Margaret Hedstrom

**Margaret L. Hedstrom** 'yar asalin Amurka ce wacce ita ce Farfesa a fannin Bayanai a Jami'ar Michigan. Ta ba da gudummawa ga fagen adana dijital, ɗakunan ajiya, da kuma gudanar da bayanan lantarki kuma tana da digiri na biyu a tarihi daga Jami'ar Wisconsin.

Hedstrom Yanayi jagorantar aikin muhalli mai dorewa wanda NSF ke tallafawa ta hanyar Actionable Data (SEAD), wanda ke aiki tare da masana kimiyya masu dorewa don "ci gaba da tsarin da zai ba su damar sarrafawa da raba bayanan su".  Hedstrom ta jagoranci aikin CAMiLEON, wanda aka gudanar tare da Jami'ar Leeds kuma Gidauniyar Kimiyya ta Kasa a Amurka da Kwamitin Tsarin Bayanai na hadin gwiwa (JISC) a Burtaniya, kuma tayi bincike kan amfani da kayan aiki na emulation a matsayin wani ɓangare na dogon lokaci na adana bayanan dijital. Binciken da take so a yanzu ya haɗa da dabarun adana dijital da adana al'adu da kuma fadadawa a kasashe masu tasowa. Ta kuma kasance mai ba da shawara ga shirye-shiryen ajiyar gwamnati, Bankin Duniya, Majalisar Duniya kan Tarihi. Ta yi aiki a kwamitocin digiri a Jami'ar Jihar New York a Albany, Jami'ar Pittsburgh, da Jami'ar Michigan.

## Tarihin rayuwa
Kafin ta shiga bangaren koyarwa a Michigan a shekarar 1995, ta kasance Shugabar Ayyukan Ba da Shawara na Tarihin Jiha da Darakta na Cibiyar Rubuce-rubucen Lantarki a Cibiyar Tarihin Jiharar New York (1985-95). Ta sami digiri na biyu a fannin kimiyyar ɗakin karatu (1977) da Tarihi (1979) da Ph.D a Tarihi (1988), duk daga Jami'ar Wisconsin-Madison .

Hedstrom ta gudanar da bincike kan gudanarwa da adana bayanan lantarki kusan kusan shekaru 20 tun daga Cibiyar Tarihin Jihar Wisconsin (1979-83). Ta kasance babban mai tsara babban taro kan binciken bayanan lantarki da aka gudanar a shekarar 1991, wanda ya kafa fifiko na kasa don bincike da ci gaba.

Ta tsara ajanda na bincike a cikin adana dijital, wanda ya fara da labarinta na 1991 "Understanding Electronic Incunabula".  Labarin ya kasance sanarwa mai zurfi game da kalubalen bincike da fitowar tsarin dijital ya kawo. A magance ci gaba da buƙatun ilimi a kan bayanan lantarki, Hedstrom ya yi jayayya game da muhimmancin tabbatar da cewa karatun digiri ya jaddada mahimman ra'ayoyin ajiya.

Ta kasance marubuciya na It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation (2003), wanda Shirin Binciken Gwamnatin Dijital da Daraktan Shirin Litattafan Dijital na Kwamfuta da Kimiyya da Injiniya a Gidauniyar Kimiyya ta Kasa (NSF) da kuma Laburaren Kasa na Infrastructure da Shirin Tsaro na Kasa. A cikin 2002-03 ta kasance co-shugaban kungiyar aiki kan Digital Archiving and Preservation, wanda Gidauniyar Kimiyya ta Kasa da Tarayyar Turai ta tallafawa ta hanyar DELOS Network of Excellence . 

Ta kasance co-rubuce da rahoton Invest to Save: Report and Recommendations of the NSF-DELOS Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation (2003). Wadannan ajendas suna ƙoƙari su amsa kalubalen da ke zuwa da aka annabta a nan gaba.

## Kyaututtuka da girmamawa
Hedstrom an kira ta a matsayin ƴar'uwar Society of American Archivists a cikin 1992.  Ita ce ta farko da ta karbi lambar yabo ta shekara-shekara don Kyau a Ayyukan Bayanai na Gwamnatin Jihar New York. Ta sami lambar yabo ta Jami'ar Michigan ta Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award saboda aikinta a Jami'ar Fort Hare a Afirka ta Kudu. A shekara ta 2008, Laburaren Majalisa ya amince da Hedstrom a matsayin *"mai gabatarwa na adana dijital"*.

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