Research strengths were in the areas of humanities computing, digitisation, digital curation and preservation, and archives and records management.
HATII partner in research initiatives AHDS Performing Arts, 3D-COFORM (Tools and Expertise for 3D Collection Formation),[1][2] SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg),[3] DigiCULT,[4] CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge Preservation, for Access and Retrieval),[5] DELOS Digital Library Network of Excellence Preservation Cluster,[6] Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access to our Cultural and Scientific Heritage),[7] Primarily History, Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 and TheGlasgowStory.
[8][9] It was followed by Digital Preservation Europe|DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE)[10] which produced research outputs DRAMBORA and PLATTER, experimented with animation as a mechanism for dissemination of scholarship.
[12] Between 1997 and when it launched its first degree programs in the early 2000s, HATII taught in multimedia (from 1997), digitisation (from 1998), and cyberspace studies (from 2000).
HATII founded the UK's first postgraduate programme in digital preservation/curation as an MSc Information Management and Preservation in 2001.