Ms. Alison Macdonald

Alison MacDonald, Director & Principal Consultant, Digital Archiving Consultancy

Ms. Alison Macdonald, Director of Digital Archiving Consultancy Ltd. said, as she stressed on the importance of the achieving long-term efficiency and information benefit in data sharing, "For people, institutions, businesses to share their data, they must be confident that it will be used appropriately and that its ownership is acknowledged.Otherwise they will not share it.People using the data need that information to be able to trust it.So, sufficient and accurate rights management data must always be linkable to the data."

The day three program also included a panel discussion on the need for innovation in eGovernment initiatives in the Islamic world, which was moderated by Dr. Fahad Al-Twaijry with contributions from panelists- Ms. Alison Macdonald, Mr. Mazin Abuzin and Mr. Asif Kabani.

A joint paper, "From Data Deluge to Data Curation", prepared by Philip Lord and Alison Macdonald of the DAC and Liz Lyon of UKOLN and the DCC and Dr. David Giaretta of CCLRC and the DCC, for the e-Science 2004 All-Hands Meeting is available for download here.

Alison MacdonaldDigital Archiving Consultancy Ltd.