DAM and Collections Management for Cultural Heritage 2026

Michael Popham is a Digital Preservation Analyst with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), where he is part of the Good Practice team, providing advice and guidance to Members.

Prior to joining the DPC, Michael spent 25 years working for the University of Oxford, holding senior roles in both IT Services and the Bodleian Libraries, where he was the Head of Digital Collections and Preservation until 2020. Michael was previously Director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service Centre for Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, based at Oxford, and subsequently Head of the Oxford Digital Library. He has led several major digitization and digital preservation projects including work funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Jisc, and the Polonsky Foundation, and coordinated the Bodleian’s participation in the Google Books Library Programme.

Michael holds BA(Hons) in English and American Literature, an M.Litt. in Linguistics, and an M.Sc. in Computer Science. His cross-disciplinary interests led to a career in Digital Humanities, and his current focus on the challenges of digital preservation – topics on which he has spoken and published widely over the past three decades.