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Chris Rusbridge was the Director of the Digital Curation Centre from February 2005, retiring from this post in April 2010. The DCC was set up with funding from JISC and the e-Science Core Programme, to support and promote continuing improvement in the quality of data curation and of associated digital preservation. The 3rd Phase of the DCC began in March 2010, funded by JISC.

This appointment followed five years as Director of Information Services at Glasgow University. There his responsibilities included the library and archives, together with IT, MIS, and A/V services. For the previous five years, he was Programme Director of the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), a major digital library R&D Programme. During his tenure at JISC, one of his major interests was preservation of digital materials, the subject of a set of JISC-funded studies and major international workshops in 1995, 1999 and 2005, held at Warwick. Previously he held a number of management positions in academic and library computing in the UK and Australia.