D-Lib Magazine
July/August 2009

Volume 15 Number 7/8

ISSN 1082-9873

Authors in the July/August 2009 Issue of D-Lib Magazine

Michael Ashenfelder

Mike Ashenfelder is a writer and project manager for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress <http://www.digitalpreservation.gov>. He has written about digital preservation pioneers, events and advances in digital preservation and large-scale network data transfer between cultural institutions. Mike is one of the lead writers and producers on NDIIPP's new public service video series <http://digitalpreservation.gov/videos/>. He is also a regular contributor to the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.

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George Buchanan

George Buchanan is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design at City University, London. His research interests center on the usability of information systems, particularly digital libraries and small-screen information access. In addition to his work at City, he is also a member of the New Zealand Digital Library Group, contributing to the popular Greenstone digital library system. Previous to his academic career, George ran a successful desktop publishing software development business after taking his first degree in Computer Science at the University of York, UK.

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Sally Jo Cunningham

Sally Jo Cunningham is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waikato (Te Whare Wananga o Waikato, located in Hamilton, New Zealand). She is a founding member of the New Zealand Digital Libraries project (http://www.nzdl.org), which has produced the Greenstone system (http://www.greenstone.org) to support the development and maintenance of digital libraries. Her research focuses on user studies through quantitative transaction log analysis of digital library usage and qualitative studies of information behavior.

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Martin Doerr

Dr. Martin Doerr is a Principal Researcher in the Information Systems Laboratory and the head of the Centre for Cultural Informatics of the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece. His research interests include semantic web, knowledge organization systems and semantic interoperability. He is involved in various projects including CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group, CHIOS (Cultural Heritage Interchange Ontology Standardization), SCHOLNET. He has served as editorial board and program committee member of several scientific journals and conferences.

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Paola Galimberti

Paola Galimberti is Chief Librarian at the Library of Classic and Modern Philology at the University of Milan. She participated in the creation of the university's institutional repositories: AIR, for research output and ARMIDA, for teaching materials. She is a member of the IRs Management Group, focusing on intellectual property issues. She is Site Manager of Riviste UNIMI, a portal for the university's journals, implemented with the OJS software. She is a member of the Open Access Group of the National Council of Italian University Rectors as an expert in copyright and intellectual property issues. Within this context she contributed to the Italian Guidelines for Open Access to Doctoral Theses, the Guidelines on Institutional Repositories and the Italian Wiki on Open Access. She participates in national and international conferences and served on the scientific boards of ETD and ELPUB. She writes and lectures on various aspects of open access and intellectual property.

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Elena Giglia

Elena Giglia has been working in academic libraries since 1991, at the University of Milan and then at the University of Turin (Economic Library, Central Medical Library). She is now assigned to the Library System (University of Turin). Her interest is in Open Access, electronic publishing, biomedical information seeking strategies and the integration of information sources and e-learning systems.

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Michael Khoo

Michael ('Mick') Khoo is Assistant Professor at the iSchool at Drexel University, Philadelphia. His research focuses on the evaluation of digital libraries, and on qualitative analyses of the various mental models and practices that users bring to their interactions with these systems. He draws on models of culture, practice, and knowledge, from anthropology, communication, human-computer interaction, philosophy, and science, technology and society studies (STS), and he operationalizes these using a range of methods, including ethnography, webmetrics, user-centered design, interviews, surveys and focus groups, and analyses of organizational communication. He has conducted research and evaluation with a number of digital libraries, including the Digital Water Education Library (DWEL), the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE), the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), and currently the Internet Public Library (IPL).

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Hannes Kulovits

Hannes Kulovits is currently a researcher at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. He received his Master in Business Informatics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2005. He is actively involved in several research projects in the field of Digital Preservation where his main focus lies in Preservation Planning and Recommender Systems.

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Irene Lourdi

Irene Lourdi is a Ph.D. student in the "Department of Archives and Library Sciences" in the Ionian University. She is member of the "Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing" of Ionian University, and she works in Libraries Computer Centre of National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research interests include digital cultural heritage collections, metadata schemas and interoperability, collection-level descriptions, ontologies and knowledge organization.

