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Keynote Speaker

Ocotber 2006:
Daniel Greenstein is Associate Vice Provost for Scholarly Information, University Librarian for Systemwide Library Planning and the California Digital Library (CDL).  Prior to joining UC, he was Director of the Digital Library Federation in the US and founding director of two networked information services working on behalf of the UK’s universities and colleges.  He holds degrees from the Universities of Pennsylvania and Oxford and began his career as a senior lecturer in history at the University of Glasgow.

Instructors

Anne R. Kenney is Associate University Librarian for Instruction, Research, and Information Services (IRIS) in Cornell University Library. For over fifteen years, she has led research focusing on digital imaging and digital preservation. She is the co-author of the award-winning Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (Research Libraries Group, 2000) and Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (1996). Anne is a fellow and past president of the Society of American Archivists, and served on the RLG/OCLC Working Group on the Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository, and on the National Science Foundation/European Union Working Group on Digital Preservation. Anne currently serves on the Joint Committee on Cuban Libraries and Archives.

Nancy McGovern is the Director of the Research & Assessment Department, serves as Cornell's first Digital Preservation Officer (DPO), and as co-editor of RLG DigiNews. She initiates and manages research projects; develops products and services; and explores ways to integrate research techniques and processes to support library planning initiatives and operations. She has over 15 years of experience in digital preservation practice and research. Nance is working on her PhD in digital preservation at University College London.

Marc S. Dantzker is Curator of the Visual Media Collections for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library. Marc joined the Macaulay Library in 2000 to lead the development of an animal-behavior video archive as an integrated sister collection to the world's largest natural sound library. Marc is also Project Lead for the Macaulay Library's Digital Asset Management Solution encompassing the development of both hardware and software systems for the storage, annotation, and distribution of the Macaulay Library's audio and video assets. This solution will federate the Library's assets with the NSDL and other online partners. Marc's formal training is in Animal Behavior with a concentration on the evolution of courtship behaviors in frogs and birds. He has brought that experience to bear on the development of a new metadata schema for the Library's biological information that is now serving as a building block for a the development of a consensus ontology for the Animal Behavior research community.

Richard Entlich has over ten years' experience in library-sponsored digital imaging, electronic publishing, and digital preservation initiatives. His work includes project management and technical support of the Chemistry Online Retrieval Experiment (CORE), one of the first large-scale efforts in networked distribution of digitized scholarly journals. He also contributed to the digital imaging components of the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture project, Making of America I, and TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library).

Robert Grotke is the Supervising Engineer for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, the worlds largest collection of natural sound recordings. For over 30 years Bob has been deeply involved in professional audio with extensive experience in music recording, mixing, disk mastering, tape restoration, archival processes, equipment repair/calibration and studio design. He has been with the Library since 1988 and is responsible for the architecture and implementation of the audio digitization process. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).

Peter B. Hirtle is the Technology Strategist for the Library’s Instruction, Research, and Information Services Division. He also serves as the Library's Intellectual Property Officer and as the bibliographer for United States and General History. Previously, Hirtle served as Director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections where he explored the use of emerging technologies to expand access to cultural and scientific sources through the development and management of distinctive digital collections. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and a past president.

Oya Rieger is the Associate Director of the Digital Library and Information Technologies division at the Cornell University Library. She manages the Library's Digital Media Group and coordinates the Digital Consulting and Production Services.  She has a diverse background in digital libraries, including conducting research on imaging and digital preservation, managing the creation and maintenance of digital collections, implementing content management systems, providing reference services, planning entrepreneurial library initiatives, and conducting usability studies.  She has a B.S. in Economics, an M.P.A., and an M.S. in Information Systems.

Past Keynote Speakers

July 2006:
Fynnette Eaton
Fynnette Eaton joined the Electronic Records Archives Program as the Change Management Officer at NARA in July 2002, after serving as the Director of the Technical Services Division at the Smithsonian Institution Archives for five years. She is currently developing a change management program for ERA to develop strategies to ensure the acceptance of ERA by staff when it becomes operational. Previous to this position she served as Chief of the Technical Services Branch at the Center for Electronic Records at the National Archives. Other NARA work experience has included positions in the Office of Presidential Libraries and Documentation Standards Staff. She has presented papers and is author of articles on the preservation of electronic records at NARA. She was selected as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists in 1995 and received the IAC/IRM (Interagency Committee on Information Resources Management) Technology Excellence Award in 1996 for designing the Archival Preservation System at NARA. She has a B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of Maryland at College Park and attended the NAGARA Advanced Institute for Government Archivists on Archival Administration in the Electronic Information Age, Pittsburgh (1992 & 1993) and the National Defense University, IRM College, Advanced Management Program (1997). She served as Facilitator for NHPRC-funded workshop "Working Together: A Workshop for Archivists, Records Management and Information Technologists in 1998 and 1999; was a member of the American Team of InterPARES 1; and contributed a chapter on electronic records for Museum Archives: An Introduction, published by SAA in 2004.

