Kate Murray
Kate Murray is a Digital Projects Coordinator at the Library of Congress where she leads the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audio-Visual Working Group and the Sustainability of Digital Formats website.
Prior to joining the Library of Congress, Kate worked at the National Archives and Records Administration specializing in standardizing and documenting moving image and audio formats. Previous affiliations include the University of Maryland Libraries, Emory University Libraries, University of Cape Town Libraries and NYU Libraries.
Kate is a member of AMIA (Preservation Committee co-chair 2010-2013), IASA (Technical Committee member), SMPTE, and ISO/TC171/SC2 (PDF standards committees). She was the co-chair of the Mellon Foundation/Digital Preservation Coalition’s Task Force on Technical Approaches to Email Archiving, co-coordinator of the 2015 Archiving Email Symposium, co-coordinator of the 2017 Architecture, Design and Engineering Asset Summit Symposium and co-coordinator of Born to Be 3D in 2018. In 2019, she received one of the inaugural Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) Awards for outstanding contributions to the technology of the audiovisual archiving field. In 2021, she received the NDSA Excellent Award for Individuals for making a significant contribution to the digital preservation community through advances in theory or practice. In 2022, she was a finalist for the DPC 20th Anniversary Award on behalf of FADGI’s cumulative body of work. A global leader in digital file formats research and audiovisual preservation, she is the LC liaison to the PDF Association and the Vice Chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC) Executive Board. Kate received her undergraduate degree in Medieval Literature from Columbia University and her MBIBL from the University of Cape Town.
