Brief Biographies
Stephen Abrams is the Digital Library Program Manager at the Harvard University Library. In that role, he provides technical leadership for strategic planning and coordination for the library's digital systems and projects. Current activities include preliminary design of the next generation of Harvard's Digital Repository Service (DRS), a comprehensive restatement of DRS preservation policy and practice, and the large-scale migration of over 700,000 extant digital images stored in the DRS to the JPEG 2000 format. Mr. Abrams was the project manager for the JHOVE format validation tool and Harvard's METS toolkit, the ISO project leader and document editor for the PDF/A standard (ISO 19005-1), and is now leading efforts towards establishing a Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR). He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Boston University and is completing a master's degree in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.
Jeroen Bekaert graduated with a Master in Engineering from Ghent University in 2001. In October 2002, he obtained a fellowship of the Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) to conduct doctoral research in the domain of digital libraries. His doctoral research focuses on persistent interfaces for harvesting and obtaining digital assets from heterogeneous repositories. From March 2003 till December 2005, he joined the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and played a major role in the design of LANL's digital repository infrastructure (viz. aDORe). Jeroen Bekaert is editor of several MPEG-21 standards and is Liaison Representative for NISO to MPEG. His research interests include digital preservation, digital libraries and digital information architectures, with a particular interest in interoperability protocols, document models, and data interchange solutions.
Peter Brantley is responsible for the development and management of the technical infrastructure and the technical staff supporting CDL operations. In partnership with the UC campus library staff and the wider digital library community, he also oversees development of new technologies and provides leadership in establishing a technical research agenda. Peter joined the CDL in 2003. His background includes significant experience with research libraries and digital library development programs. Before coming to CDL, he was the Director of Information Technology Services for the Division of Libraries and NYU Press at New York University. Peter previously worked in academic IT Director positions at UCSF and UC Berkeley, and long ago worked as a systems analyst with Random House.
Tim Brody is a PhD candidate in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia group at the University of Southampton, UK. His PhD research is on "Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication". Primarily focused on the give-away self-archived (and Open Access Published) peer-reviewed research literature, this involves harvesting and processing full-text and metadata, building a citation database and performing data mining. This covers discovery and harvesting technologies, database design and management and bibliometric analysis. As part of this process he has produced a citation service for the arXiv (a repository of physics and maths papers), Citebase Search. Tim has also developed the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR), is a developer on the GNU Eprints project and has worked on the JISC-funded OpCit, TARDis and Preserv projects.
Les Carr is Senior Lecturer at the Intelligents, Agents, Multimedia Research Group at the University of Southampton. Dr Carr's background is as a researcher in distributed information systems (hypermedia, Web, Semantic Web). He has worked with Stevan Harnad on Open Access for over 10 years, through a number of collaborations including the UK-US/JISC-NSF International Digital Libraries II project "Open Citations," which was a collaboration between Southampton, Cornell and Los Alamos. (The first actions of that project were participation in the Santa Fe UPS meeting, and hiring Rob Tansley to undertake the development of EPrints while he finished his thesis. Since then Dr Carr has become Technical Director of EPrints repository software (and its commercial arm EPrints Services), the Repository Manager for a School Repository (eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk) and a member of the advisory board of an Institutional Repository (eprints.soton.ac.uk). He currently manages a number of JISC projects on preservation, e-research environments and interoperability. In his spare time Dr Carr is the General Chair of the Fifteenth International World Wide Web conference in Edinburgh in May 2006.
Lorcan Dempsey is the Vice President and Chief Strategist of OCLC. Before moving to OCLC, Lorcan worked for JISC in the UK, overseeing national information programs and services. He is a librarian who has worked for library and educational organizations in Ireland, England, and the US. He has consulted for the EU, and national policy and service organizations in several countries. Lorcan has policy, research and service development experience, mostly in the area of networked information and digital libraries. He writesspeaks extensively, and can be followed on the web at Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. He is currently a member of the NISO Board and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Tim DiLauro is the Digital Library Architect in the Library Digital Programs and Digital Knowledge Center of the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1982, he has worked for JHU in a variety of technology positions. He has been with the Sheridan Libraries since 1990. He has also worked as a consultant for several companies with Internet businesses. Since 1995, his project work has focused on designing systems to improve and simplify user access to information, including the development of access gateways and web proxies. His current work deals with the integration of multiple repositories with multiple services to support digital collections, learning, publishing, and preservation.
