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| Tools and Services for the Long-Term Preservation of Digital Archives |
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Joseph JaJa (USA Lead-PI)
Mike Smorul and Sangchul Song
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| A Value-metric Framework for Data Curation Stakeholders |
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| Distributed Digital Preservation |
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| A Layered-stack Architecture Proposal for Portable and Scalable Long-term Digital Data Access |
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| Digital Preservation Challenges, Infrastructures and Evaluations |
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| Challenges in the Curation and Preservation of Social-Scientific Knowledge |
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| Sustainable Data Curation Infrastructure |
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| New Media & Social Memory: Preserving Digital Art |
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| 21st Century Archives: Architecting the Future |
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| Preserving Geospatial Data: Challenges and Opportunities |
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| Transcontinental Preservation Archive Prototype |
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| Descriptive Metadata Requirements for Long-term Archival of Digital Product Models |
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| The Experience of the US National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program |
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| More presentations will be added soon. Information is awaited. |
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| Joseph JaJa |
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Joseph JaJa currently holds the position of Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. JaJa received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and has since published extensively in a number of areas including parallel and distributed computing, combinatorial optimization, algebraic complexity, VLSI architectures, and data-intensive computing. His current research interests are in parallel algorithms, digital preservation, and scientific visualization. Dr. JaJa has received numerous awards including the IEEE Fellow Award in 1996, the 1997 R&D Award for the development software for tuning parallel programs, the ACM Fellow Award in 2000, and the Internet2 IDEA Award in 2006. He served on several editorial boards, and is currently serving as a subject area editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and as an editor for the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science. |
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| Stuart L. Weibel |
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Dr. Weibel has worked in OCLC Research since 1985, active in the areas of electronic publishing, Internet naming architectures, and metadata. He was instrumental in the launch and management of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative from its inception in 1994 until 2004, and continues to be a contributor to the effort. He is currently working with colleagues at the University of Washington on a proposal for the NSF DataNet solicitation for sustainable data curation. |
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| Victoria Reich |
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Victoria Reich is director and co-founder of the LOCKSS Program (www.lockss.org), Stanford University Libraries, and a founding board member of the CLOCKSS Program (www.clockss.org). Prior to LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, Victoria helped launch Stanford University's HighWire Press, an online platform for the world's leading journals. Victoria also has extensive library experience in both public and technical services, having held positions at Stanford University Libraries, the National Agricultural Library, the Library of Congress, and the University of Michigan. A list of her publications and presentations can be found at:
http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Vicky_Reich
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| Keith Johnson |
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Keith Johnson is the Preservation Architect for the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR), a set of services focused on maintaining integrity, authenticity, and readability of digital information over long periods of time, in order to serve the long-term digital archiving needs of Stanford University’s research and teaching communities. While at Stanford for the past five years, Keith has served as technical lead for several digital preservation projects funded by the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiative’s National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP). Previously, Keith developed in-depth practical knowledge of digital content management and stewardship in 25 years experience leading IT systems design and support within the commercial content creation and management industry—primarily in publishing but also in television, advertising, and even classical music performance. |
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| David Giaretta |
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Dr Giaretta has published many scientific papers in refereed journals and given presentations at many international conferences, scientific as well as technical. In 2003 he was awarded an MBE for services to Space Science. He is now Associate Director for Development in the DCC and has played an active role in all aspects of the project. He leads the CASPAR project, where he is the project co-ordinator. CASPAR, with a total spend of 16M Euros, 8.8 M€ from the EU, seeks to address fundamental issues of digital preservation. Fundamentally new work is being undertaken in the preservation of digitally encoded information in the science (STFC and ESA), cultural heritage (UNESCO) and contemporary performing arts (IRCAM and others). In addition he leads the PARSE.Insight EU project, which started in March 2008 with total spend 2.5 M€ and which will help to define the EU research
infrastructure supporting digital preservation. He also leads the work which aims at producing an ISO standard for audit and certification of digital repositories, following on from the work of the RLG/OCLC/NARA working group of which he was also a member and is leading the work to revise the OAIS Reference Model
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| Micah Altman |
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Micah Altman (Ph.D. California Institute of Technology) is Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, Associate Director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, and Archival Director of the Henry A. Murray Research Archive.
Dr. Altman conducts research in social science informatics, social science research methodology, and American politics, focusing on the intersection of information, technology, and politics; and on the dissemination, preservation, and reliability of scientific knowledge. His current research interests include survey quality; computationally reliable and efficient statistical methods; the collection, sharing, citation and preservation of research data; the creation and analysis of networks of scientific knowledge; and computational methods of redistricting.
Dr. Altman's work has been recognized by the Supreme Court, Forbes and by Who's Who in America. His extensively-reviewed book, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist, corrects common computational errors made across the range of social sciences. And his over thirty-five publications and five open-source software packages span informatics, statistics, computer science, political science, and other social-science disciplines.
Dr. Altman has won the 2005 Best Political Science Software Award and the 1999 Best Political Science Research Website Award, given by the American Political Science Association (CMS & ITP), 1999 Outstanding Dissertation Award, given by the Western Political Science Association, for best dissertation in the Western region; and the 1998 Weaver Award, for best paper in representation and electoral systems, given by the American Political Science Association.
