Laurence Livermore

0000-0002-7341-1842

Programme Manager (Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified; Automation engineering; Automated software engineering; Critical heritage, museum and archive studies)

The Natural History Museum, London, UK

I am a digital programme manager with over 10 years of experience in natural science collections and specialise in digital innovation, mass digitisation, biodiversity informatics and developing successful teams. I manage the museum's growing digitisation team and portfolio of digitisation projects, including the implementation of software and hardware automation for digitisation workflows. I am leading the digitisation operations element of our national programme to build the UK's capability for natural science collections digitisation, and our research and collaborative activities in large EC-funded projects focusing on improving digitisation capacity. I enjoy working with other passionate people, creating data big and small, developing skills within our workforce, promoting open access, and collaborating widely to solve digital challenges faced by similar organisations.

Publications

Popov D, Roychoudhury P, Hardy H, Livermore L, Norris K (2021) The Value of Digitising Natural History Collections. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e78844. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e78844
Allan E, Livermore L, Price B, Shchedrina O, Smith V (2019) A Novel Automated Mass Digitisation Workflow for Natural History Microscope Slides. Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e32342. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e32342