James Shulman Executive Director ARTstor ARTstor, an initiative of the Mellon Foundation to create and distribute a library of digital images for educational purposes, will be testing its content and service at a number of museums, colleges, and …

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Vicky Reich Director of LOCKSS Program Stanford University The decentralized, cooperative, preservation and archiving model embodied in the LOCKSS Program capitalizes on the traditional roles of libraries and publishers. The open source software …

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Stephen Vaughn Professor University of Wisconsin, Madison Modern technology gives us the ability to create a virtual archive that could capture the intellectual life of the university for any given year in an unprecedented way. Yet vital information …

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David Bearman President Archives & Museum Informatics Jennifer Trant Partner & Principal Consultant Archives & Museum Informatics In 1997 the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) was formed to enable educational use of museum …

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Mark Korhbluh Director of MATRIX Michigan State University Dean Rehberger Associate Director of MATRIX Michigan State University Michael Fegan Senior Project Manager of MATRIX Michigan State University The recent emergence of online digital …

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Maria S. Bonn Director of the Scholarly Publishing Program University of Michigan The CIC Electronic Publishing Venture (EPV) is an attempt to bring together University Presses and University Libraries to consider alternative distribution systems for …

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Chad Kainz Senior Director, NSIT Academic Technologies University of Chicago What started in 1998 as an unfunded ìgood willî study by the Biological Sciences, John Crerar Library, and Networking Services & Information Technologies to define a …

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Donna Dinberg System Librarian/Analyst, Government Online Task Force National Library of Canada Jeffrey Penka Manager, Cooperative Reference Services OCLC, Inc. Digital reference services constitute a new but rapidly growing extension of the …

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Sayeed Choudhury Hodson Director Johns Hopkins University Tim DiLauro Deputy Director Johns Hopkins University This session will present research on a fully automated robotic system for on-demand and batch scanning of print materials (CAPM) and …

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Jim DeRoest Director, Streaming Media Technologies, ResearchChannel University of Washington The ability to receive high quality audio and video in classrooms, labs, and the home opens up new opportunities for learning and research in genres requring …

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Raymond Yee Technology Architect, Interactive University Project University of California, Berkeley Lack of interoperability among software systems and repositories from different domains is a major barrier to the exchange of digital content. The UC …

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Judith Klavans Deputy Vice Presdient Columbia University Stephen Paul Davis Director of Library Systems Columbia University Angela Giral Columbia University The newly-initiated Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) project …

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Andrew Stricker Associate Provost Vanderbilt University Donald A. Cox Assistant to the Associate Provost Vanderbilt University The presentation will highlight the first year of activities associated with a transinstitutional initiative involving …

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Thornton Staples Director of Research and Development University of Virginia Library Sandy Payette Researcher Cornell University The challenge in building digital repositories lies beyond storage and dissemination of digital content. Rather, …

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Charles Henry Vice President and Chief Information Officer Rice University David L. Green Executive Director National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage Humanities scholars, computer and information scientists, engineers, museum …

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Pat Harris Executive Director National Information Standards Stephen Levenson Judiciary Records Officer U.S. Department of Justice William LeFurgy Digital Initiatives Program Manager Library of Congress Since its introduction in June 1993 …

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Martha Crawley Senior Program Officer Institute of Museum and Library Services Barbara G. Smith Technology Officer Institute of Museum and Library Services Dan Lukash Senior Program Officer Institute of Museum and Library Services This …

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Martha Crawley Senior Program Officer Institute of Museum and Library Services Barbara G. Smith Technology Officer Institute of Museum and Library Services Dan Lukash Senior Program Officer Institute of Museum and Library Services This session will …

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Clifford Lynch Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information IMS Global Learning Consortium and CNI recently launched a working alliance to explore the development of common architectural and functional models leading to joint …

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Jonathan D. Sousa Technical Applications Development Manager for New Measures Initiative Association of Research Libraries Fred M. Heath Dean and Director of University Libraries Texas A & M University LibQUAL+(tm) is a suite of scalable …

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Betsy Humphreys Associate Director for Library Operations National Library of Medicine The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has developed new tools for linking its major genetic data and biomedical literature resources so that users can more …

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David W. Lewis Dean of the IUPUI University Library Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis Oren Beit-Arie Vice-President of Research and Managing Director of ISD Ex Libris (USA), Inc. Christopher Awre Programme Manager Joint …

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Maciej Ceglowski Lead Developer National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education Clara Yu Director National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education/CET John L. Cuadrado Consultant National Institute for Technology and Liberal …

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Jerome McDonough Digital Library Development Team Leader New York University This briefing will provide an update on the progress of the Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS) initiative, an effort to define a common format for …

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Laura E. Campbell Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives Library of Congress The Library of Congress is now poised to enter the next phase of the National Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), which was created by …

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Lee Zia Lead Program Director, NSDL Program National Science Foundation This session will provide a progress report on the National Science Foundation's program to support the development of the National Science, Technology, Engineering, and …

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Priscilla Caplan Assistant Director for Digital Library Services State University System of Florida Sally H. McCallum Chief, Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress Rebecca S. Guenther Network Development and MARC …

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Martin Halbert Director, Library Systems Emory University Institutional planning is needed to prepare and coordinate policies associated with institutional repositories in a way that will facilitate discovery services based on metadata harvesting on …

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Christine Norman Research Director, Online Use and Costs Evaluation Project Columbia University Kate Wittenberg Diector, Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia Columbia University David Millman Columbia University The Andrew W. Mellon …

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Merrilee Proffitt Program Officer, Member Initiatives RLG With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, RLG began work in late 2001 looking at ways in which it could make the rich information held in the RLG Union Catalog available to a …

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Brian Lavoie Research Scientist OCLC, Inc. Economics is fundamentally about incentives, so a study of the economics of digital preservation should begin with an examination of the incentives to preserve. Securing the long-term viability and …

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Ken Klingenstein Project Manager, Internet2 Middleware Initiative, Chief Technologist University of Colorado, Boulder Shibboleth is an Internet2 initiative to develop and deploy a middleware interinstitutional authentication and authorization …

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Ray Denenberg Senior Networked Engineer Library of Congress Ralph LeVan Senior Computing Analyst OCLC, Inc. The Search/Retrieve Web Service (SRW) is a protocol that combines many years of Z39.50 implementer experience with Web-service technology. …

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George Brett Chief Information Architect, End-to-End Performance Initiative Internet2 Elliot R. Siegel Associate Director for Health Informaton Programs Development National Library of Medicine Frank W. Connolly Partner ConseQ Associates, …

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Peggy Hoon Scholarly Communication Librarian North Carolina State University Rodney Petersen Director, IT Policy and Planning University of Maryland Now that the TEACH Act (Technology, Education, And Copyright Harmonization Act) is law, …

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Mark Luker Vice President EDUCAUSE Steve Worona Director of Policy and Networking Programs EDUCAUSE In December of 2002, a Joint Committee representing higher education and the entertainment industry was formed to explore issues related to …

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Marshall Breeding Library Technology Officer Vanderbilt University The Vanderbilt Television News Archive has been recording the evening news on videotape since 1968 and is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The …

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