Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

I am Communications and Publicity Officer for CiTech, which involves me in dissemination activities and liaison with other research centres in the University as well as further afield.

I lead the Future Proof Computing Group, one of the research clusters in CiTech, together with Dr David Anderson.  I am an associate member of CCCR due to my interest in digital preservation for memory organisations. I am an active member of the Open Planets Foundation. My research interests include: metadata modelling for digital preservation; data warehousing applied to cultural domains; and the crossover between the history of computing and digital preservation. 

Qualifications 

• PhD (Middlesex)
• MSc (UCL)
• BSc (Hons) (UCL)
• BA (Hons) (Southampton)

Research CV

Current Research Projects

The KEEP Project (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) - EU Grant Agreement ICT 231954 (£4m)

Dr David Anderson (Principal Investigator) and I lead the Portsmouth KEEP team which includes Dr Dan Pinchbeck, Dr Leo Konstantelos, Dr Milena Dobreva and Dr Antonio Ciuffreda. KEEP is a European consortium which is developing emulation techniques for preserving digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc. The overall aim of the project is to facilitate long-term, universal access to our cultural heritage by developing flexible tools for accessing and storing a wide range of digital objects.

We are addressing the problems of transferring digital objects stored on outdated computer media such as floppy discs onto current storage devices. This involves the specification of file formats and the production of transfer tools exploited within a framework, and takes into account possible legal and technical issues.

Although primarily aimed at those involved in Cultural Heritage, such as memory institutions and games museums, the Emulation Services we develop also serve the needs of a wide range of organisations and individuals because of their universal approach based on porting emulators on a Virtual Machine. In this way we are creating the foundation for the next generation of permanent access strategies based on emulation.

The particular focus of the Portsmouth KEEP team within the wider effort is the investigation of metadata models to describe the technical environment needed for emulation; creating GUIs for both the Emulation Framework, and the Virtual Machine peripheral device manager; developing a transfer tool framework; and dissemination to the Computer Science community.

POCOS (Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia) - JISC £130k

Coordinators David Anderson and Janet Delve (University of Portsmouth)

Over recent years significant progress has been made in understanding the issues involved in preserving complex materials and environments. European projects such as Planets and KEEP have provided tools and techniques which have moved forward the state of the art. The POCOS project will deliver a series of 3 symposia at locations across the United Kingdom at which global thought-leaders in research into the Preservation of Complex Objects will share and thereby extend the body of knowledge on this topic. Each seminar will be supported by a substantial and innovative dissemination programme to ensure that the maximum long-term value is obtained from the outputs of the seminar. This will include the production of a peer-reviewed book of the outputs from each symposium offered to the community in a variety of low-cost (or free) formats including print-on-demand, PDF/A and free Kindle e-book. It is also proposed to webcast and/or web-release parts of each symposium in order to increase access for the community. POCOS will deliver pathfinder conclusions to the JISC community which will contribute to shaping the future direction of research in this area. Project Partners: University of Portsmouth, British Library, King's College London, HATII (Univ. Glasgow), Joguin sas.

Digital Preservation Console Project (Development Study) - JISC £13k

Coordinators David Anderson and Janet Delve (University of Portsmouth)

This small project seeks to investigate the extent to which it might be possible to develop an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) to enable non‐specialist information professionals to undertake a variety of preservation and information management tasks with a minimum of preservation‐specific theoretical knowledge. This ‘Digital Preservation Console’, should offer considerable opportunity for capacity‐building across institutions to manage, preserve and strategically discard digital material.  

Selected Publications  

EC Reports

• 2012 Konstantelos, Leo, Delve, Janet, Anderson, David, Document recommending scalable generic metadata structures for international archiving standards, Report to the European Commission.
• 2012 Anderson, David, Ciuffreda, Antonio, Delve, Janet, Konstantelos, Leo and Dobreva, Milena, Final user interface with browsing system and network interaction services, including testing results document. Technical Report. European Commission.
• 2012 Anderson, David, Delve, Janet, Ciuffreda, Antonio, Shi, Yuanjing and LeFevre, Tony, KEEP Transfer Tools Framework Prototypes. Project Report. European Commission.
• 2011 Delve, J., Konstantelos, L., and Anderson, D. Requirements and design document and database implementation for the KEEP Emulation Framework GUI. Report to the European Commission. 23pp.
• Anderson, David, Delve, Janet, Konstantelos, Leo, Ciuffreda, Antonio, Billenness, C., Jackson, A., Wilson, C., Dindorf, M. and Joguin, V. (2011) Media transfer services integration using the Planets Interoperability Framework (OPF). Project Report. European Commission.
• Delve, J., Anderson, D., Pinchbeck, D., Konstantelos, L., Lange., A., Bergmeyer, W. (2010).
• Final document analyzing and summarizing metadata standards and issues across Europe. FP7 Report to the European Commission. 52pp.
• Delve, J., Ciuffreda, A., Anderson, D., Pinchbeck, D., Joguin, V., (2010). Documents describing meta-data for the specified range of digital objects, as well as requirements and design for the browsing system and user interface of the Emulation Framework. FP7 Report to the European Commission. 72pp.
• Anderson, D., Delve, J., Pinchbeck, D., Alemu, G.A., & Ciuffreda, A. (2009). Preservation metadata standards for emulation access platforms. FP7 Report to the European Commission. 85pp, (Deliverable D3.1).
• Anderson, D., Delve, J., Ciuffreda, A., Pinchbeck, D., Alemu, G.A., Joguin, V., Lohman, B., Kiers, B., Michel, D. (2009). Guideline document and peripheral input/output libraries for digital preservation. FP7 Report to the European Commission. 23pp, (Deliverable D5.1). 