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| G. Sayeed Choudhury |
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G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Director of Operations for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins. Choudhury serves as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has oversight for the digital library activities and services provided by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury has published articles in journals such as the International Journal of Digital Curation, D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, First Monday, and Library Trends. He has served on committees for the Digital Curation Conference, Open Repositories, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and Web-Wise. He has presented at various conferences including Educause, CNI, DLF, ALA, ACRL, and international venues including IFLA, the Kanazawa Information Technology Roundtable and eResearch Australasia. |
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| Richard Rinehart |
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Richard Rinehart is Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. He is Associate Director for Public Programs of the Berkeley Center for New Media and is a new media artist. Richard has exhibited his art at Exit Art in New York and elsewhere; curated digital art exhibitions for New Langton Arts in San Francisco and others; and he has taught digital art at UC Berkeley and beyond. He is currently working on a book from MIT Press in his area of research interest, the long-term preservation of digital culture. Rinehart's papers, projects, and more can be found at http://www.coyoteyip.com |
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| Adam Jansen |
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Adam Jansen is an information management consultant and an internationally recognized speaker and published author specializing in electronic records management and preservation. Prior to founding Dkives Consulting, Mr. Jansen spent seven years working for Washington State, first managing the enterprise wide imaging program – a program that won the Governor’s Award for Quality and Service Improvement-- and then as the Deputy State Archivist for the State of Washington. While at the Digital Archives he designed, built and managed an award winning, first of its kind digital archives to preserve permanent, electronic records of both State and Local Government. His program was recognized for Excellence in Using Technology for the Preservation of Information by eC3 in 2007.
Mr. Jansen also very active supporting professional organizations, serving as: adjunct faculty to the Western Archives Institute, a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators from 2006-2008, a voting member of INCITS/V1 committee -- the US ISO standards body responsible for document publishing and file format specifications, a committee member for the new skills colloquium hosted by SAA in 2007, and a founding member of the Professional Advisory Board for the Computer Science Department at Eastern Washington University. Constantly in pursuit of further knowledge, Mr. Jansen has received the following certifications and recognitions: Certified Records Manager, Microsoft Certified Professional, Master of Information Technology, Certified Document Imaging Architech and is currently completing an Interdisciplinary Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from Eastern Washington University. |
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| Steve Morris |
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Steve Morris is currently Head of Digital Library Initiatives at the North Carolina State University Libraries where he oversees a wide range of research and development projects in the area of library technology. Previously, Mr. Morris led the development of the GIS data services program at NCSU, an effort which focused on the cultivation of a campus infrastructure for access to data and associated tools and services. He is principal investigator of the North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project, one of the first collection building projects initiated as part of the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in 2004. Mr. Morris is also a partner in the NDIIPP Multi-state project GeoMAPP (Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership), which involves a combined effort of state archives and state geospatial organizations to address the data preservation challenge. Mr. Morris is Co-Chair of the Data Preservation Working Group within the Open Geospatial Consortium, an industry standards organization, and was recipient of the ESRI Special Achievement in GIS Award. |
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| Reagan W. Moore |
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Reagan Moore is Director of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments group at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He coordinates research efforts in development of data grids, digital libraries, and preservation environments. Developed software systems include the Storage Resource Broker data grid and the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System. Supported projects include the National Archives and Records Administration Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype, the National Science Foundation National Science Digital Library persistent archive, and science data grids for seismology, oceanography, climate, high-energy physics, astronomy, and bio-informatics. An ongoing research interest is use of data grid technology to automate execution of management policies and validate trustworthiness of repositories.
Moore's previous roles include: Director of the DICE group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Manager of production services at SDSC. He previously worked as a computational plasma physicist at General Atomics on equilibrium and stability of toroidal fusion devices. He has a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego, (1978) and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (1967).
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| Sudarsan Rachuri |
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Sudarsan Rachuri’s work in the NIST Manufacturing Systems Integration Division includes development of information models for product lifecycle management, assembly models and system level tolerancing, and interoperability standards development. He coordinates research projects with industry and academia. He is the regional editor (North America) for the International Journal of Product Development, and associate editor for International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management. His areas of interest include scientific computing, mathematical modeling, product lifecycle management, ontology modeling, system level tolerancing, quality, object oriented modeling, and knowledge engineering. Rachuri Sudarsan received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. |
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| William G. LeFurgy |
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Bill LeFurgy is Digital Initiative Project Manager for the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). He oversees a variety of work, including four projects with U.S. state archives to preserve government records and publications. The projects involve a total of 23 states and aim to develop tools, services, and practices that can be adopted across the nation. He also directs three of the original eight NDIIPP partnerships. Two of the projects focus on preservation of geospatial data; the other on social science data.
Bill coordinated the joint research program between the Library and the National Science Foundation that launched in 2005. The program funded 10 university teams to work on problems in connection with advanced digital stewardship, including preservation of CAD/CAM data, automated repository workflow processes, and incentives for creators to deposit data in archives. He led the Library’s work in 2008 to collaborate with other nations in studying the impact of copyright on digital preservation, and coordinated presentation of the study results at a World Intellectual Property Organization workshop in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, he leads the NDIIPP communication team.
Prior to joining LC in 2002, Bill worked in various positions involving electronic records at the National Archives and Records Administration. He received his Master of Arts in history and Master of Library Science degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, and his Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University.
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