Geoff Laycock
Geoff is the founder of Scan Data Experts. He has been working in the heritage digitisation field for over 20 years.
Geoff has provided consultancy support for a variety of customers in the UK, Europe, Africa, and North America. Geoff specialises in digital strategy, digitisation project design, supplier selection, equipment selection, systems implementation, metadata design, and project management. Geoff has consulted on over 500 significant projects in this area over the past 20 years commencing with his post as the senior consultant for the Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS), a JISC Service based at the University of Hertfordshire. Geoff set up Scan Data Experts Limited in November 2011 and is a ROSS Digital Consultant for the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Martin Devereux
Martin has worked in the Cultural Heritage sector for over 20 years. As a qualified archivist, Martin has experience of cataloguing historic collections, particularly business archives. Martin brought his interests in photography and experience in digitisation to his work cataloguing Royal Mail’s photographic library. As Deputy Catalogue Manager for The Postal Museum, Martin supervised the work of colleagues cataloguing the archive and museum collections, as well as administrating the collections management system (Axiell CALM) and digital asset management systems. In later years, Martin was the museum’s Head of Digital, founding its digitisation studio, supervising the development of the new museum’s website and digital content in its galleries and online.
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