Jeremy Frumkin is the Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services at the Oregon State University Valley Library. He oversees research at OSU Libraries in digital library technology and scholarly communication, especially as relate to information discovery and the integration of digital library services and information resources. Prior to joining OSU in 2004, he worked at the University of Arizona Libraries (1999-2004) in the development of digital library tools and services. Recently, he ran a workshop focused on digital library service registries in an effort to promote standards in that area. Additionally, in February he hosted the inaugural code4lib conference in Corvallis. He received his Bachelors in Fine Arts and his Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University.
C. Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. His research interests are in intelligent web tools, search engines and information retrieval, digital libraries, web services, knowledge and information management and extraction, and information and data mining. He has over 200 publications in these areas. He was the cocreator of autonomous citation indexing and the search engine and digital library, CiteSeer, now hosted at Penn State University. His research is or has been supported by NSF, NASA, DARPA, Microsoft, FAST Search and Transfer, Ford, IBM, Lockheed-Martin, Lucent, Department of Treasury, NEC and Yahoo. He has twice received the IBM Distinguished Faculty Award.
Jim Gray is part of Microsoft's research group. His work focuses on eScience: using computers analyze scientific data and on the related topics of databases and transaction processing. Jim is active in the research community, is an ACM, NAE, NAS, and AAAS Fellow, and received the ACM Turing Award for his work on transaction processing. He edits of a series of books on data management, and has been active in building online databases like http://terraService.Net and http://skyserver.sdss.org.
Tony Hammond is a member of Nature Publishing Group’s New Technology team. His main interests include identifiers, metadata and description technologies. He has most recently served as a member of the NISO committee that standardized the ‘OpenURL Framework’, as well as being a leading driver and co-author on the ‘info’ URI scheme, and an enthusiastic evangelist for RSS. He has a long experience with DOI and the underlying Handle directory service, being a participant in the DOI prototype, a key developer of the early CrossRef system, and a not infrequent commentator on DOI technologies in general. His background is in Physics and Astrophysics, with postgraduate experience in building a cosmic dust sensor array. He subsequently worked on the journal ‘Nuclear Physics A’, and later became Scientific Editor, and then Head of Scientific Information, with NATO’s SACLANT Undersea Research Centre. Before joining Nature, Tony was part of the Academic Press Electronic Publishing group that pioneered IDEAL, and later, following the Reed-Elsevier acquisition, he was instrumental in migrating the IDEAL journals content onto ScienceDirect.
Rachel Heery works for UKOLN, University of Bath, as Assistant Director leading the Research and Development team. Rachel has undertaken research over recent years in the field of metadata, resource discovery and information architectures. She is working closely with the JISC as part of the Digital Repositories Programme Support team, and represents the team in an initiative amongst UK repository software developers to explore a light-weight specification of a common repositories Deposit API. Other current research projects include development of a pilot metadata schema registry with funding from the JISC.
Thomas Krichel was born in Völklingen, (Saarland) in 1965, and studied Economics and Social Sciences at the universities of Toulouse, Paris, Exeter and Leicester. Between February 1993 and April 2001 he lectured in the Department of Economics at the University of Surrey. In 1993 he founded NetEc, a consortium of Internet projects for academic economists. In 1997, he founded the RePEc dataset to document economics. Between October and December 2000, he held a visiting professorship at Hitotsubashi University. Since January 2001, he has served as an assistant professor in the College of Information and Computer Science at Long Island University.
Carl Lagoze is a Senior Research Associate in Computing and Information Science at Cornell. In this role he teaches, directs graduate students, and participates in research funded by NSF and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His primary research interests include architecture and protocols for distributed information environments, automatic organization of web information, and new environments for scholarly communication. In research collaborations with colleagues at Cornell and elsewhere he has played a major role in the Open Archives Initiative for Metadata Harvesting, the Dienst/NCSTRL architecture and protocol for distributed digital libraries, the ABC metadata ontology, and the Fedora Open Source Repository System. He has served on a number of boards and committees including the Program Committees of U.S., European, and Asian Digital Library Conferences, the Advisory Committee of the National Virtual Observatory, the External Advisory Board of the Los Alamos Research Library, and the National Advisory Board of the University of Texas Utopia Project.
