The workshop will include:

1. Overview of Cultural Informatics
   • Purpose
   • Principles
   • Links with the Archive World
   • Importance of Standards
   
2. The OHRM and HDMS Story: How Researcher Needs led to Tool and Application Development
   • A history of the evolution of the HDMS (http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/HDMS/) and the OHRM (http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/ohrm/) as researcher needs changes. Case studies of research projects will be used to demonstrate this development.
   • Impact of research data exposure to research activity and data re-use using exemplars from AUSTEHC projects.
   
3. Panel Discussion
   Various researchers will be invited to participate in a discussion around some of the informatics needs underpinning their research outputs. Participants will also be encouraged to participate in this conversation. (Some issues could be raised in pre-workshop interactions that will be addressed during the session.)

1. To illustrate, using actual research projects, the development of research application tools for the organisation and presentation of cultural and humanities research data.
2. To provide opportunities for participants to identify research data presentation problems and solutions

Gavan McCarthy is the Director of the University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre, which was formed in 2007. His early career started when he was appointed in 1985 to establish the Australian Science Archives Project in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. ASAP, as it was known, eventually became part of the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre (Austehc) when it was established in 1999. McCarthy was archivist in charge of ASAP until his appointment as Director of the Austehc. He has been engaged in the small but vibrant international community of science archivists for more than two decades and has developed a range of ongoing collaborative programs with a number of organistions in the United Kingdom. He became known for his innovative approach to archival documentation and contextual information management that placed a much greater emphasis on the utilisation of structured contextual information to interconnect dispersed archival materials and create many new pathways for discovery. Since 2002 he has acted as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency looking at the very long term management of information relating to radioactive waste disposal activities using the contextual information framework approach.