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SPRING FORUM 2004
BIOGRAPHIES Judith R. Ahronheim, A.M.L.S., is Metadata Specialist Librarian at the University Library of the University of Michigan. She currently serves as general metadata consultant for the Digital Asset Management System for the University and has acted in a similar capacity for the Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes project. She is active in ALA's Networked Resources and Metadata Committee, has worked on several Digital Library Federation projects, and was the 1998 recipient of ALA's Esther J. Piercy award. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Academic Librarianship, Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, Journal of Internet Cataloging, and Technicalities.
Howard Batchelor is the Coordinator of the UCLA Digital Library Program, where he works with librarians, faculty, and other campus entities to create digital assets for use in teaching and scholarship. As metadata standards coordinator and digital projects consultant, he acts as the primary liaison between the technical demands of digital collection-building and the needs of collection managers. He is currently working on UCLA's Middle Eastern Manuscripts project in collaboration with Special Collections and the Department of Near-Eastern Languages and Cultures, while also focusing on the potential of the Virtual Collections Project to build communities of teachers and researchers that wish to use digitized primary sources. He received a doctorate in literature from the University of Reading, U.K. Maria Bonn is Director of the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan, University Library. She has a PhD in English Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MLS from the University of Michigan. She has also worked in interface development for digital libraries and digital project management. Samuel Brylawski is head of the Recorded Sound Section in the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. He oversees a collection of over 2,300,000 published and unpublished recordings, including several hundred thousand radio broadcasts. At the Library he has worked as an audio preservation engineer in the Library's Recording Laboratory and as Business Manager of Recording Laboratory where he oversaw the release of Library of Congress folk music and literary recordings. For fifteen years he was a reference librarian in the Recorded Sound Reference Center. As head of the Recorded Sound Section he has responsibility for the conservation and cataloging of the Library's vast audio collections, and supervision of the Recorded Sound Reference Center. These responsibilities include prioritizing recordings for preservation re-formatting, coordinating the transition to digital preservation, and planning of the National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, where the section and collection will move in 2006. He writes and lectures frequently on recordings and American popular music. His essay, Preservation of Digitally Recorded Sound, written for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress in 2002, is published by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Eric Childress joined OCLC in 1996 and is a product support specialist in the Office of Research. A former library cataloger, he contributes a wealth of knowledge about metadata standards to OCLC's research projects and products.
Denise Troll Covey is Associate Dean and Head of Arts, Archives, and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, where she plays a strategic role in digital library initiatives, assessment practices, and change management. Recent projects include acquiring copyright permission to digitize and provide open access to books, a study of the impact of proxy servers and virtual private networks on library operations and service quality, and the design of a system to track and automate analysis and presentation of library data. Covey conducted a study of library assessment practices and problems as a Distinguished Fellow in the Digital Library Federation in 2000-2001. She has published and given many conference presentations on assessment, change management, and digital library projects at Carnegie Mellon. She has academic degrees in theology, philosophy, and rhetoric.
Michelle Dalmau is the Interface and Usability Specialist for Indiana University's Digital Library Program (DLP) and Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), where she conducts iterative user studies. Her current research interests include the integration of complex metadata structures into the browse and search functionality of collections, as well as the documentation of pedagogic and didactic approaches to digital image resources. Other projects Michelle has contributed to include the Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei and the Film Literature Index. Her background is in English and Art History, and she is currently pursuing a dual Master degree at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University.
