HomeFirst Digital Lives Research Conference: Personal Digital Archives for the 21st Century
Programme and speakers
Day 1: Digital Lifelines: Practicalities, Professionalities and Potentialities
This is a draft agenda and the order of presentations is subject to change
08.55-09.25 Arrival and Registration
09.25-09.35 Welcome and Introduction
09.35-10.00 Opening Keynote Lecture
Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Research
10.00-11.10 Session 1: Aspects of Digital Curation
Digital Lives Invited Presentations
Cal Lee, University of North Carolina
Naomi Nelson, Emory University
Michael Olson, Stanford University Libraries
Ludmila Pollock, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
11.10-11.25 Break
11:25-12:05 Session 2: On the Monetary Value of Personal Digital Objects
Panel Discussion
Gabriel Heaton, Sotheby’s
Julian Rota, Bertram Rota
Joan Winterkorn, Bernard Quaritch
12.05-12.45 Demonstrations
12.45-13.30 Lunch with tours organised by Peter Bright, Rory McLeod and others (British Library)
13.30-14.00 Keynote Lecture on Digital Economy and Philosophy
Annamaria Carusi, University of Oxford
14.00-14.35 Session 3: Archiving the Moving Image
Digital Lives Invited Presentations
Pelle Snickars, Swedish National Library
Luke McKernan, The British Library
14.35-15.25 Session 4: Digital Preservation
Digital Lives Presentation
Paul Wheatley, The British Library
Digital Lives Invited Presentations
Will Prentice, The British Library
Juan-José Boté, University of Barcelona
15.25-15.40 Break
15.40-16.50 Session 5: Practical Experiences
Digital Lives Invited Presentations
John Blythe, University of North Carolina
Erika Farr, Emory University
Gabriela Redwine, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin
William Snow, Stanford University Libraries
16.50-17.05 Break
17.05-18.00 Session 6: Professional Matters Arising, Options for the Future and Resolutions
This concluding session will involve contributions from Jeremy Leighton John (British Library); Susan Thomas (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford); Dave Thompson (Wellcome Library); Natalie Walters (Wellcome Library); Lynn Young (British Library) and others
18.00-18.05 Last words
Day 2: Personal Information Lifecycles: Creator, Curator, Consumer
This is a draft agenda and the order of presentations is subject to change
08.30-09.15 Arrival and Registration
09.15-09.35 Inaugurating Keynote Address
Dame Lynne Brindley DBE, Chief Executive of the British Library
09.35-10.10 Session 1: Digital Lives
Brief Introduction to Digital Lives
Jeremy Leighton John, The British Library
The First Digital Lives Conference Keynote Lecture
Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research
10.10-11.00 Session 2: Personal Information Management and Usability
Digital Lives Presentation
Ian Rowlands and Peter Williams, University College London
Usability Keynote Lecture
Victoria Bellotti, Xerox PARC, California
11.00-11.15 Break
11.15-12.10 Session 3: Forensics, Authenticity, Security and Digital Capture
Digital Lives Presentation
Jeremy Leighton John, The British Library
Forensics & Digital Capture Keynote Lecture
Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School, California
12.10-12.50 Lunch
12.50-13.35 Session 4: Historical Research and Private Lives
Digital Lives Presentation
Robert Perks, The British Library
Historical Keynote Lecture
Orlando Figes, Birkbeck College London
13.35-14.00 Session 5: Scientific Research with People
Developmental Psychology Keynote Lecture
Charles Fernyhough, University of Durham
14.00-14.55 Session 6: Towards Digital Biography
Literary Biography Keynote Lecture
Andrew Lycett, London
Scientific
Biography Keynote Lecture
Georgina Ferry, Oxford
14.55-15.10 Break
15.10-15.55 Session 7: Legal and Ethical Issues
Digital Lives Presentation
Andrew Charlesworth, University of Bristol
Privacy Keynote Lecture
Kieron O’Hara, University of Southampton
15.55-16.00 Brief Break
16.00-16.55 Session 8: Creators’ Experiences, Anticipations and Thoughts
Digital Lives Presentation
Jamie Andrews, The British Library
Writers in Conversation
Rt Hon Anthony Wedgewood Benn PC;
Dame Antonia Byatt DBE; Wendy Cope; Dame Wendy Hall DBE
16.55-17.00 Closing Remarks
Day 3: Living Online and Digital Archives in the Wild
This is a draft agenda and the order of presentations is subject to change
08.55-09.25 Arrival and Registration
09.25-09.30 Welcome
09.30-09.50 Archival Keynote Lecture
Dorothy Sheridan MBE, Mass Observation Archive
09.50-10.10 Computer Science Keynote Lecture
Dame Wendy Hall DBE, University of Southampton
10.10-10.20 Questions
10.20-10.35 Introduction
10.35-11.20 Session 1: iSCIENCE?
