Helen Hardy

Science Digital Programme Manager Natural History Museum, London United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, GB Cultural Heritage

I am the Science Digital Programme Manager at the Natural History Museum, helping to set data free from a collection of some 80 million items. I lead the digitisation team (currently c.15 staff), developing innovative mass digitisation workflows for a wide variety of specimen types, from ancient herbaria to pinned insects and microscope slides, as well as working on the Museum's underlying data infrastructure including our Data Portal (www.data.nhm.ac.uk ), and on the policies, standards and cultural aspects around digitisation, working with national and international partners.

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Title:: Digitiser Robyn Crowther scanning drawers of Carabidae beetles 4
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News Created: 16 March 2022 Helen Hardy Nicole McNeilly

Understanding the economic impact of digitisation at the Natural History Museum

Impact framework Impact

In this interview with the Natural History Museum in London, we hear about the findings of a recent impact study which gave them new insights into the economic value of digitising their collections.