Stephen Davis is Director, Libraries Digital Program, at Columbia University. Fynnette Eaton joined the Electronic Records Archives Program as the Change Management Officer at NARA in July 2002, after serving as the Director of the Technical Services Division at the Smithsonian Institution Archives for five years. Previous to this position she served as Chief of the Technical Services Branch at the Center for Electronic Records at the National Archives. Other NARA work experience has included positions in the Office of Presidential Libraries and Documentation Standards Staff. She has presented papers and is author of articles on the preservation of electronic records at NARA. She was selected as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists in 1995 and received the IAC/IRM (Interagency Committee on Information Resources Management) Technology Excellence Award in 1996 for designing the Archival Preservation System at NARA. She has a B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of Maryland at College Park and attended the NAGARA Advanced Institute for Government Archivists on Archival Administration in the Electronic Information Age, Pittsburgh (1992 & 1993) and the National Defense University, IRM College, Advanced Management Program (1997). Laine Farley is Director of Digital Library Services at the California Digital Library, where she oversees the identification, development, and maintenance of the CDL’s online tools and services, including the Melvyl® Catalog and the CDL web site. She also oversees the development of tools that can be adopted by the UC libraries to deliver services to their users. Previously, she was the User Services Coordinator and the Coordinator of Bibliographic Policy and Services at the UC Division of Library Automation. She has also been a reference librarian and coordinator of bibliographic instruction at UC Riverside, and head of the Humanities department at the Steen Library at Stephen F. Austin State University. She holds a B.A. in liberal arts (Plan II) and an M.L.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Curtis Fornadley is a Senior Programmer/Analyst for the UCLA Library where he acts as the "Digital Library Architect", handling all design, development and implementation of Digital Library infrastructure and projects. His expertise in information technologies includes: Java, J2EE, Oracle 9i, Oracle Intermedia, XML, XSLT, Unicode and various metadata standards. Recent accomplishments included the development an OAI-PMH Service Provider for the Sheet Music Consortium during which he developed the concept of the "Virtual Collection" (see http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/). He is currently working on developing the ability to export SCORM learning objects from within Virtual Collections. Curtis has been involved in developing web applications since 1996. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Carol Jean Godby has been a research scientist in OCLC's Office of Research since 1990. She has contributed to a variety of projects involving terminology identification, automatic indexing, classification and metadata standards development. She manages the Schema Transformation Services project, which seeks to create a suite of generalized metadata translation tools.
David A. Greenbaum is creator and Director of the Interactive University Project at UC Berkeley. He has worked for seven years investigating how the Berkeley campus can best use the Internet to open up its content and community to the public at large, especially for K-12 teachers. Greenbaum’s leadership in these efforts has been recognized with awards from EDUCAUSE, the Department of Commerce Technology Opportunity Program, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Rebecca Guenther is Senior Networking and Standards Specialist in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, where she has worked since 1989. Her current responsibilities include work on national and international information standards, including, among others, rotating chair of ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee on language codes and a member of the NISO Standards Development Committee. Rebecca has worked in the area of metadata since the early 1990s, including maintaining a number of crosswalks between various metadata schemes; participating in development of XML bibliographic descriptive schemas (MODS and MARCXML); serving as chair of the DCMI Libraries Working Group and as a member of the DCMI Usage Board; serving as a co-chair of PREMIS, an OCLC/RLG working group on preservation metadata implementation strategies; and, participating in the Open Ebook Forum's Metadata and Identifiers Working Group, among others.
Thomas Habing is a Research Programmer at the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where for the past six years he has worked on various digital library projects including UIUC's Mellon-funded OAI Metadata Harvesting Project, UIUC's D-Lib Test Suite project funded by CNRI, and UIUC's Digital Library Initiatives I project funded by NSF. He is currently providing programming support for the University Library's NSF-NSDL and IMLS grant projects and is the developer of the Library's OAI Registry service.
Kat Hagedorn is OAIster / Metadata Harvesting Librarian at the University of Michigan Libraries. She currently manages the OAIster project, a search gateway for OAI harvested records leading to digital objects, initially Mellon-funded in 2001-2002. She is also responsible for DLXS Bibliographic Class and co-coordinates the processing of Text Class materials. Her previous experience is in information architecture (with the Argus Associates firm) and ontology and taxonomy consulting (with the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome). She graduated with an undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from Cornell University and got her MLIS at the University of Michigan in 1996. Allene Hayes is currently Digital Projects Coordinator for the Cataloging Directorate at the Library of Congress. She has previously held various positions at the Library, including Cataloger of Spanish and Portuguese works; Senior Copyright Cataloging Specialist; Special Assistant to the Associate Librarian for Science and Technology Information; Congressional Liaison for the Librarian of Congress; Computer Files Cataloger; and Team Leader of the Computer Files and Microforms Team. Hayes earned a bachelor’s degree from Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University), completing her senior year at Richmond College in London, England. She completed a graduate program in British literature at the University of Oxford and earned a master’s degree in library science from the University of Maryland, College Park. Leah Houser is Program Manager for the OCLC Digital Archive. She directs planning, development and operational activities related to the Archive. Her areas of specialization include management of large projects, system architectures and deployment, and digital preservation.