Digital Lives Invited presentation
Peter Shepherd, Centre for Longitudinal Research
Science Online Keynote Lecture
Timo Hannay, Nature Publishing Group
11.20-11.35 Break
11.35-12.25 Session 2: Web 2.0 & Cloud Computing
George Oates, formerly of Flickr
Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services
12.25-12.45 Session 3: iLITERATURE
Digital Lives Invited Presentation
K Faith Lawrence, Royal Irish Academy
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.20-14.20 Session 4: Emerging Technologies
Social Networks Keynote Lecture
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge
Digital Pens and Virtual Research Environments Keynote Lecture
Mark Baker, University of Reading
14.20-15.10 Session 5: Visualisation, Future Access and iArt
Evolutionary Technology Keynote Lecture
Peter Bentley, University College London
Digital Lives Invited Presentation
Stefanie Posavec, Penguin Books, formerly Central St Martins College of Art and Design
15.10-15.25 Short break
15.25-15.40 Session 6: Internet Law
Digital Lives Invited Presentation
Lilian Edwards, University of Sheffield
15.40-16.40 Session 7: Virtual Worlds
Dave Taylor, Imperial College London
Ian Hughes, IBM
Jerome McDonough, University of Illinois
Ren Reynolds, the Virtual Policy Network
16.40-17.25 Session 8: Digital Conversazione
including a short break and the possibility of micropresentations, with Maxine Clarke (Nature Publishing Group), Eileen Scanlon (Open University), and others
17.25-17.55 Session 9: Digital Life at the Extremes
Expedition Keynote Lecture
Ben Saunders, Explorer and Expedition Guide
17.55-18.00 Shutdown
Day 3 will involve the participation of visitors and inhabitants of virtual world Second Life, with the conference broadcast into the Khufu Conference Centre in the Elucian Islands archipelago
SPEAKERS AND PANEL MEMBERS
Mark Baker
Mark is a research professor of Computer Science in the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading. His research interests are related to developing middleware technologies that support parallel and distributed applications.
His team of researchers has created various open source software products, including a Java-based parallel messaging system (MPJ Express), a RESTful peer-to-peer messaging and registry system (Tycho), a wide-area resource monitoring system (GridRM), and components for wireless sensor networks and virtual research environments.
Mark is project manager and director of the Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology (VERA), working closely with the archaeologist Professor Mike Fulford. The project aims to produce a fully-fledged virtual research environment for the archaeological community, and is exploring the use of handheld devices including digital pens.
Web: http://acet.rdg.ac.uk/~mab
Gordon Bell
Gordon Bell has been a principal researcher at Microsoft Research since
1995, researching the lifetime capture and storage of everything for
an individual.
Previous roles include being a vice president of Research and Development at Digital Equipment Corporation (1960-83); a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University (1966-72); a founding assistant director of the National Science Foundation’s Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate (1986-88); and the chairman of the cross agency committee (FCCSET) for creating the Internet (1987-88).
He has contributed, as advisor or investor, towards more than a hundred start-up companies, and is a founding trustee of the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
He is a member of the ACM, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; the IEEE; the National Academy of Engineering; and the National Academy of Sciences. He was also the 1991 National Medal of Technology medallist.
Victoria Bellotti
Victoria Bellotti is a principal scientist and manager of the Socio-Technical
and Interaction Research (STIR) group at the Palo Alto Research Center
in California. She studies human practices, problems and requirements
for future technology.
She also dreams up, designs and analyses technology-based solutions, focusing on user needs and experience, and is an inventor on multiple patents and pending patent applications. Her past work encompasses domains such as transportation, process control, computer-mediated communication, collaboration and ubiquitous computing.
Victoria is best known for her research on personal information management and task management, especially in e-mail. However, more recently, she has been focusing on user-centered design of context- and activity-aware information delivery systems.
Tony Benn
The Rt Hon Anthony Wedgwood Benn DSO, DFC, PC is the son and grandson of members of parliament, and during World War II he served in the RAF as a pilot, and then briefly as a BBC producer.
Tony Benn was elected MP for Bristol in 1950 at the age of 25 and when he retired in 2001 he was the longest serving Labour MP in the history of the Party. He was chairman of the Labour Party in 1971.
He served in all the Labour governments from 1964-79, as Postmaster General, Minister of Technology, Secretary of State for Industry, and Secretary of State for Energy.
Tony has published nine volumes of diaries, and many other books.
When he retired from politics in 2001 he said that he wanted to devote more time to politics, and is now president of the Stop the War Coalition.
Peter J Bentley
Dr Peter J Bentley is an honorary senior research fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University College, London (UCL); collaborating professor at the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST); a visiting research fellow of the University of Kent; a consultant; and a freelance writer. He achieved a BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) in 1993 and a PhD in Evolutionary Computation Applied to Design in 1996, at the age of 24.
Peter runs the Digital Biology Interest Group at UCL. His research investigates evolutionary algorithms, computational development, artificial immune systems, swarming systems and other complex systems, applied to diverse applications including design, control, novel robotics, nanotechnology, fraud detection, security, art, and music composition. He was nominated for the $100,000 Edge of Computation Prize in 2005.
