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Archiving Web Resources - Issues for cultural heritage organisations International Conference
 National Library of Australia, Canberra 9 - 11 November 2004

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Stephen Abrams
Martha Anderson
Robin Batterham
Adrian Brown
Axel Bruns
Penny Carnaby
Warwick Cathro
Paolo Cherchi Usai
Adrian Cunningham
Robin Dale
Tom Delsey
Beth Dulabahn
Jan Fullerton
Malcolm Gillies
Timothy Hart
Jane Hunter
Hans Jansen
Michele Kimpton

Brian Lavoie
Hanno E. Lecher
Hans Liegmann
Nancy Y. McGovern
Timothy Mackey
Johan Mannerheim
Julien Masanès
James Michalko
Margaret Phillips
Melinda Rackham
David Seaman
Abby Smith
Andreas Stanescu
John Tuck
Caroline Wiegandt
Ian Wilson

 

Stephen Abrams

Stephen Abrams is the Digital Library Program Manager at the Harvard University Library, providing technical leadership for strategic planning, design and coordination of the Library's digital systems, projects and assets. He is currently engaged in research and implementation of effective methods for archival preservation of digital objects. Mr. Abrams was the architect and program manager for the joint JSTOR/ Harvard JHOVE project; is providing a leadership role in establishing a Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR); and is the ISO project leader and document editor for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 5, the joint working group developing the PDF/A standard. He is a member of ACM, ALA, ASIS&T, and the IEEE Computer Society.

Abstract: The role of file format registries in digital preservation

Presentation: The role of file format registries in digital preservation

 

Martha Anderson

Martha Anderson

Martha Anderson is currently a Project Manager for the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress working with preservation architecture projects. She manages the capture of Web content in support of the Library's Digital Strategic Initiatives Program. She was a participant in the Preservation Architecture Working Group for the National Digital Information Infrastructure for Preservation (NDIIP) Program and now serves as the project manager for the Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) of the NDIIP Preservation Architecture. She chairs the Metrics and TestBed working group of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC).

During her tenure on the staff of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress, Martha Anderson served as Manager of the Digital Conversion Group, Production Coordinator for American Memory collections, Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) for the multi-year paper scanning contract and as the National Digital Library Program Liaison to the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress.

She has been a member of the faculty of the Northeast Document Conservation Center School for Scanning presenting on the topic of Managing Digital Assets.

Prior to joining the library staff in 1996, Ms. Anderson worked in electronic publishing as editor and project manager for a variety of CD-ROM reference products, including Time Almanac, the Patrologia Latina Database and Periodicals Contents Index.

Abstract: Thematic Web Archiving

Presentation: Thematic Web Archiving

 

Robin Batterham

The Chief Scientist advises the Federal Government on the contributions of science, technology and innovation to national goals and assists in ensuring that public investment in science and technology is properly focussed on issues of national priority.
The Chief Scientist's activities include providing advice on science, technology and innovation issues to the Federal Government and creating linkages between Government and science, engineering, innovation and industry groups. The Chief Scientist is Executive Officer of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council and chairs the Council's Standing Committee. He is frequently asked to provide media commentary on science and innovation issues.

Recently, he has chaired an Expert Advisory Committee that has overseen the implementation of the national research priorities, for government-funded research programmes. Dr. Batterham also chaired the Reference Group that oversaw the Science and Innovation Mapping Taskforce, which took stock of the state of Australian science, technology and innovation.

Abstract: Use of the Web by Australian Scientists

Presentation: Use of the Web by Australian Scientists

 

Adrian Brown

Adrian Brown

Adrian Brown began his career as a field archaeologist, after studying Medieval Literature at the University of Durham. In 1994, he moved to the English Heritage Centre for Archaeology in Portsmouth, where he was responsible for managing its archaeological archives and other information resources. In this role, Adrian developed and implemented a digital archiving programme to enable the long-term preservation and re-use of the CfA's extensive and diverse digital collections. In 2001 he was appointed Head of Information Management and Collections. Adrian moved to the Digital Preservation Department of the UK National Archives in November 2002, where he is currently Digital Preservation Services Manager. His present role includes managing the TNA Web Archiving Programme and PRONOM, the TNA's technical registry and technology watch service.

