Story

My work and research are primarily centered around digital object life cycle issues and information management solutions for cultural and archival materials. I have over 20 years’ experience working with electronic records, digital archives, and with digitized cultural heritage at Universities in the United States and in other sectors. I enjoy coaching people at organizations who are starting digital archives / digital preservation programs and who are interested in extending their workflows using tools and techniques suitable for digital preservation or digital archival processing. Most recently, I worked at MIT as the inaugural Digital Archivist (2011-2018) and Institute Archivist (2018-2021).

In 2022 I started my own consulting company, Global Archivist LLC after working for 10 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I have been provided coaching and consulting services to a variety of organizations and I volunteer in my local Maine region with historical societies and for the Frances Perkins National Historic Landmark. In addition to my work with organizations, I also provided coaching to individuals regarding their digital footprint and digital afterlife.

Community projects that I have contributed to include ArchivesSpace, BitCurator Community. And for projects like Building Tomorrow, LYRASIS’ It Takes a Village, OSSArchFlow, Library Publishing Workflows.

Conferences that I have served on the Program Committees for include SAA Research Forum, IS&T Archiving conference, and the BitCurator Forum. I co-present the Rare Book School seminar Digital Sustainability with Nance McGovern and have been a Senior Presenter since 2008 for the Digital Management Preservation Workshops directed by Dr. Nancy McGovern. I co-teach the Digital Curation DAS course for the Society of American Archivists. At a graduate level, I've taught three semesters of the post-graduate course "Archives and Records Management" for the Information Science program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and was a Tutor for the CAIS program at the University of Dundee. I taught two courses - Digital Collections and Digital Preservation - at CUNY Queens College for the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies 2023-2025.

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