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Frank McCown

Frank McCown is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Harding University. He completed his Ph.D. in 2007 at Old Dominion University where he focused on digital preservation of websites using the publicly available Web infrastructure (search engines and caches). His research interests include digital preservation, web crawling, and web search engines. He's the developer of the website reconstruction tool Warrick.

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Carol Minton Morris

Carol Minton Morris is the Communications Director for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and Fedora Commons. She is also a research associate in the digital libraries group in Cornell Information Science. Her interests are informed by her background in publishing and the visual arts and include community development around establishing collaborative communications systems and tools for distributed content creation. She is the founding editor of NSDL Whiteboard Report featuring information from NSDL projects and programs nationwide since 2000.

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Trevor Muñoz

Trevor Muñoz is currently a master's degree candidate in Digital Humanities at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. His current research interests include text analysis, topic modelling and the implications of traditions of scholarly practice for the use of digital resources. During 2009/10 he will be a graduate fellow for Data Curation for the Humanities at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Michael L. Nelson

Michael L. Nelson joined the Computer Science Department at Old Dominion University in 2002. He worked at NASA Langley Research Center from 1991-2002. Through a NASA fellowship, he spent the 2000-2001 academic year at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include repository-object interaction and digital preservation.

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Christos Papatheodorou

Christos Papatheodorou received a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, both from the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. He is an associate professor in the Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Greece, where he teaches Information Retrieval, Metadata and Knowledge Management. Moreover he is a fellow researcher in the Digital Curation Unit, "Athena" Research Centre, Greece. His research interests include Evaluation of Digital Libraries and Information Services, Metadata interoperability, Personalized access to Digital Libraries and Internet, User Modeling, Information Filtering and Web Mining.

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Heila Pienaar

Dr. Heila Pienaar is Deputy Director: e-Information Strategy & e-Research Enablement in the Department of Library Services at the University of Pretoria. Her research focuses on library & e-information strategy formulation, digital library implementation, eResearch, virtual research environments and data curation.

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Andreas Rauber

Andreas Rauber has been a member of the academic faculty of the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ifs) at the Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien) since 1997. He furthermore is president of AARIT <http://www.aarit.at>, the Austrian Association for Research in IT and a Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he joined the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Pisa as an ERCIM Research Fellow, followed by an ERCIM Research position at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) at Rocquencourt, France in 2002. He also serves on the board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL). In 2002 he received the Cor Baayen Award of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. His research interests, apart from Digital Preservation, include text and music information retrieval and organization, information visualization, and neural computation.

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Pich Hemy Ros

Pich Hemy Ros holds an engineering degree in Computer Science and Communication from the Institute of Technology of Cambodia, a top university in Phnom Penh, and is currently working on her MBA in management. She has been involved with research and development of Khmer localization standards and technologies and participated in initiating the Khmer text-to-speech project at ITC. She is now Software Development Manager for Digital Divide Data where she uses her skills and experience to lead the team providing technology solutions to DDD businesses.

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Frank Shipman

Frank Shipman is a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University. He has worked in the broad areas of computer-human interaction, artificial intelligence, and information systems since 1987 at Baylor College of Medicine, University of Colorado, Xerox PARC, and FX Palo Alto Laboratory. Frank helped found the field of spatial hypertext and helped design and develop a number of information systems including VIKI, the Visual Knowledge Builder, Walden's Paths, and Hyper-Hitchcock.

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Simon Tanner

Simon Tanner is the Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services (KDCS) in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at King's College London. KDCS provides research and consulting services specializing in the information and digital domains for the cultural, heritage and information sectors. Simon is an independent member of the UK Legal Deposit Advisory Panel and Chair of its Web Archiving sub-committee. He is also a member of the JISC Digitisation Advisory Group. Simon authored the book, Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age, with Dr Marilyn Deegan and they co-edited the book, Digital Preservation. He has just returned from Israel, leading the pilot digital imaging of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Martie van Deventer

Martie van Deventer is a Portfolio Manager for the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Her research interests are: digital library implementation, eResearch, virtual research environments and data curation.

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