Sandy Payette leads digital library research and development projects at Cornell University’s Information Science program. She is founder and co-director of the internationally-recognized Fedora Project that deploys sophisticated open-source software that forms the basis of digital libraries, institutional repositories, digital archives, and educational software. She is currently collaborating with colleagues from Cornell and Los Alamos National Laboratory in the NSF-funded Pathways project to design new information architectures for integrating heterogeneous digital repositories and services, and to demonstrate a next-generation scholarly communication system. Sandy’s other research areas include digital preservation, information networks, and automated policy enforcement.
Jerry Persons is Chief Information Architect for the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR). His work includes architecture for and investigation of technologies in support of the Libraries’ collection, digitization and information delivery programs, as well as its efforts toward broad integration of access to knowledge resources throughout the academy. SULAIR enterprises include publication initiatives (High Wire Press and Stanford University Press) plus development and deployment of infrastructure for teaching, learning and research (such as LOCKSS, Stanford Digital Repository, Sakai).
Andy Powell is Head of Development at the Eduserv Foundation, a UK charity that aims to support the effective application of ICT in education. He previously worked at UKOLN, University of Bath where he advised the JISC and the UK academic community more generally about the technical standards that make up the JISC Information Environment. Andy is a member of the DCMI Advisory Board and Usage Board and he chairs the DC Architecture Working Group. He was also a member of the OAI Technical Committee. Andy has worked on and advised numerous digital library projects, both at UK and European levels.
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 is currently acting as the project director at MIT for DSpace, MIT's collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Labs to develop an open source digital repository for scholarly research material in digital formats. She was formerly the Digital Library Program Manager in the Harvard University Library's Office for Information Systems where she managed the design and implementation of the Library Digital Initiative there, and she has also held positions in the library IT departments at Harvard and the University of Chicago. Her research interests are in applied technology for libraries and academia, and digital libraries and archives in particular.
Robert Tansley is a Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He has a PhD from the University of Southampton, where he was the original architect and developer of the EPrints.org software, starting the project with Stevan Harnad in 1999. He was also a member of the OAI-PMH design group. He joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories at the end of 2000 as architect and lead developer on the DSpace project, initially a collaboration with MIT Libraries and now a major open source platform with a large and vibrant global user and developer community. His main research interests are in technologies and processes for long-term management and preservation of digital media.
Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. there. For many years, he was Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. After having left Ghent in 2000, he has been Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University, and Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. Currently, he is the team leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Team does research regarding various aspects of scholarly communication in the digital age, including information infrastructure, interoperability, digital preservation and indicators for the assessment of the quality of units of scholarly communication. Herbert has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, the SFX linking server, and the info URI.
Simeon Warner is a Research Associate in Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. He is one of the developers of the arXiv e-print archive (http://arXiv.org/) and his research interests include web information systems, interoperability, and open-access scholarly publishing. He has been actively involved with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) since its inception and was one of the authors of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory before moving with arXiv to Cornell in 2001. Prior to working on arXiv, he worked in the Physics Department at Syracuse University in computational physics, a discipline in which arXiv has eclipsed conventional journals as the preferred means of scholarly communication.
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 is a visiting scholar at the University of Washington iSchool for calendar year 2006, where he is writing about persistent identifiers.
Bill Ying is the Chief Technology Officer for ARTstor. As CTO, Mr. Ying is responsible for the effective deployment of hardware, databases, and software (both licensed and developed in-house) to maximize the quality of services delivered to the ARTstor user community. Prior to joining the ARTstor team in 2002, he was the CTO/CIO of Fathom Knowledge Inc from 2000-2002. Established by Columbia University in alliance with 13 partners, Fathom offers lifelong learning and professional development online. Before joining Fathom, Mr. Ying was Vice President of Information Systems at Uproar Inc. Earlier, he held a range of positions in information technology with Chase Manhattan, and the New York Blood Bank, where he developed the first bar code-based Blood Processing Information System, which created a standard for the healthcare industry. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University, School of Continuing Education, Computer Technology program. Mr. Ying received his Doctorate of Engineering Science and Masters of Science from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science from Cornell University.
Jeffrey A. Young graduated Beta Phi Mu with an M.L.S. from Kent State University. He has been at OCLC since 1987 and works as a software architect in the Office of Research. His focus is on registries, web services, and support and integration of protocol standards such as OAI, SRU, and OpenURL. His work on WikiD was recently integrated into OCLC's Open WorldCat and DeweyBrowser services to support user-contributed content. Patterns and tools to simplify and expand the use of OpenURL are currently being explored.
