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NSF Workshop on Research Challenges in Digital Archiving: Towards a National Infrastructure for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information
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Martha Anderson is a project manager for the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. She has served as production coordinator for the American Memory Collections and is co-chair of the Metadata Policy Group.

Dr. Bruce R. Barkstrom is currently head of the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center of NASA's Langley Research Center. This Data Center is one of the Earth Observing System's Distributed Active Archive Centers, housing and producing data from the EOS CERES and MISR instruments, as well as a number of other data sets. Dr. Barkstrom has been Principal Investigator for the CERES instruments, and has participated in many of the design and development activities for EOSDIS, receiving a NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for his work on the system architecture and cost modeling of this system. Recently, he has been working on cost modeling for the Strategic Evolution of NASA's Earth Science Data Systems.

Mick Bass, Hewlett-Packard Company, is HP Labs' project manager and external engagement manager for the HP/MIT DSpace Project.

DSpace, http://www.dspace.org/, provides institutions with the capability to capture, store, manage, preserve, and layer services atop the institution's electronic assets, and conducts standards research that demonstrates how these capabilities can be driven into the web infrastructure.

Mick has twelve years of hardware design, software design, program management, and customer engagement experience with Hewlett-Packard Company. Prior to DSpace, Mick led a team within HP's Enterprise Computing organization to create and deploy management methods and supportive software tools to effectively manage large and complex development efforts. His previous background was in hardware and software design contributing to HP's Precision Architecture microprocessors. Mick holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and an MS in Management of Technology from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Neil Beagrie is Programme Director for Digital Preservation at the Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher and Further Education Councils in the UK. He has established, and as Secretary directs the work of, the Digital Preservation Coalition. Prior to joining JISC he was Assistant Director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.

Larry Brandt has worked at the National Science Foundation for over 25 years. At present, he is the NSF Program Manager for the Digital Government Research Program. This program is intended to support technical and social science research related to the use of information technology with government agencies. Prior to this position, Larry spent over 10 years as a member of the management team for NSF's Supercomputer Centers Program.

Peter Buneman is a Professor in the Division of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh and in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His work in computer science has focussed mainly on databases and programming languages, areas in which he has worked on active databases, database semantics, approximate information, query languages, and on semistructured data and data formats --- an area in which he has recently co-authored a book. He has recently worked on issues connected with data provenance, annotation and archiving of evolving scientific databases.

Arturo Crespo is a Ph.D. Candidate at Stanford University, where he is advised by Professor Hector Garcia-Molina. He obtained a Computer Science Master's Degree at Stanford University in 1997. He also holds an MBA degree from IESA (Caracas, Venezuela) and a Computer Engineering degree from Universidad Simon Bolivar (Caracas, Venezuela). His research work is in the area of Digital Libraries, Peer-to-peer systems, and Archival Storage.

Robin Dale has been a Program Officer for Member Initiatives with RLG for the past 4.5 years. In that position, she leads one of RLG's key initiatives, the Long-term Retention of Digital Research Materials, as well as RLG's PRESERV community, a program which focuses on preserving and improving access to endangered research materials.

Prior to joining RLG, Robin was Head of the Preservation Reformatting Department at Columbia University and worked in the Preservation Replacement Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jon Eisenberg is a senior program officer with the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies. His current work includes a study examining the role of information technology research in realizing electronic government, a study on electronic records preservation for the National Archives and Records Administration's electronic records archiving program, and a study of the Internet under crisis conditions. Recently completed projects include a study of policies and strategies that would accelerate the deployment of residential broadband access (which resulted in the publication Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits and an examination of the Department of Defense's Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) strategies.

In 1995-7 he was a AAAS Science, Engineering, and Diplomacy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development where he worked on environmental management, technology transfer, and telecommunications policy issues. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington in 1996 and B.S. in Physics with honors from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1988.

Dale Flecker is Associate Director for Planning and Systems at the Harvard University Library. He has been responsible for IT planning at the Harvard libraries for over 20 years. For the past year and a half he has directed a planning project (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) focused on the archiving and preservation of scholarly electronic journals.

