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. She has contributed to the House of Books project working with the Iraq National Library and Archives. 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 contributed to ‘The Internet Research Handbook: A Practical Guide for Students and Researchers in the Social Sciences: An Introductory Guide for the Social Sciences’ by Niall O Dochartaigh, Sage Publications Ltd. She has also written about the destruction of archives during conflicts, ‘Cultural genocide’ in ‘Archives and Archivists’, Four Courts Press. She has also been secretary for the Section for Professional Associations within the International Council on Archives. She speaks Spanish and Irish and can say hello in Estonian and Arabic.
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 [...]
‘Machine replication of human functions, like reading, is an ancient dream’ * One of the many topics discussed in the House of Books project in Amman was the issue of OCR and Arabic texts. Optical character recognition or OCR has become one of the most successful applications of technology in the field of pattern recognition [...]
Baghdad, 2003 - when Domenico Chirico, Director of Un Ponte Per… first asked various organisations for support and resources for the reconstruction of the Iraq National Library and Archives (INLA) destroyed during the Iraq invasion and occupation, he was met with cries of bemusement and disbelief: ‘Why worry about books and archives when we have [...]
We gave a 2 day in house workshop to the National Archives of Scotland last week. As Ed Pinsent has noted in his post about legal admissability, our timing was quite interesting; we arrived on the Monday the week after NAS had merged with the General Register Office, to become the National Records of Scotland. [...]
My 6 year old son brought back from school a booklet about the Convention of the Rights of the Child. As a school councillor he is expected to have a copy on his person, or so I believe, in case any one might need to check out their rights in the playground or corridor! It [...]