The author of over 160 scientific papers, he is also the editor of the books Evolutionary Design by Computers; Creative Evolutionary Systems; and On Growth, Form and Computers; he is also the author of The PhD Application Handbook, and the popular science books Digital Biology; The Book of Numbers; and The Undercover Scientist: Investigating the mishaps of everyday life.
John Blythe
John Blythe is a Carolina digital curation fellow at the School of Information
and Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
He expects to receive his Master’s degree in information science
from the school in May 2009. As part of his studies he is developing
a workflow for the curation and preservation of born-digital objects
at the Southern Historical Collection of the University’s library.
His interests also extend to audiovisual archives, an outgrowth of work as an audio producer. Prior to pursuing his Master's degree, John spent 20 years as a journalist in print, on the web and in radio. He continues to work as a freelance audio producer.
After earning an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of North Carolina, he spent a postgraduate year studying international relations at the University of Cambridge.
Juan-José Boté
Juan-José Boté is a postgraduate student at the University of Barcelona, reading for a Master’s degree in Digital Contents Management. Completion is expected by June 2009. Following his success in winning the second prize for the Digital Preservation Challenge 2008 (awarded at the iPRES 2008 Conference at the British Library), he will begin his PhD studies in September 2009.
In his professional life, he runs a small business in digital preservation alongside his principal role as a teacher at a secondary school. His business primarily consists of digitising personal and school collections of videos, audio cassettes and photos, and capturing and helping to establish personal archives with a view to their long term preservation.
He maintains a blog where he writes about his experiences and thoughts on digital curation and digital greservation, and aims to make an entry each 15 days in Catalan, Spanish, English and German: http://juanjobote.blogspot.com/
Lynne Brindley
Dame Lynne J Brindley DBE has been the chief executive of the British
Library since July 2000. She is the first woman and the first information
professional to have held the post. Since her appointment Lynne has
led a major strategic development and modernisation programme to ensure
that the Library remains relevant, innovative and accessible in the 21st
century.
Lynne came to the British Library from the University of Leeds where she was pro-vice-chancellor. Previously she was a senior consultant with KPMG and has held leadership positions in information technology and knowledge management at Aston University and at the London School of Economics.
Lynne is active in high level international, European and national bodies concerned with media and information society initiatives, digital infrastructure and libraries, and cultural and public sector leadership. She is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) which has a remit to give ministers strategic advice on IP issues and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List 2008 for services to education and the British Library.
Lynne enjoys music and is a competent pianist; she enjoys buying modern art, particularly abstract landscapes and ceramics with Cornish influences. She likes to walk in the Yorkshire Dales and on the Cornish coastal footpath.
Simone Brunozzi
Simone Brunozzi is Amazon web services evangelist for Europe. A technology enthusiast, he has been involved in IT and computing from an early age. He joined Amazon in May 2008, travelling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon web services and help developers build businesses and applications.
He is following the 'cloud computing' paradigm shift since 2006, and believes that it is going to replace the traditional computing model in a few years.
Of Italian origins, Simone loves travelling, meeting people and connecting with them. He is passionate about Linux and Ubuntu, loves blogging on www.brunozzi.com, and has interests in the environment, clean energies, and technology in general.
Prior to joining Amazon, Simone had his own business focusing on web applications. He also served as an academic in Programming Languages and Compilers at Perugia University and worked as a network and system administrator at the University for Foreigners in Perugia.
Simone has a computer science degree and spent six months at University of California at Irvine, where he studied the American approach to business and science. He gained early programming experience at the Ministry of Aerial Defence in Rome.
AS Byatt
Dame Antonia Byatt DBE is internationally known for her novels and short stories.
Her novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession; The Biographer’s Tale; and the quartet The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman. Her highly acclaimed collections of short stories include Sugar and Other Stories; The Matisse Stories; The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye; Elementals; and her most recent book, Little Black Book of Stories.
A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, AS Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.
Annamaria Carusi
Maxine Clarke
Maxine Clarke is publishing executive editor of the scientific journal Nature, and is responsible for author and referee services, editorial project management, editing various sections of the journal and subediting (copy editing) management.
She also runs Nature Publishing Group’s authors’ and reviewers’ website, Nautilus (the blog for authors); Peer to Peer (a blog about peer review); and a Nature Network blog archiving her weekly column 'From the Blogosphere' in Nature. She is one of the editors answering network users’ questions on the Ask the Editor forum.
Maxine has BA and MA degrees in physiology and psychology and a DPhil in biophysics, all from the University of Oxford; she also held a postdoctoral fellowship to study muscle crossbridges at King's College, London.
Recent publications embrace topics such as the ethics of science communication on the web, the uses of blogging, and new tools and resources for researchers to use to communicate and innovate.
