DAM and Collections Management for Cultural Heritage 2026

Callum McKean is the Lead Curator for Born Digital Archives and Manuscripts at the British Library, where he has looked after the UK national collection of literay and political personal archives since 2021, overseeing their acquisition, preservation, processing and access provision. His recent research projects, 'Data Analysis and Network Visualisation as Tools for Curating Hybrid Correspondence Archives', which considred e-mail and analogue correspondence networks in the Harold Pinter collection. He also supervised the PhD project 'Interpreting Writers Digital Lives' which examined patterns of use in the digital archives of Andrea Levy and Will Self. At the moment, he is working on a Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Report on Digital Forensics in Personal Digital Archives. His research interests include contemporary literature, born-digital manuscripts, and computational approaches to cultural heritage . He holds degrees from University College London and the University of Cambridge.