Keynote Speakers
Dr. Kenneth Thibodeau, Director of the Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Dr. Kenneth Thibodeau is Director of the Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies (NCAST) at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the U.S. Until recently, he served as Director of the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) program at NARA. Under his direction NARA successfully developed and implemented two versions of the ERA system serving the different needs of NARA's mission in the areas of federal and presidential records.
Dr. Thibodeau has 35 years experience in archives and records management, and is an internationally recognized expert in electronic records. He has served as Chief of the Records Management Branch of the National Institutes of Health, Director of the Center for Electronic Records at NARA, and Director of the Department of Defense Records Management Task Force. A Fellow of the Society of American Archivists and winner of the Emmett Leahy Award for outstanding contributions to the information and records management profession, in 2008 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Archivist of the United States for pioneering contributions moving the National Archives to the forefront of e-government. Thibodeau has published over 30 papers and spoken at more than 150 conferences around the world. He earned a Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania, and held several post doctoral fellowships in computer science.
Ms. Krystyna Marek, Program Officer for Digital Repositories, European Commission
Ms. Krystyna Marek joined the European Commission in 2005 and is currently working for the Directorate-General Information Society and Media. She is with the "GÉANT and e-Infrastructures" unit, which supports e-Science by investing in Information and Communication Technologies based infrastructures like networks, e-Science grids, supercomputing and repositories of scientific data. She has been involved in the launch of the area of Scientific Data e-Infrastructures of the FP7 Capacities Programme and in particular follows the issues related to data in astronomy, biodiversity and climate. Ms. Krystyna Marek has a university background in Economics and European Studies.
Ms. Martha Anderson, Director of Program Management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), Library of Congress (LoC), USA
Ms. Martha Anderson is Director of Program Management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) at the Library of Congress. The program has developed a network of over 150 partners, nationally and internationally, to select, collect and preserve at-risk digital content. Today the program supports collaborative collection and preservation of digital content of high value for public policy decision makers as well as shared tools and services for sustaining diverse digital content for long-term access. She manages the web archiving program in support of the Library.s Digital Strategic Initiatives Program. She has served as a sponsoring representative on the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force on Economic Sustainability of Preservation and Access. She also serves on the Steering Committee managing the communications for the International Internet Preservation Consortium. The IIPC is an international organization of 37 national libraries and non-profit archives dedicated to collecting and archiving significant content from the Web. Previously at the Library, she has served as project manager for the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress working with preservation architecture projects. During her tenure on the staff of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress, Martha Anderson served in the roles of Manager of the Digital Conversion Group, Production Coordinator for American Memory historical web collections, Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) for the multi-year paper scanning contract and as the National Digital Library Program Liaison to the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress.
Prior to joining the Library of Congress in 1996, Ms. Anderson worked in electronic publishing as editor and project manager for a variety of CD-ROM reference products including Time Almanac and the Patrologia Latina Database.
Symposium Speakers (sorted by speaker's last name)
01 - 100 Million Hours of Audiovisual Content: Digital Preservation and Access in the PrestoPRIME Project [ | Paper ]
Dr. Matthew Addis, Manager, IT Innovation, UK
Dr. Francesco Gallo, Research, EURIX Research and Development, EURIX, Italy
Dr. Walter Allasia, Head of EURIX Research and Development, EURIX, Italy
Dr. Richard Wright, Senior Research Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation, UK
Dr. Werner Bailer, Key Researcher, Joanneum Research, UK
Dr. Laurent Boch, RAI CRIT, Itlay
02 - The ESA Long Term Data Preservation Programme and Experiences Across CASPAR and GENESI-DR. [ | Paper ]
Dr. Mirko Albani, Director, European Space Agency
03 - Digital Archives for Molecular Microscopy [ | Paper ]
Dr. Christoph Best, Project Leader Electron Microscopy Data Bank, European Bioinformatics Institute-EMBL
04 - Multimedia Application Formats [ | Paper ]
Dr. Miroslaw Bober, Chief Scientist of Visual Info Lab., Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Centre Europe, UK
05 - Singapore National Library Technical and Operation Challenges and Future Direction [ | Paper ]
Mr. Raju Buddharaju, Director of Digital Resources and Services, National Library Board, Singapore
06 - ISO File Format for Digital Preservation [ | Paper ]
Mr. Wo Chang, Manager of Digital Media Group, Information Access Division of Information Technology Laboratory, NIST
07 - Digital Preservation: The Multimedia Standards way [ | Paper ]
Dr. Mario Döller, Assistant Professor, University of Passau, Germany
08 - EuroVO Framework and Future AIDA Direction [ | Paper ]
Dr. Francoise Genova, Director of CDS, Strasbourg astronomical Data Centre, France
09 - CASPAR Framework and Lesson Learned [ | Paper ]
Dr. David Giaretta, Project Coordinator at Rutherford Appleton Lab., Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK
10 - PARSE Insight Framework and Lesson Learned [ | Paper ]
Dr. David Giaretta, Project Coordinator at Rutherford Appleton Lab., Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK
11 - Geo-Seas e-infrastructure [ | Paper ]
Mr. Colin Graham, Project Coordinator, British Geological Survey, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK
12 - Introduction to MPEG-A Professional Archival Application Format (PA-AF) [ | Paper ]
Mr. Noboru Harada, Senior Research Scientist, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Japan
13 - Developing a Digital Preservation Programme at a National Library [ | Paper ]
Mr. Steve Knight, Programme Director Preservation Research & Consultancy, National Library of New Zealand
14 - NARA Electronic Records Archives Lessons Learned and Future Direction [ | Paper ]
Mr. Dyung Le, Director, System Engineering, ERA Program, NARA
15 - Quality Assurance: Towards Tools for Characterizing and Comparing Digital Documents [ | Paper ]
Dr. Natasa Milic-Frayling , Principal Researcher - Director, Research Partnership Programme , Microsoft Research Cambridge UK
16 - Policy-based Data Management [ | Paper ]
Dr. Reagan Moore, Director of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
17 - Metadata Management Implementation Case Study for Multiple Format Business Distribution [ | Paper ]
Dr. Masato Otsuka, Director, R&D Center Memory-Tech Corporation Tokyo, Japan
18 - The METAFOR project: preserving data through metadata standards for climate models and simulations [ | Paper ]
Dr. Sam Pepler, Project Manager, British Atmospheric Data Centre, UK
19 - The Planets IF - A Framework for Integrated Access to Preservation Tools [ | Paper ]
Dr. Rainer Schmidt, Project Leader, AIT Austrian Inst of Technology, Austria
20 - LOCKSS & LuKII Project [ | Paper ]
Dr. Michael Seadle, Director, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Germany
21 - ISO File Format for Digital Preservation [ | Paper ]
Mr. David Singer, Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple, US
22 - Principles for Long-term Preservation of Digital Records [ | Paper ]
Mr. Jim Suderman, Records Manager for the City of Toronto; Senior Archivist at Archives of Ontario, co-investigator with the InterPARES Project
23 - Stage 0 proposal of audio archive systems in IEC TC 100/TA7 [ | Paper ]
Dr. Kunimaro Tanaka, Professor, Teikyo Heisei University, Japan
24 - The eXtensible Characterization Languages - XCL [ | Paper ]
Dr. Manfred Thaller, Professor, Universität zu Köln
25 - Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle, Part II: Addressing Professional Competency Needs through the DigCCurr Professional Institutes [ | Paper ]
Dr. Helen Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
26 - The Usage of MPEG-21 Digital Items in Research and Practice [ | Paper ]
Dr. Christian Timmerer, Ass.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing., Institute of Information Technology, Klagenfurt University, Austria
