James Currall has been employed in
the University of Glasgow for almost 20 years. His main job currently is as Head
of Learning Technology where he has overall responsibility for the University VLE.
Previously he was the Director of Strategy and Planning in IT Services, where he
interacted with archivists, librarians, information technologists, academics and
university managers. James is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities
Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), where he is developing
applied research into information issues drawing on his service and strategic experience
and also more theoretical work on the nature of digital objects and the problems
associated with their management, security and retention. James has been involved
with the highly successful Glasgow MPhil (now MSc) course in Information Management
and Preservation since it inception, in which he teaches about the transition from
storage of information on physical to digital media, information security, the
role of numbers as information and a variety of other topics including risk and
information management as an investment. In this latter context he was the Project
Director of the espida project which developed
a sustainable business-focussed model for digital preservation.
James hasn't spoken at the Web Managers Workshop for a number of years, so some of the newer participants may not know what to expect ☺.
James gave a plenary talk on "The Tangled Web is but a Fleeting Dream ...but then again...".
James can be contacted at <J.Currall@compserv.gla.ac.uk>.
Last modified: 1st April 2008
