Participants
Below is the list of current workshop participants. Click on a name to read the person's bio.Click on the name a second time to close the bio.
Barbara Aronson
Barbara Aronson heads the Library of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. She is the founder and manager of the HINARI Access to Research Initiative, a ground-breaking WHO programme which enables access to international journals for more than 100 of the world's poorest countries. Before coming to WHO in 1989, Barbara was systems librarian at the Library of the Faculty of Medicine, Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel.
"Arun" Subbiah Arunachalam
Subbiah Arunachalam is a volunteer since April 1996 with the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, a Chennai-based NGO, promoting the use of information and communication technologies to empower the poor and the marginalized and bring about holistic rural development. Before joining MSSRF, Arun, as he is known, was with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research starting his career as a laboratory researcher at the Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, and moving on to edit peer-reviewed S&T journals in New Delhi.
Arun has a Masters in chemistry and has carried out research in electrochemistry for three years at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. It is at Bangalore he discovered his natural flair for searching information and for writing popular articles on science and science policy. During 1973-75 Arun was the secretary of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, where he had multiple responsibilities - editing journals, conducting the election of Fellows and all statutory meetings and running the Academy's office. It is during these two years that Arun's horizons widened and he met Dr Eugene Garfield whose ideas and work continue to influence him.
Returning to his editing job at Delhi in 1975, Arun taught information science to Masters students at the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre for about ten years. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Information Science, Scientometrics, Journal of Community Informatics, Current Science, DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology, Annals of Library and Information Studies, and Current Contents (PCES edition). Arun is an Honorary Fellow of CILIP, a member of ASIST and a life member of IASLIC.
Arun is an advocate of open access to scientific and scholarly literature and has conducted several workshops on knowledge management, electronic publishing, open access archiving, science communication, and South-South Exchange for sharing knowledge among development workers from Asia, Africa and Latin America.. Currently Arun is a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Study, Bangalore. Arun is a member of the Executive Committee of Global Knowledge partnership, and a member of the International Advisory Board of IICD, The Hague.
Roger Barga, PhD
Roger Barga, PhD is currently principal architect for the Technical Computing Group at Microsoft. Previously, Dr. Barga held the position of researcher in the database group of Microsoft Research from 1997 through 2006. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE. Contact him at barga@microsoft.com.
Christine Borgman
Christine L. Borgman is Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies in the Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She obtained her MLS at the University of Pittsburgh and her Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University. Her research interests range over scholarly communication, eScience, data, library automation, networks, human-computer interaction, information seeking behaviour, and bibliometrics, and she has published widely in these areas. She has extensive international interests having been a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute, a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Economic Sciences and at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, and a Scholar-in Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy.
She is a member of the U.S. National CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology), the Science Advisory Board to Microsoft Corporation, and the Advisory Board to the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery Public Policy Committee. Her book, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), won the Best Information Science Book of the Year Award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Her next book, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, will be published by the MIT Press in October, 2007.
Webpage: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/cborgman/
Peter Brantley
Peter Brantley is the Executive Director for the Digital Library Federation, a not-for-profit international association of libraries and allied institutions. His background includes significant experience with research libraries and digital library development programs. He has served as a Director of Technology at the California Digital Library, New York University, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. He was the first IT Manager for Rapt, a private SF firm providing pricing optimization for online advertising delivery, and eons ago worked as a systems analyst in the mass-market division of Random House. Peter is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Digital Publishing Forum. He was first introduced to computing via the CDC Plato system.
Harry Bruce
Harry Bruce is the Dean of the Information School of the University of Washington. Before becoming Dean in January 2006, Dr. Bruce was Associate Dean for Research, a position he had held since 1999. Harry served as Program Chair of our Ph.D. in Information Science from 2001 to 2004, helping to build the doctoral program during the start-up phase of this new degree. His teaching and research focus is on human information behavior, information seeking and use and personal information management in networked information environments and the Internet. Harry’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Library and Museum Studies, and the Australian Department of Employment Education and Training.
Webpage: http://projects.ischool.washington.edu/harryb/default.htm
Donatella Castelli
Donatella Castelli is a Senior Researcher working at the “Information Science and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council” (ISTI-CNR) since 1988. She graduated in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa and there she was employed as researcher for two years before joining ISTI-CNR Networked Multimedia Information Systems. Since 1996 she has been the principal investigator of several European and National funded projects on digital libraries acquiring considerable experience in this domain.