Blog: http://network.nature.com/people/maxine/blog
Wendy Cope
Jon Crowcroft
Jon Crowcroft is the Marconi professor of Networked Systems in the computer
laboratory of the University of Cambridge. Prior to that he was professor
of Networked Systems at University College London. He is a Fellow of
the ACM, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the IEE,
and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, as well as a Fellow
the IEEE.
Jon has published five books; the latest is the Linux TCP/IP Implementation in 2001. His research interests cover communications and multimedia systems, especially in the context of the internet. As advisor and consultant, his industrial experience ranges from work at the Hewlett Packard research labs at Bristol through to Intel Research.
He is the principal investigator in the computer lab for the EU Haggle project in DTN; the EU Social Networks project; the ESPRC TINA project
on location sensors and wireless networking of airports; and for the
ITA project in next-generation wireless networks.
Jon is currently on sabbatical at IMDEA Networks, Madrid.
Web: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jac22/
Chris DiBona (visit to Europe cancelled)
Chris DiBona is the open source programs manager at Google where his
team oversees licence compliance and supports the open source developer
community through programmes such as the Google summer of code, and through
the release of open source software projects and patches.
He is an internationally-known advocate of open source software and related methodologies, occasionally appearing on podcasts for This Week in Tech, and Cranky Geeks. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on the advisory board of IMEEM, a social networking firm based in San Francisco, California, USA.
Before joining Google, Chris was an editor and author for the website slashdot.org. Additionally, he co-edited the award-winning essay compilations Open Sources and Open Sources 2.0, and writes for several publications. He was the host of Floss Weekly with Leo Laporte, and made a number of appearances on TechTV's programme the Screensavers.
Lilian Edwards
Lilian Edwards is professor of Internet Law at Sheffield University. Her principal research interests are in the law relating to the internet, the web and new technologies, with a European and comparative focus. She has co-edited two bestselling collections on Law and the Internet (Hart Publishing, 1997 and 2000, with edition due 2008) with Charlotte Waelde, and a third collection of essays, The New Legal Framework for E-Commerce in Europe, was published in 2005. Her work in online consumer privacy won the Barbara Wellbery Memorial Prize in 2004 for the best solution to the problem of privacy and transglobal data flows.
She worked at Strathclyde University from 1986-88 and Edinburgh University from 1989-2006 before moving to become Chair of Internet Law at Southampton from 2006-8. She is Associate Director, and was co-founder, of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for IP and Technology Law, funded from 2002-12.
Lilian has taught IT, e-Commerce and Internet law at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1996 and has been involved with law and artificial intelligence since 1985. She has been a visiting scholar and invited lecturer to universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico and Latin America, and has undertaken consultancy for the European Parliament, the European Commission, and McAfee.
Erika Farr
Erika Farr is the director of Born-Digital Initiatives at Emory University’s
Robert W Woodruff Library. She first began work with born-digital content
while working on Emory’s electronic theses and dissertations repository
in 2006. Later that same year, she joined a team of archivists, technologists,
and librarians working on the literary papers of Salman Rushdie, a hybrid
archive of paper and born-digital materials. She continues to research
how best to process, preserve, and provide access to born-digital archives.
She is currently pursuing her Master's in Library and Information Science
from the University of North Texas, and she received her PhD in English from
Emory University in 2004.
Charles Fernyhough
Charles Fernyhough is a writer and psychologist. He is the author of
a novel The Auctioneer (Fourth Estate), and has contributed short fiction
to several anthologies, including New Writing 11 and New Writing 14.
The Baby in the Mirror, a nonfiction book about the psychological development of his three-year-old daughter, is published by Granta. He is a part-time senior lecturer in psychology at Durham University, and contributes to the MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University.
Further details are available at www.charlesfernyhough.com
Georgina Ferry
Georgina Ferry graduated from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford with a degree in Experimental Psychology in 1976. She worked briefly for a science publisher before joining New Scientist magazine as a section editor, and presented science programmes on BBC Radio 4. Since the 1980s she has resided in Oxford, working mostly as a freelance writer, editor and broadcaster, editing for a time the Oxford University alumni magazine, Oxford Today.
In 1998, she published her first book, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life, a biography about Britain’s only woman scientist to win the Nobel Prize. She has also written, with the Nobel Prize winner John Sulston, an account of the elucidation of the human genome. In 2003 she published a book on the world’s first office computer, LEO, a very British story of a pioneering computer serving the legendary catering empire behind the Lyons teashops. In 2007 she published her biography of Max Perutz, yet another Nobel Prize winner.
In the course of her research she has used e-mails as primary sources.
Orlando Figes
Orlando Figes is professor of History at Birkbeck College, University
of London. Born in London in 1959, he graduated with a double-starred
first from Cambridge University, where he was a lecturer in History
and Fellow of Trinity College from 1984-99.