Carl Fleischhauer's work experience includes film and video production, folklife field research, publications, and exhibitions. He was a coordinator of the Library of Congress's American Memory program from 1990-1998, and now oversees an audio-visual digital-preservation prototyping project at the Library. Publications include record albums, a laser videodisc, and various books and articles, the most recent being the photographic book Bluegrass Odyssey, 1966-1986 (University of Illinois Press, 2001).

Evelyn Frangakis joined the National Agricultural Library (NAL) in January 1997 as its first Preservation Officer. She has worked to establish both a traditional and digital preservation program for the library and the USDA. In support of these efforts, she serves as the USDA Digital Publications Preservation Steering Committee Coordinator, working with the NAL Director, USDA agencies, federal and external stakeholders, and the agricultural research community to develop a systematic program to preserve the digital publication output of the Department of Agriculture. She co-chairs the CENDI Content Management and Access Working Group and is a member of the CENDI Digital Archiving Task Force. Frangakis is also director of the Rutgers University Preservation Management Institute and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies.

Amy Friedlander is Special Projects Associate with the Council on Library and Information Resources. She is posted to the Library of Congress.

Anne Gilliland-Swetland, Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA, teaches and conducts research in the areas of electronic records management, the design and evaluation of information systems containing primary sources, and archival education; and is currently co-Director of the American Team participating in the InterPARES (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) Project.

Jim Gray is part of Microsoft's research group. His work focuses on databases and transaction processing. Jim is active in the research community, is an ACM, NAE, NAS, and AAAS Fellow, and received the ACM Turing Award for his work on transaction processing. He is also a member of the PITAC, and edits a series of books on data management. He helped build the http://TerraServer.Net/ digital library and is building the http://SkyServer.Sdss.org/ digital library.

Daniel Greenstein is Director of the Digital Library Federation - a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services. Prior to joining the DLF in December 1999, Greenstein was located in the United Kingdom where he was founding director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service and founding co-director of the Resource Discovery Network - two networked 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.

Stephen M. Griffin is a Program Director in the Division of Information, and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is currently Program Director for Special Projects and for the Interagency Digital Libraries Initiative and the International Digital Libraries Collaborative Research program. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Griffin served in several research divisions, including the Divisions of Chemistry and Advanced Scientific Computing, the Office of the Assistant Director, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, and staff offices of the Director of the NSF. He has been active in working groups of the Federal high performance computing and communications programs. His educational background includes degrees in Chemical Engineering and Information Systems Technology. He has additional graduate education in organizational behavior and development and the philosophy of science. His research interests are in topics related to interdisciplinary research and communication.

Information on research projects currently funded through the program he currently manages can be found at: http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/

Myron P. Gutmann is Professor of History and Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Michigan faculty in August of 2001, he was Professor of History and Geography and Director of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Gutmann received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1976, and has broad interests in interdisciplinary historical research, especially health, population, economy, and the environment. He is the author of War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries (1980), Towards the Modern Economy, Early Industry in Europe 1500-1800 (1988), and more than 50 articles and chapters. His recent publications include "Scaling and Demographic Issues in Global Change Research," in Climatic Change (2000); "The structure and function of ecosystems in the central North American grassland region," in Great Plains Research (2000); "Hispanics in the United States, 1850-1990: Estimates of Population Size and National Origin," in Historical Methods (2000); and "Intra-Ethnic Diversity in Hispanic Child Mortality, 1890-1910," in Demography (2000). Gutmann also serves as chair of the Social Sciences, Nursing, Epidemiology and Methods-3 Study Section of the National Institutes of Health, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, as well as other national advisory committees and editorial boards.

