Social Aspects of Digital Libraries Workshop
Contributed Participant Biographies
Phil Agre is an assistant professor of communication at the University of
California, San Diego. He received his PhD in computer science from MIT in
1988, having written a dissertation on computational models of improvised
activities. Subsequently his research has concerned the social and political
aspects of computing and networking, particularly with reference to privacy.
His papers have appeared in Artificial Intelligence, The Information Society,
Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Information Technology and Libraries,
Informatica, the Stanford Humanities Review, and the Santa Clara Computer and
High Technology Law Journal. He also edits a monthly online newsletter called
The Network Observer, and Cambridge University Press will publish his book,
whose working title is "Computation and Human Experience", later this year.
His current research concerns computer user groups and other forms of social
support for computing. He currently serves on the editorial boards of The
Information Society and Mind, Cognition, and Activity, and he was the program
chair for the 1994 CPSR Annual Meeting and the 1995 Conference on Society and
the Future of Computing.
Tora K. Bikson has been a Senior Scientist in behavioral science at RAND
from 1976 to the present. Bikson holds Ph.D. degrees in philosophy
(University of Missouri) and psychology (UCLA) and has taught at both
universities. Additionally she spent a year as visiting associate professor
in NYU's Information Systems Department (Stern Graduate School of Business)
and is a regular visiting professor for intersession courses on computer
supported cooperative work at THESEUS (Sophia Antipolis, France).
Since 1980 Bikson's research has investigated properties of new information
and communication technologies in varied user contexts. Her work addresses
such questions as: what factors affect the successful incorporation of new
tools into ongoing activities; how do new work media influence group
structures and interaction processes; what impact do they have on task and
social outcomes; and what kinds of policies and practices are being
developed to stiumlate and guide their effective use? She has pursued these
questions as a senior investigator in field projects on:
- how electronic mail and groupware influence collaborative,
knowledge-intensive work (The World Bank, 1992, 1995);
- how information content and organization, architecture, access
media, interfaces and tasks influence use of textual and numeric databases
by international organizations (UN Headquarters, 1994; OECD, 1995);
- how use of electronic media by governmental and nongovernmental
organizations influences the retention, retrievability and re-use of
documents, official records and archival information (The Netherlands,
1993; UN Information Systems Coordinating Committee, 1988-1996).
Bikson has just completed work on two large-scale US projects: a study of
the feasibility and societal implications of universal access to electronic
mail (Markle Foundation); and a study designed to facilitate the
implementation of research results (Transportation Research Board, NRC).
Bikson recently completed work on a National Research Council committee
concerned with effects of investment in information technology on the
performance of the service sector. She currently serves on the steering
committee for the NSF-supporated NRC panel on ordinary citizen interfaces
to the internet. She is a member of editorial boards for Organizational
Computing, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, and The Information
Society.
Ann Peterson Bishop is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of
Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Her MLS and PhD are from Syracuse University's School of
Information Studies. Her main areas of expertise are the user-based
evaluation of information technology, scientific communication, and federal
information policy. Bishop is co-founder of Prairienet, the Free-Net of
East Central Illinois and teaches a seminar in community information
systems. She served on the national advisory panel for the recent U.S.
Office of Technology Assessment study of telecommunications technologies
and Native Americans and was chair of the 1995 Allerton Institute on "How
We Do User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Digital Libraries."
Bishop's recent research centers on the assessment of information
technology. She is about to undertake an analysis--with Richard Civille of the
Center for Civic Networking--of U.S. Census data on individuals' home, school,
and business use of information technology. Bishop's dissertation assessed the
use of computer networks in the aerospace industry. She is co-PI of the
NSF/NASA/ARPA Digital Library Initiative project currently underway at the
University of Illinois, where she heads the social science team. Recently
completed evaluation studies include a comparative review of scholarly
networked journals from the reader's point of view (published in Library
Trends, 43(4), Spring 1995), an exploration of online museums that investigates
the Web as medium and exhibit space and considers the perspectives of artists,
curators, and viewers in this emerging realm of the art world , and a pilot
evaluation of the Blacksburg Electronic Village, commissioned by the Council
for Library Resources.
