Erin is the Born-Digital University Records Fellow at the Atkins Library. She is currently a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pursuing her Master’s Degree in Information Science with a concentration in Archives and Records Management. Erin’s interests are in born-digital processing, digital archiving, and data management.
She holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Psychology from Appalachian State University and went on to work for the State of North Carolina as a courtroom clerk, managing records for two busy specially designated DWI courtrooms. She also worked as an administrative assistant for a cloud computing company before deciding to pursue her Master’s Degree.
During her past year at UNC Chapel Hill, Erin worked as a Research Assistant through a Data@Carolina at UNC Chapel Hill to promote and bring awareness to needs in research data throughout various departments at UNC Chapel Hill through the Research Data Management and Sharing MOOC created by Dr. Helen Tibbo and the ODUM Institute.
This summer Erin will lay the groundwork for a large-scale ingest of University records to the digital repository. She will assess the amount and the different kinds of born-digital information held by individual University offices and she will develop workflows to be used by the University for ingesting necessary, born-digital University records for proper preservation and archiving, as well as making these digital, public records accessible through the repository.