Digital Preservation Cluster (WP6)
Summer School 2005
Biographical Sketches of the DELOS
2005 Summer School Team
- Birte
Christensen-Dalsgaard is head of development at the State and
University Library in Aarhus and is also responsible for the groups
working on digital archives, the user oriented webservices and the
usability work. Her work over the last five years, after she joined
the Library sector coming from a computer centre working on
educational material and research networks, has focussed on areas
such as general library services, IT architecture for digital
libraries and on preservation issues. In connection with the latter,
the work on changing the Danish Legal deposit law has been quite
dominating. She was in charge of the initial projects to demonstrate
the relevant activities and relevant strategies in connection with
archiving the web. She was member of a national committee working on
recommendations to parliament on relevant measures to secure the
electronic cultural heritage. Over the last year a group consisting
of members from the two national libraries has worked to develop the
administrative system to initiate webarchiving
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- Michael Day is a member of the research and development team at UKOLN,
based at the University of Bath, United Kingdom. His research
interests largely relate to metadata development, particularly as it
relates to resource discovery, interoperability and management for
long-term access and preservation. He also has a general interest in
digital preservation and curation issues, for example, with regard
to institutional repositories or resources made available through
the World Wide Web. He has published widely in these fields. Since
joining UKOLN, Michael Day has worked on a large number of metadata
or preservation-related projects funded by the European Commission,
the Joint Information Systems Committee, the Wellcome Trust, and
others. Currently, most of his activities are based on the advisory
services and research work of the UK Digital Curation Centre - of
which UKOLN is a partner - and the preservation cluster of the DELOS
Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries.
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- Dr
David Giaretta is the Associate Director for Development at the
UK Digital Curation Centre. He is one of the co-authors of the OAIS
Reference Model. His background is Astronomical research, in
particular using data from astronomical satellites. He has led many
archive and software projects and is currently based at the
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK.
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- Mariella
Guercio, ISTBAL, Università degli Studi di Urbino, is a
full professor in archival science and electronic record management
at the University of Urbino where she entered in 1998. For twenty
years (1978-1998) she worked as State Archivist for the Ministry of
Cultural Heritage where she cooperated with the Authority for
information technology in the public administration to define the
Italian legislation related to the electronic recordkeeping systems.
She chaired the ICA Committee on current records (1990-1992) and
part of the Committee on program management of the ICA itself. She
chaired the Italian team for the international project InterPARES 1
(1999-2001). She is a co-director of the European project ERPANET, a
network for digital preservation. She runs many Italian projects
funded by the Ministry for Research in the area of digital
preservation. She takes part of the digital preservation cluster of
the DELOS network of excellence. Since 2002, she is the director of
the journal Archivi & Computer. She has published widely.
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- Ross
Harvey is the inaugural Professor of Library and Information
Management at Charles Sturt University's School of Information
Studies. He has held academic positions at Curtin University of
Technology and Monash University in Australia, Nanyang Technological
University in Singapore, and the New Zealand Library School, and has
been a Visiting Professor at the University of California Los
Angeles. His current research and teaching interests include the
preservation of library and archival material, especially in digital
form. He has published widely in the fields of preservation of
library and archival material, bibliographic organisation, and
library education. Ross Harvey was based at the National Library of
Australia from April to June 2003 as a National Library Fellow,
where he researched issues associated with the preservation of
digital information. A full CV for Ross Harvey is available at
http://www.elibank.net
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- Stephan
Heuscher has recently co-founded ikeep Ltd (Digital Archives
Services), a company specialized in digital archives services. For
the last three years, he was the data architect in the Archival of
Electronic Data and Records project at the Swiss Federal Archives. H
received his Master of Science in Information Technology and
Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH) Zurich in 1999 and is currently working on a thesis on
workflows in digital archives at the University of Zurich.
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- Hans
Hofman is co-director of ERPANET and senior advisor at the
Nationaal Archief (National Archives) of the Netherlands. In his
position at the Nationaal Archief he is involved in e-government
projects and initiatives throughout Dutch government with respect to
access and management of digital records and information in general.
On the international scene he is co-investigator and representative
of the Nationaal Archief in the Inter Pares 2 research project, and
representative of the Netherlands in the ISO TC46/SC11 on Records
Management. Within this committee he is chair of the Working Group
on Records Management metadata. Finally, he is a researcher in the
Delos 2 project on digital libraries with respect to digital
preservation. He has given numerous presentations and written many
articles on topics like digital preservation, recordkeeping metadata
and electronic records management. Further information on Hans
Hofman is available at http://www.erpanet.org
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- Anne
R. Kenney is Associate University Librarian for Instruction,
Research, and Information Services at Cornell University Library.
For nearly fifteen years she has conducted research and led
workshops on digital imaging and digital preservation of cultural
heritage materials. She is the co-author of three
award-winning monographs, including Moving Theory into Practice:
Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, and over fifty
articles and research reports. She served on the
RLG/OCLC Trusted Digital Repository Task Force and the joint
NSF/DELOS Working Group on Digital Preservation. Kenney is a Fellow
and former president of the Society of American Archivists.
She currently serves on the Joint Committee on Libraries and
Archives on Cuba, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council.
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- Andreas
Rauber is Associate Professor at the Department of Software
Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of
Technology. He furthermore is head of the iSpaces research group at
the Electronic Commerce Competence Center (EC3). He received his MSc
and PhD in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology
in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he joined the National
Research Council of Italy 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, at
Rocquencourt, France, in 2002. He actively participates in research
projects in the field of Digital Libraries, focusing on the
organization and exploration of large information spaces, as well as
Web archiving, and digital preservation. His research interests
cover the broad scope of digital libraries, including specifically
text and music information retrieval and organization, information
visualization, and data analysis and neural computation. For further
information on Andreas Rauber see http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~andi
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- Seamus Ross, Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation,
and Director of Humanities Computing and Information Management at
the University of Glasgow, runs HATII (Humanities Advanced
Technology and Information Institute)
(http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk)
of which he is the founding director. Currently he is also Principal
Director of ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Network)
(IST-2001-32706) a European Commission activity to enhance the
preservation of cultural heritage and scientific digital objects
(http://www.erpanet.org). He is an Associate Director of the
Digital Curation Centre in the UK (http://www.dcc.ac.uk) and a
co-principal investigator in the DELOS Digital Libraries Network of
Excellence. He is a lead partner in The Digital Culture Forum
(DigiCULT Forum, IST-2001-34898), which works to improve the take-up
of cutting edge research and technology by the cultural heritage
sector (http://www.digicult.info). Before joining the University of
Glasgow he was Head of ICT at the British Academy and a technologist
at a company specialising in knowledge engineering. He earned a
doctorate from the University of Oxford.
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- Manfred
Thaller holds a chair for "Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche
Informationsverarbeitung" - roughly: Computer Science applied
to Humanities and Cultural Heritage - at the University at
Cologne. He has previously worked at the Max-Planck-Institute
for History, Göttingen, Germany and is a former director of the
Humanities Information Technology Program at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has been visiting professor
at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Queen Mary and Westfield
College, London, and the European University Institute, Firenze. His
research interests have been derived from a general definition of
the requirements of Humanities' research in computing. This has in
more recent years led to his involvement in a large number of digital library projects in the cultural
heritage area. Manfred Thaller is also a member of the library and
information systems committee of the
German National Research Council (DFG). A full CV for Manfred
Thaller is available at
http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/people/thaller/mt.html
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