Joss Winn

Current

• Technology Officer at University of Lincoln

Past

• Project Manager at Amnesty International
• Audiovisual Archivist at Amnesty International
• Moving Image Archivist at British Film Institute

• Assistant Language Teacher at JET Programme
• Founder at Eiga Arts, Japan

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Education

• University of East Anglia
• University of Michigan
• School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London

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Joss Winn’s Summary

I work in the Centre for Educational Research and Development, University of Lincoln, specialising in the use of new web technologies to enhance research, teaching and learning. I enjoy having both academic and technical roles but favour working on real-world projects with users and software developers. I have a 'can do' attitude to my work and respond rapidly and enthusiastically to working with others.

Before I joined the University of Lincoln, I worked as AV Archivist and then Project Manager for Amnesty International where much of my work focused on developing and implementing a Digital Asset Management system for use by Amnesty staff worldwide. Prior to that, I worked as Moving Image Archivist in the Collections Management Team at the BFI’s National Film & Television Archive. I have an MA in Film Archiving (East Anglia), an MA in Buddhist Studies (Michigan) and a 1st Class degree in Comparative Religion from SOAS, University of London. I lived in the USA, Japan and London before returning to my home town in 2007.

Currently, half my time is spent working on government funded projects which I have won funding for:

'ChemistryFM' will provide open access to a complete undergraduate course in chemistry for Forensic Scientists.

'JISCPress' will deliver a web-based platform for the discussion of documents from anywhere on the web.

The rest of my time is spent developing the Centre's 'Learning Lab' as a useful set of web applications that are valued by the university’s community of staff and students and integrate well with social networking and other web services outside the university.

I am also developing Lincoln Academic Commons, a hub for open source and open access related projects and information.

Joss Winn’s Specialties:

Information Management and Digital Asset Management, Content Management Systems and web publishing. Web 2.0 and the Social Web. Linux System Administration (Certified). Project Management (Agile and Prince2)

Joss Winn’s Experience

• Technology Officer

  University of Lincoln

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years )

  I work in the Centre for Educational Research and Development, where I run the Learning Lab, evaluating and implementing new technologies that enhance research, teaching and learning. At least half of my work is currently on externally funded projects that I have bid and received government funding for (c. £50K). Managing these projects, I work closely with academics and software developers.
  
  My academic interests are in Open Education and The Academic Commons. I manage the Lincoln Academic Commons website and journals and have a leading role in the development of the university's research, teaching and learning archive. I take an active interest in IPR issues relating to academic work and am an advocate for liberal licenses which promote the open, sharing of knowledge while attributing the author.
  
  I regularly write about my work, present papers at conferences and run workshops on both the Academic Commons and the use of web technology for research, teaching and learning.

• Project Manager

  Amnesty International

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year )

  I Project Managed the software development and implementation of a £150,000+ digital asset management system (DAM) for Amnesty International. Version 2.0 made a collection of 15000 digital images and 3500 video tapes available for searching online.

• Audiovisual Archivist

  Amnesty International

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2004 — 2007 (3 years )

  I was a member of the Audiovisual Resources Team and Amnesty's International Secretariat.
  
  I developed and formalised Amnesty International’s audiovisual archive; wrote a comprehensive collections management policy; established a video and audio encoding programme and ensured audiovisual metadata met recognised standards.

• Moving Image Archivist

  British Film Institute

  (Non-Profit; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

  I was a member of the Collections Management Team for the national archive of film and video. Prior to leaving, I led an internal review of the bfi’s National Strategy for film archives, formally reporting to senior executives with recommendations.
  
  My work included: booking new work and liaising with technical staff; managing resources (prioritising staff time/managing budgets); documenting and monitoring progress of technical work; determining best routes for preservation of materials; co-ordinating and focussing technical work; responding to queries from technical staff; monitoring data integrity of catalogue records; continual assessment of procedures and policies; assessing and prioritising preservation work (inspection, examination, comparison, duplication of audio-visual materials); researching and assessing the national film and TV collections; ensuring proper collections care meeting international standards; providing cultural context and justification for technical work; report writing.

• Assistant Language Teacher

  JET Programme

  (Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years )

  I was employed by a Japanese education authority to assist with international event planning and English language teaching. During this time, I independently organised a significant amount of film exhibition and international film exchanges (Eiga Arts).

• Founder

  Eiga Arts, Japan

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

  I set up and ran a monthly non-profit cinematheque for experimental film and video. The screenings acted as a centre for international exchange between Japanese and foreign filmmakers and cinematheques.
  
  In 1999, I organised the Eiga Arts International Film Festival in Saga City, Japan, co-ordinated the attendance of foreign and Japanese filmmakers and obtained extended news pieces on TV and in the press. Later I arranged for the foreign films to tour throughout Japan with a filmmaker invited from the USA.
  
  Following this, I curated programmes of Japanese films to show at eleven cinematheques, archives and festivals in Europe and North America. This included writing interview-based programme notes, obtaining stills for publicity, arranging rental fees and shipping between three continents over four months. I co-ordinated between Japanese filmmakers and European and North American exhibitors for several months.

Joss Winn’s Education

• University of East Anglia

  MA , Film Archiving , 2001 — 2002

• University of Michigan

  MA , Buddhist Studies , 1996 — 1998

• School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London

  BA 1st Class , Comparative Religion , 1993 — 1996

Additional Information

Joss Winn’s Interests:

Open Source, Open Access, Academic Commons, Semantic Web, Social Web, WordPress, Linux, Cloud Computing, history of the Internet, Digital Engagement.

Joss Winn’s Honors:

Routledge Best Student Award (1st Year Comparative Religion), SOAS, 1994; Best Student Award (2nd Year Comparative Religion), SOAS, 1995.