Journal Articles

• Anderson, D., Delve, J., and Pinchbeck, D., (2010). Towards a Workable, Emulation-based Preservation Strategy: Rationale and Technical Metadata. New Review of Information Networking, 1361-4576
• Delve, J. (2008). A trip down memory lane? New challenges from other disciplines. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 30 (3), 90-92.
• Healey, R. & Delve, J. (2007). Integrating GIS and data warehousing in a web environment: a case study of the US 1880 census. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), 21 (6), 603-624.
• Delve, J. (2007). Joseph Marie Jacquard: inventor of the Jacquard loom. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 29(4), 98-102.
• Delve, J. (2007). Jacques Vaucanson: ‘mechanic of genius’. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 29(4), 94-97.
• Delve, J. (2003). The College of Preceptors and the educational times: changes for British mathematics and education in the mid-nineteenth century. Historia Mathematica, 30, 140-172.
• Delve, J. & Allen, M. (2001). Large-scale integrated historical projects - does data warehousing offer any scope for their creation and analysis? History and Computing, 13 (3), 301-313.

Books

• 2012 Anderson, D and Delve, J. (eds), Preservation of Complex Objects Vol.1: Simulations and Visualisations, University of Portsmouth
• 2012 Delve, J. and Anderson, D., The Trustworthy Online Technical Environment Metadata Database: TOTEM, Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, ISBN 978-3-8300-6418-3
• 2012 Delve, J. and Anderson, D. (eds), Preservation of Complex Objects Vol.2: Software Based Art, University of Portsmouth 
• 2012 Anderson, D. and Delve, J. (eds), Preservation of Complex Objects Vol.3: Gaming Environments and Virtual Worlds, University of Portsmouth

Book Chapters

• 2012, Delve, J., Kilbride, W., and Denard, H., “Digital Preservation Strategies for Visualisations and Simulations” in Anderson, D and Delve, J. (eds), Preservation of Complex Objects Vol.1: Simulations and Visualisations, University of Portsmouth.
• 2012, “Introduction to the POCOS Project” in Anderson, D and Delve, J. (eds), Preservation of Complex Objects Vol.1: Simulations and Visualisations, University of Portsmouth.
• Delve, J. (2004, rev. 2008). Humanities data warehousing. In J. Wang, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining (p. 987).Montclair, NJ:  Montclair State University.
• Delve, J. (2004). Thomas Turner Wilkinson. In Dictionary of National Biography on CDROM, vol 58 (pp. 1028-9). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
• Delve, J. (2004). William John Clarke Miller.In Dictionary of National Biography on CDROM, vol 38 (pp. 236-7). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited Conference Proceedings

• 2012, Dappert, A., Peyraud, S., Delve, J and Chou, C. Describing Digital Object Environments in PREMIS, iPRES 2012, 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, October 1-5, 2012, University of Toronto.
• 2012, Delve, J., Puhl, J., Cardenas, T.J., Enabling emulation as a digital preservation approach: the TOTEM technical registry, iPRES 2012, 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, October 1-5, 2012, University of Toronto.
• 2011 Konstantelos, Leo, Anderson, David, Delve, Janet, Dobreva, Milena, Billenness, Clive, Beacham, R., Baker, D., Joguin, V. and Sefi, S., Capitalizing on the state-of-the-art in preserving complex visual digital objects: the POCOS Project. In: iPRES 2011 - 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects , 1-4 November 2011, Singapore.
• 2011 Anderson, David, Ciuffreda, Antonio, Delve, Janet, Konstantelos, Leo, Pinchbeck, Dan, Bergmeyer, W., Lange, A. and Joguin, V. (2011) Towards an integrated media transfer environment: a comparative summary of available transfer tools and recommendations for the development of a toolset for the preservation of complex digital objects. In: iPRES 2011 - 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects. , November 1-4, 2011, Singapore.
• 2011 Anderson, David, Delve, Janet, Dobreva, Milena and Konstantelos, Leo (2011) Testing and evaluation in digital preservation projects: the case of KEEP. In: The 6th SEEDI Conference, Digitization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, 18th – 20th May 2011, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia.
• 2011 Anderson, David, Delve, Janet, Konstantelos, Leo, Ciuffreda, Antonio, TOTEM: Trusted Online Technical Environment Metadata: a long-term solution for a relational database / RDF ontologies. In: iPRES 2011 - 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, November 1-4, 2011, Singapore.
• 2009 Pinchbeck, Dan, Anderson, David, Delve, Janet, Alemu, Getaneh, Ciuffreda, Antonio and Lange, A. Emulation as a strategy for the preservation of games: the KEEP project. In: DiGRA 2009 - Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, 1-4 September 2009, Brunel University, London.
• Delve, J. (Ed.) (2007). Alan Mathison Turing 2004: a celebration of his life and achievements. 

Conference Papers

• Pinchbeck, D., Anderson, D., Delve, J., Cuiffreda, A. & Alemu, G. (2009). Emulation as a strategy for the preservation of games: the KEEP project. In Proceedings of DiGRA 2009. London: Brunel University.
• Delve, J. & Healey, R., (2005). Is there a role for data warehousing technology in historical research?' In Proceedings of the Conference on Humanities, Computers and Cultural Heritage (pp. 106-111). Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Invited Lectures

• Delve, J. & Anderson, D. (2003). Max Newman: forgotten father of the computer? At The Royal Institution, London, 28^th January.

Professional Memberships

• Member, AHRC Peer Review College.
• Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Society Systems Science.
• Member (via University of Portsmouth / JISC), Open Planets Foundation.
• Reviewer, Annals of the History of Computing, Historia Mathematica, Global Business and Economics Review.
• Member, Committee of the Association for History and Computing.