In particular, she is currently: (i) the scientific coordinator of the DILIGENT project, whose objective is to develop a digital library infrastructure on grid-enabled technologies serving both culture-heritage and scientific communities; (ii) the technical coordinator of the DRIVER project, which aims to create a European infrastructure of institutional repositories; and (iii) the principal investigator of the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries activity dedicated to the definition of a Reference Model for digital libraries. She is also leading the development of several thematic and institutional digital libraries. Her current research interests include digital library architectures and infrastructures, information object modeling and interoperability.
Mary Corcoran
In her capacity as Vice President of Business Development, Mary Corcoran is responsible for building and maintaining Outsell’s business relationships with information management professionals working in vertical markets such as government agencies, pharmaceuticals and biotech firms, high-tech, manufacturing, and educational institutions. Mary focuses on meeting information management executives’ needs to benchmark spending, optimize performance, and demonstrate best practices.
Lee Dirks
Lee Dirks is the Director of Scholarly Communications for Microsoft's Technical Computing initiative (reporting into Microsoft Research division), where he manages a variety of research programs related to open access to research data, interoperability of archives and repositories, and the preservation of digital information. Lee holds an M.L.S. degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as well as a post-masters degree in Preservation Administration from Columbia University.
In addition to past positions at Columbia and with OCLC (Preservation Resources), Lee has held a variety of roles at Microsoft since joining the company in 1996 - namely as the corporate archivist, then corporate librarian, and as a senior manager in the corporate market research organization. Additionally, Lee teaches as adjunct faculty at the iSchool at the University of Washington, and serves on the advisory boards for the University of Washington Libraries as well as the iSchool's Master of Science in Information Science program.
An 18-year veteran across multiple information management fields, Lee is a frequent speaker at international conferences and events. During his career, his team's work on the http://library intranet site at Microsoft was recognized as a "Center of Excellence Award for Technology" in 2003 by the Special Library Association's (SLA) Business & Finance Division. Additionally, Lee was presented the 2006 Microsoft Marketing Excellence Award by Steve Ballmer -for a marketing & engineering partnership around a breakthrough market opportunity analysis process which is now a standard operating procedure across Microsoft.
Webpage: http://www.microsoft.com/science
Kim Douglas
Kimberly Douglas became Caltech's University Librarian in January 2004 after serving as acting director of libraries since April 2003. A staff member in the Caltech Library System since 1988, Douglas first served as Head, Reader Services and most recently both as Director of the Sherman Fairchild Library for Engineering and Applied Science and Manager, Technical Information Services.
After receiving her MS in library science from the Long Island University in 1978, Kimberly Douglas held positions in scientific research libraries at the Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and at University of Southern California, where she headed the Hancock Library of Biology and Oceanography from 1982 to 1985 and the Science and Engineering Libraries from 1985 to 1988.
Douglas has published and given talks on digital library and journal pricing themes, has served on IEEE, ISI, and Goddard Space Flight Center Library Advisory Committees, Co-chaired the LITA IG on Electronic Publishing for a number of years and is now on the ACRL Scholarly Communication Committee.
Ann Ferguson
Ann Ferguson is the Project Manager of the Digital Futures Alliance, a cross-sector initiative established by the University of Washington Libraries to address the problems associated with the long-term preservation of digital information. Since 1998, Ann has also served as the Associate Director of the Global Performing Arts Consortium (GloPAC). GloPAC is an international organization of libraries, museums, performing arts groups, and universities using innovative digital technologies to create multimedia and multilingual information resources for the study and preservation of the performing arts.
Prior to her appointment at the University of Washington,Ann held positions at Yale and Cornell University Libraries. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama from Indiana University and an M.S.L.S. from Columbia University's School of Library Service.
Fabrizio Gagliardi
Fabrizio Gagliardi graduated in 1974 at the University of Pisa with a Doctoral thesis on distributed computing applied to particle physics experiments. In the same year he joined CERN where he worked for many years designing real-time data acquisition systems for several CERN experiments.
After a period in the US at the Stanford Linear Accelerator centre, where he contributed to the design of the control system for the being built, at that time, linear collider particle accelerator, he came back to CERN in the early 80’ and pioneered AI and knowledge based systems in his role as head of the CERN Expert Systems group.
He then took responsibility for a series of joint projects with industry, mainly with Digital Equipment Corporation, where he pioneered computing farms which predated on what is today Grid computing.
In the early 90’s he became responsible for the data management services of the CERN central computer centre. In this position he conceived and directed a plan to fully automate the tertiary storage operations of the centre and to deploy a sophisticated Hierarchical Storage Management system. This system, still in operation today, allowed remote data recording from the experiments directly onto secondary and tertiary storage at the CERN computer centre.
