BIOGRAPHY: David Seaman

	David Seaman is the Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF). The DLF is a consortium of major academic libraries who identify standards and best practices for digital collections and network access; who coordinate leading-edge research and development in libraries' use of electronic-information technology; and who incubate projects and services that libraries need but cannot develop individually (see http://www.diglib.org/).
David joined the DLF in July 2002 from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, where he was the founding Director (1992-2002). In this role, he oversaw the creation and development of an online archive of XML and SGML texts, of which many are available in multiple e-book formats. In addition, he has lectured and published extensively in the fields of humanities computing and digital libraries, and since 1993 has taught e-text and internet courses at the annual summer Book Arts Press Rare Book School.
In December 2006, David Seaman will join Dartmouth College Library as Associate Librarian for Information Management.

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