Amanda Hill

Amanda Hill is project manager for the JISC-funded Names project (http://names.mimas.ac.uk/). She is an archivist who has worked for a range of university and local authority archives. Between 2001 and 2007 she ran the Archives Hub service for Mimas at the University of Manchester (www.archiveshub.ac.uk). In 2007 she left the UK and emigrated to Canada where she now works as a consultant (www.hillbraith.com) with a strong interest in improving and widening access to institutional resources of all types.

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Articles by Amanda Hill:


A Rose by any other name: a new approach to name authority
Monday, 4th April 2011

Searching for author names in online systems is fraught with difficulty because there are so many possible variations for each name. So the Names Project promises to provide a much-needed solution for the many institutional repositories which are being developed. Amanda Hill describes the progress being made with this JISC-funded, joint British Library and Mimas project.


A Rose by any other name: a new approach to name authority [ABSTRACT]
Monday, 4th April 2011

Searching for author names in online systems is fraught with difficulty because there are so many possible variations for each name. So the Names Project promises to provide a much-needed solution for the many institutional repositories which are being developed. Amanda Hill describes the progress being made with this JISC-funded, joint British Library and Mimas project.