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DCHP Teaching Team |
| Seamus
Ross, Director of Humanities Computing and Information Management
at the University of Glasgow, runs HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology
and Information Institute)[1]. He is also Principal Director of ERPANET
(Electronic Resource Preservation and Network) (IST-2001-32706) a
European Commission Funded Activity to enhance the preservation of
cultural heritage and scientific digital objects[2].
He is a lead partner in The Digital Culture Forum (DigiCULT
Forum, IST-2001-34898), which works to improve the takeup of cutting
edge research and technology by the cultural heritage sector[3]. HATII
which provides an academic undergraduate and postgraduate program,
carries out research in application of advanced technologies to arts,
humanities and heritage sectors, manages the provision of infrastructure
and computing services for the Faculty of Arts, overseeing the development
and management of the departmentally based teaching laboratories,
and promotes collaborative IT-based research in the Faculty. He lectures
in humanities computing (his courses include "Multimedia Systems”,
and "Cultural and Heritage Informatics"). Previously he was Assistant Secretary for Information Technology
at the British Academy, and before that worked for a company specialising
in expert systems and software development, as a knowledge and software
engineer and then in management. He
researches, lectures and publishes on issues of information technology
and digital preservation. Since 1991, he has co-edited four books,
including Electronic Information Resources and Historians: European
Perspectives (Göttingen, 1993) (with Edward Higgs). This volume
examined the implications of the growth in use of electronic information
within contemporary society on the future of historical scholarship.
It was the first volume to bring together the creators, users (historians),
archivists, and technologies to examine the problems and potentials
of electronic records against a European background. His publications
include: Post-Hoc Rescue of Digital Materials, (with Ann Gow),
(London & Bristol: British Library and Joint Information Systems
Committee, forthcoming 1998); "The Expanding World of Electronic
Information and the Past's Future," in Higgs, E, (ed.), Historians
and Electronic Artefacts, (Oxford, 1998); and "Consensus,
communication, and collaboration: fostering multidisciplinary cooperation
in electronic records," in INSAR (Supplement II), Proceedings
of the DLM-Forum on Electronic Records, (Brussels, 1997), 330-336.
Most recently he led the production and was the principal author of
Funding Information and Communications Technology in the Heritage
Sector, Policy Recommendations to the Heritage Lottery Fund (January,
1998). He acts as ICT advisor to the Heritage Lottery Fund and is
a monitor for a number of large ICT-based projects in the UK. He is
a member of a number of international organisations including the
DLM- Monitoring Committee of the European Commission. He was co-Chair
of the European Team of InterPARES I (1997-2002)[4]. During 2002 he
is co-chairing with Professor Margaret Hedstrom of the University
of Michigan the European Union(Delos) and National Science Foundation
(NSF) working group on digital archiving and preservation, which is
defining the future research agendas that should be funded in this
area. Its report will be released in early 2003.
In 2001/2 he contributed to the review of Information Society
Activities for the Swiss Government and to the development during
the Swedish, Belgian, and Spanish Presidencies of the European Union
of resolution in the areas of digitisation, digital preservation,
and information quality. For example, in 2001 he assisted the European
Commission in the development of the Lund Principles on digitisation
and associated reports.
Tel: (+44 141) 330 3645 / email: S.Ross@arts.gla.ac.uk
[2] www.erpanet.org
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| Dr. Ian Anderson is lecturer in new technologies for the humanities in HATII. He teaches a range of honors and post-graduate options in digitization, text processing and analysis, multimedia analysis and design and data modeling. Ian is one of the principal researchers on the HATII team working on the Getty-funded and NINCH-coordinated (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, USA) study on digitization in the cultural heritage sector which will result in a Guide to Good Practice in Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Material, to be completed in 2001. Anderson's research interests include user and needs analysis, interface and multimedia design, computer based pedagogies and digitization projects. He is currently working on a collaborative project with Dr. Helen Tibbo (see below) of the School of Information and Library Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on how historians locate primary source material and how electronic finding aids are presented by archivists. He is also the local project manager for the JISC/DNER funded CHCC project. This is a collaboration between Glasgow, Essex, Manchester and Leeds universities to develop contemporary and historical census data into a major learning and teaching resource. Before taking up his post, Anderson was the academic support officer for the TLTP History Courseware Consortium for two years. This project developed 12 innovative multimedia tutorials to assist undergraduate history teaching. Prior to completing a Ph.D. in economic and social history, he gained an M.Phil. in history and computing and an M.A. in economic and social history, all from the University of Glasgow. Ian's recent publications include: Anderson, I. G. "Developing Multimedia Courseware for Teaching History: A UK Perspective," Journal of Multimedia History, Vol 3, 2001, ISSN: 1528 3844. Anderson, I. G. "Meeting the Challenges of Computer Assisted Teaching: A UK Perspective." Proceedings of the American Historical Association, 2000, Ref # 10485. Tel: 0141 330 3843 Email: I.Anderson@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk |
