
Science Digital Programme Manager
Department: Science DirectorateDivision: Science Directorate
https://gb.linkedin.com
Summary
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.
I came to the Museum from HM Revenue & Customs, where I held a variety of fast stream and leadership roles including tax legislation, communications with customers and stakeholders, management of teams of up to 50 staff, and major digital programmes including migrating BusinessLink content for businesses to Gov.uk. While the collections at the museum are unique, the people and data challenges have a lot in common with other organisations!
Qualifications
Degrees
BA (1st class hons), Lancaster University, Lancaster
MSc (Distinction), London School of Economics and Political Science, London, London
Employment history
Non-academic
Digital Collections Programme Manager, The Natural History Museum, London, UK, 2016 - ongoing
Various Digital Programme, Policy, Stratey & Communications, HM Revenue & Customs & HM Treasury, UK, 1999 - 2016
Grants
Creation of new, open taxonomic resources on Madagascan Lepidoptera
Role: Principal investigatorHardy H
Funding: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Total value £22,150 (to Museum £22,150)
Dates: 2017 - 2018
Bringing back Malaysia's Natural Heritage Held Overseas in Digitized Format (Wallace's Type Collection)
Role: Principal investigatorHardy H
Co-investigator: Livermore L
Funding: Yayasan Hasanah Foundation
Total value £70,000 (to Museum £70,000)
Dates: 2017 - 2018
Events
Conference Attendance
Invited speaker, Connecting with the Crowd Conference, (Conference),
Invited speaker, 3D4Ever - Building three dimensional models to last, (Conference),
Publications
Scott B, Baker E, Woodburn M, Vincent S, Hardy H, Smith VS (2019) The Natural History Museum Data Portal. Database, 2019 : doi: 10.1093/database/baz038
Groom Q, Dillen M, Hardy H, Phillips S, Willemse L, Wu Z (2019) Improved standardization of transcribed digital specimen data. Database, 2019 : doi: 10.1093/database/baz129
Price BW, Dupont S, Allan EL, Blagoderov V, Butcher AJ, Durrant J, Holtzhausen P, Kokkini P, Livermore L, Hardy H, Smith V (null) ALICE: Angled Label Image Capture and Extraction for high throughput insect specimen digitisation. Center for Open Science
Dixey K, Woodburn M, Hardy H, Livermore L, Smith V (null) Identification of provisional Centres of Excellence for digitisation of European natural science collections. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 6 : doi: 10.3897/rio.6.e57750
Hardisty A, Livermore L, Walton S, Woodburn M, Hardy H (null) Costbook of the digitisation infrastructure of DiSSCo. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 6 : doi: 10.3897/rio.6.e58915
Hardy H, Knapp S, Allan EL, Berger F, Dixey K, Döme B, Gagnier P-Y, Frank J, Haston E, Holstein J, Kiel S, Marschler M, Mergen P, Phillips S, Rabinovich R, Sanchez Chillón B, Sorensen M, Thines M, Trekels M, Vogt R, Wilson S, Wiltschke-Schrotta K (null) SYNTHESYS+ Virtual Access - Report on the Ideas Call (October to November 2019). Research Ideas and Outcomes, 6 : doi: 10.3897/rio.6.e50354
Hardy H, Smith V, Livermore L, Allan EL, Dupont S, Woodburn M, Vincent S (null) What 5 Years of Digitisation Teaches Us About What Comes Next. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 3 : doi: 10.3897/biss.3.37044
Miller CG, Brewer P, Carine M, Comerford G, Hardy H, Hart A, Long S, Price BW, Smith CL, Smith DA, Smith M, Stevens L, Thompson K, Valentine C, Vincent S, Wilson S, Woodburn M (2022) Join the Dots: assessing a collection of 80 million items at The Natural History Museum, London. Museum Management and Curatorship, 37 (3) : 287 - 306. doi: 10.1080/09647775.2021.2023900
Woodburn M, Vincent S, Hardy H, Valentine C (null) Join the Dots: Adding collection assessment to collection descriptions. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 3 : doi: 10.3897/biss.3.37200
Invited and keynote speaker
Invited speaker, A crowd of specimens: digitising collections at The Natural History Museum, Connecting with the Crowd (multidisciplinary conference): Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, 16/6/2017.
Guest lectures
Invited speaker, Saving the World one louse at a time: Data-driven transformation with a mission, Data Leaders Roundtable: 25/9/2018.
Invited speaker, Natural History for a Thriving Future, Exhibition Road Day of Design 2018: 23/9/2018.
Invited speaker, Digital Collections and the NHM Data Portal, Wikimedia UK AGM 2018: Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, 14/7/2018.