Abstract: Building the UK Government Web Archive

Presentation: Building the UK Government Web Archive

 

Axel Bruns

Dr. Bruns completed his PhD at the University of Queensland in the area of media and cultural studies. His thesis examined Resource Centre Sites on the Web; since completing the thesis, Dr. Bruns has conducted further research on this topic and will publish his findings in a monograph entitled, Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production, due to be released in 2005. Dr. Bruns lectures in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology. He is General Editor of the online academic publisher M/C - Media and Culture and also co-founded dotlit: The Online Journal of Creative Writing. Dr. Bruns helped to develop QUT's streaming media station EMIT, which began Webcasting in 2002.

His research interests include collaborative online publishing, academic online publishing, streaming media policy and formats, copyright in a digital environment and electronic creative writing. He is part of the Researchers' Working Group of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and conducts research as part of the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design. Dr. Bruns has published extensively on the topics of gatewatching and open news, streaming media, electronic creative writing and popular music studies. He has also published works of creative writing online.

Abstract: Contemporary Culture and the Web

Presentation: Contemporary Culture and the Web

 

Penny Carnaby

Penny was appointed Chief Executive of the National Library of New Zealand and National Librarian in January 2003. From 2000-2002 she was University Librarian and Deputy Librarian at Macquarie Univerity in Sydney working with professor Neil McLean developing her understanding of next generation e-learning and digital library environments.
Between 1977 and June 2000 Penny held various positions at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology including Polytechnic Librarian and Director of the Library/ Learning Resource Centre. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Diploma of Education from the University of New South Wales, and is a member of CILIP and an associate of ALIA. Penny served as National President of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) in 1999/2000 and was awarded a Fellowship of the Association in 2001.

Penny has a particular professional interest in creating national frameworks and strategies which enhance the flow of information to all parts of society and believes that New Zealand Aotearoa has the potential to become a leading information democracy.
She is currently the Deputy Chair of the ICT Steering Committee for Education, established by the Minister of Education, was recently elected to the Public Sector Training Organisation Board, and is a member of the Library and Information Advisory Commission (LIAC).
Her personal interests include the environment and wildlife of Australia and New Zealand, and the management of a small farm on the Banks Peninsula, growing native trees.

Abstract: National Library of New Zealand Web archiving strategy

Presentation: National Library of New Zealand Web archiving strategy

 

Warwick Cathro

Warwick Cathro is Assistant Director-General, Innovation at the National Library of Australia. Warwick is responsible for planning and coordination of several of the key projects which contribute to the Library's strategic directions. The most significant of these is the Kinetica Redevelopment Project, which will deliver a new solution to position the Kinetica service after 2005.
Warwick is coordinating the Library's collaboration with the higher education sector in a number of projects aimed at establishing an improved environment for managing and accessing Australian research information.
From 1998 to 2003 Warwick was responsible for managing and planning the Library's information technology services. Prior to that he played a leading role in the Library's delivery of network services to the Australian library community.

Warwick has presented numerous conference papers on topics such as library networks, metadata and other standards, document delivery and digital libraries.

Abstract: Preserving the outputs of research

Presentation: Preserving the outputs of research

 

Paolo Cherchi Usai

Dr. Usai began his career in Italy as a film critic and writer on film and arts, later moving into the field of film curatorship. He has held the positions of Preservation Officer at the Royal Film Archive in Belgium, founder and director of the Silent Film Festival of Pordenone in Italy, co-founder of Domitor (an International Association for the Development of Studies on Early Cinema), adjunct professor of film at the University of Rochester, director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, and has taught at the Université de Liège and at the International School for Film Restoration, Bologna. Dr. Usai began work for the George Eastman House in 1989, and received an appointment as Senior Curator of Motion Pictures in 1996.

Since 1995, Dr. Usai served on the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and was later appointed Vice-President. Dr. Usai has received the Jean Vigo award, International Film Guide award and in early 2004 was knighted by the French government as Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to film culture. He has published widely on the history of silent cinema, film preservation and audiovisual archiving in the digital age, and counts among his most acclaimed publications Burning Passions: an Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema and The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age. Dr. Usai was recently appointed director of Screensound Australia, the national screen and sound archive.

Abstract: Digital is Politics Pursued with Other Means

 

Adrian Cunningham

Mr Cunningham has worked as a private records archivist at the National Library of Australia, the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau and the State Library of New South Wales. He later moved to the Office for Government Information Technology and in 1998, joined the National Archives of Australia as the Director of Recordkeeping Standards and Policy. In this role, Mr Cunningham has policy and R&D oversight of the Standard for Online Resource Discovery and the Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies. Mr Cunningham is Chair of the AGLS Working Group, Secretary of the International Council on Archives Committee on Descriptive Standards, Convenor of the Australian Society of Archivists Discriptive Standards Committee and a member of Standards Australia Committee IT/21, Records Management. Mr Cunningham was also President of the Australian Society of Archivists from 1998-2000.

