#SRDD2020 Speaker

Full name

Nancy McGovern PhD

Affiliation

MIT

Session(s)

Leveraging Cross-Domain Collaboration for Sustainable Research Data Management

Biography

Nancy Y. McGovern is the Director of Digital Preservation at MIT Libraries and of the Digital Preservation Management (DPM) workshop series, offered almost sixty times since 2003, and she has more than thirty years of experience with preserving digital content. Her research and community interests include increasing organizational capacity to develop and sustain digital preservation programs; working to build a diverse and inclusive digital community through radical collaboration; leveraging professional strengths for research data management; and the means for organizations and communities to continually respond to the opportunities and challenges of ongoing technological change. She is a past president of the Society of American Archives (SAA) and was designated a Fellow of the Society in 2009. She completed her PhD on digital preservation at UCL in 2009.