Gavan McCarthy is a Senior Research Fellow and Director and the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. The latter position was created in 2007 and grew directly out of the work he had been doing in the history and archives of science which had its beginnings in 1985. He is a leader in the field of cultural informatics with emphasis on the building of sustainable information resources and services to support research. He started work in the academic sector with the Australian Science Archives Project (ASAP: 1985-1999), based in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. It was here he pioneered the development of national information services and infrastructure to support the history of Australian science, technology, medicine and engineering through the utilisation of the emerging digital technologies. McCarthy is noted in Australia and overseas for his innovative and research-driven approach to the challenges posed by digital technologies for the support of scholarship and sustainable knowledge.