Joint DELOS - NSDL
Summer School

John AKEROYD University College London

John Akeroyd was until last year Director of Learning and Information Services at London South Bank University where he was responsible for a mix of Library, Learning Resource and Information Services to the University. Since 1985 John has led several major projects ranging from IT implementation projects, specification and development of library systems and document and content management.  He was one of the earliest to adopt CD-ROMs, web technology and Virtual Learning Environments. He has been Project Director/ associate director/originator on several major European and UK projects including Candle (dealing with library authentication), Easel (elibraries and elearning) and a member of several national and multi-national committees including chairing the UK MARC user group and its successor. He was a member of the European Digital Object Identifier group and a Visiting Professor at City University 1999 – 2003. He has published over 100 papers mostly on aspects of library technology but also on management and library futures. Recent work has been on Knowledge Management in Universities and ebooks. He is now a freelance consultant in working in KIM, a researcher at UCL SLAIS and occasional teacher.

Laura CAMPBELL Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA

Ms. Campbell was appointed to the position of associate librarian for Strategic Initiatives in 2000 by the Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington. He noted that "Laura has already made many significant contributions to the realization of the Library's digital future. Her demonstrated leadership, technical knowledge and network of expert colleagues in the public and private sectors will bring added strength to our decision-making process." Ms. Campbell is also director of the National Digital Library Program, a cooperative national effort to digitize and make available online primary source materials of American history and culture. The program’s award- winning Web site, American Memory (memory.loc.gov), offers more than 11 million items from the collections of the Library of Congress and those of its partners.

Vittore CASAROSA ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

Vittore Casarosa graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pisa in 1966. After a few years spent as a researcher at CSCE (Center for Study of Electronic Computers), a research center newly established  in Pisa by CNR (the Italian National Research Council), he has spent many years in the R&D laboratories of IBM in Italy, France and in the US. Since 1996 he is Scientific Advisor to the Italian National Research Council, at the Institute for Information Science and Technology in Pisa (ISTI-CNR), where he is associated with the activities of the Multimedia Laboratory in the field of Digital Libraries, and is presently the Deputy Director of DELOS, the Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries.

Donatella CASTELLI ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

Donatella Castelli is a Senior Researcher working at the “Information Science and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council” (ISTI-CNR) since 1988. She graduated in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa and there she was employed as researcher for two years before joining ISTI-CNR Networked Multimedia Information Systems. Since 1996 she has been the principal investigator of several European and National funded projects on digital libraries acquiring considerable experience in this domain. In particular, she is now scientifically coordinating the DILIGENT project which aims at building a digital library infrastructure in grid-enabled technologies. She is also currently leading the activity of the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries dedicated to the definition of a Reference Model for digital libraries. Her current research interests include digital library architectures and infrastructures, information object modeling and interoperability.

Pat DIXON Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

After working for many years in libraries, Pat joined Northumbria University in 1989 as a Lecturer. Her main interest has always been related to information and learning, but in addition taught management on undergraduate and post graduate programmes, in the belief that libraries will only fulfil their huge potential if they are managed effectively. She became Director of Programees in the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Science and worked with Parma University to develop a joint International Masters Programme. Pat was on the organising committee and the editorial board of Northumbria Performance Measures Conference from its inception in 1995 until she left Northumbria University in 2005. She now works very part time for University of Parma.

Paolo GALLUZZI University of Florence, Florence, Italy

From 1982 Prof Galluzzi is the Director of the Istituto e Museo Nazionale di Storia della Scienza in Florence. He is President of the Commissione Vinciana, of the Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica of the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale. He is a member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences. He is presently on the scientific committees of the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana and of several prestigious Italian and foreign cultural institutes. He also chairs the International Scientific Committee for the realization of the Nobel Museum instated by the Nobel Foundation of Stockholm.

Kaye HOWE NSDL, Boulder, CO, USA

Kaye Howe is Executive Director of the National Science Digital Library(NSDL), a major science, technology, engineering and mathematics education initiative, funded by the National Science Foundation.
Both her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees are from Washington University in St. Louis and her academic field is Comparative Literature. She has been a faculty member and vice chancellor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and president of Western State College in Colorado. She was also president of International University, an accredited distance learning organization. She has served on a number of boards, including the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

Dean KRAFFT Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

He is the Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library Project at Cornell. He leads the effort to develop key components of the Core Integration Technology for the library, and he manages the team that maintains the production library services. He also works with the other institutions involved in the Core Integration effort to specify, develop, and provide new digital library technologies to the over two hundred NSF-funded projects involved in the NSDL program.
His personal research interests also include ensuring the availability in the digital world of pre-digital published and manuscript materials, as well as related issues on copyright, the public domain, and public access to older and out-of-print materials.
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Carl LAGOZE Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Carl Lagoze is currently a senior research associate in the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Lagoze's research investigates web information systems, specifically digital libraries and new models of scholarly communication, and the application of Web 2.0 concepts such as social networks and object-center sociality to both. Over the past several years his research has focused on interoperability protocols and architectures, digital object models, metadata frameworks, and automated analysis of networked information.
Lagoze is recognized for a number of advances in distributed information systems. These include the Dienst architecture for distributed digital libraries, the Fedora digital-object model for complex digital content, and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting that has been widely adopted as a foundation for information systems interoperability. He currently co-directs Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), a project to extend information interoperability to compound, distributed objects.
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Mary MARLINO Digital Learning Science, Boulder, CO, USA