In the mid 90’ he promoted the move towards parallel computing and led a major EU funded project, GPMIMD2, which designed one of the most advanced supercomputers of that time. The system interconnect of that system (Elan/Elite) is still today one of the most performing systems in the market and used in several of the TOP500 supercomputers.
At the end of the 90’ his interests moved towards Grid computing and he started early collaboration with Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman which led to projects like EU-DataGrid and EGEE, of which is was Principal Investigator and Director from 2000 till 2005.
In 2004-2005 while still Director of EGEE he contributed to the incubation and launch of more than 10 other Grid EU projects all inspired and supported by the EU EGEE flag-ship project which obtained a total funding of more than 60 millions € from the EU.
He also contributed as expert in several EU committees and task forces to the design and shaping of the present EU FP7 programme.
In November 2005, after the last EGEE conference in his home town of Pisa, Fabrizio Gagliardi joined Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, USA, to take responsibility for the company Technical Computing Initiative in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
Fabrizio Gagliardi has authored and co-authored many publications in HPC applied to science. He is an expert in computing at the Commission of the EU and member of several scientific advisory committees, conference and journal editorial boards.
Fabrizio Gagliardi is married with two daughters and when he is not busy traveling around the world, he coaches his daughters in horse jumping competition.
Jay Girotto
Jay Girotto spent the last several years building various Live Search products including Live Academic Search and the library and publisher programs for Live Book Search. Prior to joining Microsoft, he led the product management group at DemandTec, the provider of pricing and promotion optimization software to retailers and consumer packaged goods companies. Jay also worked at Homestead Technologies, the award-winning provider of web publishing software, and Bain & Company, a leading strategy consulting firm. Born and raised in Iowa, he now lives in Kirkland, WA with his wife and daughters. Jay holds a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and an A.B. from Harvard University in Government and Economics.
Chris Greer
Dr. Greer received his PhD degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and did his postdoctoral work at CalTech. Dr. Greer was a member of the faculty at the University of California at Irvine in the Department of Biological Chemistry for approximately 18 years where his research on gene expression pathways was supported by grants from the NSF, NIH and the American Heart Association. During that time, he was founding Executive Officer of the RNA Society, an international professional organization with more than 700 members from 21 countries worldwide.
Dr. Greer has been a rotator and, more recently a member of the permanent staff at the National Science Foundation. He has previously served as Program Director in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, the Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Emerging Frontiers Division. His current responsibilities include strategic planning for cyberinfrastructure in the biological sciences and digital data activities in the newly-formed Office of Cyberinfrastructure. Dr. Greer recently served as Executive Secretary for the Long-lived Digital Data Collections Activities of the National Science Board and is currently Co-Chair of the Digital Data Interagency Working Group of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Science.
Cathrine Harboe-Ree
Cathrine Harboe-Ree is the Monash University Librarian. She is a member of the CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) Executive and a faculty member of the CAUDIT EduCause Institute. She was the CAUL representative on the Australian Government’s eResearch Coordinating Committee in 2005 and 2006 and is currently a member of AeRIC (the Australian e-Research Infrastructure Council).
She has established an electronic press for her university (www.epress.monash.edu.au) and is the project leader of the institutional repository project, ARROW (www.arrow.edu.au).
Jessie MN Hey
Dr. Jessie Hey, has a wide international experience of providing knowledge management services to users, and particularly researchers, both in research laboratories and in academia. She has a Master's degree in Physics from Oxford followed by postgraduate qualifications in Education and in Library and Information Science. She managed the Library and Learning Centre Programmes for IBM's research and development lab in the UK for 10 years.
Following her more recent work in providing and researching hybrid libraries - joining the traditional and electronic worlds - she gained a PhD in resource discovery in digital libraries in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group at the University of Southampton in the UK. She has been active in the worldwide community of Open Access to Research and Scholarship for over 10 years researching practical and innovative ways of developing archives, including the now established institutional repositories, in collaborations between librarians, computer scientists, authors and end users. Her recent research projects, such as TARDis, PRESERV and PRESERV2, MURLLO, CLADDIER and DISC-UK DataShare are addressing a wide spectrum of repository issues such as practical models, long term curation and preservation, and linking with e-learning and research data.
