Workshop on Sustainable Models fo
Digital Preservation
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Attendees
First Name
Last Name
Affiliation
Frances
Boyle
Executive Director, Digital Preservation Coalition
Hildelies
Balk
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB)- National library of the
Netherlands
Lucie
Burgess
Head of Strategy and Planning, the British Library
Jean-Pierre
Chanod
Document Structure Area Manager, XRCE
Lee
Dirks
Director, Technical Computing, Microsoft
Eileen
Fenton
Executive Director, Portico
Marc
Fresko
EDM & ERM Consulting Services Director, Cornwell
Management Consultants plc
Didier
Giraud
Institute Ntional de l’Audiovisual, France
Matthias
Hemmje
Professor, FernUniversität, Hagen, Germany
Ross
King
Austrian Research Center GmbH (ARC)
Heleen
Kist
Managing Director, Skillcast
Jack
Lang
Entrepreneur, Cambridge, UK
Julien
Masanès
Director, European Internet Archive, Netherlands
Bill
Roberts
Associate Director, Tessella, Netherlands
Adam
Farquhar
British Library
Natasa
Milic-Frayling
Microsoft Research Ltd
Carlos
Oliveira
EU Commission
Amanda
Yarwood
British Library
Organizers
Biographies
FRANCES BOYLE
Executive Director, Digital Preservation Coalition http://www.dpconline.org/
Frances is an information professional with many years experience in the delivery and support of library
and information services across a wide range of academic, research and commercial environments. She
has worked for the Oxford University Library Services since 2001 where she is currently the IT
Development Manager & Strategy Coordinator. Frances has been involved in numerous digital
preservation initiatives and projects including; SHERPA, Preserv, & Preserv2 and the Oxford Mass
Digitisation project. Frances holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and a Masters in Information Studies from
the University of London.
HILDELIES BALK
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB)- National library of the Netherlands
Hildelies Balk studeerde kunstgeschiedenis in Utrecht en promoveerde in 2004 aan de Vrije Universiteit
in Amsterdam op het proefschrift De Kunstpaus. H.P.Bremmer 1871-1956. Zij publiceert geregeld over
kunst en particulier verzamelen en werkte als tentoonstellingsmaker voor verschillende musea. Sinds
2005 is zij hoofd collectie en presentatie van Museum de Fundatie in Heino en Zwolle.
LUCIE BURGESS
Head of Strategy and Planning, the British Library, UK
Lucie has assumed the role of Head of Strategy and Planning at the British Library in February 2007.
Previously she acted as Head of Development for the Built Environment division of CMP information,
part of the FTSE-250 media and business information company United Business Media plc. There she
managed strategic digital initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, and new product development. Lucie
worked at CMP for six years where she published six magazines and associated web sites. She was also
Business Development Manager for the company, managing the annual strategic review process,
operational projects and key strategic developments.
JEAN-PIERRE CHANOD
Document Structure Area Manager, XRCE
Jean-Pierre joined the Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) in 1993. He held positions as Area Manager
for Parsing & Semantics and Senior Scientist and now works as Document Structure Area Manager.
Jean-Pierre’s main research interests are in natural language and document content processing, with
topics ranging from morphology to robust parsing, semantics, and conversion to XML. He has been
involved in a number of international research collaborations in Europe and Asia, especially for the
development of multilingual resources. He contributed to a number of French national projects and EUfunded projects such as TwentyOne, Elsnet, Elsnet-Goes-East, STEEL, and currently the integrated
project VIKEF. Before joining XRCE, Jean-Pierre was project leader at the IBM Paris scientific centre
where he actively contributed to the PLNLP project. Jean-Pierre Chanod graduated from Ecole normale
supérieure in mathematics in 1980.
LEE DIRKS
Director of Scholarly Communication, Technical Computing, Microsoft
Lee Dirks is the director of Scholarly Communications for Microsoft's Technical Computing Initiative,
where he manages research programs related to open access to research data, interoperability of
archives and repositories and the preservation of digital information. Lee holds an MLIS degree from
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as well as a post-masters degree in Preservation
Administration from Columbia University. In addition to positions at Columbia and then with OCLC
(Preservation Resources), Lee has held a variety of roles at Microsoft since joining in 1996.
