D-Lib Magazine
May/June 2009

Volume 15 Number 5/6

ISSN 1082-9873

Authors in the May/June 2009 Issue of D-Lib Magazine

William Arms

William Arms is professor of computer science at Cornell University. His career includes appointments at the British Open University, Dartmouth College, and Carnegie Mellon University. At Cornell, he was the first director of the Information Science program. He has more than forty years experience applying computing to academic activities, notably educational computing, computer networks, and digital libraries. He was one of the founders of D-Lib Magazine in 1995 and Editor-in-Chief from 1998-2001. His book Digital Libraries was published by MIT Press in 2000.

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Chris Awre

Chris Awre is Head of Information Management within Academic Services at the University of Hull. This recently formed group has a remit covering all library and corporate information management, and also advises Academic Services colleagues and University staff and students on all matters of information management. Chris has been engaged in repository development since 2002 and has acted as repository domain specialist for the RepoMMan and REMAP projects.

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Manuel Calimlim

Manuel Calimlim is a research programmer and database administrator at the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. Recent projects include the Cornell Web Lab, a repository for storing and analyzing large web crawls; the Arecibo Pulsar Survey, a data-mining process for finding new pulsars in a huge volume of radio signals; and Data Driven Games, a new technique for improving gaming performance by utilizing database optimizations.

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Olga Cerrato

Olga Cerrato (Olga.Cerrato@dnv.com) has an MSc. from the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden, in Information and Communication Systems Security, (2006) and a BSc. from the Universitetet i Oslo, Norway, in Computer Science (2004). Since 2006 she has been employed at DNV Research and Innovation working in the area of Information and Communication Security where she engaged in the following research projects: Long-term Records Management and Information Security Services.

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Linn Marks Collins

Linn Marks Collins is a Technical Project Manager at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she leads the Knowledge Systems and Human Factors Team at the Research Library. Her team focuses on applying semantic web and social web technologies to challenges in national security, including situational awareness, nonproliferation, and energy security. She received a doctorate in educational technology from Columbia University in New York, where her dissertation was on semantic macrostructures and human-computer interaction. Prior to LANL she worked at IBM Research on Eduport and the Knowledge and Collaboration Machine, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Project Athena.

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Tom Evens

Tom Evens is a researcher at the research group for Media & ICT (Ghent University, Belgium), which is part of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT). His research focuses on how current evolutions such as convergence, mobility, and digitisation hold affordances for cultural and media industry actors as well as for users and consumers, including themes such as media convergence and concentration, innovation and adoption processes related to new information and communication technologies.

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David Flanders

David F. Flanders is currently Project Manager (Technical Innovation) working with the Bloomsbury Colleges consortium (group of specialist Higher Education providers within the University of London) in advancing content management systems and e-services. Projects he is currently involved with include the JIS-SOURCE content bulk-migration tool, the Fedorazon cloud computing environ, the CRIG developer community, the APT-STAIRS GoogleDocs project and various consultancy on Library e-service roadmap strategies. Currently his Friday afternoons (his free R&D time) have been spent on getting to know the Django/Python framework, content structuring via SemanticWebLite technologies (RDFa, GRRDL) and ranting about higher education at dfflanders.wordpress.com.

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Richard Green

Richard Green is an independent IT consultant. In recent years he has managed a number of projects for Academic Services at the University of Hull and has worked closely with them to help develop Hull's institutional repository. At present he is part of their new CLIF Project (Content Lifecycle Integration Framework <http://www.hull.ac.uk/clif>, which also involves King's College London, and is managing the 'Hull end' of the Hydra Project described in the article. In other circles Richard is better known as the webmaster of 'Clematis on the Web' <http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk>, which is supported by Academic Services.

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Inger-Mette Gustavsen

Inger-Mette Gustavsen (Inger.Mette.Gustavsen@dnv.com) Is senior researcher at DNV Research & Innovation, Oslo, Norway. She has a degree in informatics and a masters degree in management. Her experience encompasses IT operation, knowledge management, project management, consultancy, information management, IT-audits, information security and research. She currently works on information management with a focus on long-term preservation, compliance, information quality and use of digital information.

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Laurence Hauttekeete

Dr. Laurence Hauttekeete is a senior researcher at the research group for Media & ICT (Ghent University, Belgium), which is part of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), and holds a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences. Her current research activities mainly focus on media production and media distribution, including among others the digitisation and metadata issues applied to the preservation and disclosure of audio-visual media and cultural heritage collectionst

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Bradley Hemminger

Brad Hemminger is an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the director of the Informatics and Visualization Research Laboratory and the Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries. His research interests include scholarly communications, information seeking, user interface design, information visualization and bioinformatics.