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Rachel Bruce works for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and is Programme Director for the Information Environment. She oversees the JISC investment in digital repositories, preservation and resource discovery development. She has worked for JISC for a number of years and has managed a number of Digital Library programmes as well as working with archivists from the UK academic sector and coordinating input into the development of international standards for archival collections and the establishment of the UK Archives Hub.
Ira Fuchs joined The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in July 2000, in the newly created position of Vice President for Research in Information Technology. He is responsible for directing the Foundation's expanding investigations of digital technologies that can be applied in higher education, the performing arts, museums, and other areas of special interest to the Foundation. Prior to coming to the Mellon Foundation, Fuchs was the Vice President for Computing and Information Technology at Princeton University (1985-2000), where he was responsible for the overall management of the University's academic and administrative computing services, electronic communications, media, and printing services. In 1981 he founded the BITNET Network, the first and world's largest academic telecommunications network, and later served as president of its successor, the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN). Fuchs currently serves on the board of directors of Sarah Lawrence College, JSTOR, the Princeton Public Library, the Open Source Applications Foundation, the National Visiting Committee of the National Science Digital Library, and the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC). Formerly he served as President of the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (1989-2004), and as a director of the Princeton University Press (1992-1997), Ariel Corporation (2000-2001), EDUCOM (1992-1996), and the European Academic Research Network (1984-1993). He received his M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Physics from Columbia University.
Tony Hey is the Corporate Vice President for Technical Computing at Microsoft Corporation. In that role, Hey coordinates efforts across Microsoft Corp. to collaborate with the global scientific community. He is a top researcher in the field of parallel computing, and his experience in applying computing technologies to scientific research helps Microsoft work with researchers worldwide in various fields of science and engineering. Before joining Microsoft, 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. Since 2001, Hey has 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. Hey is a fellow of the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering and has been a member of the European Union’s Information Society Technology Advisory Group. He has also served on several national committees in the United Kingdom, 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. Hey received the award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire honor for services to science 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.
Randy Hinrichs works closely with the VP of Technical Computing to support successful implementation of the TCI strategy through the TCI program office. He is the operational leader for running the business activities for TCI including: driving high quality execution against plans, driving strategy and progress towards goals, financial management and maintaining effective partnerships with cross company and external business owners. He maintains close partnerships with key internal business partners including product and research groups, legal, HR and finance to ensure that business initiatives are strategically orchestrated. He is responsible for issue management, escalation and resolution of issues. In addition, he stays on top of strategy shifts and partners with the VP, TCI and other Microsoft staff to maintain a “big picture” view of the business as a whole as it relates to technical computing. He manages special projects that are cross regional with an emphasis on e-Publishing. He is an industry board member of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Engineer 2020, the board of Journal of Engineering Education, and the Academy of Arts Presidential Board and former board of American Society of Engineering Educators. He is currently working with the Council on Competitiveness on advancing high performance technologies for national priorities and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Formerly, he led Microsoft Research’s Learning Science and Technology group, managing large scale university transformations most notably the MIT/MSR iCampus alliance, Conference XP, and innovative uses of TabletPC and gaming technologies in STEM education. He was Group Program Manager in Microsoft Research's University Relations Program, and a Senior Manager at Sun University, Sun Microsystems. Randy received his Master's Degree from UCLA in Computational Linguistics.
Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on the NRC’s committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration.
David Seaman is the Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF). The DLF is a consortium of forty major academic libraries -- with member institutions currently from the United States, Egypt, and Great Britain -- 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 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 and images, of which many are available in multiple e-book formats, and worked closely with faculty on many innovative digital archives and projects. In addition, he has lectured and published extensively in the fields of humanities computing and digital libraries, and since 1993 has taught digital library courses at the Rare Book School at UVA. He currently serves on the boards of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and the Retirement Series of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson."
Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he served as the first Director of the Digital Library Federation (1997-1999), as Associate University Librarian at YaleUniversity (1993-1997), and in a variety of other positions at the Computer Center, the School of Management, and the University Library at Yale. Waters graduated with a Bachelor's degree in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1973. In 1982, he received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University. Waters conducted his dissertation research on the political economy of artisanry in Guyana, South America. He has edited a collection of African-American folklore from the Hampton Institute in a volume entitled Strange Ways and Sweet Dreams. In 1995-96, he co-chaired the Task Force of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital Information, and was the editor and a principal author of the Task Force Report. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the author of numerous articles and presentations on libraries, digital libraries, digital preservation, and scholarly communications.
