Association of Research Libraries (ARL®)

The ARL/DLF E-Science Institute is grateful for the support of the following faculty members, who will help shape the Institute.

• Jake Carlson
• Mike Furlough
• Charles Humphrey
• Nancy McGovern
• David Minor
• Chris Shaffer

Jake Carlson

Jake Carlson is a Data Research Scientist at the Purdue University Libraries. In this role, he explores the application of the theories, principles, and practices of library science beyond the domain of traditional "library work." In particular, Carlson seeks to increase the Libraries' capabilities and opportunities to work in data-related research. Much of his work is done through direct collaborations and partnerships with research faculty. Carlson is one of the architects of the Data Curation Profile tool developed by Purdue and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Mike Furlough

Mike Furlough is Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communications at Penn State University Libraries. Joining Penn State in 2006, he leads content stewardship services to support the lifecycle of scholarly production, including curation, publication, preservation, and outreach to researchers. His own research focuses on higher education organizational issues related to scholarly communication practices. His most recent publication is “The Publisher in the Library” in The Expert Library (ACRL 2010). Furlough was a member of the Frye Leadership Institute’s 2003 class and the 2010 UCLA Department of Information Studies Senior Fellows program. Prior to joining Penn State, he studied and worked at the University of Virginia Library where he led services to support digital scholarship and founded UVA’s Scholar’s Lab.

Charles Humphrey

Charles (Chuck) Humphrey has been the Head of the Data Library at the University of Alberta since 1992 and has been the Academic Director of the Alberta Research Data Centre since 2000. He currently sits as the Canadian representative on the OECD Global Science Forum on Data and Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences. Since March 2010, he has been a member of the Socio-cultural Working Group in the NSF DataONE project. He is the lead for the University of Alberta IPY data center, which is part of a network of six Canadian centers preserving research data from the most recent International Polar Year. He served on the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Joint Task Force on Library Support for e-Science from 2006 to 2007 and contributed to the publication, “To Stand the Test of Time Long-term Stewardship of Digital Data Sets in Science and Engineering.” He is currently a member of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) working group that is preparing a proposal for a national collaborative research data infrastructure.

Nancy McGovern

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 that was established in 1962 at the University of Michigan. Her responsibilities as the DPO include developing and promulgating policies that reflect prevailing standards and practice in the digital preservation community, and developing appropriate preservation strategies for the expanding range of social science digital content ICPSR collects. Her research interests include the organizational infrastructure for digital preservation and the means for the digital preservation community to continually respond to the preservation opportunities and challenges of evolving technology. She has almost 25 years of experience with the preservation of digital content, including a decade working on electronic records at the US National Archives. 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.

David Minor

David Minor works at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he has a joint appointment between the UCSD Libraries and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. His main focus is in digital preservation and curation. He is the manager of Chronopolis, a national-scale digital preservation network. He also is a lead on the Research Cyberinfrastructure Initiative on the UCSD campus. In addition, David has co-authored a number of papers in digital preservation and presented at numerous conferences. David has a BA in philosophy from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, and an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to working at UCSD he held various technical positions in the private sector and at a number of educational institutions.

Chris Shaffer

Chris Shaffer has been University Librarian at Oregon Health & Science University since 2008. His previous position was Assistant Director for Technology and Outreach at the University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. At both institutions, he has worked with research offices and Clinical and Translational Science Centers to develop new library services for researchers. Chris is co-site PI for The eagle-i Consortium, led by Harvard University, which is developing a national biomedical research resource discovery network. At OHSU, he coordinates the eagle-i Ontology and Data Curation Team, which is reusing and developing sharable ontologies and developing curation practices and procedures. Chris is an active member of the Medical Library Association and a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. His other past positions include Technology Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region, and Resident Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Texas A&M University and an MS in Information Science from the University of North Texas.