He is the author of many books on Russian history, including A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, which in 1997 received the Wolfson Prize, the NCR Book Award, the WH Smith Literary Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Natasha's Dance: A cultural history of Russia, published in 2002, was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. His latest book is The Whisperers: Private life in Stalin's Russia (also in hardback) published in 2007, which was also short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
His books have been translated into 15 languages. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Simson Garfinkel
Simson L Garfinkel is an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey, California, USA, and an associate of the School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
His research interests include computer forensics, the emerging field of usability and security, personal information management, privacy, information policy and terrorism.
Simson Garfinkel is the author or co-author of 14 books on computing. He is perhaps best known for his book Database Nation: The death of privacy in the 21st century. His most successful book, Practical UNIX and Internet Security (co-authored with Gene Spafford), has sold more than 250,000 copies, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages since the first edition was published in 1991.
He received three Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in 1987, a Master of Science degree in Journalism from Columbia University in 1988, and a PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2005.
Wendy Hall
Dame Wendy Hall DBE FrEng is professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, and was head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) from 2002-7. She was the founding head of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Research Group in ECS.
She has published over 350 papers in areas such as hypermedia, multimedia, digital libraries, and web technologies.
Her current research includes applications of the semantic web and exploring the interface between the life sciences and the physical sciences. She is a founding director, along with Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel J Weitzner, of the Web Science Research Initiative.
She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2008 UK New Year’s Honours list.
She was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in July 2008, and is the first person from outside North America to hold this position.
She was senior vice president of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005-8) and is a past president of the British Computer Society (2003-4). She is a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, a member of the Executive Committee of UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC), and chair of the newly formed BCS Women’s Forum. She is the chair of the advisory board of a new company, Garlik Limited, and is a founding member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council.
She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours list in 2000, and became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the same year.
In 2006 she was awarded the Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership. A longer biography is available at http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wh/
Timo Hannay
Timo Hannay is the publishing director of nature.com, where he overseas
Nature’s growing portfolio of web-based activities including Nature
Network, Connotea, and other initiatives using Web 2.0 functionality
to connect and involve researchers.
With a BSc in Biochemistry obtained at Imperial College, London, a DPhil in Neurophysiology gained at the University of Oxford, and a period at the London office of McKinsey and Company, Timo joined Nature’s Tokyo office in 1998, expanding the online presence of the Nature Publishing Group in the Asia-Pacific region.
In 2000 Timo moved to NPG’s London office, where he took on responsibility for web production, going on to form a new technology team and later a web publishing department. Up-to-date information about online innovation can be found on the Nascent blog.
Gabriel Heaton
Dr Gabriel Heaton, deputy director at Sotheby's, specialises primarily in English literary and historical manuscripts. He has been working with manuscripts and early printed books for more than ten years and joined Sotheby's in July 2005. In addition to his work on Sotheby’s biannual literature and history sales, he has worked on important single owner collections, and on valuations and private sales of archives.
After completing his doctorate at the University of Cambridge he was employed as a research fellow at the University of Warwick. He is the author of numerous academic articles, and is completing a book on Elizabethan and Jacobean manuscripts and court entertainments for Oxford University Press.
Ian Hughes
In 2008 Ian Hughes won the first industry award for Innovation in Virtual
Worlds in the Enterprise. He is a leading expert with a proven track
record in virtual world and web 2.0 technologies. Since 2006 as a metaverse
evangelist at IBM he has motivated colleagues and others in the adoption
of virtual worlds and the metaverse as means of enabling numerous functions
beyond simply entertainment. These activities include corporate communication,
the representation of past cultures and existing places, instrumentation
and the demonstration of business process models in action, as well
as the delivery of virtual goods and rapid fabrication.
Ian has been at IBM since 1990 and has undertaken various roles including consulting IT specialist, directing change and the adoption of emerging technologies, and working with over two hundred prime IBM customers.
Blog: www.eightbar.com and http://www.epredator.com
K Faith Lawrence
Dr K Faith Lawrence is a digital humanities specialist with the Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy. Her undergraduate degree was in Ancient History with a special interest in comparative mythology. Progressing sideways, she completed a Master’s in Archaeological Science (Computing) at the University of Southampton, and then worked at Reuters as a senior programmer in their chief technology Office.
After leaving Reuters she returned to Southampton and undertook a doctorate with the School of Electronics and Computer Science researching online communities, narrative and the semantic web.
Her doctorate, The Web of Community Trust - Amateur Fiction Online: A case study in community-focused design for the semantic web, investigated user-centred design for emergent technologies through the case study of online fiction archives and author communities: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14704/. This work focused on fan fiction communities, both in terms of how they currently interact with technology, and how that interaction may evolve in the future with the development of Web 2.0 and the semantic web.
Faith is currently working with digital humanities projects throughout Ireland promoting national standards and best practice to ensure the interoperability, preservation, and long-term accessibility of digital resources.
Cal Lee
Christopher (Cal) Lee is assistant professor at the School of Information
and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
He teaches classes in archival administration, records management, digital
curation, resource selection and evaluation, understanding information
technology for managing digital collections, and the construction of
digital repository rules.
