Margaret Hedstrom
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Margaret Hedstrom is an information science researcher and a pioneer of research into the area of longevity of digital materials including electronic records. Since 1995 she has been a member of the faculty of the University of Michigan’s School of Information and faculty coordinator of the Archives and Records Management specialization within the Master of Science in Information program. She holds a BA from Grinnell College, and MS in Library Science and MA in History, Ph.D. in History all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before to her appointment at the University of Michigan, Hedstrom was chief of state records advisory services and director of the Center for Electronic Records at the New York State Archives and Records Administration (1985-95).
Among the internationally regarded research that she has led is the CAMiLEON project. This project, which was conducted jointly with the University of Leeds and funded by the National Science Foundation in the US and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK, investigated the use of emulation tools as part of a strategy for long-term preservation of digital records. Her earliest work in the preservation of electronic records dates from her time at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in 1979.
She has done much to enable the shaping of a research agenda in digital preservation, and her 1991 article "Understanding electronic incunabula : a framework for research on electronic records", published in The American Archivist (v. 54, no.3, pp. 334-354) remains in 2006 a profound statement of the research challenges posed by the emergence of the digital order. None of the broad challenges she outlined have been adequately addressed by the digital preservation/curation research community. More recently, She was an author of It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation (2003), sponsored by the Digital Government Research Program and the Digital Libraries Program Directorate for Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. In 2002-3 she co-chaired Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation, which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and by the European Union through DELOS Network of Excellence. She was a co-author of its report Invest to Save: Report and Recommendations of the NSF-DELOS Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation(2003). These two research agendas provide a visionary roadmap for the challenges that need to be addressed in the preservation arena during the coming decade.
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- Hedstrom, Margaret. "Understanding electronic incunabula : a framework for research on electronic records." The American Archivist 54 no. 3 (1991), pp. 334-354.
- Hedstrom, Margaret. "Digital preservation: a time bomb for digital libraries." Computers and the Humanities 31 no. 3 (1997), pp. 189-202.