Jeroen Bekaert graduated with a Master in Engineering from Ghent University in 2001. In October 2002, he obtained a fellowship of the Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) to conduct doctoral research in the domain of digital libraries. His doctoral research focuses on persistent interfaces for harvesting and obtaining digital assets from heterogeneous repositories. From March 2003 till December 2005, he joined the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and played a major role in the design of LANL's digital repository infrastructure (viz. aDORe). Jeroen Bekaert is editor of several MPEG-21 standards and is Liaison Representative for NISO to MPEG. His research interests include digital preservation, digital libraries and digital information architectures, with a particular interest in interoperability protocols, document models, and data interchange solutions.
Peter Brantley is responsible for the development and management of the technical infrastructure and the technical staff supporting CDL operations. In partnership with the UC campus library staff and the wider digital library community, he also oversees development of new technologies and provides leadership in establishing a technical research agenda. Peter joined the CDL in 2003. His background includes significant experience with research libraries and digital library development programs. Before coming to CDL, he was the Director of Information Technology Services for the Division of Libraries and NYU Press at New York University. Peter previously worked in academic IT Director positions at UCSF and UC Berkeley, and long ago worked as a systems analyst with Random House.
Tim Brody is a PhD candidate in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia group at the University of Southampton, UK. His PhD research is on "Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication". Primarily focused on the give-away self-archived (and Open Access Published) peer-reviewed research literature, this involves harvesting and processing full-text and metadata, building a citation database and performing data mining. This covers discovery and harvesting technologies, database design and management and bibliometric analysis. As part of this process he has produced a citation service for the arXiv (a repository of physics and maths papers), Citebase Search. Tim has also developed the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR), is a developer on the GNU Eprints project and has worked on the JISC-funded OpCit, TARDis and Preserv projects.
Les Carr is Senior Lecturer at the Intelligents, Agents, Multimedia Research Group at the University of Southampton. Dr Carr's background is as a researcher in distributed information systems (hypermedia, Web, Semantic Web). He has worked with Stevan Harnad on Open Access for over 10 years, through a number of collaborations including the UK-US/JISC-NSF International Digital Libraries II project "Open Citations," which was a collaboration between Southampton, Cornell and Los Alamos. (The first actions of that project were participation in the Santa Fe UPS meeting, and hiring Rob Tansley to undertake the development of EPrints while he finished his thesis. Since then Dr Carr has become Technical Director of EPrints repository software (and its commercial arm EPrints Services), the Repository Manager for a School Repository (eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk) and a member of the advisory board of an Institutional Repository (eprints.soton.ac.uk). He currently manages a number of JISC projects on preservation, e-research environments and interoperability. In his spare time Dr Carr is the General Chair of the Fifteenth International World Wide Web conference in Edinburgh in May 2006.
Lorcan Dempsey is the Vice President and Chief Strategist of OCLC. Before moving to OCLC, Lorcan worked for JISC in the UK, overseeing national information programs and services. He is a librarian who has worked for library and educational organizations in Ireland, England, and the US. He has consulted for the EU, and national policy and service organizations in several countries. Lorcan has policy, research and service development experience, mostly in the area of networked information and digital libraries. He writesspeaks extensively, and can be followed on the web at Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. He is currently a member of the NISO Board and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Tim DiLauro is the Digital Library Architect in the Library Digital Programs and Digital Knowledge Center of the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1982, he has worked for JHU in a variety of technology positions. He has been with the Sheridan Libraries since 1990. He has also worked as a consultant for several companies with Internet businesses. Since 1995, his project work has focused on designing systems to improve and simplify user access to information, including the development of access gateways and web proxies. His current work deals with the integration of multiple repositories with multiple services to support digital collections, learning, publishing, and preservation.
Jeremy Frumkin is the Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services at the Oregon State University Valley Library. He oversees research at OSU Libraries in digital library technology and scholarly communication, especially as relate to information discovery and the integration of digital library services and information resources. Prior to joining OSU in 2004, he worked at the University of Arizona Libraries (1999-2004) in the development of digital library tools and services. Recently, he ran a workshop focused on digital library service registries in an effort to promote standards in that area. Additionally, in February he hosted the inaugural code4lib conference in Corvallis. He received his Bachelors in Fine Arts and his Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University.
C. Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. His research interests are in intelligent web tools, search engines and information retrieval, digital libraries, web services, knowledge and information management and extraction, and information and data mining. He has over 200 publications in these areas. He was the cocreator of autonomous citation indexing and the search engine and digital library, CiteSeer, now hosted at Penn State University. His research is or has been supported by NSF, NASA, DARPA, Microsoft, FAST Search and Transfer, Ford, IBM, Lockheed-Martin, Lucent, Department of Treasury, NEC and Yahoo. He has twice received the IBM Distinguished Faculty Award.
Jim Gray is part of Microsoft's research group. His work focuses on eScience: using computers analyze scientific data and on the related topics of databases and transaction processing. Jim is active in the research community, is an ACM, NAE, NAS, and AAAS Fellow, and received the ACM Turing Award for his work on transaction processing. He edits of a series of books on data management, and has been active in building online databases like http://terraService.Net and http://skyserver.sdss.org.
Tony Hammond is a member of Nature Publishing Group’s New Technology team. His main interests include identifiers, metadata and description technologies. He has most recently served as a member of the NISO committee that standardized the ‘OpenURL Framework’, as well as being a leading driver and co-author on the ‘info’ URI scheme, and an enthusiastic evangelist for RSS. He has a long experience with DOI and the underlying Handle directory service, being a participant in the DOI prototype, a key developer of the early CrossRef system, and a not infrequent commentator on DOI technologies in general. His background is in Physics and Astrophysics, with postgraduate experience in building a cosmic dust sensor array. He subsequently worked on the journal ‘Nuclear Physics A’, and later became Scientific Editor, and then Head of Scientific Information, with NATO’s SACLANT Undersea Research Centre. Before joining Nature, Tony was part of the Academic Press Electronic Publishing group that pioneered IDEAL, and later, following the Reed-Elsevier acquisition, he was instrumental in migrating the IDEAL journals content onto ScienceDirect.
Rachel Heery works for UKOLN, University of Bath, as Assistant Director leading the Research and Development team. Rachel has undertaken research over recent years in the field of metadata, resource discovery and information architectures. She is working closely with the JISC as part of the Digital Repositories Programme Support team, and represents the team in an initiative amongst UK repository software developers to explore a light-weight specification of a common repositories Deposit API. Other current research projects include development of a pilot metadata schema registry with funding from the JISC.
Thomas Krichel was born in Völklingen, (Saarland) in 1965, and studied Economics and Social Sciences at the universities of Toulouse, Paris, Exeter and Leicester. Between February 1993 and April 2001 he lectured in the Department of Economics at the University of Surrey. In 1993 he founded NetEc, a consortium of Internet projects for academic economists. In 1997, he founded the RePEc dataset to document economics. Between October and December 2000, he held a visiting professorship at Hitotsubashi University. Since January 2001, he has served as an assistant professor in the College of Information and Computer Science at Long Island University.
Carl Lagoze is a Senior Research Associate in Computing and Information Science at Cornell. In this role he teaches, directs graduate students, and participates in research funded by NSF and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His primary research interests include architecture and protocols for distributed information environments, automatic organization of web information, and new environments for scholarly communication. In research collaborations with colleagues at Cornell and elsewhere he has played a major role in the Open Archives Initiative for Metadata Harvesting, the Dienst/NCSTRL architecture and protocol for distributed digital libraries, the ABC metadata ontology, and the Fedora Open Source Repository System. He has served on a number of boards and committees including the Program Committees of U.S., European, and Asian Digital Library Conferences, the Advisory Committee of the National Virtual Observatory, the External Advisory Board of the Los Alamos Research Library, and the National Advisory Board of the University of Texas Utopia Project.
Sandy Payette leads digital library research and development projects at Cornell University’s Information Science program. She is founder and co-director of the internationally-recognized Fedora Project that deploys sophisticated open-source software that forms the basis of digital libraries, institutional repositories, digital archives, and educational software. She is currently collaborating with colleagues from Cornell and Los Alamos National Laboratory in the NSF-funded Pathways project to design new information architectures for integrating heterogeneous digital repositories and services, and to demonstrate a next-generation scholarly communication system. Sandy’s other research areas include digital preservation, information networks, and automated policy enforcement.