Tim Jewell is Coordinator of the DLF Electronic Resource Management Initiative and Head of Collection Management Services at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle, where he has been involved in coordinating electronic resources for more than ten years. Leslie Johnston is the Director of Digital Access Services at the University of Virginia Library, where she manages digital library program components supporting the collection, management, and dissemination of digital content. Previously, she served as the head of Instructional Technology and Library Information Systems at the Harvard Design School, where she managed the implementation of instructional technology projects for faculty and coordinated information systems and new media projects for Design Library. Prior to that, Ms. Johnston worked as the Academic Technology Specialist for Art for the Stanford University Libraries, Systems Project Coordinator at the Historic New Orleans Collection, and as Database Specialist for the Getty Research Institute. Ms. Johnston also served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Museum Computer Network, and was founding editor of ESpectra, the MCN news portal for the cultural heritage information management community.
Corey Keith is a Digital Project Coordinator at the Library of Congress. Yong-Mi Kim is currently a master's candidate at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, specializing in Library and Information Services. Her research areas are information retrieval and information seeking behavior. Previously she received her M.S. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and consulted on software process improvement for clients such as Ericsson. Nuala Koetter is the Interim Coordinator of the Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a B.A. in Computer Science, Linguistics and German from Trinity College, Ireland, and a M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois. She has previously worked with the NCSA as a Research Information Specialist and with the CANIS Laboratory at theUniversity of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science as a Research Programmer and Project Coordinator for medical informatics projects.
Marty Kurth is Head of the Metadata Services unit at the Cornell University Library. Metadata Services provides metadata consulting, design, development, production, and conversion services to Cornell's faculty, staff, and community partners. As a member of the Cornell ENCompass implementation team, Marty was responsible for reference linking and establishing connections to remote databases. Marty has given workshops and presentations on cross-collection searching and metadata design in digital library development.
Mary LaMarca started her career as an Engineering Programmer in 1980, writing code for real-time machine control in assembly language and Forth. She switched from business to academia in 1989, and started working at Brown University as a Senior/Consultant Analyst in Academic Computing. Mary was introduced to SGML and gopher at the start of her tenure at Brown, then onto the World Wide Web and HTML during her latter years, eventually becoming the acting webmaster for the university website. In her spare time, she worked on a Masters of Library Science degree at Simmons College, and frequented New Hampshire on weekends with the Appalachian Mountain Club to hike the NH 4000 footers. Dartmouth College offered her a position in March 1999 as Assistant Director of Information Systems, a joint Library and Computing Services department. In 2001, she was promoted to Digital Library Services Manager at the Dartmouth College Library. Nancy Lin is the Electronic Publishing Specialist for the ACLS History E-Book Project. She works with publishers and scholars on development and production of electronic books. She was most recently Electronic Publishing Manager at NYU Press, and previously Senior Production Editor of Electronic Products at John Wiley & Sons. Nancy earned an M.I.L.S. (Master of Information and Library Studies) from the University of Michigan, where she received a National Science Foundation scholarship and served as a Digital Library Research Associate. She holds a B.A. in Art History and Economics from Cornell University.
Erika Linke is Associate Dean of University Libraries for Collection and User Services at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr Norbert Lossau is the recently appointed University Librarian at Bielefeld, where he moved from his post as first Head of the Oxford Digital Library, University of Oxford, UK. Previous to Oxford, he has been the Head and founding Director of the Digitisation Centre at Goettingen State and University Library, Germany (1997-2001). This Centre has been one of two national supply centres funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Council) from 1997–2002. Dr Lossau was the project officer in Goettingen (1996) and coordinated two national task forces (technical and content selection) on behalf of the DFG in order to prepare their new funding program “Retrospective Digitisation of Library Holdings.”