Joseph Busch is the Program Manager for Standards and Research
Databases at the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP). In this
position he oversees AHIP's projects which foster and are contributing to
a critical mass of electronic cultural heritage information. These projects
include some of the principal bibliographies and electronic archives of
source materials in the field; as well as data content standards, text
markup definitions, standard vocabularies, and methodologies for building
and accessing art information resources. These projects produce and
distribute information in print, on diskette, on CD-ROM, on-line, and via the
World Wide Web. AHIP also actively raises and promotes the social value
of cultural heritage information as a priority for developing national and
international information infrastructures.
Prior to joining the Getty Program, Mr. Busch was a Manager at Price
Waterhouse from 1984 to 1986. From 1979 to 1984, he was Director of
Technical Services at Hampshire College.
Joseph Busch is currently a member of the American Society for
Information Science and Museum Computer Network Boards of Directors.
Donald O. Case holds the Ph.D. in Communication Research from Stanford
University. He has been Professor and Director of the School of Library and
Information Science, within the College of Communication and Information
Studies, since 1994. Between 1983 and 1994, Dr. Case was a faculty member
at the University of California, Los Angeles, teaching in the graduate
Library and Information Science program and in the undergraduate
Communication Studies Program. Professor Case was formerly a Research
Advisor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
(Stanford, California), a Research Consultant for the Center for
Information Technology at Stanford University, and a Systems Analyst for
the New York City Housing Authority.
Professor Case teaches courses in social and policy implications of
information technologies, research methodology, and information system
design. He conducts research in information-seeking and technology policy.
His articles have appeared in Telecommunications Policy, The Information
Society, and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science,
among other publications. He has been a member of ASIS since 1976 and of
ICA since 1981.
Representative publications:
Case, D.O. (1986). Collection and organization of written information by
social scientists and humanists: a review and exploratory study. Journal of
Information Science, 11 (3), 97-104.
Case, D.O. & Rogers, Everett M. (1987). The adoption and social impacts of
information technology in U.S. agriculture. The Information Society, 5(2):
57-66.
Borgman, C. L., Case, D.O. & Meadow, C.T. (1989). Online Access to Knowledge
(OAK): a tailored interface for information retrieval. J. American Society
for Information Science, 40, 99-109.
Case, D.O. & Ferreira, J. H. (1990). Telecommunications and information
technologies in Portugal: development and prospects. Telecommunications
Policy, 14 (4), 290-302.
Case, D.O. (1991). The collection and use of information by some American
historians: a study of motives and methods. The Library Quarterly, 61, (1),
61-82.
Case, D.O. (1991). Conceptual organization and retrieval of texts by
historians: the role of memory and metaphor. J. American Society for
Information Science, 42, (9), 657-668.
Case, D.O. (1994). The social shaping of videotex: how information services
for the public have evolved. J. Am. Society for Information Science, 45
(7),
483-497.
Elfreda A. Chatman (Ph.D., School of Library and Information Studies,
University of California, Berkeley) is a professor at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Chatman's research focuses on the
information needs and seeking behaviors of ordinary people. Related to
this interest is ways in which we can create policies to respond to the
needs of everyday information problems. She is the author of The
Information World of Retired Women (Greenwood Press, 1992) and is
currently working on a second book for Greenwood titled Life in the
Round: Exploring Social Worlds through Ethnography.
Su-Shing Chen is Professor of Computer Science at University of North
Carolina in Charlotte, Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and Visisting
Senior Research Scientist at Institute for Systems Research, University of
Maryland in College Park. Su-Shing is also a consultant of the SinoLib
digital library project at Hong Kong Science and Technology University.
From 1991-1995, Su-Shing was Program Director at NSF, first for the
Knowledge Models and Cognitive Systems Program and later for the
Information Technology and Organizations Program. During that period, he
was also involved with the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative.
Paul Conway has headed the Preservation Department at Yale University
Library since 1992. Among his responsibilities at Yale, he chairs the
Library Management Council and serves as operations manager for Project
Open Book, a project exploring the feasibility of converting preservation
microfilm frames to digital images. Prior to coming to Yale, Paul conducted
research projects for three years at the National Archives, including a
study of research use of archives and a review of how government agencies
implement digital imaging and optical disk technology. During 1988 and
1989, he served as Preservation Program Officer for the Society of American
Archivists in Chicago, where he carried out a nationwide survey of archival
preservation programs. He began his professional career in 1977 as an
archivist on the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. He has a Masters Degree in History and a Ph.D. in Information and
Library Studies, both from the University of Michigan. Paul is widely
published on preservation and archives administration. Most recently, his
writing has focused on the challenges of preserving library resources in
digital form.
