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NAME- Afkhami, Reza
- Ahmet, Mus
- Austin, Birgit
- Balakrishnan, Sidharth
- Balkan, Lorna
- Barbalet, Suzanne
- Beedham, Hilary
- Bell, Lucy
- Bell, Darren
- Berry, Kim
- Bishop, Libby
- Boekee West, Rory
- Bolton, Sharon
- Brumpton, Matthew
- Byam, Julie
- Cadogan, Susan
- Chatsiou, Kakia
- Corti, Louise
- Cozzolino, Susan
- Dennison, Karen
- Deswarte, Richard
- Dovao Jiminez, Oscar
- Eastaugh, Kay
- El Haj, Mahmoud
- Ensom, Tom
- Etheridge, Anne
- Fowles, Steven
- Golla, Raju
- Hall, David
- Hall, Kay
- Holden, Rebecca
- Ismail, Jane
- Jack, Sharon
- Johnson, Helen
- Kakarla, Sirisha
- King, Mike
- Kneeshaw, Jack
- Knight, Judith
- Lacy, Karen
- L'Hours, Hervé
- Lichtwardt, Beate
- Linares, Enrique
- Mann, Hershbinder
- Mett, Nicola
- Morgan-Brett, Bethany
- Pasotti, Annette
- Payne, John
- Redfearn, Andy
- Sayer, Kathy
- Sceats, Russell
- Sexton, Jonathan
- Shepherdson, John
- Smy, Liz
- Southall, John
- Van den Eynden, Veerle
- Vernitski, Anat
- Walter, Marie
- Ward, Margaret
- Warin, Steve
- Welpton, Richard
- Weston, Colin
- Wiedenmann, Ole
- Wood, Susan
- Woollard, Matthew
- Wright, Melanie
- Zambrano, Lorena
Matthew Woollard
Director UK Data Archive and Director Economic and Social Data Service
Tel:+44(0)1206 873704
Address:UK Data Archive
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex
CO4 3SQ
- Job description
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Matthew is the Director of both the UK Data Archive and the Economic and Social Data Service. His key responsibilities are to: provide effective leadership and strategic direction of the UK Data Archive developing and enhancing the organisation's national and international reputation; ensure the effective management, operation and development of the Archive as an umbrella organisation hosting multiple national services relating to the acquisition, curation and dissemination of digital data; and strengthen the Archive's relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders and collaborators. He also retains his previous responsibilities of the development of the UK Data Archive's digital preservation policy and its implementation and maintenance framework.
- Research interests
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Matthew joined the UK Data Archive in January 2003 as the Head of the History Data Service, after six years working in various research capacities in the History Department of the University of Essex.
He completed his Ph.D. in 2005 on the development of occupational classification in the British Isles, 1660-1911. Between 2004 and 2007 he headed a major JISC-funded digitisation project - Online Historical Population Reports (histpop) - which has published online almost 190,000 pages of British historical population reports and authored a number of the historical essays on this site.
In 2006 he was appointed Associate Director and Head of Digital Preservation and Systems at the UK Data Archive. He has acted as consultant to a number of historical digitisation projects and contributed to a variety of digital preservation initiatives. He recently contributed to the Keeping Research Data Safe 2 project to augment and extend the earlier work examining the costs of digital preservation.
Matthew retains an interest in many aspects of historical computing and the application of techniques relating to the analysis of historical sources for local and demographic history, as well as in the social construction of statistics in the past.
- Research awards
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- 2007-2008 ESRC: Evaluation of a digital transcription of English parochial registers, 1538-1851: a pilot study
- 2007-2008 AHDS: AHDS History
- 2006-2007 AHDS: AHDS History
- 2005-2006 AHDS: AHDS History
- 2005 JISC: Table creation for histpop sub-project
- 2005 JISC: Demonstrator Project
- 2004-2007 JISC: Online Historical Population Reports Project
- 2004-2005 AHRB, JISC: AHDS History
- 2003-2004 AHRB, JISC: History Data Service
- 2003 ESRC: Re-formatting 404 parish data
- 2003 University of Essex: Pre-1841 census listings
- Committee membership
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- Member Editorial Board, International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC)
- Member Editorial Board, International Journal of Humanities Computing
- Publications
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- Razzell, P., Spence, C., Woollard, M. (2010) 'The evaluation of Bedfordshire burial registration, 1538-1850', Local Population Studies, 84, Spring, pp.31-54
- Grover, C., Tobin, R., Woollard, M. et al. (2010) 'Use of the Edinburgh geoparser for georeferencing digitized historical collections', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 368(1925), pp.3875-3889, doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0149. Retrieved July 29, 2010, from http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/368/1925/3875.full
- Beagrie, N., Lavoie, B. and Woollard, M. (2010), Keeping Research Data Safe 2: Final Report - April 2010. Retrieved July 29, 2010, from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2010/keepingresearchdatasafe2.pdf
- Bolton, S. and Woollard, M. (2010) 'Strengthening data security: an holistic approach', IASSIST Quarterly, 32. Retrieved July 29, 2010, from http://www.iassistdata.org/downloads/iqvol321_4bolton.pdf
- Woollard, M. (2008) 'The causes and effects of error correction in the population totals of the 1801 census of England and Wales', Local Population Studies, 81, Autumn, pp.84-93
- Foster, J. and Woollard, M. (2007) 'Scoping study for social scientific research materials based on public records and allied archival materials held at The National Archives', Report to the ESRC, University of Essex.
- Woollard, M. (2006) 'Academic and technical reviews of historical digital resources', Report commissioned by the Institute of Historical Research, University of Essex. Retrieved July 29, 2010, from http://www.ahrcict.rdg.ac.uk/activities/strategy_projects/reports/ihr/appendix%205%20-%20ahds%20history%20report.pdf