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Mark Newton is the Digital Collections Librarian at the Purdue University Libraries, where he joined the faculty in 2008. He works with the Purdue University campus community to establish collections of faculty and student scholarship and to foster new publication opportunities through Purdue e-Pubs, the Libraries’ institutional repository service. He is an MSLIS graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Ventura Pérez is an Assistant Professor of Bioarchaeology at UMass Amherst. His primary area of interest is interpersonal and institutional forms of violence. Dr. Pérez is conducting research on Narco violence (mutilations and beheadings) along the US-Mexico border. He is also working at the site of Teul, (ca. 200 b. c .e.- Spanish conquest in 1531) in southern Zacatecas, Mexico where is the Principal Bioarchaeologist. He is also the Tribal Anthropologist for the Brothertown Indian Nation (Wisconsin) and is assisting the tribe with its petition for federal acknowledgment.
 

Wendy Robertson, Digital Resources Librarian at the University of Iowa, is responsible for helping to expand support of electronic scholarship and e-publishing, including supporting locally published e-journals and managing the institutional repository. Robertson performs data analysis on digital collections related to batch loading, migrating from one system to another, and aggregating with other information resources.

Wendy received a B.A. in History from Grinnell College in 1988, and an M.L.I.S. from The University of Iowa in 1992. She has worked at The University of Iowa Libraries since 1988. Her previous work positions include Electronic Resources Systems Librarian in Enterprise Applications, Electronic Resources Management Unit Head, Serials Cataloger and Supervisor in Technical Services.

Kevin Ashley is Director of the UK's Digital Curation Center. The DCC, run as a partnership between the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Bath, was established by JISC in 2004 to provide services, training, and practical advice and guidance to research institutions on digital preservation with a special focus on research data curation. The DCC's activities include the provision of online data management planning tools (DMP Online), DC 101 training activities, the Research Data Management Forum (in association with RIN), and a series of regional roadshows designed to support institutional developments in research data management. The DCC's Data Curation Lifecycle model has been widely adopted in the field.

Kevin was formerly Head of Digital Archives Department, University of London Computer Centre (ULCC). This group, established in 1997, worked on the preservation of digital resources on behalf of other organizations. Clients included the UK government and national libraries as well as learned societies and other universities. Services included NDAD (the National Digital Archive of Datasets), the digital preservation training programme (DPTP), and AIM25. He was a member of the RLG/NARA task force which developed TRAC, was chair of JISC's Repositories and Preservation Advisory Group, and was or is a member of a range of advisory bodies, including that for Erpanet and the UK Archives Hub. Kevin speaks frequently on matters related to digital preservation and management of digital content.

Charles K. Humphrey has been the Head of the Data Library at the University of Alberta since 1992. He has worked on several regional, national and international initiatives to increase access to and preservation of research data.  These include the Data Information Systems Panel of the Canadian Global Change Program from 1990 to 1995, the ICPSR Council from 1991 to 1995, the External Advisory Committee of the Data Liberation Initiative from 1996 to present date, the Association of Research Libraries Joint Task Force on Library Support for e Science in 2006 to 2007, the International Data Forum from 2007 to 2009, the Canadian Digital Information Strategy Development Group in 2007, and the Canadian Research Data Strategy Working Group from 2008 to present date. He was a contributing member of the Canadian National Data Archive Consultation in 2000 to 2001 and of the National Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data in 2004 to 2005. In 2009, he was elected Chair of the DDI Alliance, which is the international organization overseeing the development of DDI metadata standard for microdata, and sits on the Board of CASRAI, a not-for-profit organization developing standards for research administrative information. He is currently a lead investigator in the development of the Canadian International Polar Year Data Assembly.  The Canadian Association of Research Libraries honoured Chuck with their Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship in 2000.

Gail Steinhart is Research Data and Environmental Sciences Librarian at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University.  Her interests are in research data curation and cyberscholarship.  At Mann Library, she is responsible for developing and supporting new services for collecting and archiving research data, and serves as a library liaison for environmental science activities at Cornell.  She is a member of Cornell University Library's Data Executive Group and Cornell University's DISCOVER Research Service Group, which seek to advance Cornell's capabilities in the areas of data curation and data-driven research, respectively.  She has also held the position of GIS librarian at Mann Library, managing the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR), an online repository for GIS data for New York State. She holds M.S. degrees in Library and Information Science (Syracuse University) and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Cornell University), and worked for nearly 15 years in environmental research before becoming a librarian.