Abstract: Managing government electronic records through the whole life cycle

Presentation: Managing government electronic records through the whole life cycle

 

Robin Dale

Robin Dale

Ms. Dale has had extensive experience in the field of digital preservation. At the University of California, Berkeley, she worked in the Preservation Replacement Department, and was later Head of the Preservation Reformatting Department at Columbia University. She joined Research Libraries Group (RLG) in 1997 as a Program Officer for Member Initiatives. In this role, Ms. Dale leads one of RLG's key initiatives, the Long-Term Retention of Digital Research Materials. Her current work focusses on the digitization of cultural materials, trusted digital repositories, digital repository certification and preservation metadata. In addition to her work at RLG, Ms. Dale participated in the development of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) international standard and co-chairs the NISO Z39.87 Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images Standard taskforce.

Ms. Dale is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET) and is involved with the Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Website. Furthermore, Ms. Dale is Associate Editor of RLG DigiNews and teaches preservation and digitization courses at the local School of Library and Information Science.

Abstract: Establishing trustworthy repositories: organizational models, roles, and imperatives

Presentation: Establishing trustworthy repositories: organizational models, roles and imperatives

 

Tom Delsey

Tom Delsey

Tom Delsey is a consultant, based in Ottawa, Canada, specializing in information modelling. He has developed a number of models for the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), the Library of Congress, and international organisations in the music, sound recording, film, video and publishing industries.

Prior to beginning his consulting career, Tom was Director General, Corporate Policy and Communications, at the National Library of Canada. During his twenty three year tenure there, he held a number of management positions in standards, acquisitions and bibliographic services, and policy and planning. At various intervals during that time, he represented the National Library of Canada on a number of national and international standards committees.

He has chaired the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Cataloguing and has participated in the work of a number of IFLA working groups, including the Study Group on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. In 1998-99, he undertook a study of the logical structure of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules for the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR.

Tom received his bachelor's degree in English literature from McMaster University, an MLS from the University of Western Ontario, and a PhD in English and American language and literature from Harvard University.

Abstract: Resource Discovery and Archived Resources: Approaches and Issues

Presentation: Resource Discovery and Archived Resources: Approaches and Issues

 

Beth Dulabahn

Beth Dulabahn is Senior Advisor for Integration Management in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. In addition to overseeing the Library's digitization support services, she is currently working on a number of initiatives involving the collection and preservation of digital content and the integration of the Library's Digital Life Cycle Framework into ongoing operations. In her more than twenty-five years at the Library, Beth has worked extensively in the areas of conceptual modeling and IT planning. She served as a consultant to the IFLA Study Group on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) in the mid-1990's and, more recently, was part of the management team that selected and implemented an integrated library system at the Library. Beth holds a PhD in Latin from Bryn Mawr College.

Abstract: The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP): Future Directions and Relevance to Other Countries

Presentation: The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP): Future Directions and Relevance to Other Countries

 

Jan Fullerton

Jan Fullerton was appointed to the position of Director-General of the National Library of Australia in August 1999. Jan was the first female and the first internal appointment to this key position of leadership within the Australian library community.
Jan's library background has spanned all the fundamental areas of library operations including cataloguing, acquisitions and collection development, preservation, information services and document supply. In her position of Director of Collections and Reader Services, and subsequently as Deputy Director-General, she was instrumental in leading the development of the National Library's digital collection and access policies and services. As the driving force behind the Library's strategy to collect Australian digital publications, Jan's initiative led to the creation of the world-renowned PANDORA archive.

In her role as Director-General, Jan has positioned the National Library as a leading organisation in the delivery of information to users through aggregated services such as the PictureAustralia digital image service and a major new digitization program. The Library's new strategic statement, Directions for 2003-2005, reflects Jan's influence in moving the Library in a direction that will "break down the barriers" that prevent users from easily and readily accessing information resources.
In 2000, Jan was elected as Chair of the annual Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) for a four-year term. CDNL is an independent association of chief executives of over eighty national libraries, established to facilitate discussion and promote understanding and cooperation on matters of common interest to national libraries worldwide.

