CurateGear Speaker Bios
Jonathan Crabtree
Jonathan Crabtree is Assistant Director for Archives and Information
Technology at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC
Chapel Hill. As assistant director, Crabtree completely revamped the
institute’s technology infrastructure and has positioned the
institute to assume a leading national role in information archiving.
His current efforts include working with the University of Michigan,
the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University and
preservation partners across the country to create a national
preservation strategy for social science data and shaping the
institute’s geospatial analysis program to introduce geospatial
methods into social science research at UNC Chapel Hill. Crabtree
joined the institute fourteen years ago and is responsible for
designing and maintaining the technology infrastructure that supports
the institute’s wide array of services. Before moving to the
social science side of campus he was an information systems
technologist for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School
of Medicine. In addition to his work at the institute he is working
part time on an advance degree in the School of Information &
Library Science at UNC.
Mark Evans, Tessella
Barbara Guttman, National Institute
of Standards and Technology
Barbara Guttman is the Manager of the Component Software Group in
NIST’s Information Technology Lab (ITL). Her areas of
responsibility include software assurance and computer forensics. In
computer forensics, her group runs the National Software Reference
Library, the Computer Forensics Tool Testing Project, and the Computer
Forensics Reference Data Sets. In software assurance, her group
runs the Software Assurance Metrics and Tool Evaluation (SAMATE)
project including the Static Analysis Tool Exposition and the SAMATE
Reference Data Set. Prior to joining the Software Components Group, she
was Associate Director of ITL, Senior Program Analyst to the NIST
Director, and worked in computer security and federal information
policy.
Carolyn Hank, McGill University
Carolyn Hank is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information
Studies at McGill University. She received her Ph.D. from the School of
Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Her dissertation research looked at
scholars who blog, and how blog characteristics and blogger behaviors,
preferences, and perceptions impact digital preservation. She is a 2010
recipient of a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from
Beta Phi Mu. She served as project manager for the DigCCurr I project
(2007-2009) and program manager for the UNC-CH Digital
Curation/Institutional Repository Committee (2005-2008), and Carolina
Digital Repository (2008-2009). She teaches in the areas of digital
preservation and access, digital curation, human information
interactions, and research methods.
Chien-Yi Hou, UNC SILS
Chien-Yi Hou is a Research Associate at the School of Information and
Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and Lead Developer at the Sustainable Archives & Library
Technologies group (SALT).
Greg Jansen, UNC Libraries
Matt Kirschenbaum, University of
Maryland
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of
English at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH, an applied
thinktank for the digital humanities). He is also an affiliated faculty
member with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Maryland, and a
member of the teaching faculty at the University of Virginia's Rare
Book School. His first book, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic
Imagination, was published by the MIT Press in 2008 and won the 2009
Richard J. Finneran Award from the Society for Textual Scholarship
(STS), the 2009 George A. and Jean S. DeLong Prize from the Society for
the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), and the
16th annual Prize for a First Book from the Modern Language Association
(MLA). In 2010 he co-authored (with Richard Ovenden and Gabriela
Redwine) Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural
Heritage Collections, a report published by the Council on Library and
Information Resources and recognized with a commendation from the
Society of American Archivists. Kirschenbaum speaks and writes often on
topics in the digital humanities and new media; his work has received
coverage in the Atlantic, New York Times, National Public Radio, Wired,
Boing Boing, Slashdot, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is a
2011 Guggenheim Fellow. See http://www.mkirschenbaum.net for more.
Christopher (Cal) Lee, UNC SILS
Christopher (Cal) Lee is Associate Professor at the School of
Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. He teaches courses on archival administration; records
management; digital curation; understanding information technology for
managing digital collections; and the construction of policies and
rules for digital repositories. He also teaches half-day and full-day
professional workshops on the application of digital forensics methods
and principles to digital acquisitions. He is one of the lead
organizers and instructors for the DigCCurr Professional Institute,
which is a week-long continuing education workshop on digital curation.