Jerry Persons is Chief Information Architect for the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR). His work includes architecture for and investigation of technologies in support of the Libraries’ collection, digitization and information delivery programs, as well as its efforts toward broad integration of access to knowledge resources throughout the academy. SULAIR enterprises include publication initiatives (High Wire Press and Stanford University Press) plus development and deployment of infrastructure for teaching, learning and research (such as LOCKSS, Stanford Digital Repository, Sakai).
Andy Powell is Head of Development at the Eduserv Foundation, a UK charity that aims to support the effective application of ICT in education. He previously worked at UKOLN, University of Bath where he advised the JISC and the UK academic community more generally about the technical standards that make up the JISC Information Environment. Andy is a member of the DCMI Advisory Board and Usage Board and he chairs the DC Architecture Working Group. He was also a member of the OAI Technical Committee. Andy has worked on and advised numerous digital library projects, both at UK and European levels.
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 is currently acting as the project director at MIT for DSpace, MIT's collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Labs to develop an open source digital repository for scholarly research material in digital formats. She was formerly the Digital Library Program Manager in the Harvard University Library's Office for Information Systems where she managed the design and implementation of the Library Digital Initiative there, and she has also held positions in the library IT departments at Harvard and the University of Chicago. Her research interests are in applied technology for libraries and academia, and digital libraries and archives in particular.
Robert Tansley is a Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He has a PhD from the University of Southampton, where he was the original architect and developer of the EPrints.org software, starting the project with Stevan Harnad in 1999. He was also a member of the OAI-PMH design group. He joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories at the end of 2000 as architect and lead developer on the DSpace project, initially a collaboration with MIT Libraries and now a major open source platform with a large and vibrant global user and developer community. His main research interests are in technologies and processes for long-term management and preservation of digital media.
Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. there. For many years, he was Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. After having left Ghent in 2000, he has been Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University, and Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. Currently, he is the team leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Team does research regarding various aspects of scholarly communication in the digital age, including information infrastructure, interoperability, digital preservation and indicators for the assessment of the quality of units of scholarly communication. Herbert has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, the SFX linking server, and the info URI.
Simeon Warner is a Research Associate in Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. He is one of the developers of the arXiv e-print archive (http://arXiv.org/) and his research interests include web information systems, interoperability, and open-access scholarly publishing. He has been actively involved with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) since its inception and was one of the authors of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory before moving with arXiv to Cornell in 2001. Prior to working on arXiv, he worked in the Physics Department at Syracuse University in computational physics, a discipline in which arXiv has eclipsed conventional journals as the preferred means of scholarly communication.
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 is a visiting scholar at the University of Washington iSchool for calendar year 2006, where he is writing about persistent identifiers.
Bill Ying is the Chief Technology Officer for ARTstor. As CTO, Mr. Ying is responsible for the effective deployment of hardware, databases, and software (both licensed and developed in-house) to maximize the quality of services delivered to the ARTstor user community. Prior to joining the ARTstor team in 2002, he was the CTO/CIO of Fathom Knowledge Inc from 2000-2002. Established by Columbia University in alliance with 13 partners, Fathom offers lifelong learning and professional development online. Before joining Fathom, Mr. Ying was Vice President of Information Systems at Uproar Inc. Earlier, he held a range of positions in information technology with Chase Manhattan, and the New York Blood Bank, where he developed the first bar code-based Blood Processing Information System, which created a standard for the healthcare industry. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University, School of Continuing Education, Computer Technology program. Mr. Ying received his Doctorate of Engineering Science and Masters of Science from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science from Cornell University.
Jeffrey A. Young graduated Beta Phi Mu with an M.L.S. from Kent State University. He has been at OCLC since 1987 and works as a software architect in the Office of Research. His focus is on registries, web services, and support and integration of protocol standards such as OAI, SRU, and OpenURL. His work on WikiD was recently integrated into OCLC's Open WorldCat and DeweyBrowser services to support user-contributed content. Patterns and tools to simplify and expand the use of OpenURL are currently being explored.