Leslie Myrick is a Digital Library Programmer/Analyst for the NYU Digital Library Team, where she specializes in XML/XSLT/METS development and database integration for digital project management. As the Technical Team Leader for the CRL Political Web Archiving Project, she has been exploring the automated extraction of descriptive and technical metadata from archived web resources into METS-generating databases to manage, provide access to, and navigate archived web sites. Previously she worked on the SCAN project at UC Berkeley (SGML markup and delivery of UC Press monographs) and the Digital Scriptorium project at Columbia University. John Mark Ockerbloom is a digital library architect and planner for the University of Pennsylvania Library. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon. His areas of interest include digital preservation, online learning systems and their relationships to digital repositories, distributed knowledge bases, and enhancing open access to information. Since the 1990s, he has worked on systems to aid in the documentation and use of digital formats, including his current work on TOM and Fred, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation. He has written papers and given presentations for such groups as the Digital Library Federation, the Coalition for Networked Information, RLG DigiNews, and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. He also edits The Online Books Page. Bjorn Olstad is CTO of FAST Search & Transfer. Founded in 1997, FAST is the outgrowth of academic research and development from the pre-eminent scientific university, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). With over a decade of research behind it, the FAST core technology represents the first integrated search platform in which performance, scalability, flexibility, and platform agnosticism are all optimally aligned. FAST is one of the very few vendors worldwide able to claim an implementation that supports a search of over 2 billion documents, at a rate of over 30 million queries per day, in 54 languages. A wide range of global customers and partners, including AT&T, CareerBuilder, Chordiant, CIGNA, Dell, FirstGov.gov (GSA), Freeserve, IBM, Overture, Reed Elsevier, and Reuters currently use FAST’s powerful enterprise search technology solutions. Joy Paulson is the Preservation Librarian at Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library. She is a member of the team developing the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) and the Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, and History (HEARTH) collections. She is also involved in the development of other digital library projects at Mann, leads the USAIN (United States Agriculture Information Network) preservation efforts, and provides traditions preservation services for the Mann Library collections.
Henry Pisciotta is Arts and Architecture Librarian and Assistant Head of the Arts and Humanities Library at Penn State University and was Project Coordinator for the Visual Image User Study there (see the Final Report at: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/vius/). He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of Penn State's LionShare project (http://lionshare.its.psu.edu/main). His most recent publication is "Image Delivery and the Critical Masses" in the Journal of Library Administration. Merrilee Proffitt is a program officer at the Research Libraries Group (RLG). Christopher J. Prom is Assistant University Archivist and Assistant Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is responsible for managing digital projects, supervising archival processing, providing reference service, and managing the American Library Association Archives. His main research interests lie in the areas of information seeking and the usability of archival electronic resources. He is currently Chair of SAA's Description Section, a member of the Standards Committee and the Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards. Chris is also the recipient with Ellen Swain of a 2003-04 NHPRC Archival Research Fellowship. He holds an M.A from Marquette University and will be receiving a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois in May 2004.
David Ruddy is Head of Systems Development and Production for Electronic Publishing, Cornell University Library. His principal responsibility is the development and management of DPubS, the technical infrastructure that supports Project Euclid, a library-based electronic publishing initiative focused on mathematics and statistics journal literature.
Nathan Rupp is a metadata librarian at Cornell Library's Albert R. Mann Library. He has been a member of the team developing the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) and Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, and History (HEARTH) collections. He also provides metadata expertise for other library- and faculty-initiated digital library projects.
Robert Sanderson has worked on the Cheshire project at the University of Liverpool since 1999 and in that time been heavily involved in Z39.50 and SGML/XML searching. Since then he has joined the ZNG initiative and worked on all three major sub-projects. He is the ZeeRex schema maintainer, a contributor and implementer for ZOOM and the main editor for SRW version 1.1. He has recently completed a PhD in Medieval French (emphasis on Computing in the Humanities) from the University of Liverpool. His current work focuses on a new major version of the Cheshire server.
