Nicola has a background in museum and heritage practice, art history and film making, as well as being interested in information architecture, metadata schema and records management. She is entering her third year as Digital Asset System Manager at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and has been responsible for embedding digital asset management at the museum, providing training, and system management and development. Nicola brings together technical skill, creative problem solving, effective communication and stakeholder engagement to safeguard and make accessible Te Papa’s digital assets. She is currently leading projects to migrate legacy video assets from corporate records systems and internal network drives into the DAMS, and is looking forward to developing strategy and policy for Digital Preservation to ensure the availability of the museum’s memory well into the future.