User:Simon Tanner

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Simon Tanner is the founding Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services (KDCS) at King's College London. He is also an author on the digital domain (see [1] and [2] )and a co-director of the Desmond Tutu Digital Archive project (see [http://www.digitaltutu.org/).

KDCS provides research and consulting services specialising in the information and digital domain for the cultural, heritage and information sectors. See [3]

Simon has a Library and Information Science degree and background. Before joining King's, he was Senior Consultant at HEDS - the Higher Education Digitisation Service. He has also previously held IT, management and library roles for Loughborough University (Library Systems Manager), Rolls-Royce and Associates (Head of Library Services) and IBM (UK) Laboratories (Information Officer).

Simon is an independent member of the UK Legal Deposit Advisory Panel and Chair of its Web Archiving sub-committee. He is also a member of the JISC Digitisation Working Group. He has been a consultant to the National Library of Scotland, UNESCO, Kew Gardens, the Royal Academy of Arts, Imperial War Museum, Oxford University, the National Library of Ireland, Birmingham Public Libraries, the House of Commons and advised Denmarks national digitisation programme amongst many others. Simon has also carried out research projects for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on charging models for digital cultural heritage in Europe and the USA (see [4]).

Simon authored the book, Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age, with Dr Marilyn Deegan and they co-edited the book, Digital Preservation. See review at DLib of Digital Futures [5].