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Brenda Dervin is Full Professor, Department of Communication, Ohio State
University where she previously served as Department chair. Prior to OSU,
she was on faculties at the University of Washington School of Communication
and the Syracuse University School of Information Transfer. She got her PhD
from Michigan State University in communication research. She is a fellow of
the International Communication Association, served as president in 1986,
and in 1985 organized its landmark conference focusing on "paradigm
dialogues." She is an elected member of the council of the International
Association of Mass Communication Research. Her teaching and research
specialties focus on: information needs and seeking,
communication/information and democracy, responsive system design, applied
communication theory, and philosophic and critical/ cultural applications to
communication/ information studies. She is a frequent author. Her most
recent publications include: "Information<--->democracy: an examination of
underlying assumptions" (JASIS); "Verbing communication: a mandate for
disciplinary invention" (Journal of Communication); "Who needs POTS-plus
services? A comparison of residential users along the rural-urban continuum"
(Telecommunication Policy)' "Comparative theory reconceptualized: from
entities and states to processes and dynamics" (Communication Theory); and,
"From the mind's eye of the user: the Sense-Making qualitative-quantitative
methodology" (in Glazier and Powell, Qualitative Research in Information
Management). She is currently working on two books (one authored, one
edited) summarizing 20 years of development of the Sense-Making approach
entitled "Methodology between the cracks: Sense-Making meta-theory, theory,
methodology, method". Volume 1 details the approaches philosophic
underpinnings, theoretic assumptions, and implementation in method,
including question framing, interviewing approaches, content analysis, and
analytic designs. Volume 2 presents essays and exemplars. In addition to
these volumes, Dervin is junior authoring a book reporting on a large scale
application of the Sense-Making approach to the needs and assessments of
phone users.
After graduating with an M.A. in Applied Psychology from University
College Cork in Ireland, I joined the HUSAT Research Institute at
Loughborough University of Technology in England, initially as a research
assistant while completing my Ph.D., eventually becoming a Research
Fellow in 1991. At HUSAT we worked on a variety of government and
commercially funded projects involving the application of socio-technical
and human factors methods to the design and evaluation of advanced
technology. Specifically, I worked on the development of one of the world's
first hypertext academic journals, the derivation of tools to support the
measurement of usability, and a variety of consultancy projects with the
European software industry. In 1992 I was a Visiting Scientist in Human
Factors at the Dept. of Psychology in Indiana University, Bloomington,
returning briefly to Loughborough before joining the faculty of the
School of Library and Information Science and the Program in Cognitive
Science at Bloomington in 1994.
Research interests fall broadly in the area of HCI where I have had a
long-standing interest in hypermedia and human information usage. I am
currently researching the perception of structure in electronic space,
the nature and evolution of navigational knowledge in virtual
environments, the role of animation in enhancing memory for location, the
nature of learning in digital environments, and the application of
acceptance theory in predicting user response to new applications. This
work is being carried out in our new usability lab with doctoral students
from SLIS, the School of Business, Computer Science, Education, and
Cognitive Science here at Indiana. I serve on the editorial board of
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, as Associate Editor (US)
of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, and am currently guest
editing a special issue of JASIS on HCI.
Aimee Dorr is a professor of education at UCLA. Trained as a developmental
psychologist, her research has focused on the ways in which children make
sense of electronic media and their content and on the circumstances in
which the content becomes influential in children's lives. Most of this
work has been about television (traditional, cable, video) content designed
for formal or informal education and content designed primarily to
entertain. A related area of work in the late 70s and again recently is
media literacy, the habits of mind that enable students to do well in
interpreting, using, and creating content in any medium or technology.
Media literacy formulations include information seeking behaviors and
evaluation of the information encountered. Dorr has consulted for
television production groups, software companies, state educational media
organizations, broadcasters, the FCC, and the FTC. She has assisted in
various media literacy and technology integration projects for students and
teachers. For 8 years, she served as the Director of Educational
Technology for what was then the Graduate School of Education. For the
last 3 years, she has served on UCLA's Instructional and Research Computing
Committee. Dorr is a member of the American Educational Research
Association, American Psychological Society, International Communication
Association, and Society for Research in Child Development; she is a fellow
of the American Psychological Association.