Cal is editing and providing several chapters to a forthcoming book entitled I, Digital: Personal collections in the digital era, which is exploring issues, challenges and opportunities in the management of personal digital archives. Other current projects include DigCCurr and DigCCurrII, which are developing and implementing courses of study in digital curation; VidArch, which is investigating the collection of online video, with a particular emphasis on contextual information; and SIGPROPS, in which he is studying the significant properties for electronic records from state government.
Past research projects have included CAMiLEON, which examined migration versus emulation as digital preservation strategies; and an in-depth case study of the development of the OAIS. He has an MSI and PhD from the University of Michigan School of Information.
Andrew Lycett
Andrew Lycett was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church College, Oxford,
where he read Modern History. He has worked as foreign correspondent
in Africa and the Middle East, and is a regular contributor to a wide
range of newspapers and magazines.
Andrew has written biographies of Colonel Muammar Qadaffi, Ian Fleming,
Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
He lives in north London.
Cathy Marshall
Cathy Marshall is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, Silicon
Valley; for the last eight years, she has been engaged in both the product
and research divisions at Microsoft, and is currently working on community
information management applications and issues associated with personal
digital archiving.
Cathy has long worked in the disciplinary interstices of computer science,
information science and the humanities, with occasional collaborations
involving the arts and the sciences. She was a longtime member of the
research staff at Xerox PARC and is an affiliate of the Center for the
Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M University.
Her interests include digital archiving and long-term retrieval; how
people use and share encountered information; how people read, annotate,
navigate through, and interact with e-books and other electronic publications;
and spatial hypertext.
She has delivered keynotes at WWW, Hypertext, Usenix FAST, CNI, VALA,
ACH-ALLC, and a variety of other computer science and library information
science venues.
Web:
www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall (for publications, blog, contact information,
and – most importantly – how she is related to Elvis)
Jerome McDonough
Jerome McDonough is an sssistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the faculty at GSLIS, Jerome served as team leader for the digital library programme at New York University.
He has served as a member of NISO’s standards development committee and has been involved in a variety of metadata standards initiatives, including METS, PREMIS and the Open Digital Rights Language.
His research focuses on the application of metadata in digital library systems and the preservation of digital information. Jerome is currently lead investigator for a two-year project, entitled Preserving Virtual Worlds, which is examining approaches to the capture and preservation of interactive fiction, games and environments such as Second Life. He is working with project coordinator, Dr Janet Eke.
Luke McKernan
Dr Luke McKernan is Curator, Moving Image at the British Library. He is an early film historian, whose publications include Topical Budget: The great British news film (1992); Walking Shadows: Shakespeare in the National Film and Television Archive (1994); Who's Who of Victorian Cinema (1996); and Yesterday's News: The British cinema newsreel reader (2002).
Luke manages three websites, two blogs and a social network (all linked through www.lukemckernan.com). He is greatly interested in moving image archiving, having worked at the British Film Institute National Archive (1986-2000), and having served as Chair of the Film Archive Forum, the representative body for the UK's public sector moving image archives (2000-7).
Naomi Nelson
Naomi Nelson is the interim director for the Manuscript, Archives, and
Rare Book Library at Emory University. She first worked with born-digital
archives in the 1990s while processing the papers of Senator Sam Nunn
and served as a consultant to the Senate Computer Center on the transfer
of born-digital constituent mail files to archival repositories.
She is currently part of a team at Emory working to preserve and provide access to born-digital records in the papers of noted author Salman Rushdie. She received a Master's in Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1991, and a PhD in History from Emory University in 2001.
George Oates
George Oates is an award-winning, world-renowned web designer. A member
of the founding team that built Flickr, she is fascinated by collaboration,
organic information systems and virtual society. In the four years before 2009
she was the lead designer of flickr.com, adopting more recently the
role of senior programme manager - the first product of which was the Commons
on Flickr, an opportunity for the site's members to participate in describing
the world’s publicly-held photography collections.
Blog: http://george08.blogspot.com
Kieron O’Hara
Kieron O'Hara is a senior research fellow in Electronics and Computer
Science at the University of Southampton, researching into the politics,
philosophy and epistemology of technology, with a focus on the world
wide web and semantic web. He is a research fellow of the Web Science
Research Initiative, and is the author of nine books, including Trust:
From Socrates to spin; inequality.com: Power, poverty and the digital
divide (with David Stevens); and The Spy in the Coffee Machine: The
end of privacy as we know it, (with Nigel Shadbolt).
Michael Olson
Michael G Olson is a manager of digital projects for Stanford University
Libraries. In this capacity he works with library curators and other
non-library constituents to build and deliver digital collections, with
a primary focus on unique special collections materials. Michael also
works as a technology analyst for analog and electronic media and is
currently leading efforts to migrate Stanford’s department of
special collections and archive of record sound to the archivists’
toolkit.