David Seaman is Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation. Prior to that he was the founding director of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library (1992-2002), a humanities digital library of texts and images. David Seaman holds a B.A. in English Studies from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (1984), an M.A. in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut (1986), and has an incomplete Ph.D. in Medieval English at the University of Virginia. For the past ten years he has taught etext and internet courses in the annual Rare Book School at Virginia. His published work includes studies of Chaucer, and he speaks and writes frequently on various aspects of humanities computing. James Shulman: Executive Director, ARTstor. Click here for biography. Abby Smith is director of programs at the Council on Library and Information Resources. In addition to working with the Library of Congress (LC) on implementation of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, she is also working with LC on the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). She has recently completed a survey on the state of audio collections in academic libraries, the results of which will be available in a report this spring both on the CLIR Web site (www.clir.org) and in print.
Devon Smith has worked in OCLC's Office of Research for three years. In that time he's worked on Scorpion, an automatic classification tool, and RDF Topic Maps, a system for browsing web page topic relationships. Currently, he's working on the Schema Transformation Services sub-project of Metadata Switch. This work seeks to create a suite of generalized metadata translation tools. Andreas Stanescu is Software Architect for OCLC's Digital Archive. He is developing and prototyping processes to create preservationplans for documents ingested by the Digital Archive, including a method to identify and measure changes in the supporting IT environment. As technical lead, Mr. Stanescu focuses on the system architecture for the OCLC Digital Archive and optimizing it for preservation. Prior to joining OCLC, Andreas developed a software system that secured access to system services and implemented strong cryptographic solutions to protect data integrity. Thornton Staples is currently the Director of Digital Library Research and Development at the University of Virginia Library and is the Project Director for the Fedora Project. Previous positions include: Chief, Office of Information Technology at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Project Director at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia; and Special Projects Coordinator, Academic Computing at the University of Virginia. Friedrich Summann is head of the IT Department of Bielefeld University Library. He worked for several innovative library projects in the past, among them were the first CD-ROM based library catalogue in Germany (1988), the statewide electronic document delivery system for journal articles JASON (since 1993) and the Digital Library NRW (1998-2001). At the moment the main topics of his work include search engine technology, the development of digital collections and bibliographic databases with focus on OAI integration. Taylor Surface is the Director of Digital Content Management Services at OCLC.
Roy Tennant is User Services Architect for the California Digital Library. Roy is the project manager for CDL's Metasearch Infrastructure Project (for more information, see http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/metasearch/). Roy's last book was "XML in Libraries" (2002), and his next is in press for a Spring release, "Managing the Digital Library," based on his six years of "Digital Libraries" columns for Library Journal.
Judith Thomas is the Director of the Robertson Media Center at the University of Virginia Library, which is engaged in collection-building of a wide variety of motion media forms and formats. Previously she was a faculty technology advisor to the Teaching and Technology Initiative, a program that supported innovative instructional technology projects by University of Virginia faculty. Prior to that she served for a decade as the Curator of UVA's Visual Resources Collection.
Michael Tuite is Head of the Digital Media Lab and Assistant Director of the Robertson Media Center at the University of Virginia Library. As head of the DML, Michael oversees a public service facility committed to providing the university community access to the hardware, software, and expertise necessary to integrate media technologies into curricula across a broad spectrum of academic disciplines. As Assistant Director of the RMC, Michael specializes in the development of digital cultural resource collections, particularly still and moving image collections.
Robin Wendler is a Metadata Analyst at the Office for Information Systems, Harvard University Library John P. Wilkin is the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology at the University of Michigan Library. In this capacity, he leads the Library Information Technology (LIT) Division on projects that provide the infrastructure to both digitize and access digital collections such as the Making of America project; provides capabilities and services for UM units and individuals; provides and sustains a comprehensive computing environment for University Library patrons and staff; provides frameworks and systems to federate distributed information resources; and serves as a catalyst for addressing electronic information issues on campus. Wilkin earned graduate degrees in English from the University of Virginia ('80) and Library Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville ('86).
Jeff Young is a Software Architect for the OCLC Office of Research. He has worked at OCLC since 1987 and in the Office of Research since 1996. He holds a B.S. (Computer Science) from Ohio State and M.L.S (Beta Phi Mu) from Kent State. Current research interests include web services, interoperability, and authority control. He first got involved with OAI in association with the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and was a member of the OAI Technical Committee that helped develop the OAI-PMH specification. |
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