Tony Hey
As Corporate Vice President of the External Research Division of Microsoft Research, Tony Hey is responsible for the worldwide external research and technical computing strategy across Microsoft Corp. He leads the company’s efforts to build long-term public-private partnerships with global scientific and engineering communities, spanning broad reach and in-depth engagements with academic and research institutions, related government agencies and industry partners. His responsibilities also include working with internal Microsoft groups to build future technologies and products that will transform computing for scientific and engineering research. Hey also oversees Microsoft Research’s efforts to enhance the quality of higher education around the world.
Before joining Microsoft, Hey served as director of the U.K.’s e-Science Initiative, managing the government’s efforts to provide scientists and researchers with access to key computing technologies. Before leading this initiative, Hey worked as head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, where he helped build the department into one of the pre-eminent computer science research institutions in England.
Hey is a fellow of the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering and a member of the European Union’s Information Society Technology Advisory Group. He also has served on several national committees in the U.K., including committees of the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry and the Office of Science and Technology.
In addition, Hey has advised countries such as China, France, Ireland and Switzerland to help them advance their scientific agenda and become more competitive in the global technology economy. For his service to science, Hey received the award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2005 U.K. New Year’s Honours List.
Hey is a graduate of Oxford University, with both an undergraduate degree in physics and a doctorate in theoretical physics.
Yannis Ioannidis
Yannis Ioannidis is currently a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens. He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982, his MSc in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. Immediately after that he joined the faculty of the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he became a Professor before finally leaving in 1999. His research interests include database and information systems, digital libraries, personalization, scientific systems and workflows, eHealth systems, and human-computer interaction, topics on which he has published over seventy articles in leading journals and conferences. He also holds three patents.
Yannis is an ACM Fellow (2004) and a recipient of the VLDB "10-Year Best Paper Award" (2003), the "Presidential Young Investigator Award" - PYI (1991), and of several awards for teaching excellence, including the nation-wide "Xanthopoulos-Pneumatikos Award for Outstanding Academic Teaching" in Greece (2006) and the "Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching" at the University of Wisconsin (1996). He has also been a keynote or invited speaker in several conferences (ICDE'07, ADBIS'06, CIKM'05, ICDT'03, WAIM'01, SSDBM'00, PDP'00, ECDL'98).
Yannis has been a (co-)principal investigator in over thirty research projects funded by various government agencies (USA, Europe, Greece) or private industry (among which are the current DELOS, DILIGENT, HEALTHeCHILD, BELIEF, and TELplus, and the recently finished BRICKS and DIAS). He is currently an Associate Editor of five journals (Information Systems, Journal of Digital Libraries, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Journal of Digital Curation, and the electronic ACM Digital Symposium Collection) and has been a member of the program committees of over sixty conferences, six times as (co-)chair (ADBIS'07, EDBT'06, HDMS'03, VLDB'02, VDB'98, and SSDBM'97).
Yannis currently serves as the ACM Sigmod Vice-Chair (since July 2005) and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. He has also served on the review board of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley and on the Science Council of the (now defunct) CESDIS Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences. Finally, between July 2002 and March 2004 he served as the Information Technology advisor to the Minister of Health of Greece.
Norbert Lossau
Dr. Norbert Lossau is the recently appointed Director of the Göttingen State and University Library, Germany, where he moved from his post as Library Director and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Scholarly Information at Bielefeld University. In his previous positions he has been the first Head of the Oxford Digital Library, University of Oxford, UK and the founding director of the Digitisation Centre at Göttingen State and University Library.
As Director in Bielefeld, Norbert Lossau has been the principal organiser of the International Bielefeld Conferences, a biannual strategic forum for academic librarians in Europe. His areas of activity include advanced digital services development, new paradigms in scientific publishing and communication, university strategies for scientific information, eScience and international collaboration. He is member of various national and international steering committees and advisory boards, among others for Grid/e-Science in Germany, the Committee for Information Management at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Executive Board of the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI), SPARC Europe Executive Board, the Springer SBM European Library Advisory Board, and as chair of the German DigiZeitschriften consortium. Currently he is the scientific coordinator of the European Project DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research).
Wendy Lougee
Wendy Pradt Lougee is University Librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor at the University of Minnesota, a position she has held since 2002. Well known for her pioneering contributions to the design and development of digital libraries, Lougee is a frequent speaker and consultant on issues associated with publishing, digital content and tools, and the economics of information. She has been recognized by the Association of College and Research Libraries with the Hugh Atkinson Award for innovation. She currently serves on the executive boards of the Council of Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation, the OCLC/Research Libraries Group Program Council, and chairs the Association of Research Libraries’ Task Force on E-Science. Lougee holds graduate degrees from the Universities of Wisconsin (library science) and Minnesota (psychology).