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Edward C. Luczak

Edward Luczak is a Principal Systems Architect with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), and is a contractor at the National Library of Medicine. At NLM he is providing technical support in the selection of software tools, design, and implementation of the NLM digital repository. He focuses on the evaluation, prototyping, and practical application of emerging information technologies. Ed has previously contributed to the design and development of information systems at NASA, EPA, FAA, and NOAA. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in computer science.

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Jennifer L. Marill

Jennifer Marill is the Deputy Chief, Technical Services Division at the National Library of Medicine. She is responsible for the Division's systems and software, including the integrated library system, online public catalogs, electronic resources management system, systems that support indexing and PubMed citation creation activities, and the development of the NLM digital repository. She has held a variety of positions at NLM, the Library of Congress and the Washington Research Library Consortium. She has a B.A. in International Studies, a M.A. in Russian Studies, a M.S. in Library and Information Science and is a certified project management professional.

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Mark Martinez

Mark Martinez received a BA from Harvard College eons ago and more recently, a BS in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. He is a R&D Engineer supporting the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Along with traditional library services, Research Library staff investigate tools and technology for delivering knowledge services, scientific collaboration, and connecting LANL researchers with the information they need.

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Thomas Mestl

Thomas Mestl has a Ph.D. in mathematics and a degree in precision engineering. He has worked in the Research Department at Det Norske Veritas (DNV) for the last 11 years within the field of information processes. A large part of his work is focussed on identifying emerging technology trends, evaluating new ICT technologies (especially with respect to mobile work and information management), and identifying potential business opportunities in the form of new or updated services for DNV and selected industry sectors.

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Carol Minton Morris

Carol Minton Morris is the Communications Director for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) <http://NSDL.org> and Fedora Commons <http://fedora-commons.org>. She is also a research associate in the digital libraries group in Cornell Information Science <http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/dl/dl-people.html>. 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 <http://content.nsdl.org/wbr/Issue.php?issue=current> featuring information from NSDL projects and programs nationwide since 2000.

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Per Myrseth

Per Myrseth (Per.Myrseth@dnv.com) is a principal researcher at DNV Research & Innovation, Oslo, Norway. He has a MSc. degree from the University of Oslo, Norway, 1996. In his current position he focuses on methodology, tools and standards, bringing semantic interoperability and digital signatures to e-government and e-commerce. A central task of his work is to choose technologies and methodologies to improve handling of the reporting obligations sent to the public sector. These tasks require high expertise in business modeling, information modeling and system architectures.

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Jon Ølnes

Jon Ølnes (jon.olnes@vikenfiber.no) is a principal researcher at DNV Research & Innovation, Oslo, Norway. He received his MSc. degree in informatics from the University of Oslo in 1985 and since then has worked in applied research and consultancy. His main area of work is infrastructural aspects of security and trust, and in particular, e-ID and e-signature. Other topics of interest to him are long-term preservation and use of digital information, and information security in general.

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Ben O'Steen

Ben O'Steen is the software engineer working on the Oxford University Research Archive <http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk> and also the digital asset management system (DAMS) at Oxford. He has over 12 years experience in building and implementing bespoke business solutions, and has been working in the field of digital repositories and archives for Oxford University Library Services since 2006.

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James E. Powell

James E. Powell is a Research Technologist at the Research Library of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and a member of the Knowledge Systems and Human Factors Team where he develops digital library, semantic web, and ubiquitous computing tools to support various initiatives. He has worked in libraries off and on for over 20 years, including eight years at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where he worked on the Scholarly Communications project and participated in several collaborations between the library and the Computer Science department's digital library group. He later went on to assume the position of Director of Web Application Research and Development at Virginia Tech, and to lead the Internet Application Development group, before joining LANL.

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Lucia Walle

Lucia Walle joined Cornell University in 2000. She is a Systems Programmer Analyst at the Center for Advanced Computing at Cornell, using advanced technologies to enhance high performance computing clusters and data intensive computing. She currently administers the Hadoop Cluster for the Cornell Web Lab on a part time basis and works on cross platform systems integration. In addition, she has worked on the development of a batch scheduler and resource manager, and provided material used to help partners build and maintain clusters.

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