Previous accomplishments include managing the Parker Library on the Web project during its first year, and processing many of Stanford’s born-digital collections, such as Robert Creeley’s Computer Files and the Stephen Cabrinety Collection of Computer Software that includes over five thousand software titles spanning 1974-94. Before joining Stanford University Libraries in 2001, Michael received an MPhil in History and Computing in 2000 from the University of Glasgow, and a BA from the University of British Columbia in Medieval Studies in 1997.
Ludmila Pollock
Mila Pollock has served as the executive director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives in New York for the past ten years. Mila earned an MLS and an advanced degree in Information Science in Minsk and Moscow. She holds a second MLS from St John’s University, New York.
Mila conceived and spearheaded numerous grant-supported digitisation projects. Among them are the ongoing CSHL Oral History Project and the Digital Collections. Mila has curated many exhibitions including Honest Jim, a chronicle of the writings of James D Watson, which has been displayed in major cities worldwide. She has organised meetings and presented papers on topics ranging from open access to the history of DNA. In 2003, Mila was a co-organiser of a writing seminar, How a Scientific Book Can Become a Bestseller, with the New York Public Library.
In 2006, Mila was instrumental in the establishment of the Genentech Center for the History of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at CSHL. The organisation's mission is the advancement of scholarship in the history of biotechnology.
Mila is a member of numerous professional organizations relating to history of science and oral history.
Web: http://library.cshl.edu and http://oralhistory.cshl.edu
Stefanie Posavec
Stefanie Posavec is originally from Denver, Colorado, but settled in the UK permanently after completing an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2006. She spent her MA searching for ways of visualising writing styles in literature, and focused upon one novel in particular: On the Road, by Jack Kerouac.
While still exploring the visualisation of text in her spare time, she now works as a cover designer for Penguin Press, the non-fiction and classics division of Penguin Books.
Website: www.itsbeenreal.co.uk
Will Prentice
Gabriela Redwine
Gabriela Redwine is the digital archivist at the Harry Ransom Center
in Austin, Texas, where she is responsible for preserving and providing
access to born-digital items in the Ransom Center's collection. She
has processed digital materials in the Norman Mailer, Terrence McNally,
and Sebastian Barry papers.
Gabby recently collaborated with representatives from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and Emory University on an NEH-funded project aimed at developing approaches to managing and collecting born-digital literary materials. She earned her BA from Yale University and MSIS and MA degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ren Reynolds
Ren Reynolds is founder and chief executive of the Virtual Policy Network
(VPN), a think tank established to explore the policy implications of
virtual worlds.
Julian Rota
Julian Rota is based at the booksellers Bertram Rota.
Ben Saunders
Ben Saunders is a record-breaking long-distance skier, with four North Pole expeditions under his belt. He is the youngest to ski solo to the North Pole and holds the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Briton. Since 2001, Ben has skied more than 2,500km (1,500 miles) in the high Arctic, which he recently worked out equates to 2 per cent of his entire life living in a tent. Ben is currently preparing for two groundbreaking polar expeditions in 2009, encompassing the North and South Poles respectively.
Ben grew up in Devon, was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and lives in London. He is passionate about the great outdoors and spent four months walking and climbing in the Nepalese Himalayas aged 19, going on to work as an instructor at the John Ridgway School of Adventure in the Scottish Highlands.
When he's not pulling a sledge, Ben divides his time between planning and training for his next expedition. He is an ambassador for the Prince's Trust and an honorary vice-president of the Geographical Association, and he supports the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and the Orchid Cancer Appeal.
Eileen Scanlon
Dr Eileen Scanlon is professor of Educational Technology in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, and is also visiting professor in Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. She is currently co-director of the Cross University Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) at the Open University, one of the leading education research units in the UK.
Her research interests in the area of information and communication technologies are wide-ranging. Eileen is currently directing projects on science learning in formal and informal settings concentrating on the development of an inquiry learning pedagogy and innovative approaches to evaluation. She has extensive research experience on educational technology projects, including mobile learning in formal and informal settings.
Peter Shepherd
Peter Shepherd is currently senior director of the Cohort Studies Resource within the Centre for Longitudinal Studies – an ESRC Resource Centre based in the Institute of Education.
He has worked with longitudinal data since 1974 and on birth cohort studies since 1977, being involved in the design, management and dissemination of three continuing, national, longitudinal studies: the National Child Development Study; the 1970 British Cohort Study; and the Millennium Cohort Study. These are following the lives of over 50,000 people born in 1958, 1970, and 2000/1 respectively. He also has played a key role in the NCDS biomedical activities.
Peter has a degree in geography and has worked in the Manchester Business School (1974-77), the National Children’s Bureau (1977-85), City University (1985-98) and University of London (1998 to date). He is the author of much of the documentation of cohort study datasets available through CLS and from the UK Data Archive.
Dorothy Sheridan
Dorothy Sheridan has worked with the papers of the British social research organization Mass Observation (MO) since 1974 as both archivist and director. Until 2008 she was also head of special collections at the University of Sussex.