Mary Low
Mary Low has been working at the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) since 1984. She has held varied positions within CISTI including Coordinator of NRC Information Centres, Product Manager of BiblioNet, Acting Head of the Document Supply Unit in Document Delivery, Marketing Officer, Biomedical Information Specialist and Cataloguer. Mary is currently the Manager of the CISTI Partnership Development Office where she is working on strategic collaborations. Mary has a Master of Library Science degree and an Honours Bachelor of Science degree, both from the University of Toronto.
Carol Mandel
Carol A. Mandel is dean of the Division of Libraries at New York University, which includes the Libraries, Media Services, University Archives and the NYU Press. She has been deputy university librarian at Columbia University, associate university librarian for technical and access services at the University of California, San Diego, and associate executive director of the Association of Research Libraries.
The focus of her professional interests has included digital library development, scholarly publishing, preservation and bibliographic access. Her publications and presentations have explored changing modes of research and teaching, library and digital infrastructure for research support, transitions and new models in scholarly communication, and access to primary resources.
She is President of the Digital Library Federation and a member of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) Program Council and the OCLC Board Committee on RLG, the Board of Directors of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Board of Directors of ArtStor, the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, the Portico Advisory Committee, and the ARL Steering Committee on Scholarly Communication. Ms. Mandel holds a BA in Art from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and masters degrees in Art History and in Library Service from Columbia University.
Robert Mason
Dr. Robert M. Mason joined the faculty of the Information School at the University of Washington in autumn 2005. His current research interests focus on the philosophy and ethics of technology management and the cultural aspects of knowledge management and how culture affects the concept of a global digital library. He recently completed a research project that examined how knowledge was created and shared during implementation of enterprise systems in a consortium of state universities. He previously served on the faculties of the College of Business at Florida State University and the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
Prior to devoting full time to academia, he started and operated two consulting companies and worked in industry. He served as a consultant to libraries on library automation and in the early days of personal computing wrote a regular column for Library Journal (“Mason on Micros”). He is a former president of the International Association for the Management of Technology (IAMOT) and serves on the senior editorial board for Technovation. He has an SB and SM in electrical engineering from MIT and a PhD in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech.
Edmond Mesrobian
Edmond is currently the CTO for RealNetworks, Inc., the leading creator of digital media software, including the award-winning Rhapsody Music Service and RealPlayer® 11; and application services such as ringback tones, SMS, Music/Video on Demand for telecom carriers including SKT, Verizon, Cingular/ATT, and Vodafone. He is responsible for RealNeworks’ R&D efforts in audio/video codecs, digital media delivery ssytems, and media application platforms (content management, publishing, ecommerce, personalization, business intelligence, and search) for consumer and partner services. Previously, Edmond has held CTO positions at ARTISTdirect, an online music entertainment and retail site, Amplified.com, an early provider of enterprise-wide content management, publishing, reporting, and digital rights management technologies for the entertainment industry, and Checkout.com, an award winning online music, video, and games entertainment and shopping site.
Edmond has also held positions as the Chief Scientist and VP of Engineering at Disney Online where he was responsible for building Disney's Daily Blast that was, at the time, the only online subscription service for kids, Disney.com, and the Disney Store Online.
Previous to this Edmond co-founded the UCLA Data Mining Laboratory with Professor Richard R. Muntz and was Co-Principal Investigator on two NASA-sponsored research efforts focused on the development of a seamless environment for scientific data analysis, data management, knowledge discovery, visualization, and collaboration.
Edmond holds a PhD in Computer Science, an MS in Computer Science, and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from UCLA. He has sat on several software advisory boards and is a published author.
David Minor
David Minor is head of the Digital Preservation Initiatives Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC-San Diego. In this role he oversees coordination of several different state and national projects, including ongoing work with the California Digital Library, NDIIPP and NARA. His group also has a close working relationship with the UCSD Libraries.
David’s primary area of focus is making practical use of emerging computer technologies in the world of digital preservation. Specifically, his work examines how the tools and processes known collectively as Cyberinfrastructure can be brought to bear in the rapidly growing field of digital data curation and preservation. This includes such things as grid-based computing, high speed networks and large-scale data replication.
David received his BA in philosophy from Carleton College and his MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked previously for libraries at the University of New Mexico, University of Wisconsin and Penn State University. He has also held systems administration positions in the commercial sector.