Cal's primary area of research is the long-term curation of digital
collections. He is particularly interested in the professionalization
of this work and the diffusion of existing tools and methods (e.g.
digital forensics, web archiving, automated implementation of policies)
into professional practice. Cal is editing and providing several
chapters to a forthcoming book entitled, I, Digital: Personal
Collections in the Digital Era.
Current projects include DigCCurr and DigCCurr II, which are developing
and implementing courses of study and practical engagement
opportunities in digital curation. Cal has developed an extensive
Matrix of Digital Curation Knowledge and Competencies, based on various
data sources and grounded in professional literature. The VidArch
project investigated the collection of online video, with a
particularly emphasis on contextual information. Cal's contributions
included an information model for contextual information in digital
collections and several empirical studies of online selection and
collecting strategies. In collaboration with members of the
Data-Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE), SALT and VidArch project
teams, he has investigated various strategies for enhancing the
sustainability of VidArch's products through the use of iRODS
(Intergrated Rule-Oriented Data System). Cal serves on the Advisory
Board of a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
called "Computer Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural
Heritage Collections."
Nancy McGovern, ICPSR
Nancy Y. McGovern is the Digital Preservation Officer (DPO) and a
Research Assistant Professor at the Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a social science data archive at
the University of Michigan that was established in 1962. Her
responsibilities as the DPO include developing and promulgating
policies that reflect prevailing standards and practice for managing
digital content over time and developing appropriate long-term
strategies for the expanding range of social science digital content
ICPSR collects. Her research interests include the organizational
infrastructure for life cycle management and the means for
organizations and communities to continually respond to the
opportunities and challenges of evolving technology. She has
twenty-five years of experience with the long-term management of
digital content, including a decade at the U.S. National Archives and
five years of experience at Cornell University Library. She completed
her PhD on technology responsiveness for the digital preservation
community at University College London in 2009. She was designated a
Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) in 2009 and a
Digital Preservation Pioneer by NDIIPP in 2010.
Richard Marciano, UNC SILS
Dr. Richard Marciano. Richard Marciano is a professor in the School of
Information and Library Science at UNC, Chapel Hill and Director of the
Sustainable Archives and Leveraging Technologies (SALT) lab. He leads
development of preservation environments for projects funded by NARA,
NHPRC, IMLS, NSF, DHS, and the Research Triangle Park (RTF) Foundation.
He is the principal investigator for the NHPRC-funded Distributed
Custodial Archival Preservation Environments (DCAPE) initiative, and
the NARA/NSF CI-BER project (CyberInfrastructure for Billions of
Electronic Records). Dr. Marciano has been working with government
records and technology for over a decade. Experience covers
eGovernment, environmental data and policies, planning environments,
regional, state, and federal records. He holds degrees in Avionics and
Electrical Engineering, M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Iowa, and worked as a Postdoc in Computational Geography.
Mark Matienzo, Yale University
Mark A. Matienzo is Technical Architect for the ArchivesSpace project
and a Digital Archivist in Manuscripts and Archives at the Yale
University Library. He has taught as an adjunct faculty member at the
iSchool at Drexel University and the Palmer School of Library and
Information Science at Long Island University. His professional
interests include developing archival description systems, open source
digital forensics software, and workflow analysis.
Before joining Yale University, he worked as an Applications Developer
in the Digital Experience Group of The New York Public Library,
as assistant archivist for systems and metadata at the Niels Bohr
Library & Archives of the American Institute of Physics, as project
cataloging archivist at the National Anthropological Archives,
Smithsonian Institution, and as catalog librarian at ProQuest. He
received a MSI from the School of Information at the University of
Michigan and a BA in Philosophy from the College of Wooster.
Trevor
Owens, Library of Congress
Trevor Owens is a Digital Archivist
with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation
Program (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library
of Congress. At the Library of Congress, he works on the open source
Viewshare cultural heritage collection visualization tool, as a member
of the communications team, and as the co-chair for the National
Digital Stewardship Alliance’s Infrastructure working group.
Before joining the Library of Congress he was the community lead for
the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and
before that managed outreach for the Games, Learning, and Society
Conference.
Trevor Owens is a Digital Archivist
with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation
Program (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library
of Congress. At the Library of Congress, he works on the open source
Viewshare cultural heritage collection visualization tool, as a member
of the communications team, and as the co-chair for the National
Digital Stewardship Alliance’s Infrastructure working group.