| Dr. Helen R. Tibbo is a professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a B.A. in English from Bridgewater State College, an M.L.S. from Indiana University, an M.A. in American studies from the University of Maryland, and her Ph.D. in library and information science from Maryland as well. Dr. Tibbo teaches in the areas of archival studies, records management, digitization and digital archiving, online information retrieval, and reference. In the summer of 2000, she was the principal instructor at the Western Archives Institute held in Redlands, Calif. From 1996 through 2000, she served as the Associate Dean at SILS. She currently leads the SILS initiative in developing dual degree programs with other schools and departments on campus. Dr. Tibbo's primary research interests focus on optimizing information retrieval, particularly for information systems that support humanistic and archival research. Her dissertation examined humanists, and particularly historians, as information producers and users. In this research she sought to devise domain-appropriate document representations for retrieval systems that serve these scholars. Currently, she is working on a project with Dr. Ian Anderson from the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow, that extends this work. She and Dr. Anderson are surveying and interviewing hundreds of historians in both the U.S. and the U.K. regarding how they search for primary resource materials in the digital age; what they teach their Ph.D. students about this process. She and Dr. Anderson are also interviewing archivists and manuscript curators at leading institutions regarding what they are doing to provide electronic access to primary research materials and outreach and user education programs they provide for clients. Dr. Tibbo has also explored the question of how archives and other cultural heritage information repositories, such as manuscript repositories and museums can best provide access to their voluminous holdings. In this regard she has worked on the editorial board of two publications/web sites for the Getty Information Institute: Introduction to Archival Arrangement and Description and Introduction to Vocabularies: A Guide to Enhancing Access to Cultural Heritage Information and conducted a study looking at the success of searching for archival finding aids using popular Internet browsers. She also directed the creation of a preservation metadata template for the North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online (NCECHO) program and is currently leading a 3-year National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) funded project to study how faculty, staff and administrators manage their digital desktops at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and throughout the UNC System. Tibbo is a member of numerous scholarly and professional organizations, including the American Library Association (ALA), the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), and the Society of American Archivists (SAA). She has served as chair of SAA's Publications Board, its Archival Educator's Roundtable, and SAA's Task Force on the Future of the American Archivist and as a SAA Council from 1997-2000. She is also a past chair of the ALA's Research Round Table. Publications include: "Abstracting, Information Retrieval, and the Humanities: Providing Access to Historical Literature," "Libraries and the Creation of Electronic Texts for the Humanities," "The Epic Struggle: Subject Retrieval from Large Bibliographic Databases," and "Indexing in the Humanities." She will have an extensive chapter on “The Need and Importance of Archiving in the Digital Age” published in the 2003 volume of Advances in Computers. |
| Dr. Paul Conway, director of information technology services, joined the executive management group of the Duke University Libraries in August 2001. Conway provides leadership for all of the libraries' technology programs and services and represents library technology interests on the Duke campus and in regional, national, and international organizations. His particular focus is the development of the Digital Library @ Duke as a comprehensive program of collections, tools and services for the provision and preservation of digital resources for the Duke University community. Prior to coming to Duke, Conway headed the Preservation Department at Yale University Library for nine years. Among his responsibilities at Yale, he chaired the Library Management Council, twice served as interim head of the Acquisitions Department, and provided staff support for university facilities planning committees. At Yale, he managed a number of digital research and development projects, including Project Open Book, which explored the feasibility of converting preservation microfilm frames to digital images, a planning project exploring the complexities of guaranteeing long-term access to e-journal content produced by commercial publishers; and an exploration of the potential value of e-book content to library course reserve programs. Conway began his professional career in 1977 as an archivist on the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library. From 1988 to 1992 served successively as the Preservation Program Officer for the Society of American Archivists and as an Archives Specialist at the National Archives and Records Administration, where he conducted a study of research use of archives and a review of how government agencies implement digital imaging technology. He has a master's degree in history and a Ph.D. in information and library studies, both from the University of Michigan. Heis widely published on preservation and archives administration. Most recently, his writing has focused on the challenges of preserving library resources in digital form. Conway earned a B.A. in history (honors) from Indiana University; an M.A. in history/administration of archives from the University of Michigan; and a Ph.D. from Michigan as well. His dissertation was titled Archival Preservation in the United States and the Role of Information Sources. |
| Lisa Spiro is the director of the Electronic
Resources Center (ERC) at Rice University’s Fondren Library. She supervises the development of digital projects, manages
a suite of computing labs, and provides training in creating and using
electronic resources.
Current projects include the Near Eastern Travel Narrative
Archive, the Via Gabina Villas Archaeology site, and a comprehensive
redesign of the award-winning Galileo Project.
Lisa also directs the Educational Technology Research and Assessment
Cooperative (ETRAC), which studies the impact of technology on higher
education. ETRAC recently
launched LESTER (Learning Science and Technology Repository), an online
portal that tracks innovations and innovators in educational technology
and learning science.
Before coming to Rice, Lisa was a Sieg Fellow at the University
of Virginia's Electronic Text Center, where she helped coordinate
the Early American Fiction Project and co-authored guides to marking-up
manuscripts using TEI (the Text Encoding Initiative). Lisa received a Ph.D. in English from
the University of Virginia.
Lisa’s
current research interests include learner-centered design and practices,
multimedia, mark-up languages, interface design, and textual studies. Lisa has taught courses on XML, EAD,
creating digital documentaries, and web authoring. She has been an instructor for the Digitization for Cultural
Heritage Professionals course since 2000. |
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