The Digital Preservation Initiatives Group’s homepage: http://dpi.sdsc.edu
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Carlos Morais Pires
Dr. Carlos Morais Pires is the head of sector of the area 'Scientific Data Infrastructure' in the unit dealing with e-Infrastructures in the EU 7th Framework Programme (Capacities Programme). He is with the European Commission (Information Society Directorate General) since 1998 dealing with the development a large number of R&D projects addressing Information and Communication Technologies. He has been also contributing actively to Commission's bridging output from research into policy and regulatory activities. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering in the field of Telecommunication and Media Broadcasting technologies.
David Pearson
David Pearson is Director, University of London Research Library Services (since 2004), and has overall managerial responsibility for the libraries of the central University (Senate House Library, and the specialist libraries of the School of Advanced Study). These libraries support the students and staff of the 19 Colleges of London University (115,000 internal students, 42,000 external), but also have international audiences.
He was previously Librarian of the Wellcome Library, at the Wellcome Trust in London, and before that worked in the British Library, the National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum), and Durham University Library. He is Deputy Chairman of the Joint Content Services Committee of the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), and a member of the Board of Directors of both CURL (Consortium of UK Research Libraries) and CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries). As Chair of CURL’s Resource Discovery Strategy Group, he is particularly interested in the developing arena of discovery to delivery, and the growth of digital content. His academic interests are focused around aspects of the history of books and their ownership, where he has an extensive track record of publishing and lecturing; he is a Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society of London.
Neil Rambo
Neil Rambo is Director of Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives and Special Assistant to the Dean for Biosciences and e-Science, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, USA.
Neil has 20 years of experience in academic health sciences library administration and health science information programs development and management. He has worked extensively with the National Library of Medicine’s national network on public health information outreach projects and informatics training programs. He is currently a Visiting Program Officer with the Association of Research Libraries for library support for research and e-science. He holds affiliate faculty appointments in the departments of Health Services and Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington.
Randy Ramusack
As United Nations Technology Officer, Randy Ramusack is responsible for Microsoft’s Technology Policy initiatives and engagements with leaders across the United Nations system. Through this bi-directional dialog, he ensures that the unique needs of these constituencies are reflected in Microsoft’s technology, citizenship and development strategies. Prior to his current role Mr. Ramusack held the position of Chief Information Officer for Microsoft’s United Kingdom subsidiary and six years at corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington where he led Microsoft’s ICT engineering and infrastructure program management unit.
Brian E. C. Schottlaender
Brian E. C. Schottlaender is The Audrey Geisel University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to his joining UC San Diego in 1999, his career in libraries included positions at the California Digital Library, UCLA, the University of Arizona, Indiana University, and in the European book trade.
A member of the American Library Association (ALA) since 1979, Mr. Schottlaender served on the Board of Directors of ALA’s Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) from 1996 through 2005. He served as the Association’s President in 2003–2004.
From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Schottlaender served as the ALA representative to the international Joint Steering Committee for Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. In 1997 and 1998, he chaired the Program for Cooperative Cataloging at the Library of Congress.
From 1999 through 2001 he served as Chair of the Pacific Rim Digital Alliance, and since 1999 he has chaired the San Diego Library Circuit consortium.
A member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors since 2001, Mr. Schottlaender served as ARL President during 2005–2006. In addition to finishing up his service on the ARL Board, Mr. Schottlaender currently chairs the effort to identify, upon his retirement in 2008, the successor to Duane Webster as Executive Director of ARL. Further, he serves on the Steering Committee of the Coalition for Networked Information and on the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries, a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries that acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching.
Mr. Schottlaender has edited two books: The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules: Proceedings of the AACR 2000 Preconference (1998) and Retrospective Conversion: History, Approaches, Considerations (1992). He has contributed articles to various professional journals, including Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, Journal of Internet Cataloging, the Bowker Annual, and portal, and has spoken widely on collections, bibliographic access, and digital library issues. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of portal.
Mr. Schottlaender obtained his B.A. degree in German Studies from the University of Texas, Austin in 1974 (ampla cum laude). He received his M.S. degree in Library Science from Indiana University in 1980, the same year he was admitted to Beta Phi Mu, the Library Science Honor Society. In 1995, he was one of fifteen individuals selected nationally to attend the Palmer School of Library Science at Long Island University as a Senior Fellow. Mr. Schottlaender was the 2001 recipient of the Margaret Mann Citation from the American Library Association for outstanding professional achievement in cataloging and classification. In 2004, his article “Why Metadata? Why Me? Why Now?” was cited by Cataloging and Classification Quarterly as its article of the year. In 2007, Mr. Schottlaender was awarded the Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award from ALA’s Association for Library Collections and Technical Services for extraordinary service in the field of collections management.
