Cal Lee's Web Niche
I'm an Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My major focus is the management and preservation of digital materials.
For the official summary of what I do and have done, you can see my Curriculum Vitae (CV).
Some Documents I've Authored or Co-authored:
- Taking Context Seriously: A Framework for Contextual Information in Digital Collections, UNC SILS TR-2007-04, October 18, 2007.
- Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories: Steps Toward Success, (Christopher A. Lee and Helen R. Tibbo), Journal of Digital Information 8, No. 2 (2007) - introduction to a special issue of the journal that I co-edited with Helen Tibbo
- Defining What Digital Curators Do and What They Need to Know: The DigCCurr Project, (Christopher A. Lee, Helen R. Tibbo, and John C. Schaefer), Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Digital Libraries, 49-50. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2007.
- Never Optimize: Building & Managing a Robust Cyberinfrastructure, History and Theory of Infrastructure: Distilling Lessons for New Scientific Cyberinfrastructures, Ann Arbor, MI, September 28 - October 1, 2006.
- "The Old Version Flickers More": Digital Preservation from the User's Perspective, (Margaret L. Hedstrom, Christopher A. Lee, Judith S. Olson, and Clifford A. Lampe), American Archivist 69, No. 1 (2006): 159-187. [Summary also available at American Archivist Online.]
- VidArch: Preserving Meaning of Digital Video over Time through Creating and Capture of Contextual Documentation, (Helen R. Tibbo, Chirstopher A. Lee, Gary Marchionini, and Dawne Howard), Proceedings of Archiving 2006, 210-215.
- Bridging the Gap: Mechanisms for Legitimate Peripheral Participation, MAC [Midwest Archives Conference] Newsletter, January 2003 - argues that archivists can use mechamisms such as professional gatherings and electronic mailing lists to act as legitimate peripheral participants in other communities of practice that are also dealing with electronic records issues. Understanding of such participation can help archivists to reach out to other professionals and help them to reach out to archivists.
- Significant properties of digital objects:
definitions, applications, implications (Margaret Hedstrom and Christopher A. Lee), Proceedings of the DLM-Forum 2002, Barcelona, 6–
8 May 2002. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,
2002: 218-227.
- Guerilla Electronic Records Management: Lessons Learned, Records and Information Management Report, Volume 18, Number 5, May 2002: 1-13
- Society of American Archivists (SAA) Response to National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Advanced Notice on Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Records, January 4, 2002
- Open-Source Software: A Promising Piece of the Digital Preservation Puzzle, revised version appears in MAC Newsletter, October 2001 - explains what source code is and why it matters to archivists concerned with digital preservation
- Guerilla ERM: Lessons Learned from Some Time in the Trenches, Ohio Archivist, Spring 2001 - argues that archivists need to act now to address electronic records management and preservation issues in the ways that they can, rather than waiting for better solutions to come along. I borrow Jakob Nielsen's idea of guerilla HCI for thinking about practical approaches.
- Records Management and Preservation Architecture - (available through the Internet Archive) chapter of the Kansas Statewide Technical Architecture (KSTA), April 5, 2000, for information on more recent versions of the chapter, see the Kansas ERC page on the KSTA
- Kansas Electronic Recordkeeping Strategy: A White Paper, December 29, 1999 - executive summary version of the Guidelines listed below
- Kansas Electronic Records Management Guidelines, August 17, 1999 - based on NHPRC funding and adapted from a previous version written by Margaret Hedstrom
- Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share, April 23, 1999 (updated November 4, 2001) - explores the rise and fall of Gopher as the dominant protocol for file search and retrieval over the Internet, questioning some of the most commonly accepted explanations for why this occurred
- Legal guide for general aviation pilots, December 7, 1997 - designed to inform general aviation pilots and student pilots about the laws and regulations that effect them (warning: not updated since 1997 and still a bit incomplete)
Sites I've Developed or Co-Developed:
Recent Projects and Activities:
Recent Events in which I've Participated:
- Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual Meeting - San Francisco, CA, August 26-30, 2008
- Electronic Records "Summer Camp" - San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA, July 7-11, 2008
- Archiving 2008 - Bern, Switzerland, June 24-27, 2008
- LANUCH-CH [Librarians' Association of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] Annual Research Forum - Chapel Hill, NC, May 21, 2008
- What to preserve? Significant Properties of Digital Objects - London, England, April 7, 2008
- NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellowships Symposium (National Historical Publications and Records Commission) - Chapel Hill, NC, November 16, 2007
- International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres) - Beijing, China, October 11-12, 2007
- Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual Meeting - Chicago, IL, August 28 - September 2, 2007
- Tar Heel Bus Tour - May 14-18, 2007
- DigCCurr 2007. Chapel Hill, NC, April 18-20, 2007.
- This Conversation is Being Blogged: Our lives, online, all the time, in the trend towards lifelogging - Chapel Hill, NC, March 29, 2007.
- North Carolina Electronic Commerce Summit, Raleigh, NC, March 13, 2007.
- Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) Institutional Repository Forum - Durham, NC, December 11, 2006
- UNC Social Software Symposium - Chapel Hill, NC, December 8-9, 2006
- Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting - Vancouver, Canada, November 1-5, 2006
- NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellowships Symposium (National Historical Publications and Records Commission) - Chapel Hill, NC, October 6, 2006
- History and Theory of Infrastructure: Lessons for New Scientific Cyberinfrastructures - Ann Arbor, MI, September 28 - October 1, 2006
- Joint Annual Meeting of Council of State Archivists (COSA), National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), and Society of American Archivists (SAA) - Washington, D.C., July 30-August 6, 2006
- Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Problems, July 16-21, 2006, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Workshop on Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories: Seeking Success - June 15, 2006, Chapel Hill, NC
- Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) - June 11-15, 2006, Chapel Hill, NC
- Digital Preservation in State Government: Best Practices Exchange - Wilmington, NC, March 27-28, 2006
- Society of North Carolina Archivists (SNCA) - Spring Meeting, Carrboro, NC, March 23-24, 2006
- Librarians' Association at UNC-Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH) Annual Conference - Chapel Hill, NC, March 13, 2006
- NDIIPP Digital Preservation Partners Meeting - Berkeley, CA, January 9-11, 2006
- NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellowships Symposium (National Historical Publications and Records Commission) - Chapel Hill, NC, November 8, 2005
- American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Annual Meeting - October 28-November 2, 2005, Charlotte, NC
- Tranforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the Humanities - January 17-18, 2003, Washington DC
- Choices and Challenges: Collecting By Museums & Archives - National Symposium for Curators and Archivists, sponsored by the Benson Ford Research Center with support from the Americana Foundation, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1-3, 2002
- NSF Workshop on Research Challenges in Digital Archiving: Towards a National Infrastructure for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information - April 12-13, 2002
- The Stories We Tell: Strategies, Experiences and Innovations in Qualitative Research - conference for and by graduate students at the University of Michigan, March 15-16, 2002
- Redefining Preservation, Shaping New Solutions, Forging New Partnerships - conference sponsored by the University of Michigan University Library and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to identify, explore, and examine the current and evolving preservation issues confronting academic libraries and institutions, March 7–8, 2002
- The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing: Print Collections, E-Books, and Beyond - conference at University of Michigan, May 10-11, 2001
- Preservation 2000: An International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials - December 6-8, 2000, York, England
- Making Advanced Technology Work for Community Serving Organizations: Potential Impact of OSS and ASPs - May 12-13, 2000
Some Stuff About Friends and Family
- Double V Promotions - producers of Russian classical ballet and national outreach program (Laura Lee, Director)
Page last updated: 2008-07-01