Before joining the Library of Congress he was the community lead for
the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and
before that managed outreach for the Games, Learning, and Society
Conference. Trevor wrote a book for Arcadia Press about the history of
Fairfax County told through postcards and has published research in
journals such as Simulation & Gaming, Science Communication,
Cultural Studies of Science Education and On the Horizon.
David Pearson, National Library of
Australia
David Pearson is currently Manager of the Digital Preservation section
at the National Library of Australia. He has worked in the digital
preservation field for the last 10 years and in cultural institutions
for over 18 years. During this time he has project managed or worked on
many aspects of digital preservation, including policy, software and
tools development, system and metadata requirements, data recovery from
obsolete media, and building and fitting out computer rooms.
David holds an honours degree in archaeology from the Australian
National University, Canberra. He has written a number of articles in
academic journals on both conflict archaeological and digital
preservation issues.
Doug Reside, New York Public Library
Doug Reside became Digital Curator for the Performing Arts at New York
Public Library in January of 2011 after serving for four and a half
years on the directorial staff of the Maryland Institute for Technology
in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland in College Park.
He holds a BS in Computer Science and a BA, MA, and Ph.D. in English
Literature. He has been a PI on three NEH startup grants (The Ajax XML
Encoder, Music Theatre Online, and the Collaborative Ajax Modeling
Platform) and the co-PI with Tanya Clement on the "Off the Tracks"
workshop. Additionally, he is the original project director of the NEH
Preservation and Access funded Text Image Linking Environment (TILE)
which is scheduled for release in the summer of 2011.
Seamus Ross, University of Toronto
Dr. Ross is the Dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the
University of Toronto. He earned his BA from Vassar College, his MA
from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD from the University of
Oxford. He was the Director of Humanities Computing and Information
Management at the University of Glasgow and ran the Humanities Advanced
Technology and Information Institute (HATII) of which he was the
founding director in 1997. He is also Associate Director of the Digital
Curation Centre in the UK, a co-principal investigator in the DELOS
Digital Libraries Network of Excellence, Principal Director of
DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), Principal Investigator of the
AHDS-Performing Arts, and a project partner and member of the
management boards of Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for
Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR) and Preservation and
Long-term Access through NETworked Services (Planets). He was Principal
Director of ERPANET a European Commission activity to enhance the
preservation of cultural heritage and scientific digital objects, and a
key player in The Digital Culture Forum (DigiCULT Forum) which worked
to improve the take-up of cutting edge research and technology by the
cultural heritage sector.
Seth Shaw, Duke University
Seth Shaw is the Electronic Records Archivist responsible for
everything born-digital in both the Duke University Archives and
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. He received his
Bachelors of Science in Information Systems from Brigham Young
University – Idaho in 2005 and his Masters of Science in
Information, Archives & Records Management from the University of
Michigan’s School of Information in 2007. Seth teaches the
“Managing Electronic Records in Archives & Special
Collections” workshop for SAA and has presented at various
conferences on several topics. He is also the author of Duke’s
Data Accessioner software.
Mike Thuman, Tessella
Helen R. Tibbo, UNC SILS
Dr. Tibbo (co-PI) is an Alumni Distinguished Professor at the School of
Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), and teaches in the areas of archives
and records management, digital preservation and access, appraisal, and
archival reference and outreach. She is also a Fellow and current
President of the Society of American Archivists (SAA).
From 2006-2009, Dr. Tibbo was the Principal Investigator (PI) for the
IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services)-funded DigCCurr I
project that developed an International Digital Curation Curriculum for
master's level students (www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr). She is also the PI
for DigCCurr II (2008-2012) that extends the Digital Curation
Curriculum to the doctoral level. In 2009, IMLS awarded Prof. Tibbo two
additional projects, Educating Stewards of Public Information in the
21st Century (ESOPI-21) and Closing the Digital Curation Gap (CDCG).