 

Malcolm Gillies

Malcolm Gillies is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the Australian National University. He holds doctorates from the Universty of London and the University of Melbourne, and is the author or editor of a dozen books in fields of music history and analysis.

Prior to taking up his position at the ANU, Professor Gillies was a Pro Vice-Chancellor at The University of Adelaide and, for five years, Dean of Music at the University of Queensland.

During 1998-2001 Professor Gillies was President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and President of the National Academies Forum. He also chaired the Coalition for Innovation in Scholarly Communication and continues to chair the National Scholarly Communications Forum. In June 2004 he became the inaugural President of the peak body, the Council for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Professor Gillies has special interestObservatorys in higher education policy, educational assessment and creative arts management. During 2002-03 he has sat on Federal bodies of review of national research priorities, information infrastructure and national research infrastructure. He is currently a member of the Federal review of orchestras.

Abstract: Born Digital Born Free? The Cultural Impact of the Web

Paper: Born Digital Born Free? The Cultural Impact of the Web

 

Timothy Hart

Timothy Hart has worked in museums for the past 17 years, in collection management, policy development, project management, information technology and senior management. He studied Architecture and Archaeology at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1986. Tim was employed in 1987 as a registrar at the Powerhouse Museum and worked in that role for eight years. In 1994 he was appointed project manager at the Sydney Observatory and in 1995 began work in the Powerhouse Museum Directorate as policy coordinator. In 1997 he was appointed National Project Manager of Australian Museums Online (AMOL). In 1999 he became Chief Information Officer at the Powerhouse Museum, establishing a new division and executive role. In 2001, he was appointed Director of Information, Multimedia and Technology at Museum Victoria, once again establishing a new division and executive role.

Tim was involved in the establishment of the Australian Registrars Committee (ARC) in the early nineties and has been an active member of Museums Australia for the past ten years. In 2001 he was elected to the Museums Australia National Council, he is also a member of the Victorian State Branch Committee. In 2002 he became a committee member of the Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA).
Tim has provided leadership for a number of new media projects over the past seven years, most notably the multimedia components of the 1000 Years of the Olympic Games: Treasures of Ancient Greece exhibition held at the Powerhouse Museum during the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. His current major project is the $3 million Virtual Room at Melbourne Museum, which breaks new ground in the presentation and use of Virtual Reality content in museums.
Tim is committed to working towards increasing the integration of multimedia/ interactivity in museum exhibitions and websites in order to fully utilise the opportunities now available using digital media techniques and emerging technologies.

Abstract: Museums and the Web

 

Jane Hunter

Dr. Jane Hunter has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC) Cooperative Research Centre, at the University of Queensland, since completing her PhD in computer animation at the University of Cambridge in 1994. She is Project Leader of DSTC's MAENAD project, which is developing indexing, archival and preservation tools for multimedia collections in the cultural, educational and scientific domains. She is the liaison between MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), a member of the Dublin Core Advisory Board, a past editor of MPEG-7 and on the editorial board of the Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics. Over the past five years she has published extensively in the areas of multimedia digital libraries and the semantic web.

Abstract: The PANIC Project - A Scalable, Collaborative Approach to Preservation Based on Semantic Web Services

Presentation: The PANIC Project - A Scalable, Collaborative Approach to Preservation Based on Semantic Web Services

 

Hans Jansen

Hans Jansen is currently the Deputy Director e-Strategy at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands. In this role he is responsible for the initiation and execution of projects and programs in the Research & Development Division, which includes work on digital preservation issues. He is also supervising the activities of the ICT-department. He has been the manager of national programs for the preservation (Metamorfoze) and digitisation (Memory of the Netherlands) of heritage collections in libraries, archives and museums. He has also been involved in many European projects, including recently, The European Library, the development of a portal to the collections of 43 European National Libraries. He has held many other positions in the library since he joined the staff in 1976.

Abstract: Permanent access: the e-Depot at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Paper: Permanent access: the e-Depot at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek

 

Michele Kimpton

Michele Kimpton

Michele Kimpton has been a Director at Internet Archive for three years. In her role she works closely with National Libraries, Archives and Universities to provide technical expertise and services in Web archiving. She has developed partnerships with several of these institutions to collaborate on Web archiving activities, including being one of the founding members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC).

