After being educated at University of Westminster, London, UK (MA
in Hypermedia Studies) and College of Media and Art, Tornio, Finland
(Television Studies), Heiki Männik has been involved in several UK
and Finland-based digital media companies, as well as lecturing and
organizing workshops.

Presently, he is working at the Estonian public broadcasting company as a
Coordinator of Digital Archiving. He is particularly interested in
issues related to the long-term maintenance and usability of
materials in digital form, providing advice and consulting on
digitalization and preservation issues.

His technical interests include convergence technology, usability
engineering, intelligent user interfaces, cross-media and trans-
lingual retrieval, intelligent agents, and neural networks, as well as
cognitive sciences, connectionism and fuzzy.