Speakers
Digital Library Applications. About the Speakers of the Session (Panel I)
The speakers of the Session Digital Library Applications and Interactive Web come from many countries:
International collaboration
Smiljana ANTONIJEVIC, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Laura GURAK, University of Minnesota
Trust in online interaction: an analysis of the socio-psychological features of online communities and user engagement
Smiljana Antonijevic (PhD, University of Minnesota) investigates social aspects of information and communication technologies focusing on virtual communities, digital rhetoric, digital embodiment, and virtual ethnography. Smiljana is a co-editor of Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs (University of Minnesota, 2004); her work appears in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes such as The Sage Handbook of Rhetorical Studies (2008), Information, Communication, and Society (2008), The American Behavioral Scientist (2008), Internet Research Annual (2004). At the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Smiljana is currently working on the project developing new digital tools for humanities research.
Laura J. Gurak is professor and chair of the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. She received her PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY, USA) in 1994. Gurak’s research focuses on the social and rhetorical dynamics of online communities and online behavior. Her book Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace (Yale University Press 1997) was the first book length study to document community social actions online. Her later book Cyberliteracy (Yale University Press 2001) articulates key characteristics of online communication. Gurak is currently researching trust as a rhetorical concept, with a focus on how trust is established through writing in digital spaces. AUSTRIA
Max KAISER, Austrian National Library
EuropeanaConnect – Enhancing user access to European digital heritage
Silvia GSTREIN, University of Innsbruck
The user-driven approach of content selection for digitization – the eBooks on demand Network
Max Kaiser, Head of Research and Development at the Austrian National Library (ONB). He holds a MA in Philosophy and German Literature from the University of Vienna and has been working for the Austrian National Library since 2000. Max Kaiser has many years of experience in national and international research and development projects in the field of digital libraries, digital preservation and digitisation. He has been involved in several EU projects in the Commission’s FP4, FP5, FP6, FP7, eContent and eContentplus programmes including MALVINE, LEAF, BRICKS, reUSE, DELOS, PLANETS, EDL, EDLnet, TELplus, IMPACT, EuropeanaConnect, Europeana v1.0 and EuropeanaTravel. He currently is leading the Digital Preservation Testbed Subproject within PLANETS (FP6) and the Enhancement and Enrichment Subproject within IMPACT (FP7), and is the project coordinator of the eContentplus project EuropeanaConnect. He is member of ONB’s Digital Library Steering Board. He teaches Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation at the University of Vienna, the Danube University Krems and the Center for Information and Communication Technology and Management in Eisenstadt.
Jeanna Nikolov-Ramírez Gaviria, Research and Development at Austrian National Library. Born in Bulgaria, lives in Austria. Currently Jeanna Nikolov is involved in the EU projects IMPACT and PLANETS and since May 2009 she is project manager of the eContentplus project EuropeanaConnect, building the core components for Europeana. She holds a MA in Graphic Design and Advertising from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria and Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny, Barcelona, Spain. She is a certified project manager and has many years of experience in digital information retrieval and the academic field, having been the director of postgraduate courses at Danube University Krems in the Department for Cultural Studies, Center for Image Science for five years. She taught various classes on digital heritage subjects and was involved in the digitisation of the image collection of the Monastery Göttweig before joining the Austrian National Library in 2008.
Silvia Gstrein holds degrees in Hispanistics as well as in Business Administration. Currently, she works as Project Manager at the University and Regional Library of Tyrol/Dept. for Digitisation and Electronic Archiving and is responsible for the eBooks on Demand network.
FINLAND
Tomi KAUPPINEN, Helsinki University of Technology
SmartMuseum knowledge exchange platform for cross-European cultural content integration and mobile publication
ITALY
Serge NOIRET, European University Institute
Promoting libraries as “publishers”: the European University Institute European History Primary Sources (EHPS) Portal
Andrea BOZZI, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, CNR
Pinakes Text. A tool to compare, interoperate, distribute and navigate among digital texts
LITHUANIA
Zinaida MANZˇUCH, Institute of Library and Information Science, Vilnius University
Digitisation and communication of memory: from theory to practice
UNITED KINGDOM
Brian KELLY, UKOLN – University of Bath
Empowering users and their institutions: a risks and opportunities framework for exploiting the potential of the Social Web
Brian Kelly works for UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management based at the University of Bath in the UK. In his role as ‘UK Web Focus’ Brian has a responsibility for advising UKOLN’s communities, which includes the cultural heritage sector as well as higher and further education, on best practices for exploiting the potential of the Web. Particular areas of interest include Web standards, Web accessibility and best practices for use of the Social Web. Brian is an experienced speaker and has recently given invited keynote presentations in Stockholm, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia.
Aly CONTEH, British Library
User collaboration in mass digitisation of textual materials
Aly Conteh is the Digitisation Programme Manager at the British Library, a post he took up in April 2003. He is responsible for the development and implementation of the policies, workflows and standards which govern digitisation of items from the Library’s vast collections. He has been involved in many digitisation projects at the British Library including projects to digitise 25 million pages of 19th Century books, 4 million pages of pre-1900 newspapers and hundreds of manuscript volumes. His background is in IT and prior to joining the British Library he implemented a large scale digitisation workflow at a commercial publisher. He serves on the Executive Board for the IMPACT project and as a member of the European Commission’s Member States’ Expert Group on Digitisation and Digital Preservation.
UNITED STATES
Frank AMBROSIO, Georgetown University Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship
MyDante and Ellipsis: defining the user’s role in a virtual reading community
Wendy M. DUFF, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
The museum environment in transition: the impact of technology on museum work
Fred STIELOW, American Public University System
Perspectives from an online university community
Fred Stielow is Dean of Libraries & Educational Materials at the American Public University System. He earned a Ph.D. in History and American Studies from Indiana University and a M.L.S. from the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Stielow had a decade of experience as a Library and Information Science professor at Catholic University and the University of Maryland with a focus on archives, cultural resource management, and automation. He applied those skills at a practical level while running the Reuther Labor Union Library at Wayne State, the multicultural Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, the Mid-Hudson Public Library System, and Special Collections at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. In addition, he was on the development teams for the first DOS-based hypertext program in the 1980s and M3 Library System in the 1990s, as well as serving as a technical advisor for two e-book publishers. This pioneer has extensive experience with the digitization of cultural materials, especially sound collections, and the Web—including teaching HTML courses. Stielow has contributed to over 100 Web sites, chaired American Library Association’s Web Advisory Committee, and was selected a 1999 Cybrarian of the Year by MCI. Other awards include a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Perugia in Italy, the Jamison Fellowship of the Library of Congress, and APUS’s 2008 Award for Outstanding Creativity and Innovation. He has written or edited over 100 scholarly articles and 10 books, including Creating Virtual Libraries, Building Digital Archives, and the award-winning Management of Oral History Sound Archives. Most recently, Stielow was appointed a co-chair of the ALA, American Association of Museums, and Society of American Archivist’s CALM joint committee.
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