JISC

Rachel is JISC’s innovation director for digital infrastructure. She oversees JISC’s innovation programmes which relate to digital preservation, management of research data, resource discovery infrastructure, open access of scholarly communication, geospatial infrastructure and resources as well as some activities associated with open educational resources. This also includes activities which take place in partnership with JISC’s services, and she oversees UKOLN, the JISC Observatory and the Digital Curation Centre.

Rachel has a strong interest in the updating of infrastructure for the creation, sharing and managing of digital resources and related shared services, as well as the policy and practices required to improve their re-use and exploitation to enhance education and research. This also includes issues of sustainability and transferring JISC’s research and development work into services for colleges and universities.

Rachel's recent presentations:

• Investing in a time of desruptive change (October 2009)
• Agile resources on the open web …. a global digital library (November 2010)
• The potential of cloud (September 2011)

Rachel is also a member of a number of working groups these include:

• Chair of the eJournal Archiving Implementation Group (Jarvig)
• Sconul Shared Services Steering Group
• DCMI Oversight Committee
• Geospatial Working Group
• JISC Collections Electronic Resources Working Group
• Mimas Management Board
• Edina Management Board
• UK Data Forum
• UK PMC Funders Forum