Mary Marlino is the Director of Digital Learning Sciences. She is responsible for the overall direction and management of the center. Previously she was a principal investigator and the director of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), where she led the NSF-funded community development efforts for this geoscience education initiative. Prior to joining UCAR, Dr. Marlino was the Director of Educational Technology at the United States Air Force Academy. Dr. Marlino has significant experience in evaluation of multimedia-based educational programs, with specific expertise in digital libraries and educational technology. Dr. Marlino is co-chair of the 2007 Joint DELOS-NSDL Summer School and was General Chair for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2005.

Carlo MEGHINI ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

Carlo Meghini is a senior researcher at Istituto della Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione (ISTI) of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Pisa. He is a member of the Networked Multimedia Information Systems Lab at ISTI (http://www.isti.cnr.it/ResearchUnits/Labs/nmis-lab/), and his main area of interest is information access in Digital Libraries. He is currently involved in 2 Integrated Projects of the 6FP: BRICKS (http://www.brickscommunity.org/), aiming at building a digital library system in the cultural heritage domain; and CASPAR aiming at developing a methodology and tools for the long-term preservation of digital objects. He is also a member of the DELOS Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries, in which he conducts research on the Information Access and Personalization cluster. He has published more than 40 papers in international journals and conferences in the general area of Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval and Databases.
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David MILLMAN Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

David Millman is Senior Director of Systems Integration at Columbia University Information Technology. Most recently he has been responsible for University-wide technology planning and operations for identity management, learning management and content management services, as well as several digital library projects at the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) in the University Libraries. His recent work concerns scalable architectures for distributed services and for access-control systems that span institutional boundaries. His research group is part of the Core Integration team of the NSF National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program.
David has developed and managed Internet-based services since the late 1980's, including public information systems, reference book databases, art museum collections, and electronic scholarly publications. A software developer since 1974, he has taught computer graphics and programming in higher education and in industry. David has been a member of the technical staff at Columbia University since 1980.
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Ragnar NORDLIE Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway

Dr. Ragnar Nordlie is a senior lecturer at the Department of library and information science at Oslo University College, where he teaches courses in information retrieval, user studies, and research methods. He is currently engaged in developing an international master course on digital libraries in cooperation with the Universities of Parma and Tallin, under the EU Erasmus Mundus programme. His research interests include studies of users of digital libraries, digital reference services, and retrieval of XML documents.

Sandy PAYETTE Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Sandy Payette is a leader of digital library research and development in the Information Science program at Cornell University. She plays a unique role that bridges research and innovation with practical applications and open-source software deployment. Sandy collaborates with scholars and practitioners nationally and internationally. Her research areas include scholarly communication, digital libraries, digital preservation, information network overlays and web information systems, information modeling, metadata, and policy enforcement for digital content.
Sandy is a founder and co-director of the internationally-recognized Fedora Project (http://www.fedora/info). Fedora is an open-source software project that provides sophisticated digital repository software to enable the development of digital libraries, institutional repositories, scholarly communication and open-access publishing systems, digital archives, and related areas. Fedora is based on Sandy’s original research known as the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora), funded by DARPA and NSF. This research evolved into a collaborative open-source software project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Fedora is deployed in over 50 countries world-wide and is the basis of several commercial products.
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Andrea SCOTTI Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Florence, Italy

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Anna Maria TAMMARO University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Anna Maria Tammaro is teaching at the University of Parma the courses Electronic publishing and Digital Library (since 1999). She is also the local coordinator of the International Master in Library and Information Studies by distance, a joint Master with the University of Northumbria (UK), and the European Master Digital Libraries Learning, together with Oslo and Tallin Universities, selected and financed by the Erasmus Mundus programme. She is Information Officer of the IFLA Section Education and Training and member of the Board of EUCLID, European Association of LIS teachers.
She is consultant of the European Minerva Project, for which she has realised a tutorial on digitisation, to be delivered by distance, and the Project Michael. Her actual research interests are: Digital Library, Internationalisation of LIS education and Quality assurance.
She is author (together with A. Salarelli) of the textbook Biblioteca digitale Bibliografica, 2000 and 2006 and other publications about automation of library system and internationalisation of higher education in LIS.
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Paul WESTON University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Associate professor at the University of Pavia since November 2000. Previously, he was systems libarian at the Vatican Library, with responsibility over the automation projects (ils, manuscripts digital library, cooperation in the creation of the URBS network). Member of the management committee of the Italian National Library Network (SBN). Author of books and essays on topics such as cataloguing standards, library management and interoperability in the digital environment.
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