Karen M. Drabenstott is an Associate Professor in the School of Information
and Library Studies at the University of Michigan. She holds degrees from
The Johns Hopkins and Syracuse Universities. She has conducted research in
the areas of subject searching in online catalogs, subject access to visual
resources collections, subject authority control, and enhancing
bibliographic databases using a library classification. She is the author
of the recently-published research monograph entitled "Using Subject
Headings for Online Retrieval" which presents a new subject access design
for online catalogs. She is currently co-principal investigator of digital
library projects sponsored by NSF, ARPA, and NASA, and an investigation of
end-user understanding of subject headings sponsored by OCLC. She is also
project manager of the Kellogg Foundation-sponsored CRISTAL-ED Project
which is providing national leadership in the development of a
future-oriented program for educating information professionals for the
21st century.
Susan T. Dumais is the Director of the Information Sciences, and the
Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Research Groups at Bellcore.
She received at B.A. in Mathematics and Psychology from Bates College in
1975, and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Indiana University in
1979. She was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories until
1984 when she joined Bellcore. Her research is concerned with the
general problem of improving human-computer interaction. One area of
particular interest is how people retrieve information from computer
databases. She has been involved in the development of a patented
information retrieval method called Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) which
improves peoples ability to retrieve and filter information compared
with popular word-matching methods. Other research interests include
developing and evaluating interactive retrieval interfaces, individual
differences, methods for combining navigation and search, spatial
metaphors in information retrieval, and understanding the impact of
new technologies on productivity and quality of worklife.
Raya Fidel is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and
Information Science, University of Washington. She teaches courses in
database design, indexing and abstracting, knowledge representation, and
thesaurus construction. Her research focuses on online searching behavior.
Raya Fidel received a B.Sc. degree in Mathematical Sciences From Tel Aviv
University, Israel, in 1970. After completing her studies for the M.L.S.
degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she worked at that
University's library system and served as the Librarian of the School of
Applied Sciences and Technology for five years. Immediately after
graduating from the University of Maryland, where she received a Ph.D. in
Library Science, Ms. Fidel joined the faculty at the University of
Washington in 1982.
Starting with her dissertation research, Ms. Fidel has been studying how
users search online information systems. Conducting a large-scale study,
she investigated the ways in which professional searchers improve
retrieval, and how they decide when to use descriptors from a controlled
vocabulary and when to enter a free-text term. She is currently engaged in
a project to study how engineers filter technical reports they receive over
the Internet. Ms. Fidel was among the first researchers in library and
information science to employ qualitative methods in which the investigator
collects data when and where they occur in real life.
In recognition of her work, Ms. Fidel received the "Best JASIS Paper Award"
twice (1985 and 1991), the "ASIS Award for Research in Information Science"
in 1994, and the "NJ/ASIS 1995 Distinguished Lectureship" award. In 1992,
she was invited to be a Visiting Librarian at Perkins Library, Duke
University, where she served as a reference librarian for nine months. Of
the various professional organizations to which she belongs, Ms. Fidel is
most active in ASIS. In addition to serving on several committees, she has
played major roles in a number of programs and publications put together by
SIG/CR (Classification Research). As part of her activities in ACM's SIGIR
(Information Retrieval), she served as the Conference Chair for SIGIR '95.
Edward A. Fox, fox@vt.edu,
http://fox.cs.vt.edu/ is a professor in the
Department of Computer Science, and Associate Director for Research, Computing Center
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Rob Kling is Professor of Information and Computer Science (and Management) at
the University of California - Irvine. He is Editor in Chief of
The Information Society,
and has recently written and edited the second edition of Computerization and
Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (San Diego, Ca: Academic Press,
1996). Dr. Kling's research focuses on the ways that computerization is a
social process with technical elements, how intensive computerization alters
work and human communication, and how computerization entails many social
choices. He is focussing on the roles of digital libraries and electronic
publishing with systems of professional communication.
Joseph Krajcik, an associate professor in the School of Education at the
University of Michigan, concentrates his research activities on how
instructional practices that focus on an inquiry approach to science teaching
can help middle and high school students develop meaningful understanding of
science content and process. His interests also extend to supporting teachers
as they transition to inquiry-based practices. He has strong interest in the
use of interactive technologies to support both students and teachers. To
help improve the field of science education within these area of interest and
expertise, Joe is involved in several projects. These projects focus on
implementing innovative teaching practices that foster students finding
solutions to authentic questions through sustained inquiry and collaboration.
