Nicola Caldwell (she/her)

Nicola Caldwell is a Librarian in the Description Original Materials team at State Library Victoria. Her background is in digital preservation and time-based media conservation.

In the first half of 2026, she was the Time-based Media Conservation Fellow at the Heritage Conservation Centre in Singapore where she developed digital preservation workflows and assisted with documenting and preserving time-based media artworks. Prior to the fellowship, Nicola was a Digital Archivist at the Alexander Tunbull Library, the heritage collections section of the National Library of New Zealand. There, her work included transferring born-digital collections from legacy media carriers, social media collecting, carrying out technical appraisal and assisting curators with acquiring born-digital collections.

Nicola appreciates a good spreadsheet, is excited by the challenges of preserving technology dependent artworks and cultural heritage, and loves sharing digital preservation knowledge with others.