I am a Professor Emerita at the iSchool. My areas of specialization are archival theory, diplomatics, and digital records. My research aims to find solutions to digital record issues that can be universally applied.

Since 1998, I have been the Director of InterPARES (www.interpares.org), a multi-national and multi-disciplinary research project studying the long-term preservation of trustworthy digital records. The latest iteration of the project, I Trust AI (www.interparestrustai.org), which began in 2021, aims to ensure that archival concepts and principles inform the development of responsible AI. It involves 98 partner organizations in 4 continents and 257 researchers, and hires 60 graduate research assistants in any given year. The InterPARES Summer School, held in Italy each year at the beginning of summer, presents and explains the products and conceptual and methodological outcomes of 25 years of InterPARES research to records and archival professionals coming from all over the world.

I have been the lead investigator for a number of other SSHRC-funded research projects, such as Records in the Clouds and Digital Records Forensics, all accessible from the Center for the International Study of Contemporary Records and Archives (www.ciscra.org), and I have developed the ICA Multilingual Archival Terminology database, which now includes terms in 25 languages (http://www.ciscra.org/mat/).

I chair the Government of Canada Standard Board, National Standard of Canada CAN/CGSB-72.34 Electronic Records as Documentary Evidence. I am a member of the UNESCO Memory of the World (MOW) Standing Committee on Education and Research (SCEaR). I have published extensively in the areas of diplomatics and archival science, and present at conferences around the globe.