EILEEN FENTON
Executive Director, Portico, http://www.portico.org/about/
Eileen Fenton heads Portico, a nonprofit electronic archiving service for electronic journals and other
scholarly resources. Portico (www.portico.org) began as the Electronic-Archiving Initiative in 2002 and
was launched as Portico in 2005 with initial support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
JSTOR and the Library of Congress. Eileen was Executive Director of the Electronic-Archiving Initiative
and before that the Director of Production at JSTOR. Portico is developing technical infrastructure and
an economically sustainable business model for a continuing archiving service for scholarly resources
published in electronic form, beginning with electronic scholarly journals. Portico is a partner in the
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
MARC FRESKO
EDM & ERM Consulting Services Director
Cornwell Management Consultants plc
Marc Fresko is EDM & ERM Consulting Services Director at Cornwell Management Consultants
plc, an independent consultancy. He has provided consultancy and advice since 1979,
specialising since 1992 solely on electronic document management and records management
(EDRM). He is recognised as an authority on EDRM, and advises clients throughout the UK and
in other countries. He contributed significantly to the de facto standard for EDRM in the public
sector, the Functional Requirements for ERMS published by The National Archives (then the
Public Record Office); and was the project leader and architect of the European Commission s
MoReq Specification (Model Requirements for ERMS). He is now leading the MoReq2
development project.
DIDIER GIRAUD
Institute National de l’Audiovisual, France
Didier Giraud graduated from the Audio Visual University of Valenciennes in 1981. After joining the
Archives Direction of INA in 1982, he starts working as part of the technical staff of the technical
division. Technical manager from 1987 to 1992 of the digital audiovisual technical unit, he was mainly
involved in the restoration domain, dealing with video and film materials. With the generalisation of
digital audiovisual tools in 1992, he extends his knowledge to TV production and post-production, using
Compositing and managing 3D tools within digital video suites.
Didier was the technical manager of the IMAGINA event, forum for Computer Graphics Images, coorganised by the Festival du Film de Monte Carlo and INA, from 1990 to 2000. He is now involved in
strategy development for INA's Research and Experimentation Department.
Didier graduated from the École supérieure d'ingénieurs en électronique (ESIEE), where he obtained a
Master in Competitive and Strategic Intelligence in 2000.
MATTHIAS HEMMJE
Professor, University of Hagen, Germany
Matthias is full Professor of Computer Science, Chair for Multimedia and Internet Applications, at the
University of Hagen. His primary research interests include information retrieval, multimedia databases,
virtual environments, information visualization, visual interaction, and multimedia. He also leads
research in the area of content engineering and knowledge technologies as well as evaluation of
interactive systems.
Matthias is a member of the Visual Information Retrieval Interfaces (VIRI) working group founded by Bob
Korfhage at the Univ. of Pittsburgh and a member of the European working group on Foundations of
Advanced 3D Information Visualization (FADIVA). He has been actively involved as an expert on scientific
research and development projects, both nationally and internationally, and a consultant at national and
European discussions of various research programmes related to his area of expertise.
ROSS KING
Austrian Research Centre GmbH (ARC)
Ross King studierte an der Stanford Universität und hat sein Doktorat im Bereich Hochenergiephysik.
1995 kam er nach Wienund arbeitete einige Jahren an der Österreichische Akademie
derWissenschaften. Danach wechselte er zum IT-Sektor und 2002 war er der erste Mitarbeiter bei dem
ARC Research Studio Digital Memory Engineering. Inzwischen besteht die Gruppe aus 15 Forschern und
Dr. King ist operativer Leiter. Seine Forschungsinteressen liegen hauptsächlich in der Verwaltung und
Abfragen von multimedialen Inhalten. Im Bereich Digitale-Langzeitarchivierung ist er der Sub-projektLeiter und Mitglied des wissenschaftliches Beirats des EU IST "Integrated Project" PLANETS.
HELEEN KIST
Managing Director, Skillcast, http://www.skillcast.co.uk/
In 2001 Heleen set up Skillcast, a niche strategy consultancy specializing in growing knowledge
economies. Skillcast assists SMEs with creation, funding and business development or large
organizations with setting up new ventures. It also advises public bodies on innovation policy,
commercialization structure, and funding. Helen has a substantial blue chip and international
experience. She was a venture capitalist in a small London based Internet incubator. She has been
involved in resolving board level issues as engagement manager at McKinsey &Company, working in
the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, Sweden, Italy, and France. She also has an understanding of product
development, marketing, and product launches in Europe and Eastern Europe from her employment
with Procter & Gamble in Brussels.
Heleen has a MS in Chemistry from Leiden University in the Netherlands and an MS in Management
Science and Engineering from Stanford University. At Stanford she co-founded the Stanford technology
Ventures Program, accelerating entrepreneurship education among engineers, and co-wrote ”The
Characteristics of the Entrepreneur“ (with T. Byers and R. Sutton), Technology Management Handbook,
ed. C. Dorff, CRC Press 1998.
