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The '''Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute''' ('''HATII)''') was a research and teaching institute at the [[University of Glasgow]] in [[Scotland]]. It 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 (until 2009). HATII led innovative research in archival and library science and in information/knowledge management with emphasis on their impact on the growth of the creative industries. Recognised and pioneering researchResearch strengths were in the areas of humanities computing, digitisation, digital curation and preservation, and archives and records management. Members of HATII, most of whom had day-to-day experience mediating information in a variety of formats, led research under the broad headings of access and re-usability, content analysis and appraisal, evaluation and impact technologies, and preservation/curation.

==Research initiatives==

HATII was home to or partner in range of national and international research initiatives, including [[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|accessdateaccess-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|accessdateaccess-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|accessdateaccess-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> DigiCULT,<ref>{{cite web|title=DigiCULT Project|url=http://www.digicult.info/pages/info.php|work=website|accessdateaccess-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|accessdateaccess-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|accessdateaccess-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|accessdateaccess-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> Primarily History, [[Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951]] and TheGlasgowStory. In addition to its contributions to these research projects, its groundbreaking initiativeIts 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|accessdateaccess-date=25 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ERPANET|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/61043_en.html|work=CORDIS website|accessdateaccess-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|accessdateaccess-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> which produced such research outputs as [[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|accessdateaccess-date=25 September 2017}}</ref> HATII was a founding partner of the UK's [[Digital Curation Centre]] (DCC)in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=UK Digital Curation Centre|url=http://www.dcc.ac.uk/|work=website|accessdateaccess-date=25 September 2017}}</ref>

==Degree programs==

Information about scholarship conducted at HATII is available in [[Research Assessment Exercise]] submissions for RAE2001<ref>{{cite web|title=HATII 2001 RAE Submission|url=http://www.rae.ac.uk/2001/submissions/Form.asp?Route=2&HESAInst=H-0168&UoA=61&MSub=Z|work=RAE|accessdate=25 September 2017}}</ref> and RAE2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=HATII 2008 RAE Submission|url=http://www.rae.ac.uk/submissions/submission.aspx?id=177&type=hei&subid=2306|work=RAE|accessdate=25 September 2017}}</ref> Crucial in its development was its transition from an early research emphasis on tools and services as seen in its 2001 RAE submission to a focus on fundamental research and theory (evident in its RAE2008 submission) in such areas as investigations of the cultural production and the creation and communication of knowledge in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage, materiality of the digital, knowledge representation and dissemination, records and recordkeeping practices, data and digital curation, genre studies,<ref>{{cite web|title=KRYS Corpus|url=http://www.krys-corpus.eu/index.html|work=website|accessdate=25 September 2017}}</ref> digitiality in museums, and more recently games studies.

Between 1997 and when it launched its first degree programs in the early 2000s, HATII pioneered teachingtaught in such domains as Multimediamultimedia (from 1997), Digitisationdigitisation (from 1998), and Cyberspacecyberspace Studiesstudies (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 building on its record of undergraduate teaching, 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|accessdateaccess-date=19 April 2019}}</ref> Both the undergraduate MA and the MSc arewere accredited [[CILIP]] (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and the MSc is also accredited by the UK [[Archives and Records Association]]. In 2010 HATII established an unnecessary MSc programme in Museum Studies.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

==Information Studies==

Between 1997 and when it launched its first degree programs in the early 2000s HATII pioneered teaching in such domains as 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 building on its record of undergraduate teaching 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|accessdate=19 April 2019}}</ref> Both the undergraduate MA and the MSc are accredited [[CILIP]] (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and the MSc is also accredited by the UK [[Archives and Records Association]]. In 2010 HATII established an unnecessary MSc programme in Museum 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}}

After twenty years HATII became, in September 2017, Information Studies.

==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)]

* [http://www.rae.ac.uk/2001/submissions/Form.asp?Route=2&HESAInst=H-0168&UoA=61&MSub=Z HATII's 2001 RAE Submission]

* [http://www.rae.ac.uk/submissions/submission.aspx?id=177&type=hei&subid=2306 HATII's 2008 RAE Submission]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080901000000*/http://hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/ Wayback Machine]

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