Professor Krajcik and his colleagues refer to this approach of science
teaching as project-based science. The projects also focus on developing
cutting-edge interactive technologies to support students as the they explore
questions. A component of his work involves the development of a cutting-edge
computer design tool and interactive multimedia technologies that aid teacher
education students and experience teachers in planning, reflecting and
modifying projects and accompanying lessons for science. His work is
collaborative in nature, involving close working relationships with other
faculty members, graduate students and science teachers from various school
systems. His principle teaching responsibilities are in graduate science
education and in science methods.
Joe's principle teaching responsibilities are in graduate science education
and in science methods. He advises a number of science education and
educational technology graduate students who work collaboratively with him on
various projects. As an active member of several professional organizations,
Joe has made frequent presentations at national and regional conferences that
focus on his research as well as presentations that translate research
findings into classroom practice.
Joe received his Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Iowa in
1986. Joe joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in January, 1990.
Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., Joe spent seven rewarding years teaching high
school chemistry and physical science.
Carol Kuhlthau is an associate professor in the School of Communication,
Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University where she coordinates
the Ph.D. concentration in library studies and the M.L.S. educational media
specialist program. Her research examines the user's perspective of the
information search process. In her recent book, Seeking Meaning: A Process
Approach to Library and Information Services, she summarizes her research
and proposes uncertainty as a principle for redefining library and
information services and systems for the information age. She was the 1995
Lazerow Distinguished Lecturer at UCLA. She has also received the ALA Jesse
Shera Award for outstanding research.
Tom Landauer is Professor of Psychology and Fellow of the Institute of
Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Landauer
received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Social Psychology in 1960, and
taught at Harvard, Dartmouth College and Stanford University before joining
Bell Laboratories in 1969 as a member of its Human Information Processing
Research Department. From 1984 to 1994 he was Director of the Cognitive
Science Research Group at Bellcore. This group did basic and applied
research in information retrieval from a psychological perspective, human
computer interaction, usability analysis and the design of computer based
cognitive tools. He is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Experimental and Engineering Psychology
divisions of the American Psychological Association, and the American
Psychological Society, and a past fellow of the Center for Advanced Study
in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a past member of the National Research
Council Committee on Human Factors, and currently serves as consulting
editor on four journals. He has authored over 90 publications, including
three books, and holds two software patents in the area of IR.
Most of Dr. Landauer's recent research interests have centered around two
problems, understanding the way in which human memory acquires and
retrieves vast fields of knowledge, and the design and evaluation of
computer-based tools to enhance the performance of intellectual work, for
example electronic textbooks. He also maintains an interest in methods for
evaluating and improving the effectiveness of computer systems for human
use.
Selected Publications:
Landauer, T. K. (1995) The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, usability
and productivity. MIT Press.
Landauer, T.K.,Egan, D.E., Remde, J.R., Lesk, M.E., Lochbaum, C.C., &
Ketchum, R.D. (1993) Enhancing the usability of text through computer
delivery and formative design: The SuperBook project. In C. McKnight and R.
Dillon, Hypertext. A Psychological Perspective.London. Ellis Horwood
Limited, pp 71-136.
Deerwester, S., Dumais, S.T., Furnas, G.W., Landauer, T.K. & Harshman, R.A.
(1990) Indexing by latent semantic analysis. J. American Society for
Information Science, 41, 391-407.
Ray R. Larson is an Associate Professor in the School of Information
Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley where
he teaches and conducts research on the design and performance evaluation
of information systems, and on the evaluation of user interaction with
those systems. His background includes work as a programmer/analyst with
the UC Division of Library Automation (DLA) where he was involved in the
design, development, and performance evaluation of the UC public access
online union catalog (MELVYL). His research has concentrated on the design
and evaluation of information retrieval systems, with an emphasis on online
library catalogs. Prof. Larson was a faculty investigator on the Sequoia
2000 project, where he was involved in the design and evaluation of a very-large-scale,
network-based, information system to support the information needs of scientists
studying global change. He is also a faculty investigator on the UC Berkeley
Environmental Digital Library Project (One of the six large-scale digital
library projects sponsored by NSF, NASA and ARPA) where the work is continuing
on a very large environmental information system providing access to information
on the California Environment. Prof. Larson is the principal investigator
for the "CHESHIRE Demonstration and Evaluation Project" sponsored
by the US Dept. of Education, that is developing a next-generation online
catalog and full-text retrieval system. Ray R. Larson School Information
Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720,
ray@sherlock.sims.berkeley.edu
David M. Levy is a researcher in the Systems and Practices Laboratory at
the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He holds a PhD from Stanford
University in computer science/artificial intelligence (1979) and a
Diploma in Calligraphy and Bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute,
London (1982). The focus of his work over the last decade at PARC has been
on the nature of documents and on the tools and practices through which
they are created and used. He has worked on the design of tools to
manipulate text, graphics, and video, and has participated in establishing
Xerox's strategic direction as "The Document Company." Current research
topics include digital libraries, the reuse of documents, document
standards, and the combined use of paper and electronic media.
