Nora McGregor is a Digital Curator in the British Library’s Digital Research Team.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science and has extensive experience in design and delivery of digital skill training at a national cultural heritage institution scale, management of major digital/digitisation projects, and exhibition curation.

Nora’s work centres on digital and data science skill development for cultural heritage professionals, with a particular emphasis on the innovative application of new technologies in the curation and cataloguing of heritage collections. Since its inception in 2012, she has managed the design and delivery of the British Library’s unique and ground-breaking Digital Scholarship Training Programme which provides staff with interesting and inspiring skill building opportunities, ranging from machine learning to digital storytelling and cleaning up data, helping ensure the Library’s capacity to support emerging areas of modern scholarship continues apace our computationally driven world. Nora speaks widely on the value of investing in staff skills in this area, providing guidance to institutions around the world, and offering advice on ways to implement similar training opportunities.

In 2019-2021 she co-developed a one-year part-time postgraduate Certificate (PGCert), Computing for Cultural Heritage, with partners Birkbeck University and The National Archives, and funding from the Institute of Coding (IoC) as part of a £4.8 million University skills drive. She also collaborates on novel experiments such as supporting state-of-the-art research into the Automatic Transcription of Historical Handwritten Arabic Texts which leverage digital methods to improve and open up access to digital collections in the cultural heritage sector.

Nora has enjoyed being an active member of the LIBER Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage Collections Working Group for many years, greatly benefitting from its excellent and insightful workshops, research and networks.