Mr Chris Rusbridge
Director, Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh

Paper title
Create, Curate, Re-use: the Expanding Life Course of Digital Research Data.

Biography
The over-riding purpose of the Digital Curation Centre, funded by JISC and the e-Science Core Programme, is to support and promote continuing improvement in the quality of data curation and of associated digital preservation.

Chris Rusbridge has been the Director of the DCC since February 2005.  In the first six months of 2006, he attended board meetings for14 different organisations and attended or gave presentations at 6 international conferences in  the UK, US, & Sweden.

This appointment follows five years as Director of Information Services at Glasgow University.  There his responsibilities included the library and archives, together with IT, MIS, and A/V services.  For the previous five years, he was Programme Director of the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), a major digital library R&D Programme.  During his tenure at JISC, one of his major interests was preservation of digital materials, the subject of a set of JISC-funded studies and major international workshops in 1995, 1999 and 2005, held at Warwick.