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Gary Marchionini is a professor in the College of Library and Information
Services at the University of Maryland where he teaches courses in computer
applications, human-computer communication, and research methods. He also
has an appointment in the University of Maryland Center for Automation
Research's Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. His Ph.D. is from Wayne
State University in mathematics education with an emphasis on educational
computing. His research interests are in information seeking in electronic
environments and human-computer interaction. He has had grants and
contracts from the National Science Foundation, Council on Library
Resources, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, and
NASA, among others. He has published over fifty articles, chapters and
reports in a variety of books and journals. He serves on the editorial
board of Hypermedia Journal, Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, Information Processing & Management, Library
Quarterly, and the Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. He is
author of a book titled Information Seeking in Electronic Environments
published by Cambridge University Press. He is the Director of Evaluation
for the Perseus Project (a large-scale hypermedia corpus), principal
investigator for a project to develop an interface for the Library of
Congress National Digital Library, and co-principal investigator for a U.S.
Department of Education Challenge Grant to develop a digital video learning
community in Baltimore. He is the Conference Chairman for the ACM
International Conference on Research and Development in Digital Libraries
to be held in March of 1996.
Daniel Pitti is Librarian for Advanced Technologies Projects at the
University of California at Berkeley Library. For the past two and a half
years Mr. Pitti has led a national and increasingly international effort to
develop an encoding standard for library and archival finding aids. The
emerging standard is in the form of a Standard Generalized Markup Language
Document Type Definition (SGML DTD). The Society of American Archivists and
the Library of Congress jointly released an alpha version of the Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) DTD and a tag library for testing in January
1996.
In support of the development of the Encoded Archival Description standard,
Mr. Pitti has successfully participated in several related research
projects. He was a joint author of two successful research proposals, The
Bancroft Library Finding Aid Database and Networking Project ("Berkeley
Finding Aid Project"; U.S. Department of Education Higher Education Act
Title IIA Research and Demonstration Grant; October 1993-September 1994),
and The California Heritage Digital Image Access Project (National
Endowment for the Humanities; January 1995-December 1996). The Commission
on Preservation and Access funded a conference at Berkeley in April 1995 to
initiate community review the of the Berkeley Finding Aid Project.
Following that conference, Mr. Pitti and a team of eight leading archivists
and an SGML expert successfully applied to the Bentley Library Research
Fellowship Program for the Study of Modern Archives at the University of
Michigan for a week-long meeting in Ann Arbor in July 1995 to further the
development efforts. Recently, through the Society of American Archivists,
the Council on Library Resources funded writing guidelines to be used in
the application of the EAD DTD by the archive and library communities.
Besides his work on archival finding aids, Mr. Pitti serves as a consultant
on two Library of Congress committees, one overseeing development of a
digital library profile for Z39.50, and the other development of an SGML
DTD for USMARC.
Before Mr. Pitti's current endeavors, he was the authorities librarian in
the Catalog Department at Berkeley. Mr. Pitti has an MA and C.Phil. in
history of religions from UCLA, and an MLIS from UC Berkeley.
Edie Rasmussen is currently an Associate Professor in the School of
Library and Information Science of the University of Pittsburgh, and
Chair of the Department of Library Science. She has also held
appointments at the School of Library and Information Studies at
Dalhousie University, Canada, at the School of Library Science at the
Institiut Teknoloji MARA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and at the Division of
Information Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr.
Rasmussen holds a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and an
M.Sc. degree from McMaster University, both in Chemistry, an M.L.S.
degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a Ph.D. in Information
Studies from the University of Sheffield. Her current research interests
include indexing, database quality, design of information retrieval
systems, and multimedia databases.