Rich Harada is the President of Creative Businesses, Inc., a data storage marketing and technology consultancy. CBI, http://www.creativebusinc.com, offers a range of services that assist manufacturers to broaden their market acceptance by introducing new products and enhancing their public relations image. CBI's corporate clients are provided with strategic and tactical analysis to improve purchasing decisions. CBI clients include data storage and PC manufacturers and corporations in the US, Asia, and Europe. Mr. Harada is the Executive Director of the High Density Storage Association, http://www.hidensity.org, a group of companies whose mission is to understand and promote terabyte storage using optical disc jukebox and tape library products.

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 is project director for the CAMiLEON Project, an international research project to investigate the feasibility of emulation as a digital preservation strategy, funded by NSF and JISC. She was a member of the National Research Council study committee that prepared LC21 -- a report on the digital future of the Library of Congress. Before joining the faculty at Michigan in 1995, she was Chief of State Records Advisory Services and Director of the Center for Electronic Records at the New York State Archives and Records Administration. She is chair of the Organizing Committee for this workshop.

Robert Horton is state archivist and head of the state archives department at the Minnesota Historical Society. Before coming to Minnesota, he was head of the electronic records and records management programs at the Indiana Commission on Public Records. Currently, he works on a number of projects related to electronic records, information technology and the records of the tobacco industry.

Bernie Hurley is the UC Berkeley Library's Director of Library Technologies and also the Director of UC's Northern Regional Library Facility (NRLF). As Director for Library Technologies, he is responsible for coordinating the planning, development and management of digital library services provided by the UC Berkeley Library. As Director of the NRLF, Bernie has primary policy setting and decision making responsibility for all operations which include depositing materials into the collection, maintenance of the collections, loaning physical items and electronic document delivery.

Bernie holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

In addition to his campus responsibilities, Bernie has been active nationally and within the University of California System. Current and recent past positions include: Chair of the UC Libraries Digital Preservation and Archiving Committee; Principal Investigator for the NEH funded Making of America II Testbed Project; Member of the Digital Library Federation's (DLF) Systems Architecture Committee; Chair of the California Digital Library's (CDL) RFP Evaluation Steering Committee (evaluating the replacement of the UC Melvyl system with a commercial vendor's product); Chair of the NRLF Phase-3 Addition Building Committee Membership in the CDL Technical Standards and Systems Architecture Committee; Member of the CDL's Digital Library's Strategic Innovation Committee; Member of OCLC's Office of Research Advisory Council.

Carl Lagoze is Digital Library Scientist in Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. At Cornell he teaches and co-directs the Digital Library Research Group, which undertakes research in digital library, electronic publishing, and Web information systems. His main research interests include metadata, digital library architecture, and policy expression and enforcement.

Brian Lavoie is a Research Scientist in the Office of Research at OCLC. His research interests include the economics of information, digital preservation, and the collection and analysis of Web-accessible resources.

Cal Lee is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information, where he serves as research assistant on a project called CAMiLEON, which is exploring the potential viability of emulation as a digital preservation method. He has had the opportunity to assist a number of organizations in their efforts to manage, preserve and provide access to digital materials. Cal recently served as Electronic Records Project Archivist at the Kansas State Historical Society, where he participated in a number of policy efforts, including the development of the state's electronic signature legislation, coauthored several guidance documents, and worked to create and then chaired the Kansas Electronic Records Committee.

Raymond Lorie is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, CA. Educated in Belgium, he joined IBM locally in 1960 and transferred to IBM US in the early 70's, doing pioneering work in relational database systems. He was a major contributor to the architecture and implementation of System R, the early research prototype that became the precursor of the relational products.

At various points in his career, Raymond dealt with document processing, from the design of a typesetting system in the early days to the co-invention of the GML mark-up language, the application of contextual knowledge to improve automatic recognition of characters, and finally the development of a technology to preserve digital documents for the very long term.

Lorie is an ACM Fellow; he shared with colleagues from IBM and UC Berkeley the 1988 ACM System Award for developing the relational technology.

Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch currently serves on the Internet 2 Applications Council and the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committee that recently published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure, and now serves on the NRC's committee on Broadband Last-Mile Technology.

