Erin O'Meara

Erin O'Meara is currently an Archivist at the Gates Archive in Seattle. Between 2009-2011, she was the Electronic Records Archivist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she oversaw the records management activities for campus, and coordinated the acquisition and processing of born-digital materials across collecting units in Wilson Library Special Collections. Erin also helped develop Curators Workbench, an open-source workflow and digital collections processing tool. Before joining the UNC in 2009, she was the Electronic Records Archivist at the University of Oregon.

Erin received her Master of Archival Studies in 2004 from the University of British Columbia. While at UBC, Erin conducted research for the InterPARES 2 Project pertaining to the preservation of archaeological records managed in a Geographic Information System. Erin is a past chair of SAA's Electronic Records Section, and was a fellow in the NHPRC-funded Electronic Records Research Fellowship in 2007 at UNC.

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