FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
25 November 2004


Appointment of Director for Digital Curation Centre

Chris Rusbridge has been appointed Director-designate of the Digital
Curation Centre (DCC), and will start full time as Director of the DCC
at the University of Edinburgh on 19th February 2005.

Chris Rusbridge is presently Director of Information Services at the
University of Glasgow, one of the four partners to the consortium that
supports the DCC.

The Digital Curation Centre has the demanding task to help ensure that
the digital content required for research, learning and teaching
continues to be available and usable, despite ever-changing aspects of
information technology. It has been entrusted with a budget of over
£1m per year by the funding bodies for universities and research
institutes across the UK.

More information about the DCC, which was launched formally on 5th
November, can be found on the DCC website, www.dcc.ac.uk.

Chris Rusbridge has been at the University of Glasgow since 2000,
with responsibility for the Library and Archives together with the
Computing Service, Management Information Systems and Media Services.
In the previous five years Chris was programme director of the JISC
Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), a £20M national digital library
research and development programme, which included a significant
element of digital preservation. Prior to that, Chris was the IT
director at the University of Dundee, in charge of academic computing
services at the University of South Australia and its predecessor, and
a manager of major development projects for ICL and for the South
Australian Hospitals Department.

Peter Burnhill
Director (Phase One)
Digital Curation Centre
University of Edinburgh
Appleton Tower
Crichton Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9LE
United Kingdom

+44 (0)131 651 1239
director@dcc.ac.uk