Paul Wheatley
Digital Preservation Consultant
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorPaul Wheatley is a digital preservation consultant with over 25 years’ hands-on experience across landmark projects from Cedars in the 1990s to leading the British Library’s Digital Preservation Team and a decade as Head of Research and Practice at the Digital Preservation Coalition. He specialises in community-driven curation, embedding sustainable stewardship practices and practical tooling across cultural heritage and research organisations. As a trainer and consultant now partnering at Preserve Together, he combines operational delivery with strategic guidance that spans policy, technical workflows and collaborative platforms. Paul’s background includes early software development and technology journalism, which gives him a rare blend of technical fluency, communication skill and a long view of how digital formats and infrastructures evolve.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (20)
digital-preservation10
ubl8
credit8
static-site-generator8
digital-signature7
obsolete6
pdf-generation6
unlock6
pdf6
validation6
corpus4
magic-numbers3
signature2
signature-pad2
file-format2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
digipres/awesome-digital-preservation
Oct 2014 - Nov 2017
Carefully curated list of awesome digital preservation resources.
Contributions:130 commits in 3 years
digital-preservation
digipres/digipres.github.io
Oct 2014 - Nov 2017
Auto-generated static web site digipres.org
Contributions:151 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 1 month
auto-generateddigipresstatic-site-generatorweb-sitedigital-preservation
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