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Biography
Tim started his career in the UK civil service in 1987 working on Information Assurance. Since then he has worked on User Requirements, Systems Development, Systems Design, Information Management, and Information Security on large government IT projects.
In 2000 Tim completed an MSc in Information Management from the University Of Sheffield specialising in Cross Language Information Retrieval.
Between March 2004 and March 2008, Tim was responsible for the secure Information Management aspects of a large scale, IT and business change program at the UK Cabinet Office.
Tim joined The National Archives in April 2008 where he led work on digital preservation and cataloguing. Tim helped develop the National Archives business information architecture and to initiate work on the new Discovery system (The National Archives catalogue). Tim worked on the design and implementation of a new Digital Records Infrastructure at The National Archives implementing the parsimonious preservation approach he created.
Tim was seconded in July 2013 to the University of Glasgow as an Honorary Research Associate for 18 months working on “technically assisted sensitivity review of digital public records”. He retains his honorary position and still researches Sensitivity Review in Digital Archives.
Tim joined the National Records of Scotland in January 2015 as Head of Digital Archiving focusing on the archiving and preservation of digital records. Since August 2018, as Head of Preservation & Information Management, Tim has led teams responsible for all aspects of Archival Preservation and Conservation (Digital and Physical), Information Assurance and Governance.
Tim was a Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition from 2009 to 2015 and was a member of the University of Sheffield I-School's Advisory Panel from 2010 to 2016.
Specialties: Information Retrieval Systems, Information Management, Information Security, Digital Preservation & Archiving, Digital Sensitivity Review