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Rachel Bruce works for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and is Programme Director for the Information Environment. She oversees the JISC investment in digital repositories, preservation and resource discovery development. She has worked for JISC for a number of years and has managed a number of Digital Library programmes as well as working with archivists from the UK academic sector and coordinating input into the development of international standards for archival collections and the establishment of the UK Archives Hub.
Ira Fuchs joined The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in July 2000, in the newly created position of Vice President for Research in Information Technology. He is responsible for directing the Foundation's expanding investigations of digital technologies that can be applied in higher education, the performing arts, museums, and other areas of special interest to the Foundation. Prior to coming to the Mellon Foundation, Fuchs was the Vice President for Computing and Information Technology at Princeton University (1985-2000), where he was responsible for the overall management of the University's academic and administrative computing services, electronic communications, media, and printing services. In 1981 he founded the BITNET Network, the first and world's largest academic telecommunications network, and later served as president of its successor, the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN). Fuchs currently serves on the board of directors of Sarah Lawrence College, JSTOR, the Princeton Public Library, the Open Source Applications Foundation, the National Visiting Committee of the National Science Digital Library, and the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC). Formerly he served as President of the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (1989-2004), and as a director of the Princeton University Press (1992-1997), Ariel Corporation (2000-2001), EDUCOM (1992-1996), and the European Academic Research Network (1984-1993). He received his M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Physics from Columbia University.
Tony Hey is the Corporate Vice President for Technical Computing at Microsoft Corporation. In that role, Hey coordinates efforts across Microsoft Corp. to collaborate with the global scientific community. He is a top researcher in the field of parallel computing, and his experience in applying computing technologies to scientific research helps Microsoft work with researchers worldwide in various fields of science and engineering. Before joining Microsoft, 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. Since 2001, Hey has 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. Hey is a fellow of the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering and has been a member of the European Union’s Information Society Technology Advisory Group. He has also served on several national committees in the United Kingdom, 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. Hey received the award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire honor for services to science 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.
Randy Hinrichs works closely with the VP of Technical Computing to support successful implementation of the TCI strategy through the TCI program office. He is the operational leader for running the business activities for TCI including: driving high quality execution against plans, driving strategy and progress towards goals, financial management and maintaining effective partnerships with cross company and external business owners. He maintains close partnerships with key internal business partners including product and research groups, legal, HR and finance to ensure that business initiatives are strategically orchestrated. He is responsible for issue management, escalation and resolution of issues. In addition, he stays on top of strategy shifts and partners with the VP, TCI and other Microsoft staff to maintain a “big picture” view of the business as a whole as it relates to technical computing. He manages special projects that are cross regional with an emphasis on e-Publishing. He is an industry board member of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Engineer 2020, the board of Journal of Engineering Education, and the Academy of Arts Presidential Board and former board of American Society of Engineering Educators. He is currently working with the Council on Competitiveness on advancing high performance technologies for national priorities and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Formerly, he led Microsoft Research’s Learning Science and Technology group, managing large scale university transformations most notably the MIT/MSR iCampus alliance, Conference XP, and innovative uses of TabletPC and gaming technologies in STEM education. He was Group Program Manager in Microsoft Research's University Relations Program, and a Senior Manager at Sun University, Sun Microsystems. Randy received his Master's Degree from UCLA in Computational Linguistics.
Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on the NRC’s committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration.
David Seaman is the Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF). The DLF is a consortium of forty major academic libraries -- with member institutions currently from the United States, Egypt, and Great Britain -- 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 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 and images, of which many are available in multiple e-book formats, and worked closely with faculty on many innovative digital archives and projects. In addition, he has lectured and published extensively in the fields of humanities computing and digital libraries, and since 1993 has taught digital library courses at the Rare Book School at UVA. He currently serves on the boards of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and the Retirement Series of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson."
Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he served as the first Director of the Digital Library Federation (1997-1999), as Associate University Librarian at YaleUniversity (1993-1997), and in a variety of other positions at the Computer Center, the School of Management, and the University Library at Yale. Waters graduated with a Bachelor's degree in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1973. In 1982, he received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University. Waters conducted his dissertation research on the political economy of artisanry in Guyana, South America. He has edited a collection of African-American folklore from the Hampton Institute in a volume entitled Strange Ways and Sweet Dreams. In 1995-96, he co-chaired the Task Force of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital Information, and was the editor and a principal author of the Task Force Report. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the author of numerous articles and presentations on libraries, digital libraries, digital preservation, and scholarly communications.