Prior to Internet archive, Michele worked in the high tech industry, mainly for profit sector, for the last 20 years. Before coming to Internet Archive she was one of the co-founders of an online digital imaging company, which was subsequently bought by one of the larger photo imaging companies. For the last ten years of her career she has worked primarily in technical management and business development. She has worked and lived in both Europe and Asia during her career.

Michele has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Santa Clara.

Abstract: Saving the Web for future generations

Presentation: Saving the Web for future generations

 

Brian Lavoie

Brian Lavoie

Brian Lavoie is a Senior Research Scientist in the Office of Research at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Since joining OCLC in 1996, he has worked on projects in many areas, including bibliographic control, harvesting and analysis of Web-accessible resources, and digital preservation. Brian's current research interests include the economics of information, metadata requirements for the long-term retention of digital materials, e-books, and collection analysis. He holds a PhD in Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics from Ohio State University.

Abstract: Preservation metadata initiatives: status and direction

Presentation: Preservation metadata initiatives: status and direction

 

Hanno E. Lecher

Hanno E. Lecher

Mr. Lecher is head librarian at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands. He completed his Masters thesis in 1994 on the topic of "Trying to communicate with the Chinese past" and is currently working on a dissertation about a large printing and publication project in 16th century China. During his career, Mr. Lecher has lectured and written extensively on the subject of preserving Chinese digital resources and has managed many related projects. Since 1995 he has been the general editor of the China WWW Virtual Library - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies, and was elected to the Council of the WWW Virtual Library in 1999, a position he held until 2002. From 2001 until 2003, Mr. Lecher was content manager of the European Center for Digital Resources in Chinese Studies in Heidelberg, Germany. He has been responsible for the development of the Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS), and is currently managing the Leiden Division of that project.

Abstract: Informant networks, alarm systems and research contributors: selection and ingest process for the Digital Archive for Chinese Studies

Presentation: Informant networks, alarm systems and research contributors: selection and ingest process for the Digital Archivie for Chinese Studies

 

Hans Liegmann

Hans Liegmann

Hans Liegmann, born in 1953, holds degrees in Librarianship and Academic Librarianship. Since 1979 he has been a staff member of the information technology department at Die Deutsche Bibliothek. During that time, he has been team leader of the unit EDOK, responsible for organisational and technical concepts concerning workflow and preservation of electronic publications. He has been involved in the European project NEDLIB (Networked European Deposit Library) from 1997 to 2000. Currently, he is coordinating NESTOR, the Network of Expertise in Digital Preservation, a project of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).

Abstract: Die Deutsche Bibliothek: cooperative efforts on the European and national level

Presentation: Die Deutsche Bibliothek: cooperative efforts on the European and national level

 

Nancy Y. McGovern

Nancy Y. McGovern

Nancy McGovern spent over a decade working on electronic records at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and has been working on digital preservation issues since 1986. Ms. McGovern is a co-editor or RLG DigiNews and is also the Digital Preservation Officer at Cornell University Library. Ms. McGovern currently heads the Research Department in Instruction, Research and Information Services (IRIS) at Cornell University Library and is working on her PhD in digital preservation at University College, London.

Abstract: Virtual Remote Control: A risk management approach

Presentation: Virtual Remote Control: A rish management approach

 

Timothy Mackey

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Tim Mackey joined Geoscience Australia in 1994. He worked in many science projects as a geophysicist and GIS analyst. In 2000, he moved into information management in Geoscience Australia, where he is now the Web Systems Manager. Tim is currently responsible for the administration and development of several Websites, including Geoscience Australia's Internet and Intranet presences. He is also a leader within Geoscience Australia in spatial data interoperability and information security issues. Tim has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Geophysics and Geology and a Graduate Diploma in Computer Science.

Abstract: Maps: the impact of the Internet

Presentation: Maps: the impact of the Internet

 

Johan Mannerheim

Johan Mannerheim has a broad library background and since 2001, has been Deputy Director of the Royal Library, National Library of Sweden, and Head of Special Collections. He has also been working on issues relating to digitization. Johan is a member of the Standing Committee of the Preservation and Conservation Section of IFLA, where he has promoted long term preservation of digital information and digitization as a means of protecting original documents from wear and tear.
Johan led the early Web preservation activities of the Swedish National Library, namely the Kulturarw3 Project. The project began harvesting as many Swedish websites as possible in 1996, and since then, Web preservation become a permanent task of the library. Johan has also been a pioneer in Newspaper librarianship and the microfilming of newspapers in Sweden. He was one of the three founders of the IFLA Working Group on Newspapers, the forerunner of the Newspaper Section of IFLA.

