Education

Past Conferences

Persistence of Memory
Stewardship of Digital Assets
November 28-29, 2007
Seattle, WA

Faculty Biographies

Paul Conway, University of Michigan

Paul Conway, Associate Professor, has extensive teaching experience in the preservation and archives fields and has made major contributions over the past 30 years to the literature on archival users and use, preservation management, and digital imaging technologies. His research interests include the challenges of representing and interpreting visual and textual resources in digital form, ethics and information technology, and incentive systems for digital preservation, particularly in the context of emerging interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities. He has held leadership positions at the National Archives and Records Administration, the Society of American Archivists, Yale University, and Duke University. In 2005, Conway received the American Library Association's Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award for his contributions to the preservation field. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.

Katherine Skinner, Emory University

Dr. Katherine Skinner is the Digital Projects Librarian at the Emory University Libraries, and provides leadership for the library's digital projects that are supported through grants or other sponsored funding sources. She is a Co-Principal Investigator on the SouthComb Project (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), co-director of the MetaArchive Cooperative (Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program) and manager of the William Levi Dawson project (Ford Foundation). She is a founder and an editorial board member of the peer-reviewed Internet journal, Southern Spaces, and is a consultant on the Voyages—TransAtlantic Slave Trade Database project (National Endowment for the Humanities). She is currently co-editing a monograph entitled Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries with Martin Halbert. Katherine also serves on the Aquifer Services Working Group committee and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program's Sustainability Committee, and is on the faculty for the Northeast Document Conservation Center's (NEDCC) upcoming Stewardship of Digital Assets workshop series.

Thomas F. R. Clareson, PALINET

Thomas F.R. Clareson joined PALINET as Program Director for New Initiatives in October 2005. Leading PALINET's digital collections creation and management services, preservation services, and consulting activities, he is responsible for establishing new services and funding sources, grantwriting, and outreach to the museum and historical society communities. With over 15 years experience in preservation and digitization services, Tom was previously Global Product Manager at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; he also served in various capacities at Amigos Library Services, Inc. Tom holds an MLS from Kent State University, an MA from Ohio State University, and a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University. A representative from the Society of American Archivists to the Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries, and Museums, he also serves on the Board of Trustees of Heritage Preservation.

Robin Dale, RLG - Programs, OCLC Office of Programs & Research

Robin L. Dale has recently become the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Library Infor-mation Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Until early June 2007, she was a program officer in RLG Programs, a part of OCLC’s Office of Programs & Research, for a year. Prior to the combination of RLG and OCLC, she was a program officer and Program Manager for Preservation at RLG, as well as the Associate Editor of RLG DigiNews for nine years.

From 2005 to early 2007, Robin was also the Project Director of the Center for Research Libraries Audit-ing and Certification of Digital Archives project, a Mellon-funded activity to develop processes to audit and certify digital archives and repositories. She co-chaired the RLG National Archives and Records Administration Digital Repository Certification task force, which produced the recently released Trusted Repositories, Audit and Certification: A Checklist (TRAC). For the last ten years, her work has focused on digital preservation, preservation metadata, data curation, and digitization.

Richard Rinehart, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Richard Rinehart is a digital media artist and DigitalArt Curator at theUCBerkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. He is Associate Director for Public Programs of the Berkeley Center for New Media. Richard has taught digital media studio and theory in the UC Berkeley Center for New Media, the Department of Art Practice, and has also been visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and JFK University. Richard manages research projects in the area of digital culture, including the NEA-funded project, 'Archiving the Avant Garde', a national consortium of museums and artists distilling the essence of digital art in order to document and preserve it. Rinehart's papers, projects, and more can be found at http://www.coyoteyip.com

Kirsten Neilsen, California Digital Library

Kirsten J. Neilsen is Digital Preservation Services Manager for the University of California Libraries' Digital Preservation Repository (DPR). She is responsible for agreements, policies, and procedures surrounding submission and management of digital assets, and she works with campus libraries to ensure smooth ingest of digital collections. She also collaborates with technical staff to enhance and improve preservation services.

Prior to joining the California Digital Library, an arm of the University of California Library system, Kirsten spent four years as Project Manager of the Tobacco Control Digital Archive at the University of Calironia, San Francisco, where she managed acquisition and digitization of millions of pages of tobacco industry documents. She received her MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an MA in History from New York University.

Andy Kolovos, Vermont Folklife Center
Andy Kolovos is the Archivist and a staff Folklorist at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, VT. He earned a BA in Literature from Bennington College, and holds an MA in Folklore and an MLS, both from Indiana University. He is currently engaged in an ongoing struggle to complete his dissertation toward a PhD in Folklore, also from Indiana. His professional interests focus on the preservation of ethnographic records—in particular audio recordings—and on audio field recording. As Vermont Folklife Center Archivist, he has instituted a plan of digital audio preservation and management, and works extensively with digital audio editing tools. He presents and consults on ethnographic archives, audio preservation and field audio recording nationwide.

Sarah Stauderman, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sarah Stauderman is the Preservation Manager of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, where she oversees the care of paper, book, photograph, moving image and recorded sound materials. Her major research interest has been in the area of magnetic media deterioration and preservation management. She has a Masters degree from the art conservation program at Buffalo State College specializing in paper conservation, and was a post-graduate fellow at the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education. She is the author of the website “Video Format Identification Guide” at www.video-id.com and has published a paper on the many different types of audio signal carriers for the Association of Research Libraries. She lectures frequently on the care of videotapes. Sarah lives in Washington DC with her husband, a photograph conservator, and their almost 4 year old son.

Simon Tanner, King's College London
Simon Tanner is the Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services (KDCS) at King's College London. KDCS provides research and consulting services specializing in the in-formation and digital domain for the cultural, heritage and information sectors. Simon is also co-Director of the Desmond Tutu Digital Archive project with two South African partner institutions. Simon is an independent member of the UK Legal Deposit Advisory Panel and Chair of its Web Archiving sub-committee. He is also a member of the JISC Digitisation Advisory Group. Simon authored the book, Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age, with Dr Marilyn Deegan and they co-edited the book, Digital Preservation. He has just re-turned from Israel, leading the committee deciding how to digitize the complete Dead Sea Scrolls.

Jim Gemmell, Microscoft Next Media Research Group
Jim Gemmell is a senior researcher in Microsoft's Next Media research group. His current research focus is on personal lifetime storage, as architect of the MyLifeBits project and chair of the First and Second ACM Workshops on Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experience (CARPE). Dr. Gemmell received his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University and his M. Math from the University of Waterloo. His research interests include personal media management, telepresence, and reliable multicast. He produced the on-line version of the ACM 97 conference and is a co-author of the PGM reliable multicast RFC. Dr. Gemmell serves on the editorial boards of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal and Computer Communications. He also served on the editorial advisory board of ACM netWorker.