Projects
HATII has an excellent track record in attracting project funding. We have co-ordinated and led workpackages in a number of influential EU digital preservation projects, notably Planets, DPE and DigCurV. We host the Digital Curation Centre and have delivered many JISC funded digital curation projects. We also partner with colleagues across the university and beyond to deliver digital humanities and digital heritage projects.
• European digital preservation projects
• Digital Curation and research data management projects
• Digital humanities, digital heritage and information management projects
European digital preservation projects
BlogForever (2011-2013)
BlogForever will create a software platform capable of aggregating, preserving, managing and disseminating blogs.
DigCurV - Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (2011-2013)
DigCurV will address the availability of vocational training for digital curators in the library, archive, museum and cultural heritage sectors. HATII has led the development of a curriculum framework for continuous professional development in digital curation.
3D-COFORM (2008-2012)
The 3D-COFORM consortium aimed to establish 3D documentation as an affordable, practical and effective mechanism for long term documentation of tangible cultural heritage.
SHAMAN - Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent Archiving (2007-2011)
SHAMAN developed and tested a next generation digital preservation framework including tools for analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and data across libraries and archives.
Planets - digital preservation, research and technology (2006-2010)
Planets developed a number of tools, approaches and training courses to address the challenge of preserving access to digital cultural and scientific knowledge. HATII led the delivery of training courses and developed the testbed environment. The work is being continued through the Open Planets Foundation.
DL.org - Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices & Modelling Foundations (2008-2010)
DL.org created a network for digital library projects to collaborate, share experiences and expertise. The project focused on increasing awareness and understanding of interoperability of digital libraries systems.
CASPAR - Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (2006-2009)
CASPAR aimed to address the challenge of ensuring digital data could still be used and understood in the future by implementing, extending and validate the OAIS reference model. HATII was involved in designing the training courses and developing the cultural heritage testbed.
DPE - Digital Preservation Europe (2006-2009)
A follow-on to Erpanet, DPE facilitated the sharing of digital preservation expertise that exists across the academic research, cultural, public administration and industry sectors in Europe. HATII co-ordinated the project and drove the development of a series of DigiMan cartoons.
DELOS – network of excellence on digital libraries (2004-2007)
DELOS conducted a programme of activities to integrate and coordinate the ongoing research activities of major European teams working in Digital Libraries.
DigiCULT - Digital Culture (2002-2004)
DigiCULT monitored and assessed existing and emerging technologies that provide opportunities for the preservation and access of Europe's rich cultural and scientific heritage
ERPANET – electronic resource preservation and access network (2001-2004)
ERPANET provided a virtual clearinghouse and knowledge-base on state-of-the-art developments in digital preservation. It brought together memory organisations, ICT industry, research institutions, government organisations, entertainment and creative industries, and commercial sectors.
Digital Curation and research data management projects
Digital Curation Centre (2004 - 2013)
The DCC provides a national focus for research into the preservation and management of digital research data. Most recently we have been building capacity and capability for Research Data management via a series of institutional engagements.
DaMSSI & DaMSSi-ABC (2010-2011 & 2012-2013)
The DaMSSI projects have been funded by JISC and the Research Information Network to support project developing training materials in the JISC Managing Research Data programmes. HATII has delivered both projects on behalf of the DCC.
CARDIO (2009-2011)
CARDIO is a benchmarking tool to help organisations develop their data management strategy. HATII developed the method and tool on behalf of the DCC and has been supporting its use within the JISC Managing Research Data community.
Incremental (2009-2011)
HATII collaborated with the University of Cambridge on the Incremental project, which aimed to improve Research Data Management practice at our universities. Key outputs were training and data management guidance webpages.
DRAMBORA (2006-2009)
DRAMBORA is a repository audit tool based on risk assessment. The toolkit facilitates internal audit by providing repository administrators with a means to assess their capabilities, identify their weaknesses, and recognise their strengths. HATII developed the methodology and online tool on behalf of the DCC and DPE projects.
DAF – Data Audit / Asset Framework (2008)
DAF provides organisations with the means to identify, locate, describe and assess how they are managing their research data assets. It was developed and piloted by 4 universities in 2008 and has since been used by projects in the Managing Research Data programmes and elsewhere.
Digital humanities, digital heritage and information management projects
A History of Working-Class Marriage, 1855-1976 (2012-2016)
This AHRC-funded project, based in the School of Social and Political Sciences, aims to offer an historical understanding of family structure. HATII is responsible for developing the project's web presence and making research data available online.
Early cinema in Scotland (2012-2015)
The central aim of this School of Culture and Creative project is to produce a comprehensive account of the early development of cinema in Scotland. HATII are developing the underlying databases, including geo-databases, and websites.
Commemorations of Saints in Scottish Place-Names (2010-2013)
This three-year Celtic & Gaelic project, funded by The Leverhulme Trust, will collect and analyse as comprehensively as possible the hagiotoponyms (place-names incorporating names of saints) of Scotland. HATII is developing the underlying research database and staff and public interfaces.
Mobilising the Mapping of Sculpture (2010-2011)
This follow-on to the original Mapping Sculpture project saw the development of a mobile interface to the database, facilitating in situ sculptural research, and the addition of unique personalisation features to support individual research.
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 (2007-2010)
The first authoritative study of sculptors, related businesses and trades investigated in the context of creative collaborations, art infrastructures, professional networks and cultural geographies. The database - developed by HATII - is the main outcome of the research and contains over 50,000 records about sculptural practice.
AHDS Performing Arts (1996-2008)
A designated data centre of the AHRC until 2008, AHDS-PA promoted the collection and use of digital data resources to support research, learning and teaching in the performing arts and screen media.
Non-Commercial Digital Repositories and Archives Project (2007-2008)
This project aimed to identify every repository of digital content that is free to UK HE institutions and hosted within the UK, whether it is presented as an archive, Content Management System, repository, or Web-based collection.
Visualising Archival Finding Aids
This speculative research, funded by the AHRC, tested the technical viability and utility of providing an innovative, multidimensional visualisation to EAD finding aids.
French Emblems at Glasgow
This AHRC-funded project provided access to all the French Emblem Books of the 16th century, along with their Latin versions when appropriate. Of the 27 Emblem Books on the website all but two are from the Stirling Maxwell Collection in Glasgow University Library.
espida (2005-2007)
espida developed a model to help organisations make business cases for proposals that may not necessarily offer immediate financial benefit, but rather bring benefit in more intangible spheres. The main output is the espida model handbook.
TheGlasgowStory (c.2004)
TheGlasgowStory website tells the story of Glasgow in words and pictures. With text by some of Scotland's best writers, it is illustrated with thousands of images from the collections of the city's world-famous libraries, museums and universities. A paper on the evaluation of the project was published by Ian Anderson as 'Pure Dead Brilliant? Evaluating the Glasgow Story', Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, October 2007, Volume: 41(4).
Primarily History
This longitudinal research project examined how historians search for primary sources; how they teach and advise their students to do so; and how archivists can best facilitate such information discovery through online services.
NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation & Management of Cultural Heritage Materials (2002)
The First Edition of the NINCH Guide was published in November 2002. The guide is based on extensive field research by HATII on current good practice in the planning, creation, management, delivery and preservation of digital material in the cultural heritage sector.
Digital Archaeology: Rescuing Neglected and Damaged Data Resources (1999)
This JISC/NPO Study was prepared as part of a programme of studies resulting from a workshop on the Long Term Preservation of Electronic Materials held at Warwick in November 1995. It considers ‘digital archaeology’ as an approach to digital preservation.