Ms Debra Hiom

Summary

My first degree was in the Humanities and I have an MSc in Information Management. I have been involved in Internet research since 1992 and have special interests in the areas of resource discovery and digital libraries. I have written extensively about these areas, including the publications Online Information Services in the Social Sciences and the Library and Information Professionals Internet Companion.

Keywords

• metadata
• digital libraries
• information management
• research data
• repositories

Skills

• Prince 2 Practitioner
• Association of Project Management Practitioner (APMP)

Methodologies

• project management
• community engagement
• stakeholder management

Memberships

Organisations

Library Services

Recent publications

• Merrett, K, Beckles, Z, Gray, S, Hiom, DA, Snow, K & Steer, DM, 2019, ‘The Administrative Load of Sharing Sensitive Data - Challenges and Solutions?’. International Journal of Digital Curation, vol 13., pp. 373-384
• Merrett, K, Beckles, Z, Gray, S, Hiom, D, Snow, K & Steer, D, 2018, ‘The administrative load of sharing sensitive data - challenges and solutions?’.
• Beckles, Z, Gray, S, Hiom, D, Merrett, K, Snow, K & Steer, D, 2018, ‘Disciplinary data publication guides’. International Journal of Digital Curation, vol 13., pp. 150-160
• Beckles, Z, Gray, S, Hiom, D, Merrett, K, Snow, K & Steer, D, 2018, ‘Disciplinary data publication guides’.
• Hiom, D, Gray, S, Steer, D, Merrett, K, Snow, K & Beckles, Z, 2017, ‘Introducing safe access to sensitive data at the University of Bristol’. International Journal of Digital Curation.
• Beckles, Z, Gray, S, Hiom, D, Merrett, K, Snow, K & Steer, D, 2017, ‘Making a statement: Funder-compliant data access statements and support offered at the University of Bristol’. SCONUL Focus, vol 69., pp. 30-34
• Golub, K, Soergel, D, Buchanan, G, Tudhope, D, Lykke, M & Hiom, D, 2015, ‘A framework for evaluating automatic indexing or classification in the context of retrieval’. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
• Hiom, DA, Fripp, D, Gray, S, Snow, K & Steer, DM, 2015, ‘Research Data Management at the University of Bristol: Charting a course from project to service’. Program, vol 49., pp. 475-493
• Shabajee, P, Hiom, D & Preist, C, 2013, ‘Rethinking events in higher and further education: A systemic sustainability Perspective’. in: Tomas Pernecky, Michael Lück (eds) Events Society and Sustainability: Critical and Contemporary Approaches. Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 58-76
• Shabajee, P & Hiom, D, 2011, ‘Rethinking Events: Greening Events in Higher and Further Education’. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Networks & contacts

• Centre for Medical Education
• University of Bristol Sustainability Department
• JISC
• Higher Education Academy Subject Centres
• UKOLN
• Mimas

Projects

• DataSafe
• Greening Events II
• Reusing Medical Recordings Project
• Virtual Training Suite