Abstract: Collect all, catalogue some

Presentation: Collect all, catalogue some

 

Julien Masanès

Julien Masanes

M. Masanès studied Philosophy and Cognitive Science, gaining his MS in Philosophy from the Sorbonne in 1992 and his MS in Cognitive Science from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in 1994. M. Masanès commenced work at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in 1999 in the area of Web archiving and obtained his MS in librarianship from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'information et des Bibliothèques (ENSSIB) in 2000. At the BnF, M. Masanès organised the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) workshops on Web archiving (IWAW) and participated in the Networked European Deposit Library (NEDLIB) project. M. Masanès is currently the conservator in the BnF digital library department where he is responsible for the expansion of legal deposit to encompass Internet resources. Julien Masanès actively participated in the creation of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), which he now coordinates.

Abstract: International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) work program to develop Web collecting tools

Presentation: International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) work program to develop Web collecting tools

 

James Michalko

James Michalko

James Michalko is President and Chief Executive Officer of Research Libraries Group. He joined RLG in 1980 and served as Chief Financial Officer in the early 1980's; in 1985 he was named Vice President for Finance and Administration. He was appointed President in 1989. Prior to joining RLG, Michalko held positions in the medical technology industry, the University of Chicago libraries, and the University of Pennsylvania libraries. His undergraduate degree is from Georgetown University; his MBA and MLS are from the University of Chicago.

Abstract: Key issues for cultural agencies

Presentation: Key issues for cultural agencies

 

Margaret Phillips

Margaret Phillips has worked in libraries since 1976 and joined the staff of the National Library of Australia in 1987. In the mid-1990s as manager of Acquisitions she increasingly dealt with electronic materials and from 1996 began to devote full-time attention to online publications in her capacity of manager of the unit that builds the PANDORA Archive. She has been closely involved in establishing policy, procedures and infrastructure for ensuring long-term access to Australian Internet publications. She is currently the director of Digital Archiving at the National Library.

Abstract: The selective approach to web archiving at the National Library of Australia

Presentation: What to collect and how to do it: the National Library of Australia's selective approach

 

Melinda Rackham

Melinda Rackham

Dr. Melinda Rackham is an artist, writer and curator based in Sydney, Australia. Since the mid-1990's her practice has investigated the aesthetic, technological and psychological aspects of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as viral symbiosis and trans species relations. She has recently completed her PhD on the nature and construction of, and avatar relations within Virtual Reality Networked Spaces at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.

Rackham's writing appears online and in print in arenas like Leonardo, Ctheory, Culture Machine, and Realtime, and as chapters in Routledge and MIT editions, and has participated in residencies at Polar Circuit in Finland and Banff Center, Canada.

Her Web works have been shown widely, including Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, Transmediale, File, Art Entertainment Network, The Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival, Hybrid Life Forms, MAAP, Perspecta, Biennial of Buenos Aires, lab3D and ISEA.

Rackham won the SoundSpace Award for Virtual Worlds at the 2001 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, the Faulding Award for Multimedia at the 2000 Adelaide Festival, and Gram - Trails of the Future 1999 Prize for Internet Art in Argentina. She was recently Curator of Networked Media at the Australian Centre for Moving Image in Melbourne, and is the producer of -empyre- online media forum.

Abstract: The Art of the Network

Paper: The Art of the Network

 

David Seaman

David Seaman

Mr. Seaman gained a BA in English studies from the University of East Anglia, Norwich in 1984 and an MA from the University of Connecticut in 1986. In 1992, Mr. Seaman joined the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library as founding Director. In this role, he oversaw the creation and development of an online archive of XML and SGML texts, of which more than 2000 are available in multiple e-book formats. In 2002, Mr. Seaman was appointed Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF), a consortium of university libraries which are pioneering new digital technologies to extend their collections and services. Mr. Seaman has lectured and published extensively in the fields of humanities computing, and for a decade has taught e-text and internet courses at the annual summer Book Arts Press Rare Book School at Virginia.