Petros Maniatis is a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, working with Mary Baker. He received a Bachelors degree in Informatics from the University of Athens, Greece, and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. His interests include distributed algorithms, fault tolerance, and security in peer-to-peer systems.

Dr. Victor McCrary heads the Convergent Information Systems Division at NIST which is involved in research and standards for the exchange, storage, and manifestation of digital content. In particular, his laboratories are developing tests for reliability and longevity for writable CD/DVD discs, including temperature, humidity, and photo degradation. Other research includes, digital rights management, biometrics, quantum encryption, and image quality for PDAs and digital cinema. His division has won 3 R&D 100 awards for their innovations in the past 5 years.

Alexa T. McCray is the Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical communications, a division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. The Lister Hill Center conducts research and development for the broad purpose of improving health-care information dissemination and use. Dr. McCray's research interests lie at the intersection of computer and information science and medicine. She publishes in several research areas, including medical language processing, digital libraries, and consumer health informatics.

Dr. McCray is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. She is a member of the board of the American Medical Informatics Association, and a past member of the board of the International Medical Informatics Association. She serves as co-editor-in-chief of Methods of Information in Medicine, and she is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Before joining NLM in 1986, Dr. McCray was a Research Staff Member at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. She received the Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 1981, and for three years was on the faculty there. She conducted pre-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nancy McGovern is the first Digital Preservation Officer at Cornell University Library (CUL) and the coordinator for the Digital Imaging and Preservation Policy Research (DIPPR) team at CUL, where she facilitates digital research, practical implementations, publications, and training projects (see the DIPPR Web site at: http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/digital.html). She has over 15 years of experience in digital preservation research and practice, including ten years as a senior archivist at NARA's Center for Electronic Records. She is the co-editor of RLG DigiNews. She is working on her PhD in digital preservation at University College London.

Kurt Molholm has been the Administrator of the Defense Technical Information Center since 1985. He is also president of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) and vice chair of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC), a position he also held in 1994. Mr. Molholm served as chair of CENDI, an interagency working group of senior Scientific and Technical Information Managers from nine major programs in nine U.S. Federal Agencies, from 1990 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2000. He was chair on panel 2 of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) study, Comprehensive Assessment of Public Information Dissemination, and is past president (1994-1995) of the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS).

Reagan Moore is Principal investigator on data, information, and knowledge management projects for the implementation of digital libraries, data grids, and persistent archives. Projects include Persistent Archive Research for NARA, NSF National Science Digital Library, NASA Information Power Grid, NSF National Virtual Observatory, and NSF Grid Physics Network. Adjunct Professor in Computer Science at UCSD, and Distinguished Scientist at San Diego Supercomputer Center. Ph.D. (1978) in Plasma Physics, UCSD.

Douglas Oard is an assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has a joint appointment in the College of Information Studies and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his research interests include the design of systems to provide access to foreign language materials and spoken word collections.

Christopher Olsen is a Certified Records Manager and the senior records authority for the Central Intelligence Agency. He is an active lecturer in the local, Federal and International records fora. His records management principles and current program have been the subject of articles in CIO Magazine and "e-DOC" the official publication of AIIM. Mr. Olsen was among the Federal government experts commissioned by the Archivist of the United States to review the efficacy of dispositions associated with electronic documents pursuant to the legal challenge in 1997 to GRS 20. In 1998, he chaired an Intelligence Community forum to propose changes to the way in which intelligence organizations' manage and exchange records. He is the CIA representative to the Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group tasked with establishing metadata standards for the IC. In 1999, he led a group of CIA officers to establish that Agency's document metadata, its taxonomy and a process to certify electronic systems against the DoD 5015.2 standard. In his current capacity, he is a member of the CIA Architecture Review Board which effects the manner by which the Agency will build and maintain electronic systems. He oversees the career development and assignment of the Agency Information Management Officers. The operations of the Agency records center also falls under his group. Currently, the Agency is implementing an enterprise electronic records management application for which he is the Agency advocate.

