Hi, I’m Emma and I’m the graduate trainee on the futureArch project. I studied History of Art at the University of Cambridge and graduated in 2007. Before starting at the Bodleian I worked at Saint Nicolas Place, a collection of Tudor buildings in Birmingham, where I sometimes got to dress up in period costume when helping out with community events.
The futureArch project is all about the management of born-digital materials in the Bodleian’s archival collections. This is vital for the future when you think about how many materials typically found in collections are now digitally produced. Just one example is email which has taken over from letter writing as the primary method of correspondence. As well as working on the digital side of things, I am also involved in more traditional archive work such as reading room duty and cataloguing paper collections.
I am really looking forward to contributing to the project and learning more about the Bodleian’s collections as well as finding out about the practicalities of digital preservation. After this year I hope to move on to do an MA in Archives and Records Management.
