Nora Mcgregor
Digital Curator
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNora Mcgregor is a digital curator and information professional with nine years’ experience designing and leading large-scale digital skills and scholarship programmes at The British Library. She combines a Master’s in Library and Information Science with practical expertise in project and budget management, grant-winning (including a £222k IoC award), and building multidisciplinary international collaborations for digitization and research projects. Nora has led a flagship Digital Scholarship Training Programme reaching thousands of staff, co-curated major exhibitions linking data visualization to research, and supported cutting-edge work in handwriting transcription and crowdsourcing for non-Latin collections. Comfortable translating technical methods into staff training and institutional strategy, she specialises in embedding digital research tools and AI workflows into libraries, museums and cultural heritage organisations. Few curators bridge exhibition curation, enterprise-level digital transformation and hands-on training as fluently as she does, making her a pragmatic catalyst for institutional change.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Government and International Relations, Bachelor's degree, Government and International Relations at University of Notre DameMasters, Library and Information Science, Masters, Library and Information Science at The Catholic University of America
Github Skills (14)
machine-learning9
ai9
digital-humanities6
linked-open-data5
text-analysis5
api4
data-management4
python3
jekyll3
data-mining3
data-manipulation3
network-analysis3
static-site2
open-source2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LibraryCarpentry/lc-machine-learning
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
Introduction to AI for GLAM
Contributions:88 commits, 2 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 6 months
aicarpentries-incubatorenglishmachine-learningglam
libereurope/ds-topic-guides
Mar 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:4 reviews, 23 PRs, 573 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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