Dr. Arcot K. Rajasekar is the Director of the Data Grid Technologies Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). His major research interests include research and development technologies for digital library systems, persistent archives and distributed data collection management. His current research activities at SDSC include development of a Storage Resource Broker for integrating distributed data archives, repositories and digital library systems, and development of meta data catalog systems for handling system-level, domain-specific and user-defined meta data. His email address is sekar@sdsc.edu.

David Rosenthal, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems. Dr. Rosenthal is investigating techniques for distributed fault tolerance in a project jointly funded by Sun Labs, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation and Stanford University Libraries. The project is aimed at long-term preservation of the web editions of academic journals, such as those published by Stanford's Highwire Press.

David joined Sun in 1985 from the Andrew project at Carnegie-Mellon University. He worked on window systems and was part of the team which developed the X Window System, now the open-source standard. He also worked on graphics hardware, the operating system kernel, and on system and network administration. David left Sun in 1993 to be Chief Scientist and employee #4 at Nvidia, now the leading supplier of high-performance graphics chips for the PC industry. He worked on I/O architecture. In 1996 he joined Vitria Technology, now a leading supplier of e-business infrastructure technology. He worked on reliable multicast protocols and on testing industrial-strength software. In 1999 he re-joined Sun.

David received an MA degree from Trinity College, Cambridge and a Ph. D. from Imperial College, London. He is the author of several technical publications and holds 23 patents.

Jeff Rothenberg is a Senior Computer Scientist at the RAND Corporation, with a background in artificial intelligence and modeling theory. He has been investigating digital longevity since 1991, exploring the problem with archivists, librarians, and others in the U.S. and Europe. He published a widely-cited article in Scientific American on the subject in 1995 and appeared in the documentary film "Into the Future" in 1998. Over the past few years, he has worked with the Dutch National Archives--recommending a strategy for long-term digital preservation of archival records--and has helped the Dutch National Library develop a strategy for long-term preservation of its deposit holdings.

Charles Rothwell is Associate Director for Information Technology and Services of the National Center for Health Statistics.

Ed Sequeira manages PubMed Central, NLM's digital archive of full text journal literature.

Abby Smith is director of programs at the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Before joining CLIR in 1997, she worked at the Library of Congress (1988-97) in programs for special collections, preservation, international exchange, and collection development, and curated several exhibitions. She has taught Russian and intellectual history at Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities. She has published on preservation of both analog and digital cultural heritage.

MacKenzie Smith is the Associate Director for Technology at the MIT Libraries. Formerly she was the Digital Library Program Manager at the Harvard University Library's Office for Information Systems where she helped design and implement their Library Digital Initiative. Prior to that she worked as Systems Librarian and Projects Manager in the Harvard Library's systems office, and in the Library Systems Office at the University of Chicago. Her background is in applied technology for libraries and academia, and she holds a MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Chicago as well as a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington.

Thornton Staples is currently the Director of Digital Library Research and Development at the University of Virginia Library. Previous positions include: Chief, Office of Information Technology at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution and Project Director at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia. He also considers himself a serious sculptor, direct carving in stone. He has had one- and two-person shows in Washington DC, around Virginia and at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. His work is represented in 22 private collections.

Sue Stendebach currently serves as a Program Manager in the Digital Government Research Program, on a one-year assignment from the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Atmospheric Programs. In Sue's capacity at EPA, she served as the Chief of the Stratospheric Protection Branch in the Office of Atmospheric Programs, supervising the development and implementation of regulations to protect stratospheric ozone and mitigate ozone depletion. Prior to her EPA career, Sue worked as Legislative Assistant to Senator Bob Graham in the areas of environment, energy and transportation, and as an analyst for Governor Mark White of Texas in the environment and energy issue areas.

Sue holds a Masters degree in Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin, and a BA degree in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Kenneth Thibodeau is Director of the Electronic Records Archives Program at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). ERA is a research and development program aimed at bringing the benefits of advanced computation to preserving and providing long-term access to valuable electronic records. He has 26 years experience in archives and records management and is an internationally recognized expert in electronic records. Dr. Thibodeau taught at the University of Notre Dame and served as Chief of the Records Management Branch of the National Institutes of Health before coming to NARA in 1988. In 1996, Dr. Thibodeau served as the Director of the Department of Defense (DoD) Records Management Task Force, which developed the DoD Records Management Application Standard 5015.2.