Dorothy’s interests include women's 20th-century history, social research methodologies, the ethics and practice of archiving, and social aspects of literacy and life writing.
Since November 2008 she has been the Archive's development director, and is an honorary professor in the Sussex School of History.
She has published a number of books based on the MO material, including Among You Taking Notes: the wartime diary of Naomi Mitchison (Gollancz 1985); Wartime Women, which is derived from writing by women for MO during World War II, originally published in 1990 but to be republished this summer by Orion; and her book Writing Ourselves: Mass Observation and literacy practices. This was written with Brian Street and David Bloome (Hampton Press 2000) and describes the revival of MO in 1981, a national autobiographical and documentary project based at the Archive at Sussex which Dorothy continues to direct.
Web: http://www.massobs.org.uk
Pelle Snickars
Pelle Snickars is head of research at the National Library of Sweden,
and was head of research at the Swedish National Media Archive between
2005 and 2008. He received his PhD in Cinema Studies in 2001.
Pelle is the editor of a number of books; among them are the recent anthologies Narrative in Different Media, and A Cultural History of Media (both in Swedish).
Currently he is preparing an international volume on the video sharing site YouTube, The YouTube Reader, to be published in the Spring of 2009.
William Snow
Will Snow is a graduate of Stanford University, California, where he
studied Electrical Engineering; and he has spent the last 15 years as
an entrepreneur and general manager in startups, many with Stanford
connections, resulting in three successful mergers by acquisition.
He now manages the Self-Archiving Legacy Toolkit (SALT) project, working with digital archives at Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Services.
Dave Taylor
Dave Taylor MSC MBCS is programme lead for the Medical Media and Design
Laboratory (MMDL), a new research group at Imperial College, London headed
by Professor Ara Darzi in the Department of Biosurgery and Surgical
Technologies.
Dave’s group has developed several ground-breaking applications
for virtual worlds focussing on communication of complex health messages,
the visualisation of future healthcare delivery models, and the innovation
of medical and educational services and networking tools for patients
and staff. It involves the sensitive handling of personal and professional
communication.
His team has developed Second Health, a virtual hospital in Second Life, for research purposes, and has been used to illustrate NHS London’s public consultation events.
In 2006 he initiated and ran the virtual worlds business of the UK’s
National Physical Laboratory, and is a founder of SciLands, a Second
Life continent for science and technology. In previous lives Dave has
been vice president of global web for a leading multinational, and managed
Letraset’s European software business, working with Adobe Systems,
Pixar and Apple Computer in the 1980s and 1990s. He has a BSc in Mathematics,
and a MSc in Experimental Psychology.
Blog: http://www.nanodave.com
Susan Thomas
Susan Thomas is a digital archivist at the Bodleian Library, where she is responsible for developing the Library's capacity to curate, preserve and provide access to born-digital archives. She currently leads the futureArch project, an Andrew W Mellon Foundation-sponsored initiative to develop and embed a sustainable approach to the curation of born-digital archives at the Library.
Previous projects include CAIRO (2006-8), a development project designed to facilitate initial processing of born-digital archives for submission to a digital preservation repository; and PARADIGM (2005-7), which explored digital preservation issues relevant to manuscript collections and collecting using the papers of politicians as sample collections.
Susan is also a member of the Data Standards Group Committee of the UK Society of Archivists, the UK team of the international interPARES3 project, and the External Advisory Committee of the British Library's Digital Lives project.
Natalie Walters
Natalie Walters has worked at the Wellcome Library for the past four years. During this time her responsibilities have included training new staff, participating in outreach activities, and cataloguing archival collections.
Over time, her role has adapted to incorporate responsibility for digital material. As part of this, Natalie has been involved in preparing the library to take in digital material, most recently with the procurement of a digital object repository (which is due to be implemented later this year), and in assessing the Library’s existing digital holdings. She has given a number of presentations about this work.
Prior to working at the Wellcome Library, she completed an MA in Archives and Records Management at Liverpool University, preceded by a year working as records manager and assistant archivist at the Eaton Estate, home of the Duke of Westminster.
Joan Winterkorn
Joan Winterkorn has degrees from Cornell University (BA) and the State University of New York at Albany (MLS Hons). After working as an archivist in Albany and London, she was assistant rare book and manuscript librarian at Cornell University.
Joan has been with Quaritch since 1979; she is a director, and is in charge of Quaritch’s valuation and related work on archives and manuscript collections.
She is on the editorial board of the Book Collector, the Council of the Friends of Cambridge University Library, and the record preservation section of the British Records Association. She is also a member of the Grolier Club. Joan is a co-author of John Evelyn in the British Library (1995).
Lynn Young
DIGITAL LIVES TEAM MEMBERS
Jamie Andrews
Andrew Charlesworth
Jeremy Leighton John
Robert Perks
Ian Rowlands
Paul Wheatley
Peter Williams
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