Jun Adachi, is Professor in the Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. He is also the Director of the Cyber Science Infrastructure Development Department of NII and the Managing Director of SPARC Japan which is operated by NII with the support of Japanese university libraries since 2006.  His professional career has largely been spent in research and development of scholarly information systems, such as NACSIS-CAT and NII-ELS.  He is also an adjunct professor of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo.  His research interests are information retrieval, text mining, digital library systems, and distributed information systems. Adachi received his BE, ME and Doctor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1976, 1978, and 1981, respectively.  He is a member of IEICE, IPSJ, IEEE, and ACM.

Neil Jacobs is acting Program Director for the Information Environment at JISC in the UK.  He oversees a variety of projects and programs in the areas of access to and management of digital resources, including linked data and digital repositories, scholarly communications, and research information management. These cover issues of technical interoperability, cultural and organizational change, sustainability and business models.  Neil has managed national digital services and conducted a range of research projects in these areas, and is the author or editor of several books and articles on open access, repositories and online services.

Martha Giraldo Jaramillo is the Executive Director for RENATA, the Advanced Academic Network of Colombia, a collaborative platform for academics and researchers. RENATA is to Colombia what Internet2 is to the USA. RENATA is a member of CLARA, the Latin American Academic Network, which recently became a member of the European Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). Martha represents CLARA at the COAR General Assembly. She has also been very active in the definition of a new Open Access project involving eight member countries of CLARA, and is promoting a national initiative on this subject in her country.

Martha is a Systems Engineer with experience working in both the public and private sectors. She specializes in research, analysis, design, development, implementation, and follow-up of special, innovative projects that leverage the benefits of appropriate use of ICTs in various fields, particularly in the field of education.

Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997.  CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information.  He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization.  Lynch currently serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress and Microsoft’s Technical Computing Science Advisory Board.

Dr. George O. Strawn is the Director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Federal government’s multiagency Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the NITRD Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. The NCO reports to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President.

Dr. Strawn is on assignment to the NCO from the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he most recently served as Chief Information Officer (CIO). As the CIO for NSF, he guided the agency in the development and design of innovative information technology, working to enable the NSF staff and the international community of scientists, engineers, and educators to improve business practices and pursue new methods of scientific communication, collaboration, and decision making.

Prior to his appointment as NSF CIO, Dr. Strawn served as the executive officer of the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and as Acting Assistant Director for CISE.

Previously, Dr. Strawn had served as the Director of the CISE Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research, where he led NSF’s efforts in the Presidential Next Generation Internet Initiative. During his years at NSF, Dr. Strawn was an active participant in activities of the interagency IT R&D program that is now called NITRD.

Prior to coming to NSF, Dr. Strawn was a Computer Science faculty member at Iowa State University (ISU) for a number of years. He also served there as Director of the ISU Computation Center and Chair of the ISU Computer Science Department. Under his leadership, ISU became a charter member of MIDNET, a regional NSFNET network; he led the creation of a thousand workstation academic system based on an extension of the MIT Athena system; and the ISU Computer Science department was accredited by the then-new Computer Science Accreditation Board.

Dr. Strawn received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Iowa State University and his BA Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics and Physics from Cornell College.

Sue Kriegsman is an archivist and librarian who has worked at Harvard University for almost 9 years on campus wide library digital initiatives. She was Harvard's Project Manager for the Harvard–Google book digitization project and is currently the Program Manager for the Office for Scholarly Communication. Her role is to identify and implement ways Harvard can open, share, and preserve scholarship.

Oya Y. Rieger is the associate university librarian for digital scholarship services at Cornell University Library. She oversees the Library’s digitization, repository development, digital preservation, electronic publishing, and e-scholarship initiatives with a focus on needs assessment, requirements analysis, business modeling, and information policy development.  She has provided leadership in various open access initiatives that have explored and promoted new models of scholarly communication.  She oversees the sustainability initiative for arXiv (arXiv.org), which is internationally acknowledged as a pioneering open-access distribution service for physics, mathematics, computer science, and related disciplines.  Also included in her program area is Project Euclid, which is jointly managed by Cornell University Library and Duke University Press to provide affordable access to high-impact, peer-reviewed mathematics and statistics scholarly materials.  Rieger has a B.S. in Economics (METU), an M.S. in Public Administration (University of Oklahoma), and an M.S. in Information Systems (Columbia University).  She received her Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Cornell University.