Neil Beagrie

Neil Beagrie is internationally recognised for his work on digital curation and digital preservation within the library and data communities and is regularly invited to give keynote presentations or chair sessions at conferences in the UK and internationally. His career now spans a range of senior information management roles including Programme Director at the UK Joint Information Systems Committee, Director and Assistant Director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service, and Head of Archaeological Archives and Library at the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. He was the international consultant to the US National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and has played a major role in developing strategies for digital preservation in the UK including founding the Digital Preservation Coalition and overseeing development of the Digital Curation Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce; a Fellow of the British Cartographic Society; and an honorary research fellow in the School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies at University College London where he established the C21st Curation public lecture series. He has published extensively on digital preservation and digital library issues. He was research director and co-author of the study Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook published by the British Library in November 2001 and was joint author with Daniel Greenstein of the study A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections. Further information including published articles and recent talks are available from www.beagrie.com