He studied at Fordham University in New York and the Univesity of Strasbourg, France. He earned a Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania. A Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, he has published over 25 articles and spoken at more than 120 conferences around the world.

Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in mathematics and computer science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. from Ghent University for his research on dynamic and context-sensitive reference linking, now commonly known as the OpenURL framework (now being standardized by NISO). From 1982 to 1998 he worked as Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. In 1998, Herbert received a grant from the Belgian Science Foundation that enabled him to fully concentrate on digital library research for a year. During that year, Herbert spent six months at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on reference linking problems and preprint related matters. While at Los Alamos, Herbert started the Open Archives Initiative with Paul Ginsparg and Rick Luce. With Carl Lagoze, Herbert published the Santa Fe Convention for the Open Archives Initiative (2000) and the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol (2001). Currently, Herbert is Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. In the Spring of 2002, he will start a new job as Digital Library Researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library.

Howard D. Wactlar is Vice Provost for Research Computing, Associate Dean, and holds the Alumni Research Professor of Computer Science chair in the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. He has been University Vice Provost since 1979, serving in various research, technical and administrative capacities within CMU since joining the university. He was a founder of the DoD funded Software Engineering Institute and Director of the Information Technology Center, a research department focused on large-scale deployment and technology transfer. He was primary architect and is project director of the Informedia Digital Video Library, one of the national NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative projects. His research accomplishments have spanned from symbolic mathematics to distributed operating systems, multi-technology network architectures and multimedia platforms. His current research interests center on multimedia information systems; learning and intelligent systems including speech, image and natural language understanding; and very high performance networks.

Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he served as the first Director of the Digital Library Federation (1997-1999), as Associate University Librarian at Yale University (1993-1997), and in a variety of other positions at the Computer Center, the School of Management, and the University Library at Yale. Waters graduated with a Bachelor's degree in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1973. In 1982, he received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University. Waters conducted his dissertation research on the political economy of artisanry in Guyana, South America. He has edited a collection of African-American folklore from the Hampton Institute in a volume entitled Strange Ways and Sweet Dreams. He is also the author of numerous articles and presentations on library and especially digital library, subjects. In 1995-96, he co-chaired the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information and was the editor and a principal author of the Task Force Report.

Ed H. Zwaneveld is currently establishing an International Innovation Coaching Practice for the Entertainment and Media Industry. He has since 1982 directed technological research and development at the National Film Board of Canada. He has been responsible for more than 160 research and development projects that have advanced the state of technology and creative latitude in film and television production, post-production, distribution, and the management of A/V assets, with a total R&D budget of $ 150 million. As a member of the Canadian Task Force on the Preservation and Enhanced Use of Canada's A/V Heritage of film, television and radio programming, Zwaneveld initiated work in 1994 to modernize media asset preservation processes and develop appropriate practices for the extended-term preservation, migration, and use of audiovisual works on all media. He chairs the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) V16.07 Work Group on Television Archiving.

He has also served as AMIA Preservation Committee Chair and as Team Leader of Work Package 1 on Legacy Archives of the EBU/IFTA Future Television Archives (P/FTA). An SMPTE Fellow, Zwaneveld is the recipient of its Technicolor/Herbert T. Kalmus Gold Medal Award and Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award; an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Academy Award; and an Outstanding Achievement Award in Engineering Development from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has authored and published 75 technical and research papers in six languages. Educated in the Netherlands with a B.Sc degree in mechanical engineering, he is also a member of the Fernseh und Kinotechnische Gesellschaft(FKTG) (Berlin), British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society (London) and the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) Council (London). He can be reached at: e.ha.zwaneveld@nfb.ca, or edhzwaneveld@johnabbott.qc.ca.