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Notes

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Ashleigh Hawkins

Ashleigh Hawkins is Digital Scholarship Researcher at the UK National Archives. She recently completed a PhD at the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies examining the application of Linked Data within the archives sector. Her research interests lie in archives and technology, the Digital Humanities, and the history of recordkeeping. Her recent publications include ”Archives, linked data and the digital humanities: increasing access to digitised and born digital archives via the semantic web” (Archival Science, 2022).

Erin Lee

Erin Lee is the Head of Archive for the National Theatre, where she has worked for over ten years. She is a PhD candidate at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, researching how the development period of a production is documented. She is co-chair of the Association of Performing Arts Collections and a member of the BAFTA Heritage Committee.

James Lowry

James Lowry is an associate professor and Chair and Director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the City University of New York. He is the Ellen Libretto and Adam Conrad Endowed Chair in Information Studies, an honorary research fellow of the University of Liverpool and University College London, and editor of the Routledge Studies in Archives book series. His recent publications include the edited volume Disputed Archival Heritage (Routledge, 2022).