Publications
Books and Reports
UK Research Data Feasibility Study (UKRDS) Final Report, December 2008. Read Online
UK Research Data Service Feasibility Study (UKRDS): Project Interim Report, . Read Online
Digital Preservation Policies Study, with co-authors Najla Rettberg, Peter Williams, and Richard Wright (Joint Information Systems Committee 2008). Read Online
Keeping Research Data Safe: a cost model and guidance for UK Universities, with co-authors Julia Chruszcz and Brian Lavoie (Joint Information Systems Committee 2008). Read Online
A Comparative Study of e-Journal Archiving Solutions, with co-authors Julia Chruszcz, Maggie Jones, and Terry Morrow (Joint Information Systems Committee 2008). Read Online
e-Infrastructure Strategy for Research: Final Report from the OSI Preservation and Curation Working Group (November 2006), National e-Science Centre 2007. Read Online
Thesaurus of Archaeological Site Types, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and English Heritage 1992 (joint editor and chair of working party).
Documentary Research on Industrial Sites, Department of Environment 1994, Contaminated Land Research Report No. 3 (Manager RCHME consultancy team and wrote advice on map sources and industrial sites).
Managing Digital Collections: AHDS Policies, Standards and Practices, version 1, 15.12.1998, with co-author Daniel Greenstein. Read Online
Going Digital: issues in digitisation for public libraries, Issues Paper for the Networked Services Policy Task Group, EARL 2001. Read Online
Thesaurus of Monument Types: a Data Standard for use in Archaeological and Architectural Records, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and English Heritage 1995 (joint editor, project director and chair of working party).
A Strategic Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Resources, with co-author Daniel Greenstein, eLib Supporting Study P3, Library Information Technology Centre South Bank University 1998. Read Online ⁄ Reviews
Preservation Management of Digital Materials: a Handbook, with co-author Maggie Jones, British Library 2001. Read Online ⁄ Reviews
National Digital Preservation Initiatives, An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related International Activity, Council on Library and Information Resources and Library of Congress 2003. Read Online ⁄ Reviews
Recent Talks
Policy, Pre-conditions and costs: opportunities and pitfalls in long-term digital preservation workshop at Curating Research 2009 Conference April 2009
The Importance of Digital Preservation invited opening keynote to DPC/RSP/CC/JISC "Tackling the Preservation Challenge: Practical Steps for Repository Manager" Workshop, London December 2008
Keeping Research Data Safe: the JISC research data preservation costs study invited lecture to the 4th International Digital Curation Conference, Edinburgh, December 2008
Keeping Research Data Safe invited lecture to the Alliance for Permanent Access strategic conference on Keeping the Records of Science Accessible: can we afford it? Budapest, Hungary November 2008
The UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) Feasibility Study invited lecture to the Oxford University Institutional and National Services for Research Data Management Workshop. October 2008
Digital Preservation: a subject of no importance? invited lecture to iPRES 2008 conference, London September 2008
Keeping Research Data Safe: A cost model for universities invited lecture to JISC-CNI conference, Belfast, July 2008
Research Data Costs invited lecture to LIFE2 Conference British Library June 2008
Calculating the costs of digital Long-Term Preservation invited lecture to the Max Planck Society's "Aspects of Long-Term Archiving" eScience Seminar, Gottingen, Germany June 2008
Keeping Research Data Safe- the JISC Digital Preservation Costs Study invited lecture to Oxford University Research Data Management Workshop June 2008
"Keeping alert: issues to know today for long-term preservation with repositories" Keynote to Fedora International Meeting, Open Repositories 2008, Southampton, UK. April 2008
Chairman for opening session on National Perspectives, 3rd International Digital Curation Conference "Curating our Digital Scientific Heritage: a Global Collaborative Challenge" Washington DC, USA December 2007
The Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science presentation to Practices and Challenges in Preservation and Access for Scientific and Scholarly Digital Repositories DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint Workshop Berlin November 2007
Digital Preservation: setting the course for a decade of change Keynote to the 60th Anniversary Conference Association Belge de Documentation, "L'Europe face au défi de la conservation des documents numériques à long terme", Brussels Belgium November 2007
The Digital Lives Project , presentation to the JISC Digitisation Conference, Cardiff UK July 2007
Preservation and Long-term Access for UK Digital Heritage and Scientific Research , Keynote to the inaugural meeting of the Dutch Digital Preservation Coalition, The Hague Netherlands May 2007
Premises for co-operative long-term digital preservation solutions in Europe , Keynote to the European Presidency conference "The Challenge: Long-Term Preservation - Strategies and Practices of European Partnerships", Frankfurt Germany April 2007
Panellist and speaker in Copyright and digital rights management session at the European Commission conference Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area Access, Dissemination and Preservation in the Digital Age, Brussels Belgium February 2007
Articles
"Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers", Ariadne - 60 (July 2009), with co-authors Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands. html Publication
"Online Archival Sound Recordings from the British Library", ALISS Quarterly - Volume 2 No 2 (January 2007) print Publication
"Digital Curation for Science, Digital Libraries, and Individuals", International Journal of Digital Curation - Volume 1 (November 2006), pages 3-16. PDF Publication
"C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series", Ariadne - Issue 48 (July 2006), with co-author Helen Forde. html Publication
"Managing Digital Information", Government Technology - volume 5.7 (July 2006), pages 25-7. print Publication
"Memories for Life: a review of the science and technology", Royal Society Interface Journal - Volume 3, Number 8 / June 22, 2006 Pages: 351 - 365 (June 2006), with co-authors Kieron O'Hara,Richard Morris,Nigel Shadbolt, Graham Hitch, and Wendy Hall. pdf Publication
"Digital Policy Management Workshop", Ariadne - Issue 47 (April 2006), with co-author Mark Bide. html Publication
"The Digital Library and its Services", Ariadne - Issue 47 (April 2006), with co-author Rachel Bruce. html Publication
"National Digital Preservation Initiatives, An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related International Activity", Archeion - , vol 107,ed. by D. Nalecz, Warsaw 2004 (March 2006), re-published in Polish from CLIR volume with permission from author and CLIR. print Publication
"C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture Series", Ariadne - Issue 46 (January 2006), with co-author Helen Forde. html Publication
"Development of Digital Preservation Environments by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)", Local to Global Data Interoperability Challenges and Technologies IEEE Conference 2005 Proceedings (December 2005), p74-7 with co-author Leona Carpenter. pdf Publication
"A digital preservation handbook: best practice and its dissemination", Cahiers de la documentation - 2005/3 (September 2005), pg. 54-9.
"Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections", D-Lib Magazine - Volume 11 Number 6 (June 2005) html Publication
"Digital Preservation: Best Practice and its Dissemination", Ariadne - Issue 43 (April 2005) html Publication
"The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)", D-LibMagazine - Volume 10 Number 7/8 (August 2004) html Publication
"The Digital Curation Centre", Learned Publishing - Volume 17, Number 1 (January 2004) pdf Publication
"Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records", Adriadne - Issue 32 (July 2002), with co-author Philip Pothen. html Publication
"The Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK", Testbed Digitale Bewaring Newsletter (July 2002), .
"An Update on the Digital Preservation Coalition", D-Lib Magazine - Volume 8 Number 4 (April 2002) html Publication
"The Digital Curation: digital archives, digital libraries, and e-science, seminar", Ariadnep - Issue 30 (December 2001), with co-author Philip Pothen. html Publication
"Preserving UK digital library collections", Program - Volume 35, Number 3 (July 2001), pg. 217-226 .
"Digital Preservation Conference: Report from York, UK", RLG DigiNews - Volume 4, Number 6 (December 2000), with co-author Robin Dale . html Publication
"The JISC Digital Preservation Focus and the Digital Preservation Coalition", New Review of Academic Librarianship - Volume 6 (January 2000), pg. 257-267 .
"The British Experience in Preserving Digital Library Collections", LIBER Quarterly - Volume 10 (January 2000), pg. 367-375 . rtf Publication
"Report from the Warwick2 Digital Preservation Strategy Workshop", National Preservation Office Journal - Issue 4 (May 1999), pg. 5 [ISSN 1461 4154] . html Publication
"Joint RLG and NPO Conference on Guidelines for Digital Imaging", RLG DigiNews - Volume 2, Number 5 (October 1998), with co-author Nancy Elkington, [ISSN 1093-5371]. Re-printed in National Preservation Office Journal, Issue 3 January 1999, pg. 5-7, [ISSN 1461 4154] . html Publication
"Into the Future: The Challenge of Digital Preservation", Society of Archivists Newsletter - No. 112 (September 1998), pg. 8-9 .
"Sixth DELOS Workshop: preservation of digital information", D-Lib (August 1998), with co-author Michael Day. html Publication
"Digital Preservation", Multimedia Information and Technology - vol 24 no. 3 (August 1998), pg. 173-4 .
"Developing a Policy Framework for Digital Preservation", DELOS Working Group Reports (June 1998), Sixth DELOS Workshop Preservation of Digital Information Tomar Portugal, ERCIM-98-W003 (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics), pg 15-22 . html Publication
"DELOS6: Preservation of digital information", Ariadne - issue 16 (June 1998), with co-author Michael Day . html Publication
"The Arts and Humanities Data Service: a multi-disciplinary resource for archaeologists", Museum Archaeologist - 24 (January 1998), in Museums for the 21st Century. Conference Proceedings Liverpool 1997, pg. 3-6.
"Copyright and Access", Museum Archaeologist - 23 (January 1998), Conference Proceedings St Albans 1996, pg. 63-7 .
"Making History: Copyright, Archaeology and Electronic Records", Computer Applications and Quantative Methods in Archaeology CAA 1997 Proceedings (January 1997)
"Excavations and Archives: Alternative Aspects of Cultural Resource Management" in Computer Applications and Quantative Methods in Archaeology CAA 1995", Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia - 28 (January 1996), pg. 81-6.
"Museum Collections, National Archaeological Indexes and Research: information resources, access and potential"", Museum Archaeology- What's New? Museum Archaeologist - vol 21 (January 1994), Conference Proceedings Edinburgh 1994, pg. 28-34.
"The Computerisation of the National Archaeological Record", Revue Informatique et Statistique dans les Science humaines - 29 (January 1993), pg. 9-16 .
"The Archaeological Site Type Thesaurus", Thesauri for Museum Documentation (January 1992), MDA Occasional Paper 18 (1992), pg. 43-52. with co-author Dawn Abercromby.
"Convergence, Integration and Online Access: The Arts and Humanities Data Service Gateway and Catalogues", Museums and the Web 1999 selected papers from an international conference (January 1991), Edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant [ISBN 1-885626-17-7]. html Publication