At the University of California, Mr. Schottlaender is a member of the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Council and of the Executive Committee of the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Abby Smith
Abby Smith is a historian and consulting analyst with special interest in the creation, preservation, and use of the cultural record in a variety of media; the impact of digital information technologies on cultural heritage institutions; and the evolving role of information as a public good. She served as advisor to the ACLS Commission on the Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences; was director of programs at the Council on Library and Information Resources in Washington DC; and managed programs relating to preservation of and access to cultural heritage collections at the Library of Congress (LC).
She currently works with the LC’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in development of its national strategy to identify, collect, and preserve digital content of long-term value. She serves as Senior Advisor to the Scholarly Communications Institute at the University of Virginia.
She holds a doctoral degree in history from Harvard University and has taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. Recent publications include: Access in the Future Tense; New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?; Strategies for Building Digitized Collections; The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections; and Authenticity in the Digital Environment.
MacKenzie Smith
MacKenzie Smith is the Associate Director for Technology at the MIT Libraries, where she oversees the Libraries' use of technology and its digital library research program. She was the MIT project director for DSpace, MIT's collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Labs to develop an open source digital repository for scholarly research material in digital formats, and is the Principal Investigator on a number of digital library research projects including SIMILE and FACADE . She was formerly the Digital Library Program Manager for the Harvard University Library where she managed the design and implementation of their Library Digital Initiative, and she has held positions in the library IT departments at Harvard and the University of Chicago. Her research interests are in technology applications for libraries and academia, and digital libraries and archives in particular.
Webpage: http://www.mit.edu/~kenzie/
Roy Tennant
Roy Tennant is a Senior Program Officer for OCLC Programs and Research. He is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. His books include Managing the Digital Library (2004), XML in Libraries (2002), Practical HTML: A Self-Paced Tutorial (1996), and Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook (1993).
Roy has written a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal since 1997 and has written numerous articles in other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.
Webpage: http://roytennant.com/
Syun Tutiya
Syun Tutiya, BA in the history and philosophy of science and MA in philosophy, the University of Tokyo, has worked in the fields of the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of action, situation semantics, formal semantics, cognitive science, spoken dialog study, information ethics, while sometimes flirting with artificial intelligence, natural language processing, humanities computing, document processing, Text Encoding Initiative and so on.
After teaching logic, philosophy and cognitive science in Chiba university from 1982, he got appointed University Librarian there in 1998, when online journals were beginning to be take seriously, making his life more complicated in terms of business commitment and of research too. He has organized a research group for empirically, theoretically and technologically studying the history, sociology and economics of Japanese university libraries from 1970s to now, and then to 2010s, though 2020 is bit beyond his perspective.
Stuart L. Weibel, Ph.D.
Stuart Weibel has been in the OCLC Research since 1985, and in that time he has managed projects in automated cataloging, document structure analysis, electronic publishing, and persistent identifiers.
Dr. Weibel has been an active participant in Internet standards development including work in the Internet Engineering Task Force on Uniform Resource Identifiers and metadata. He was also a founding member of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee.
From 1995 to 2004, he was convener of the Dublin Core Metadata series of international workshops and conferences and helped to establish the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) as an open, international, consensus building organization focused on development of cross-disciplinary metadata standards for the Web.
Dr. Weibel was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington iSchool for calendar year 2006.
Webpage: http://Weibel-lines.typepad.com
Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson
Betsy Wilson has served as the Dean of University Libraries at the University of Washington since 2001. Prior to being selected Dean she was the Associate Director of Libraries for Research and Instructional Services since 1992. Previously, she was Head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She has held numerous leadership positions in the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries, including member of ALA Council and ACRL President. She has been a member of the OCLC Board of Trustees since 2000, chairing the Board since 2004. She currently is a member of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Board, and has served on the Association of Research Libraries Board and the Digital Library Federation Executive Committee. She is a past Chair of the Greater Western Library Alliance and member of the Executive Committee of the Orbis Cascade Alliance.
She presents and publishes widely on the topics of teaching and learning in libraries; assessment and evaluation; digital library services; and educational and cross-sector collaborations. She is the recipient of the Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award, the Margaret E. Monroe Award, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from University of Illinois’ Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. With her UWired colleagues, she received the inaugural EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning. Her library was selected as the 2004 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award recipient. She holds an M.L.S. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. from Northwestern University.