May 2006:
Eileen Fenton is Executive Director of the Electronic-Archiving Initiative launched by JSTOR and incubated by Ithaka. She is leading the Initiative's effort to develop all of the organizational elements necessary to ensure the long-term preservation of and access to scholarly literature published in electronic form. Previously Eileen was Director of Production at JSTOR, and she has also worked at the Vanderbilt and Yale University libraries. Eileen has earned a Masters of Science in Information from the University of Michigan and a Masters of Arts in English Literature from the University of Kentucky.

Oct-Nov 2005:
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.

July 2005:
Vicky Reich is Director and co-founder of the LOCKSS Program. Prior to the LOCKSS Program, she was, for eight years, the Assistant Director of HighWire Press. Vicky works to facilitate the industry's transition from print to online publishing models. She has over 20 years of extensive library experience in both public and technical services and has held positions at the: Upjohn Company; University of Michigan; Library of Congress; National Agricultural Library; and Stanford University. She earned her MLS from the University of Michigan.

May 2005:
Robin L. Dale has been a Program Officer at RLG for 8 years. In that position, she leads some of RLG's key programmatic activities related to the long-term management of digital resources and is responsible for managing collaborative activities ranging from international working groups to large, cooperative grants. Her current work focuses on trusted digital repositories, preservation & technical metadata, and digital repository certification. She is a regular speaker on digital preservation initiatives and is active in digital preservation standards and best practice building activities, including the development of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) international standard and various preservation metadata best practices. Robin currently serves as the co-chair of the task force creating the NISO Z39.87 Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images standard and is the RLG liaison to the OCLC-RLG PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) working group.

November 2004:
Priscilla Caplan is Assistant Director for Digital Library Services at the
Florida Center for Library Automation. She was previously Assistant
Director for Library Systems at the University of Chicago, and before that
worked in library systems at Harvard University.  She co-chairs the
OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies
(PREMIS).  She has published on digital preservation, reference linking,
metadata, and standards for digital libraries, and is the author of
Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians (ALA Editions, 2003).

July 2004:
Carl Fleischhauer holds a BA degree from Kenyon College and an MFA from Ohio University. His work experience includes film and video production at West Virginia University (1969-1976); folklife field research, publications, and exhibitions at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (1976-1990); coordination of the Library's American Memory program for online access to historical collections (1990-1998); and continuing service to collection-digitizing and digital preservation efforts at the Library of Congress in the Office of Strategic Initiatives (1998-present). Fleischhauer's publications include long playing records and audio compact discs of folk-music field recordings, a laser videodisc about a cattle ranch in Nevada, and books on the FSA-OWI photographic project and bluegrass music.

May 2004:
Kevin Ashley is head of the Digital Archives Department at the University of London Computer Centre, which operates information and computing services for the UK and European research, education and public sectors. For the past 10 years his group’s work has primarily involved the preservation of large-scale digital resources. He is a board member of the Digital Preservation Coalition, a member of the Advisory Council for ERPANET, and that of the UK Archives Hub. He speaks frequently on matters related to digital preservation and access and management of digital content, and has also been a contributor to training provided by the Archive Skills Consultancy and the DPC. His career has previously involved pattern recognition in medical image analysis, network protocol development, standards development, numerical software tools and bar-tending; he has contributed open-source software via organisations such as DECUS for over 20 years.

August 2003:
Margaret Hedstrom is an Associate Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan where she teaches in the areas of archives, electronic records management, and digital preservation. Her current research interests include record keeping in collaborative work environments and methods for long-term preservation of complex digital objects. She has been a consultant to more than a dozen government archival programs, the World Bank, the International Council on Archives, and the Swedish Ministry of Culture. Hedstrom is a fellow of the Society of American Archivists. She is completing a book on digital preservation to be published by MIT Press.

October 2003:
Howard Besser is Director of the Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program at New York University, and is currently on leave as Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Education and Information Studies. Howard Besser is a leading authority on image databases. He is the most highly published author on this subject in professional journals, is a frequent speaker to both professional and commercial conferences, and regularly conducts workshops on image databases at the meetings of a number of different professional organizations. His four main interest areas are Image and Multimedia Databases (particularly in cultural institutions), the social and cultural effects of information technology, digital library issues (particularly around standards, longevity, and intellectual property), and the development of new ways to teach with technology (including web-based instruction and distance learning).