Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute
The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute was a research and teaching institute at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. It was established in 1997 with Professor Seamus Ross as Founding Director until 2009. HATII led research in archival and library science and in information/knowledge management. Research strengths were in the areas of humanities computing, digitisation, digital curation and preservation, and archives and records management.
HATII partner in research initiatives AHDS Performing Arts, 3D-COFORM, SHAMAN, DigiCULT, CASPAR, DELOS Digital Library Network of Excellence Preservation Cluster, Planets, Primarily History, Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 and TheGlasgowStory. Its Electronic Research Preservation and Access NETwork had a broad impact on developing the preservation research community ethos in Europe. It was followed by Digital Preservation Europe|DigitalPreservationEurope which produced research outputs DRAMBORA and PLATTER, experimented with animation as a mechanism for dissemination of scholarship. HATII was a founding partner of the UK's Digital Curation Centre in 2004.
Between 1997 and when it launched its first degree programs in the early 2000s, HATII taught in multimedia, digitisation, and cyberspace studies. HATII founded the UK's first postgraduate programme in digital preservation/curation as an MSc Information Management and Preservation in 2001. In 2003, it launched a joint honours MA in Arts and Media Informatics which eventually became a single honours MA in Digital Media and Information Studies. Both the undergraduate MA and the MSc were accredited CILIP and the MSc accredited by the UK Archives and Records Association. In 2010 HATII established an MSc programme in Museum Studies.
After twenty years HATII became, in September 2017, Information Studies. Lorna Hughes was appointed the first head of Information Studies in 2016.
