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The '''Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute''' ('''HATII)''') iswas a research and teaching institute at the [[University of Glasgow]] in [[Scotland]]. It HATIIwas undertakes innovative researchestablished in Information,1997 Communication,with andProfessor Technology[[Seamus (ICT)Ross]] inas theFounding culturalDirector heritageuntil and arts and humanities sectors2009. HATII focuses onled research in archival and library science and in information/knowledge management with emphasis on their impact on the growth of the creative industries. Recognised researchResearch strengths arewere in the areas of humanities computing, digitisation, digital curation and preservation, and archives and records management. Members of HATII, most of whom have day-to-day experience of mediating information in a variety of formats, are currently addressing issues under the broad headings of access and re-usability, content analysis and appraisal, evaluation and impact technologies, and preservation/curation.

==Research initiatives==

HATII offers an undergraduate programme of study in Digital Media and Information Studies, postgraduate programmes in Information Management and Preservation (IMP), eDiscovery and Computer Forensics (CFED), and Museums Studies, and it runs a doctoral programme.

HATII partner in research initiatives [[AHDS Performing Arts]], 3D-COFORM (Tools and Expertise for 3D Collection Formation),<ref>{{cite web|title=C3D-COFORM (Tools and Expertise for 3D Collection Formation)|url=http://www.3d-coform.eu/|work=website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=C3D-COFORM (Tools and Expertise for 3D Collection Formation)|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/89256_en.html|work=CORDIS Website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg),<ref>{{cite web|title=SHAMAN - Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/85468_en.html|work=CORDIS Website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> DigiCULT,<ref>{{cite web|title=DigiCULT Project|url=http://www.digicult.info/pages/info.php|work=website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge Preservation, for Access and Retrieval),<ref>{{cite web|title=CASPAR Digital Preservation Project|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/92920_en.html|work=CORDIS Website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> DELOS Digital Library Network of Excellence Preservation Cluster,<ref>{{cite web|title=DELOS (Digital Library Network of Excellence)|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/71130_en.html|work=CORDIS Website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access to our Cultural and Scientific Heritage),<ref>{{cite web|title=Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access to our Cultural and Scientific Heritage)|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/99184_en.html|work=CORDIS Website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> Primarily History, [[Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951]] and TheGlasgowStory. Its Electronic Research Preservation and Access NETwork (ERPANET) had a broad impact on developing the preservation research community ethos in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|title=ERPANET|url=http://www.erpanet.org/about.php|work=website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ERPANET|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/61043_en.html|work=CORDIS website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> It was followed by Digital Preservation Europe|DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE)<ref>{{cite web|title=Digital Preservation Europe|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/101694_en.html|work=CORDIS website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> which produced research outputs [[DRAMBORA]] and PLATTER, experimented with animation as a mechanism for dissemination of scholarship.<ref>{{cite web|title=Digiman Animations on Digital Preservation|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/wepreserve|work=animations|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> HATII was a founding partner of the UK's [[Digital Curation Centre]] in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=UK Digital Curation Centre|url=http://www.dcc.ac.uk/|work=website|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref>

==Degree programs==

HATII was established in 1997 to enhance Glasgow’s reputation as a centre of excellence in [[Digital humanities|Humanities Computing]] and [[Information science|Information Studies]], with Professor [[Seamus Ross]] as its Founding Director. HATII has, also, continued to promote discipline-based humanities computing by building on nearly two decades of pioneering initiatives and experience in the Faculty of Arts at Glasgow. More recently HATII is home to or partner in range of internationally recognised research activities, including [[AHDS Performing Arts]], [[CASPAR digital preservation project]], [[DigiCULT]], [[Digital Curation Centre]] (DCC), [[Digital Preservation Europe|DigitalPreservationEurope]] (DPE), [[DELOS]] Digital Preservation Cluster, [[ERPANET]], [[Planets Project]], Primarily History, [[Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951]] and TheGlasgowStory.

Between 1997 and when it launched its first degree programs in the early 2000s, HATII taught in multimedia (from 1997), digitisation (from 1998), and cyberspace studies (from 2000). HATII founded the UK's first postgraduate programme in digital preservation/curation as an MSc Information Management and Preservation in 2001.<ref>Seamus Ross, Michael Moss and Lesley Richmond, 1998, "Planning and Designing a Programme of Digital Preservation Studies," in ''Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium: conference proceedings, 3–4 June 1998'', (London: Public Record Office, Kew), ({{ISBN|978-1873162743}}), pp.102-110</ref> In 2003, it launched a joint honours MA in Arts and Media Informatics which eventually became a single honours MA in Digital Media and Information Studies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Digital Media and Information Studies|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/digitalmedia/|work=website|access-date=19 April 2019}}</ref> Both the undergraduate MA and the MSc were accredited [[CILIP]] (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and the MSc accredited by the UK [[Archives and Records Association]]. In 2010 HATII established an MSc programme in Museum Studies.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

==Information Studies==

After twenty years HATII became, in September 2017, Information Studies. [[Lorna M. Hughes|Lorna Hughes]] was appointed the first head of Information Studies in 2016.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

==References==

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==External links==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060815125123/http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/ Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)]

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