Author Archives: Patricia Sleeman

Patricia Sleeman is an archivist who has worked at the University of
London Computer Centre for 10 years. She has worked on the National
Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD)as well as being the Project Leader of
the Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) since its creation as
a JISC funded project in collaboration with Cornell University in 2004. She led the survey team for EVAMP, a
European Commission project. Other
experience in digital preservation includes providing various training
events on the National Digital Archive of Datasets as well as providing
a four day workshop in 2003 with a colleague in Havana, Cuba for the
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment funded by the Social
Science Research Council, New York. Previous to working at ULCC she
worked at the National Archives of Ireland on the records of the
Ordnance Survey and the Valuation Office of Ireland. She has also been secretary for the Section for Professional Associations within the International Council on Archives. She speaks Spanish and Irish.

The House of Books: Manuscripts and religious identity in Iraq

Father Najeeb Michaeel is an Iraqi Christian priest who speaks Arabic, English, French, Aramaic and Syriac, not to mention being able to read Latin and Greek. In the garden of Zaytun library, Erbil I hear this gentle man tell me how his community of friars used to live in Mosul, a traditional centre for Christianity [...]

The House of Books: Erbil, Iraq

“What you destroy, we will rebuild, only better” – Slogan of Kurdish Peshmerga. The garden I am standing in is so beautiful that I find it difficult to imagine that it was a former detention centre  operated by Saddam Hussain’s Ba’ath party, a place  of imprisonment and torture.  It is now a garden full of  [...]

House of Books 3

Map of Erbil   I have been invited to the 3rd House of Books workshop organised by Un Ponte Per…. It will take place in Erbil, Kurdistan and is under the auspices of the National Library and Archives of Iraq. The workshop is looking at best practise in relation to digitisation and preservation, follwing on [...]

Moderation in everything

Question: What do alcohol and a VLE discussion forum have in common? Clue: you’ll have to read to the bottom of this article to find out. History Spot at Institute of Historial Research ( IHR) looks very good.  IHR is one of the many jewels in the crown of ten member Institutes of the School [...]

Fáilte gu Ghlaschu!

  The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris Football and digital preservation seem an unlikely combination but on May 15th Ed and I arrived to a slightly damp Glasgow celebrating en masse the end of the football season, to deliver our DPTP north of the border.  There, I [...]