New arrivals on the JISC IE Team
The JISC IE team is delighted to welcome some new faces to its ranks. Ben Wynne has come to JISC after most recently being the Deputy Librarian at the University of the West of England and brings considerable experience to his new role as Programme Manager focusing on the Digital Libraries area. His first task at JISC will be to investigate how libraries should be responding to a Web 2.0 world and he will be following up the recommendations of the JISC and SCONUL commissioned study of the Library Management Systems and Electronic Resource Management System landscape (April 2008) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/resourcediscovery/libraryMS
In addition to this, Ben will also begin by looking at issues relating to Trust and Provenance of digital information.
The other new arrival on the team is David Flanders, well known to many in the JISC community as the driving force behind the much talked-about and highly-praised recent event, Developer Happiness Days. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/02/devohappyday.aspx
David was the recipient of JISC funding in his previous role at Birkbeck College, working on the SOURCE project and also playing a principal role in the ‘Wisdom of CRIG’ initiative which provided expert support on technical and other matters to the emerging base of UK respositories. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitalrepositories2007/wocrig.aspx
David will be able to bring very practical knowledge and expertise to his role as Programme Manager (Digital Libraries), not only with hands-on experience of technical development, but also using his experience of working within the constraints of the JISC funding framework to help us examine our processes and procedures and ensure they continue to offer the wider community maximum benefit and value for money.
Not only is the IE team expanding but other new faces are arriving at JISC as well. Whilst formally belonging to the e-Research team, it seems very likely that the work that Simon Hodson will be doing will have a great deal of overlap with the Repositories and Preservation area as he has been given responsibility for a new programme that JISC will formally announce in the near future around the whole area of ‘research data’. Simon joins us from the University of Hull and has also been on the receiving end of JISC funding, working as part of the VRE programme.
We are delighted to welcome all of them and anticipate taking great advantage of their respective expertise in a number of areas to scope and progress new and exciting areas of work.
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