Assistant Director, HighWire Press
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources
I analyze and coordinate various digital library programs for Stanford
University Libraries and Academic Information Resources and I'm working on
library based electronic publishing projects with HighWire Press. Two
current HighWire publications are the Journal of Biological Chemistry Online
and AAAS Science On-Line. I'm also the Library "expert" on copyright and
intellectual property issues.
I am actively involved in two nationally funded Digital Library Projects:
the Stanford Digital Library Project funded by NSF/ARPA/NASA and the
Computer Science Technical Reports (CS-TR project) funded by ARPA.
I live with my teenage daughters, my husband, Mark Weiser (computer
scientist, Xerox Parc and drummer in the rock band, Severe Tire Damage) and
two twin gray tabby cats. I am also on the Board of Directors, El Camino
Youth Symphony, Palo Alto, CA.
Rutgers University
Philip J. Smith is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at
The Ohio State University. He teaches courses in the areas of cognitive systems engineering,
human-computer interaction and on the design of cooperative problem-solving systems,
intelligent information retrieval systems and intelligent tutoring systems. His research
focuses issues dealing with the design of cooperative problem-solving systems to
aid people in performing complex tasks such as information retrieval and indexing, planning,
teaching and abduction, using fields such as aviation,
medicine and education as testbeds.
VELIMIR SRICA is a visiting associate professor at UCLA, GSE&IS. He is
full professor of management at University of Zagreb, University of Rijeka
and the Zagreb Business School, Croatia, and also teaches regular MBA
programs at the International Executive Development Center Brdo, and at the
University of Maribor, Slovenia. He was a visiting professor of management
at People's University Beijing, China, a guest lecturer at Florida State
University, Tallahassee, at University of Graz, Austria, Technical
University in Budapest, Hungary, University of Sarajevo and Mostar, Bosnia
and Herzegovina. He teaches MBA and executive courses: Innovation
Management, Managerial Creativity, Principles of Innovative Management.
International Management, Multicultural Management, Management of Change,
Innovative Teams, Information Systems Analysis and Design. He was director
of Croatian National Institute for Information Technology, and a member of
Croatian Government (Minister of Science, Technology and Information
Technology). He chaired international events, conferences and meetings of
OECD, and UNESCO. He is former Croatian representative to the Council of
Europe, a board member of CEEMAN (the Central/East European Management
Development Association), the editor of CEEMAN News, and a member of
Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. He earned Eisenhower
Fellowship from the U.S. Government in 1990. He is a board member of
Croatian University Alumni Foundation, and author or coauthor of 24 books
(most in Croatian), over two hundred articles in scientific and technical
journals and dozens of articles in newspapers and popular magazines. The
recent international contributions include:
- "Emerging Market Economies", S. Garelli ed., IMD, World Economic
Forum, Lausanne, 1993 (Research end Essay on Croatia).
- International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, Routledge,
London, 1996 (Sections: Innovation Management, Knowledge Engineering);
- "Managing People Across Europe", T. Garrison, D. Rees eds.,
Butherworth - Heineman, London, 1994 (Chapter: Managing People in Central
Europe);
- "Management Education in Europe", EFMD, Bruxelles, 1995 (Chapter on
Croatia)
Susan Leigh Star is Associate Professor of Library and Information Science,
and Women's Studies, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her
recent research centers on the social and organizational aspects of large
information systems, including digitial libraries and medical
classification. She has edited two volumes, Ecologies of Knowledge: Work
and Politics in Science and Technology. Editor. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995
and The Cultures of Computing (Sociological Review Monograph). Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1995. Recent papers include "Steps toward an Ecology of
Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces" (with Karen
Ruhleder),forthcoming in Information Systems Research. A web page for the
Illinois Research
Group on Classification.
Nancy Van House is a Professor in the new School of Information
Management and Systems (successor to the School of Library and
Information Studies) at the University of California, Berkeley. She
is currently directing the user needs assessment and evaluation
component of the UC Berkeley Digital Library project, funded
under the NSF/NASA/ARPA Digital Libraries Initiative, which is
creating a Digital Library of the California Environment. She is
involved in similar activities in several other digital library projects,
and in planning the new SIMS curriculum, which is being
developed from scratch to address the educational needs of future
information professionals. She has written extensively on planning
and evaluation of libraries.
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