Kevin Bradley is Curator for Oral History and Folklore and Director of Sound Preservation at the National Library of Australia. He is the President of the Australasian Sound Recordings Association (ASRA), Vice Chair of the Technical Committee of the International Association of Sound and Audio Visual Archives (IASA), editor and a contributor for the TC04 Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects, published in 2004 by IASA, and has been a member of various standards groups. His expertise also extends to the preservation of general digital objects and besides managing digital preservation at the National Library of Australia under Colin Webb for a number of years. He was the Sustainability Advisor on the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories and a member of the OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Framework Working Group that developed the OCLC/RLG Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects. He is a member of the Memory of the World Programme, Sub-Committee on Technology, and brought together the recent UNESCO publications from that group, Risks associated with the use of recordable CDs and DVDs as reliable storage media in archival collections - strategies and alternatives and Towards an open source archival repository and preservation system. He has a Diploma of Electrical Engineering and an Honours Degree in Anthropology and History