Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Dwayne K. Buttler, J.D., is a Professor in University Libraries and holds the Evelyn J.
Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the University of Louisville.
Much of his work and research focuses on the complex relationship of copyright,
licensing, and other laws to the core of the university and library mission: teaching,
learning and scholarly communication. He is a frequent presenter at local, regional, and
national conferences and helps raise awareness of copyright law and advocates for the
preservation of crucial user rights, including fair use and other exemptions.
Identifying and advocating for new user needs that will require legal reform in an
increasingly digital society is central to Dwayne’s work. Those needs include such
activities as digital preservation, online learning, electronic publishing, and open access
to scholarship. He also teaches mass communication law and intellectual property courses
at U of L. Dwayne earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the Indiana University
School of Law-Indianapolis and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in telecommunications
from Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. He also has served as the
senior copyright analyst at the Copyright Management Center, IUPUI, and as the director
of information science at the Advanced Research & Technology Institute, Indiana
University.
Kyle Fenton is the team leader for Linux Administration, Integration, and Web
Development at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library, managing software
development, engineering and systems administration, including an open source release
of Emory's ReservesDirect software. Kyle served as chair of LITA's Open Source Interest
Group in 2003. He is the technical manager for the NDIIPP MetaArchive project. He
received his B.A. in Philosophy from Emory University in 1987 and conducted two years
of graduate study in the history of philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Martin Halbert is Director of Digital Programs and Systems at the Robert W.
Woodruff Library of Emory University. During the last five years he has served as
principal investigator for approximately $4M in sponsored research into new models of
scholarly communication and digital preservation. He is a graduate of Emory University,
and has previously worked for Rice University, UT Austin, and the IBM Corporation.
Johnny Healey is a software developer and system administrator at Emory University.
He played a key technical role in architecting the MetaArchive's Private LOCKSS
Network. He also developed the Conspectus Database and Cache Manager software used
by the MetaArchive Project. In 2006, he received a Masters of Science in Computer
Science from Emory. He's been working on digital library projects since 2004 and has
interests in web technology, metadata, and programming languages.
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Chris Helms is the networking and server team lead for the Georgia Institute of
Technology, Library and Information Center. He is also a contributing member of the
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program’s MetaArchive
project.
Catherine Jannik is the Digital Initiatives Manager, Georgia Institute of Technology
Library and Information Center, where she provides leadership and project management
for library and campus-wide projects. Since joining the Georgia Tech Library in 2003,
she has led the institutional repository (http://SMARTech.gatech.edu) and electronic
publishing programs (http://epage.gatech.edu) and serves on the steering committee of
Georgia’s statewide repository effort, the GALILEO Knowledge Repository
(forthcoming, http://www.library.gsu.edu/blogs/gkr/).
She previously served as Digital Projects Coordinator at Auburn University and Special
Collections Librarian at both Auburn University and Northwestern State University of
Louisiana, where she was also Assistant Archivist. She holds an M.A. in History and an
M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Southern Mississippi,
and an A.B. in History and Government from Sweet Briar College. Her work in history
focuses on civil rights battles fought in the courts, particularly the fight for equal salaries
for school teachers. She has presented a number of papers related to the Mississippi
salary equalization suit in addition to her numerous library-related presentations and
publications.
Gail McMillan, Director of the Digital Library and Archives, joined the Virginia Tech
library faculty in 1982 after working at the Smithsonian Archives and receiving master’s
degrees in library science and history from the University of Maryland, College Park. For
more than twelve years she has led the Scholarly Communications Project and the
Special Collections Department, which were combined in 1999 to form the DLA. She
represents the library on the VT Faculty Senate and has served in numerous national and
statewide capacities, including IMLS grant review panels, the Technical Advisory
Committee of the Digital Library Federation for its Open Archives Initiative, and the
Special Collections Committee and the Virginia Heritage Project of VIVA, the Virtual
Library of Virginia. Her recent publications and presentations focus largely on electronic
theses and dissertations. She is the 2007 recipient of the NDLTD’s ETD Leadership
Award for “exemplary work to establish, extend, and support the ETD initiative across
the globe….” In addition to leading the digital preservation efforts at Virginia Tech
through participation in the MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture, she is currently
helping to establish the VT41607Archive.
Seth Morabito is a member of the LOCKSS team at Stanford University Libraries. As a
software engineer, his primary focus is on designing and implementing new features for
the LOCKSS system. Seth has worked for a number of leading companies in the
collaborative and web spaces, and practices bookbinding in his spare time.
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Beth Nicol is an Information Technology for the Auburn University Libraries, where she
has worked with "all things digital" for the past twenty-two years. She has supported
multiple library systems, including NOTIS, Voyager and ENCompass. Currently, she is
involved with the MetaArchive Project and two statewide projects, AlabamaMosaic
(http://alabamamosaic.org) and the Alabama Digital Preservation Network
(http://adpn.org) . Beth is the primary support for CONTENTdm on the Auburn campus.
Brian Pitts is a resident of Atlanta, GA. He graduated this spring from Emory
University, where he studied political science and worked as an assistant system
administrator. This fall he will begin graduate study at the University of Georgia.
Dr. Katherine Skinner is the Digital Projects Librarian for the Emory University
General Libraries. She is a founder and the Managing Editor of Southern Spaces, a peerreviewed, open access Internet journal and scholarly forum (http://southernspaces.org).
She is co-principal investigator on the Andrew W. Mellon-funded SouthComb portal
project, and manages an amalgam of sponsored projects, including the National Digital
Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program’s MetaArchive Project, funded by
the Library of Congress to establish a cooperative model and distributed preservation
network infrastructure for the long-term preservation of digital content
(http://metaarchive.org).
She currently serves on the Digital Library Federation’s Aquifer Services Working Group
and the Library of Congress’s NDIIPP Sustainability Working Group, and is a faculty
member for the Northeast Document Conservation Center’s upcoming “Stewardship of
Digital Assets” workshop series. She received her PhD in American Studies from Emory
University in 2005, and has published on music, social movements, scholarly publishing
practices, and the emergence of new fields.
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