Presentation: Mass, Malleability and the Collaboration Imperative: Survival trends for the digital library

 

Abby Smith

Abby Smith

Abby Smith is Director of Programs at the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in Washington, D.C. She joined CLIR in 1997 to develop and manage collaborative work with library and archival institutions to ensure long-term access to our cultural and intellectual heritage. Before that, she worked at the Library of Congress, first as a consultant to the special collections research divisions, then coordinating several cultural and academic programs. She holds a doctoral degree in history from Harvard University and has taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. Her recent publications include: Access in the Future Tense; New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?; Strategies for Building Digitized Collections; The Evidence in Hand: Report on the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections; and Authenticity in the Digital Environment.

Abstract: The future of Web resources: who decides what gets saved and how do they do it?

Paper: The future of Web resources: who decides what gets saved and how do they do it?

 

Andreas Stanescu

Andreas Stanescu is Software Architect for OCLC's Digital Archive. He is developing and prototyping processes to create preservation plans 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 program that secured access to system services and implemented strong cryptographic solutions to protect data integrity. His BS and MS in Computer Science degrees are from Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio.

Abstract: Assessing the Durability of Formats in a Digital Preservation Environment: the INFORM Methodology

Presentation: Assessing the Durability of Formats in a Digital Preservation Environment: the INFORM Methodology

 

John Tuck

John Tuck

John Tuck worked in the field of academic librarianship for over 24 years, spending over four years at Oxford University and twenty years at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. At Oxford, John was Deputy to the Director of University Library Services and to Bodley's Librarian. He is currently head of British Collections at the British Library, a position he has held since October 2002. In this role, John oversees the management, promotion and future development of the world's largest collection of British material, including such treasures as the Magna Carta, the first Bible printed in English, and Shakespeare's First Folio as well as the Library's extensive Sound Archive and newspaper collections. He has lead responsibility for the British Library's Web Archiving Programme.

Abstract: The British Library: Web Archiving Challenges and Initiatives

Paper: The British Library: Web Archiving Challenges and Initiatives

 

Caroline Wiegandt

Caroline Wiegandt

Caroline Wiegandt is currently Deputy Managing Director at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in charge of legal deposit, catalogues, preservation, digital library and information technology. She began her career as a teacher after studying history and art history. She was then appointed librarian at the Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Then, she served as Information Manager in the aeronautical industry. She joined Bibliothèque Nationale de France after three years at Ernst & Young as Knowledge Management Consultant.

Abstract: International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC): objectives and workplan

Presentation: International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC): objectives and workplan

 

Ian Wilson

On May 21, 2004, Mr. Ian E. Wilson was appointed interim Librarian and Archivist of Canada in the new Library and Archives Canada. He had been appointed National Archivist of Canada in July 1999 and with the National Librarian Roch Carrier developed and led the process to create a new knowledge institution for Canada in the 21st century.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, in April 1943, Ian Wilson attended the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean and obtained a Masters degree from Queen's University in 1974. In 2001, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (D. Litt.) from York University in recognition of his contribution to Canadian archives. In 2002, he became member of the Order of Canada. In 2003, he was elected Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France.

Mr. Wilson has had a distinguished career in several areas, including archival and information management, university teaching and government service. He began his career at Queen's University Archives (1967); later becoming Saskatchewan's Provincial Archivist (1976-86) and Chairman of the Saskatchewan Heritage Advisory Board. He was appointed Archivist of Ontario in 1986, position he held until 1999. For several years he was also responsible for the Ontario Public Library system.
Mr. Wilson chaired the Consultative Group on Canadian Archives on behalf of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.The Group's report, Canadian Archives - generally known as the "Wilson Report" - was published in 1980 and has been described as "a milestone in the history of archival development in Canada."
As Librarian and Archivist, Mr. Wilson serves on the Information Management Sub-Committee of the Treasury Board of Canada and was appointed their Information Management co-Champion for the Government of Canada in 2002. He is a member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and, in September 2000, he was elected Vice-President of the International Council on Archives. He has taught as an Adjunct Professor in the Faculties of Information Studies and Graduate Studies of the University of Toronto. He has also served as President of the Ontario Historical Society (1975-1976) and more recently was President of the Champlain Society from 1995 to 2003.
Mr. Wilson has been involved with the Canadian archival and library communities for over 30 years. He has worked diligently to make archives accessible and interesting to a wide range of audiences. He has helped safeguard the integrity of archival records while at the same time encouraging an active use of them by the public. In addition, he has published extensively on history, archives, heritage, and information management and has lectured both nationally and abroad.

Abstract: Library and Archives Canada: Digital and Metadata Initiatives

Presentation: Library and Archives Canada: Digital and Metadata Initiatives

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