D-Lib Magazine
March/April 2009

Volume 15 Number 3/4

ISSN 1082-9873

Authors in the March/April 2009 Issue of D-Lib Magazine

Ana Alice Baptista

Dr. Ana Alice Baptista is a professor at the Department of Information Systems of University of Minho. Ana graduated as a Systems and Informatics Engineer, obtained a MSc degree in Informatics and a Doctoral degree in Information Technologies and Systems. Ana is a member of the directive board of the Doctoral programme in Information Systems, held at the University of Minho. She is a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Advisory Board, a member of the steering committee of the International Conference series on Electronic Publishing (Elpub) and a member of the programme committee of several other international conferences. She participated in several R&D projects, including OmniPaper, DSpaceDev@University of Minho, CRiB and KoT. Ana has acted as evaluator of FP7 project proposals. She is the head of the Odisseia Research Group and her main areas of interest are Scholarly Communication, Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web. She is also interested in the social aspects of the Internet, primarily on its relationships with scholarly communication. For more information visit <http://www.dsi.uminho.pt>.

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José H. Canós Cerdá

José H. Canós <jhcanos@dsic.upv.es> is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science (DSIC) of the Technical University of Valencia, Spain. He holds a degree in Physics from the University of Valencia (1984) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Valencia (1996). His current research interests are Digital Libraries, Document Engineering and Emergency Management Information Systems.

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James Caverlee

James Caverlee is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Dr. Caverlee directs the Web and Distributed Information Management Lab at Texas A&M and is also affiliated with the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries. His current research focuses on building algorithms and systems for trusted information management on the Social Web.

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Mats Dahlström

Mats Dahlström (b. 1964) is an associate professor at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, UC Borâs/University of Gothenburg. His areas of research are digitisation, bibliography, text encoding, scholarly editing, and new media studies. He teaches and supervises cultural heritage digitisation projects and has also published studies on e-books, textual theory, media theory and document architecture. He is also the editor of the open access peer review journal Human IT (http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/humanit.htm).

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Joy Davidson

Joy Davidson is Associate Director, User Services for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). As well as being PI for the JISC-funded Digital Curation 101, Joy is also involved in a number of international working groups currently investigating collaborative possibilities for the progression of digital curation curriculum and professional development opportunities. Joy was also a member of the team that founded the joint WePreserve initiative which aims to reduce duplication of effort and to promote collaborative approaches in the provision of digital curation and preservation training efforts across UK and European projects.

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Ying Ding

Ying Ding is an Assistant Professor at School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. She has published more than 70 papers and has served as a Program Committee member for more than 80 international conferences and workshops. Her current interests include webometrics, semantic web, citation analysis, information retrieval, knowledge management and application of web technology.

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Alen Doracic

Alen Doracic is a lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, UC Borâs/University of Gothenburg. His areas of teaching are information policy, legal aspect of information and societal issues raised by Intellectual Property Rights.

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Michael Fried

Michael Fried has joined the semantic web community two years ago. His topics cover space-based cloud computing as well as data mediation, especially data from the "social web". Currently Michael is working for STI Innsbruck being involved in some projects regarding RDF triple distribution and discovery.

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Carolyn Hank

Carolyn Hank is a Triangle Research Libraries Network Doctoral Fellow at SILS. She served as project manager for the university-wide Digital Curation/Institutional Repository Committee (2005-2008), and was PI on the research studies, "Building from Trust: Using the RLG/NARA Audit Checklist for Institutional Repository Planning and Deployment," and "Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation." She is currently project manager for the DigCCurr I project, and recently led the study on "Challenges, Curricula, and Competencies: Researcher and Practitioner Perspectives for Informing the Development of a Digital Curation Curriculum." She teaches in the areas of digital preservation and access, digital curation, and human information interactions. Prior to entering the doctoral program at SILS, she worked in the Office of Research at OCLC.

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Rose Holley

Rose Holley is manager of the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program at the National Library of Australia. Prior to this she worked in New Zealand instigating and managing digitisation projects and was actively involved in raising awareness of digitisation techniques across the cultural heritage sector via her roles for the National Digital Forum (NDF http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/) and the Auckland Heritage Archivists and Librarians Group (AHLAG http://www.ahlag.auckland.ac.nz). Rose is passionate about utilising digital technologies to enable preservation, discovery and access of our cultural heritage resources and in moving from small scale digitisation to mass digitisation. Her previously published papers on digitisation are available here: <http://eprints.rclis.org/view/people/Holley=3ARose=3A=3A.html>.

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Elin K. Jacob

Elin K. Jacob is an Associate Professor at School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), Indiana University, where she is director of the SLIS doctoral program. Her research interests are representation of knowledge, including theories of classification and categorization; indexing systems as cognitive scaffolding; design, implementation and evaluation of ontologies and metadata schemes; and information architecture.

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George V. Landon

George V. Landon received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Kentucky. He currently holds the post of assistant professor in the Computer Science Faculty of Eastern Kentucky University. His research focus is in computer vision and image processing with particular applications in the digital humanities.

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Manuel Llavador Campos

Manuel Llavador is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science (DSIC) of the Technical University of Valencia, Spain. He has held pre-doctoral fellowships funded by Microsoft Research Cambridge Ltd. and the Spanish Government since 2003. The main goal of his Ph.D. work is the development of a framework for the SEMIautomatic integration of heterogeneous systems by document transformation.

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Eduardo Mena Nieto

Eduardo Mena received the BS degree in Computer Science from the University of the Basque Country and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Zaragoza. He is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where he leads the Distributed Information Systems research group. He is also a member of the Interoperable Database group at the University of the Basque Country. His research interest areas include interoperable, heterogeneous and distributed information systems, Semantic Web, and mobile computing. His main contribution is the OBSERVER project.

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Gordon W. Paynter

Dr. Gordon W. Paynter is Technical Analyst for the Innovation Centre, National Library of New Zealand. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waikato in New Zealand, then worked for the New Zealand Digital Library Project and the University of California. His current projects centre on web archiving, institutional repositories, and newspaper digitization.

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Tracy Powell

Tracy Powell is a Projects Leader at the National Library of New Zealand, working on digitisation projects such as the Papers Past historic newspapers database and the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961. Prior to this she worked on the all-of-government portal http://www.govt.nz/ and Index New Zealand, an index to New Zealand journals.

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Zhixiong Zhang

Zhixiong Zhang is a Professor and head of Information System Department, Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences (LCAS). He is the standing committee member of IFLA IT Section and the Digital Library Research and Development of LSA (The Library Society of China). He published about 80 research papers on topic such as "information extraction", "knowledge technologies", "ontology and semantic web", "library automation system", "digital preservation", "distributing subject gateway" etc.

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