Andrew McHugh

Preservation Research Fellow Office: Attic HATII George Service House 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QH Tel: +44 (0)141 330 2675 Fax: +44 (0)141 330 3518 Email: A.McHugh@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

Biography

Andrew McHugh earned a degree in Scots Law from Glasgow University (2000) and went on to complete a MSc in Information Technology (2001). Since then has been employed within HATII (the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow) in various capacities including taking responsibility for revolutionizing the information infrastructure in the Department of Music. In late 2004 he joined the Digital Curation Centre in the position of Advisory Services Manager, leading a world-class team of digital curation practitioners in offering leading-edge expertise and insight in a range of issues to a primarily higher and further education audience. His most recent work at the DCC has involved leading its work in trusted repository Audit and Certification. He also lectures on multimedia systems and design on the MSc in Information Technology run by the Computing Science Department at Glasgow.

Teaching

Course coordinator in the Multimedia Systems course within the MSc in Information Technology offered by the Department of Computing Science.

Research

Andrew has led recent efforts within the Digital Curation Centre, the DELOS Digital Preservation Cluster and DigitalPreservationEurope to conceive and refine methodologies for digital repository audit and certification. He was a primary author of the Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) and both system architect and developer of its web accessible surrogate, DRAMBORA Interactive.

From March 2008 Andrew will join the European Commission funded PLANETS project to research and develop innovative ‘blue sky’ solutions aimed at taking advantage of the very latest technological possibilities in order to meet the challenges of Digital Preservation in new and imaginative ways.