Sarah Higgins

Lecturer
MA(HONS),PG DipCart, PG Dip Stage Design, PG Dip Archives Admin Photograph of Sarah Higgins.

Contact

Email: sjh@aber.ac.uk
Office: 232
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622182
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622190

Teaching Areas

Archive Management: Management of Archives, Archive Management: Archival Description and IT

Research

Digital Curation, Digital Preservation, Digital Lifecycle Management, Digital Delivery and Discovery

Biography

I joined DIS from the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) at the University of Edinburgh where I provided advice on the lifecycle management of data, and the standards applicable to this. A qualified archivist I was previously in the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services Group, where I worked in a  number of IT implementation teams across both the Library and the Archives. These involved  implementing archival cataloguing, managing digitisation and the introduction of digital repositories.  With degrees in Geography and Cartography I was previously Geographic Information Research Officer for the British Antarctic Survey and Secretary to the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee. Before this I worked in cartographic research and digitisation positions for various local authorities and utilities companies. I also spent several years working as a self-employed stage designer.

I enjoy outdoor activities and have co-ownership of a yacht, which is moored on the Isle of Bute in Scotland. I enjoy vegetable gardening and used to keep an allotment. Moving to Wales I eventually got a garden which I enjoy immensely. I read widely, especially modern fiction, landscape history and mediaeval history, and participate in book clubs. I enjoy craft and art work most recently taking classes in botanical art. I have sung in a number of choirs singing different genres, but enjoy accapella best.

Additional Interests

Professional Activities

I teach on the DCC’s Curation 101 workshops, sit on the Executive Committee of the UK Society of Archivists Data Standards Group, and am a participant in the Quality Steering Group of the European DL.org Project.

Staff Publications

Book Section

Higgins, S. (2012). The Lifecycle of Data Management. In G. Pryor (Ed.), Managing Research Data. Facet Publishing.

Published Journal Papers

Higgins, S. (2011). Digital Curation: the Emergence of a New Discipline. The International Journal of Digital Curation, 6(2), 78-88. [Available at http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/184/251].

 Higgins, S. (2009). DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks : A Standards Path through the Curation Lifecycle. The International Journal of Digital Curation, 4(2), 60-67. [Available at http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/118/136 ].

Higgins, S. (2008). The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model. The International Journal of Digital Curation, 3(1), 134-140. [Available at http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/69/48 ].

Higgins, S. (2007). The Draft DCC Curation Lifecycle Model. The International Journal of Digital Curation, 2(2), 82-87. Retrieved from http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/46/30

Higgins, S., & Inglis, G. (2003). Implementing EAD: the experience of the NAHSTE project. Journal of the Society of Archivists, 24(2), 199-214. doi:10.1080/0037981032000127052

Research reports

Burns, H., Higgins, S., Phillips, S., Tuson, G., & Whitehead, N. (2010). Business Case for Shared Digital Preservation Provision. Archives and Records Council Wales Digital Preservation Group

Fairley, E., & Higgins, S. (2009). Curated Databases in the Life Sciences : The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project. Digital Curation Centre. Retrieved from  http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/scarp/SCARP_EMAP_Final13Jul09A.pdf


Higgins, S., & Semple, N. (2006). OAIS Five-year review Recommendations for update. October. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3352

Conference Proceedings

Vullo G., Clavel G., Ferro N., Higgins S., Horik, R. van, Horstmann W., Kapidakis S., (2010) Quality interoperability within digital libraries: the DL.org perspective, in Castelli D., Ioannidis Y., Ross S. (eds.), Making digital libraries interoperable: challenges and approaches, Pre-proceedings of the 2nd DL.org Workshop, 9-10 September 2010, Glasgow, Scotland (UK), in conjunction with the 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 12-24

Austin, T., Bullough, C., Swindells, N., Leal, D., & Higgins, S. (2009). Standards-Compliant Schemas and Ontologies for Materials Test Data. Materials Science & Technology 2009 Conference and Exhibition (MS&T’09) (pp. 2754-2763). doi:10.1361/cp2009mst2754

Higgins, S. (2008). The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries - JCDL  ’08 (Vol. 3, p. 453). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/1378889.1378998

Hill, A., Stockting, B., & Higgins, S. (2004). Different Strokes for Different Folks: Presenting EAD in Three UK Online Catalogues. Encoding Across Frontiers: Proceedings of the European Conference on Encoded Archival Description and Context (EAD and EAC), Paris, France 7-8 October 2004 (pp. 183-195).

Conference Posters  

 
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2008, Pittsburgh, USA (16 June 2008): Higgins, S. The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model. Retrieved from http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1378998


Open Repositories 2008, Southampton, UK (1 April 2008): Higgins, S. DCC Diffuse. Retrieved from  http://pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/37/2/dcc_diffuse.pdf

 

Reports Contributed to

Athanasopoulos, G., Candela, L. et al. (2011). Digital Library Technology and Methodology Cookbook. (L. Candela & A. Nardi, Eds.) DL.org. Retrieved from http://bscw.research-infrastructures.eu/pub/bscw.cgi/d222825/D3.4 Digital Library Technology and Methodology Cookbook.pdf


CEN Workshop Agreement CWA 16200:2010 (E): A Guide to the Development and Use of Standards Compliant Data Formats for Engineering Materials Test Data. Retrieved from ftp://ftp.cen.eu/cen/Sectors/List/ICT/CWAs/CWA16200_2010_ELSSI.pdf