ESOPI-21 is a partnership with UNC's School of Government to provide
students with a Master's of Science in Library/Information Science and
a Master's of Public Administration so that they can work in the public
policy arena concerning digital preservation and curation issues and
laws. CDCG is a collaboration with the Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC) and the Digital Curation Center (DCC), both of the
United Kingdom, to explore educational and guidance needs of cultural
heritage information professionals in the digital curation domain in
the US and the UK. Dr. Tibbo is a co-PI with collaborators from the
University of Michigan and the University of Toronto on a National
Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)-funded project
to develop standardized metrics for assessing use and user services for
primary sources in government settings. This project extends work that
explored user-based evaluation in academic archival settings funded by
the Mellon Foundation. Prof. Tibbo is also co-PI on the IMLS-Funded
POlicy-Driven Repository Interoperability (PoDRI) project lead by Dr.
Richard Marciano.
Bill Underwood, Georgia Tech
Dr. William Underwood is a Principal Research Scientist with the
Computer Science and Information Technology Division of the Georgia
Tech Research Institute in Atlanta. He earned his PhD in Computer
Science from the University of Maryland. His current research interests
are in developing formal, theoretical foundations for records
management and archival science, experimental investigations of
alternative digital preservation strategies, and the application of
natural language processing, machine learning and knowledge-based
reasoning technologies to the support of automated archival
description, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) review, and search and
retrieval of records in digital archives. Dr. Underwood’s
research, sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA), has involved prototyping of an archival repository and archival
processing system for accession, arrangement, preservation, review,
description and retrieval of electronic records. His current research,
sponsored by the National Center for Advanced System technologies
(NCAST), seeks to develop tools for information and content extraction
from textual documents, induction of grammars for recognizing document
types, automatic description of the content of record series, reliable
identification of file formats, and decision support for review of
Presidential records for Presidential Record Act restrictions and FOIA
exemptions. His current research interests are in developing formal,
theoretical foundations for records management and archival science,
experimental investigations of alternative preservation strategies, and
the application of natural language processing technologies to the
support of archival description and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
review.
Bram Van der Werf, Director of the Open Planets Foundation
Peter Van Garderen, Artefactual
Systems
Peter Van Garderen is project manager for the open-source Archivematica
and ICA-AtoM software projects. Peter is also the principal of
Artefactual Systems, a Vancouver-based company that provides
technical services for the international archival community (see
http://artefactual.com). Peter is a Distinguished Alumnus of the
University of British Columbia’s Master of Archival Studies
program and a Doctoral Candidate in Archival Science at the University
of Amsterdam. He has worked at the University of British Columbia's
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies as an Adjunct
Professor (1999-2004) and as the Project Coordinator for International
Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems
(InterPARES Project) (1998-2000). Peter launched Artefactual Systems
Inc. in 2001. Since that time he has worked with a wide range of
clients, providing services that range from writing strategy reports,
analyzing system requirements, designing technology architectures,
developing software, and managing open-source projects.
Doug White, National Institute of
Standards and Technology
Doug has worked at NIST since 1987. His experience has
covered distributed systems, distributed databases and
telecommunication
protocols. He has written programs in many areas, including real time
biomonitoring, real time video processing, web site/database
integration,
system administration scripts and network monitoring scripts. He holds
both a B.A and M.S. in computer science from Hood College. Doug has been
involved with the National Software Reference Library (NSRL) since
2001,
and is currently the project leader for the NSRL.
Kam Woods, UNC SILS
Kam Woods is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of
Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. He currently works with Dr. Cal Lee developing techniques
and tools to assist in long-term archiving and educational support for
digital forensics datasets.
Kam's current research focuses on long-term preservation of
born-digital materials. He is interested in interdisciplinary
approaches that combine technologies and expertise in the areas of
archiving, computer science, and digital forensics for the purpose of
enabling and maintaining access to digital objects that are at risk due
to obsolescence. At UNC, Kam has worked with Cal Lee on the development
of educational materials to support the use of realistic forensic
datasets in professional training and to identify and explore novel
uses of forensic data and tools in the context of digital archives.
This work has been performed in collaboration with Simson Garfinkel at
the Naval Postgraduate School, and is currently supported by NSF Award
DUE-0919593.