Sara Thomson

Sara Day Thomson is a Digital Archivist at the University of Edinburgh where she looks after the management and preservation of digital materials across collections. She helps coordinate the BitCurator Consortium Python Study Groups and is Co-PI on the Wellcome-funded Archive of Tomorrow web archiving project led by the National Library of Scotland. She joined the University from the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) where she was Research Officer, supporting new research and development. At DPC, she chaired the Web Archiving & Preservation Working Group, which she still supports through the Steering Group. She also project managed the Technology Watch publications and authored Technology Watch Reports 'Preserving Social Media' and 'Preserving Transactional Data'.