JACK LANG
Entrepreneur, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jack Lang is a serial entrepreneur and business angel, and Cofounder of Artimi Ltd, which makes ultra
wide band wireless chips. Interested in “computer science and how the brain works”, his undergraduate
degree in Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge led to a Computer Science diploma and a work as a
Demonstrator in the Computer Laboratory. He left the University to found the consulting company
Topexpress, one of whose projects was designing some of the software for the BBC Microcomputer.
Jack was founder of Netchannel Ltd, which was acquired in 1998 by ntl, where he became Chief
Technologist. Before that he founded Electronic Share Information Ltd, acquired by E*Trade Inc in 1995.
He is author of The High Tech Entrepreneurs Handbook and teaches and examines courses in Business
Studies, Entrepreneurship and Ecommerce for the University of Cambridge Computer Science
Laboratory. He is Entrepreneur in Residence at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Judge
Business School in Cambridge.
JULIEN MASANÈS
Director of the European Archive Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands http://europarchive.org/
Julien Masanè is the co-founder and the director of the European Archive Foundation for
preservation of the Internet and digital content. Incorporated in 2004 in Amsterdam, as a
non-profit foundation, the European Archive acts as a technological partner for cultural
institutions to foster free online access of European cultural heritage and develops an open
Web archive. Previously, Julien was in charge of the Web Archive project at the French
National Library. He actively participated in the creation of the International Internet
Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and coordinated its work for the first 2 years. Julien has been
involved in various international initiatives for digital preservation, such as the European
project NEDLIB and the Global Digital Format Registry. He has also initiated and presided the
International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW), the main conference in the area of Internet
preservation.
WILLIAN (BILL) ROBERTS
Associate Director, Tessella, Den Haag, Netherlands http://www.tessella.com
Bill is Associate Director working for Tessella in the Netherlands. Bill worked on the Dutch government
Digital Preservation Testbed project. He was responsible for design and development of various
software systems to support the work of the Testbed, as well as providing advice on IT related issues.
Tessella has been working with government and private sector organizations to develop solutions to
the problems of digital preservation. They have been actively researching innovative strategies to
ensure that digital information can survive reliably as hardware and software technologies come and
go. Tessella is a partner on the PLANETS project.
Organizers:
ADAM FARQUHAR
Head of Architecture, The British Library, UK
As Head of Architecture at the British Library, Adam is developing and managing the Library's
enterprise architecture. He and his team lead several advanced technology development projects in the
Digital Library and Digital Preservation areas. Adam co-founded the Library's Digital Preservation Team
and serves as Scientific Director for the Planets Digital Preservation Project. This EU co-funded project
has a 15m euro budget over four years. Partners include national libraries, national archives,
Universities, Microsoft, IBM, Tessella, and ARC. More information at http://www.planets-project.eu/.
NATASA MILIC-FRAYLING
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Ltd., Cambridge, UK
Natasa joined Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK in 1998. She has been setting research
directions for the Integrated Systems group. Her interests include design and evaluation of
information retrieval systems, machine learning methods for text, user centred design of
information management systems, and technologies for cross-platform and context rich
communication. Since October 2004, Natasa has been heading the Research Partnership
Programme that facilitates collaboration between researchers and Microsoft teams in MS
Subsidiaries across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Natasa is actively involved with a
wider research and academic community. She is leading MSR participation in the PLANETS
project and coordinating development of tools for preservation of Office documents.
CARLOS OLIVEIRA
European Commission
Carlos Oliveira is Deputy Head of Unit at INFSO E3 – Cultural Heritage and Technology-enhanced
Learning. This unit is part of Digital Content and Cognitive Systems Directorate within Directorate
General Information Society and Media of the European Commission (EC). In his post Carlos is
responsible for the coordination of EC-funded research and development activities in the areas of
digital cultural heritage and digital preservation. These activities are part of the Information and
Communication Technologies theme European Union's 7th Framework Programme for Research and
Development. Carlos is the Project Officer for PLANETS. Previously, he held several positions at the EC,
notably as project officer in charge of the follow-up and coordination of R&D projects in technology
enhanced learning. Before joining the Commission, Carlos was a member of the management
consulting team of Coopers and Lybrand in Portugal and Director at IN Software, a software
development company and subsidiary of Radio Marconi (currently part of Portugal Telecom).
Carlos graduated in Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering at Technical University of Lisbon
(Instituto Superior Técnico) in 1986 and received a Master’s in Computer Engineering from this
university in 1998. He also received a Master's in Public Policy and Administration at the London School
of Economics and Political Science in 2005.
AMANDA YARWOOD
Support Officer for PLANETS, British Library, UK
The British Library is the Coordinator of the PLANETS project, leading the consortium of 16 partners.
Amanda is the Support Officer for PLANETS.