Webpage: http://www.lib.washington.edu/dean/leadership/sketch-wilson.html
Peter Young
Serving as Director of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) since June 2002, Peter R. Young leads NAL’s programs in the agricultural, natural, life, and related sciences. NAL provides services to the US Department of Agriculture and constitutes the nation’s primary source for agricultural information. With an annual budget of $22+ million and a staff of 260+, NAL’s collections total over 3.8 million items. Prior to NAL, Young served at the Library of Congress (LC) as Acting Chief of the Asian Division 2001-2002, Chief of the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) 1997-2001, Chief of the Copyright Cataloging Division 1985-1988, Assistant Chief of the MARC Editorial Division 1984-1985, and CDS Customer Services Officer 1980-1984. From 1990 to 1997 he served as Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), an independent executive branch agency advising the President and Congress on national library and information service policies.
Mr. Young’s career also includes leadership positions in academic research libraries and the private sector. He directed Faxon’s Academic Information Services and founded the Faxon Institute for Advanced Studies in Scholarly and Scientific Communications (1988-1990). At CL Systems, Inc., Young was Library Systems Analyst and Sales Support Librarian (1976-1980). Mr. Young was Assistant Librarian for Public Services at the Rice University Libraries (1974-1976), Reference Librarian and Head Cataloger at the Franklin and Marshall College Library (1970-1974), Administrative Librarian at the American University Library (1970), and Assistant Director of the Grand Rapids (MI) Public Library (1978).
A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Young holds an A.B. degree in Liberal Arts (Philosophy) from the College of Wooster, Wooster, OH (1966) and an M.S.L.S. degree from Columbia University's School of Library Service (1968). He served as a Film Library Specialist with the 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army (1968-1970) and was awarded 3 bronze star medals for meritorious achievement directing a Special Services Library in Cu Chi, Vietnam. Mr. Young is a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and has served on committees of LITA, LAMA, RTSD, PLA, and Council. He was President of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), member the Library Statistics Standard Revision Committee (Z39.7) of the National Standards Information Organization (NISO), and served on the Federal Executive Board of the Federal Library and Information Committee. He headed the US Delegation to the FAO Consultation on Agricultural Information Management at FAO in Rome September 2002.
Recent presentations include "Information: Tools and Threats" at the Special Libraries Association Conference - Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Division session on Agro-terrorism, New York City, June 2003; "The Future of the Past: Postmodern Realities and Libraries" at the American Association of Law Libraries, Seattle, WA, July 2003; "The Ideal Agricultural Library: NAL Past, Present, & Future" at the Special Libraries Association, Nashville, TN, June 2004; "The National Digital Library for Agriculture" at the IAALD/USAIN World Congress, Lexington, KY, May 2005; and "Digital Competencies for Librarians" at FLICC Forum on Information Policies, Washington, DC, Mar 2006.
Xiaolin Zhang
Xiaolin Zhang has been the director of the Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) since 2003 and the executive director of the National Science Library, CAS, since 2006. Working to serve CAS as the main national scientific research organization with 90+ institutes across China and with researchers and graduate students as the primary clientele, he led the NSL into a distributed digital information network and developed NSL’s key knowledge service mechanisms with subject information specialist and information analysis functions. Facing the challenges of the e-science environment and ubiquitous digital information services, he is pushing for a strategic transition of NSL into the CAS’s knowledge infrastructure including integrated digital info objects services (e.g., data+literature+learning materials), institutional repository grid, digital journal platform, trusted digital archives, and information analysis services.
Professionally, Dr. Zhang is a Member of the Governing Board and Professional Committee of IFLA, and a vice president of Chinese Society of Library Science. He has been the director of Chinese Digital Library Standards project, and the primary investigator of Chinese Scientific Digital Preservation Network planning.
Dr. Zhang graduated from Sichuan University in Physics in 1982, from Columbian University in USA in 1992 with a Doctor of Library Science. He worked until 2001 as a professor and the chair of the Department of Information Management, Sichuan University, before he moved to CAS.
Greg Zick
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Vice President, Digital Collection Services, OCLC. Greg joined OCLC in 2006. From 1974 to 2001, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, where his research group worked in the area of database applications in medicine and libraries including the initial version of CONTENTdm. From 2001 to 2006 he served as President of DiMeMa, the company that continued development and sales of CONTENTdm in the digital library market. Greg received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois. He also holds a Masters and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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