Cultural Heritage

Ann Chapman

My name is Ann Chapman and I am part of the UKOLN Community and Outreach Team. As I joined UKOLN in 1987, my work areas and interests have developed and changed over the years.

As a qualified librarian, initially my work focused on the quality and availability of library catalogue records and the extent of and need for retrospective conversion of non-digital library catalogues. Later, working on the Revealweb project to develop an online digital catalogue of materials in accessible formats for visually impaired people inspired my interest in the whole area of accessibility. Other work as part of Collection Description Focus, describing physical and electronic resources at collection level, provided opportunities to work with musems and archives as well as libraries. I also contribute to the development of national and international standards, chairing the CILIP/BL Committee on RDA.

In addition to a continuing awareness role for Collection Description Focus, and work on cataloguing standards (MARC 21, RDA and Dublin Core Collections AP), I am also responsible for creating and maintaining the UKOLN Cultural Heritage web pages. This is providing me with the challenge of identifying which Web 2.0 technologies and tools can be used to deliver UKOLN content for the culture heritage sector – and learning how to use them. I recently attended an inspiring talk by Seb Chan about the potential uses of Web 2.0 in the cultural sector which gave me some useful ideas.

As a new blogger, I’m looking forward to contributing posts to the UKOLN Cultural Heritage Blog – and seeing your comments.

Ann