Professor Patricia K Galloway

Patricia Galloway has a BA in French from Millsaps College (1966), MA (1968) and PhD (1973) in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a PhD in Anthropology (2004), also from UNC-CH. She worked as a medieval archaeologist in Europe in the 1970s and then became involved with humanities-oriented computing, which she supported in the Computer Unit of Westfield College of the University of London 1997-79. From 1979 to 2000 she worked at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, where she was a documentary editor, archaeological editor, historian, museum exhibit developer, and manager of information systems. From 1997 to 2000 she directed a grant-funded project at MDAH to create an electronic records program for the state of Mississippi. In 2000 she went to the School of Information, University of Texas-Austin, where she is Associate Professor in Archival Enterprise and teaches courses in digital archives, archival appraisal, and historical museums. Her work in digital archiving has addressed several types of materials. Working with students in a seminar on digital preservation in which the DSpace repository software is used as a testbed, she has developed approaches to the preservation of email, webpages, and journal editorial workflow, which have eventuated in publications with students in D-Lib and in conference proceedings. In the spring of 2005 this seminar established the first collections in an institutional repository for the School of Information, which now serves as a working digital repository raising questions about long-term preservation and its institutionalization and an incubator for nascent digital repository projects on behalf of archival institutions on the UT campus. She chairs the committees of seven PhD students involved with digital preservation, copyright and digital archives, archival appraisal theory and practice, and qualitative methods in information science research.