George Buchanan is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Centre for HCI Design, City University, London. His research interests surround information interaction: from web search, through browsing digital libraries, to accessing information on a mobile phone. Dr. Buchanan is principal investigator of an EPSRC funded project, “Document Triage in the Information Seeking Process”, and co-investigator on four other projects. His current collaborations include two projects with University College London and Swansea University, and an ongoing involvement with the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato.
Alison Callahan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses on formalizing the representation and evaluation of scientific hypotheses using Semantic Web technologies. Alison holds a Masters of Information Studies from the University of Toronto Faculty of Information. During her Masters degree, Alison worked as a graduate student library assistant at the University of Toronto Gerstein Science Information Center and as a researcher at the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information.
Alexandra M. Chassanoff is a doctoral student in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the Project Manager of the IMLS-funded Policy-Driven Repository Interoperability (PODRI) project, which investigates the feasibility of interoperability mechanisms between Fedora and iRODS.
Christopher Collins holds a Sharcnet Research Chair in Information Visualization at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). His research focus is interdisciplinary, combining computational linguistics, information visualization, and human-computer interaction to address the challenges of information management and the problems of information overload. Dr. Collins received his PhD from the University of Toronto. He has also collaborated with the Visual Communications Lab at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Laboratory and was recently a visiting researcher at Stanford University’s Department of Computer Science.
Michel Dumontier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has a strong interest in realizing the potential of interdisciplinary research from the areas of medicine, molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, computational biology, computer science and engineering. Dr. Dumontier earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 2004 from the University of Toronto with advisor Christopher Hogue by developing computational scoring functions based on species-specific optimizations of sequence and structure optimizations across 150 completely sequenced organisms. During his post-doc at the Genome Canada funded Blueprint Initiative (2004-2005) he developed SMIDGenomes, an early drug discovery tool that allows the comparison of predicted small molecule binding profiles based on structural interactions. Since July 2005, Dr. Dumontier leads his research group at Carleton University towards the realizing the potential of personalized medicine by leveraging Semantic Web technologies for data integration and knowledge discovery, metabolic modeling for drug discovery, and cell simulation for systems biology research.
Hector Garcia-Molina is the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He was the chairman of the Computer Science Department from January 2001 to December 2004. From 1997 to 2001 he was a member the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). From August 1994 to December 1997 he was the Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford. From 1979 to 1991 he was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. His research interests include distributed computing systems, digital libraries and database systems. He received a BS in electrical engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, in 1974. From Stanford University, Stanford, California, he received in 1975 a MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in computer science in 1979. He holds an honorary PhD from ETH Zurich (2007). Garcia-Molina is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; received the 1999 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award; is a Venture Advisor for Onset Ventures, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Oracle.
Chien-Yi Hou is a Research Associate at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Lead Developer at the Sustainable Archives & Library Technologies group (SALT).
Unmil Karadkar is a lecturer in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin and a doctoral candidate in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He has been actively involved in the JCDL community through publication and service for over a decade. He is Co-PI on an NSF-funded project for developing mobile educational applications backed by a large fossil collection for school and college students. His ongoing dissertation work at Texas A&M University addresses issues in the co-use of devices with diverse characteristics for effective information access.
Richard J. Marciano is a Professor in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Sustainable Archives & Library Technologies group (SALT). Marciano leads development of preservation environments for projects funded by NARA, NHPRC, LOC and IMLS. He is the principal investigator for the Distributed Custodial Archival Preservation Environments (DCAPE) project and the e-Legacy project (Appraisal, Accessioning, and Preservation of Geospatial Records), and serves on the Electronic Records Section (ERS) Steering Committee of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), as well as a number of national and international advisory boards related to digital curation and records preservation.
Frank McCown is an assistant professor of computer science at Harding University. His interests include web archiving, web crawling, and web information retrieval. Dr. McCown received his BS in computer science from Harding University, MS in computer science from the University of Arkansas Little Rock, and Ph.D. in computer science from Old Dominion University. He is the creator of Warrick, the website reconstruction service which has been used by the public to recover thousands of lost websites. He has served on a number of program committees and was co-chair of the International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation, held at JCDL 2009.
Michael L. Nelson is an associate professor of computer science at Old Dominion University. Prior to joining ODU, he worked at NASA Langley Research Center from 1991-2002. He is a co-editor of the OAIPMH and OAI-ORE specifications and is a 2007 recipient of an NSF CAREER award. He has developed many digital libraries, including the NASA Technical Report Server. His research interests include repository-object interaction and alternative approaches to digital preservation.
Glen Newton is a former research group leader and researcher at the National Research Council, CISTI. His research interests include the area of domain-specific knowledge discovery and visualization in large digital libraries, primarily the scientific literature; text mining, the digital preservation of research data and bioinformatics. He has been on the program committees for JCDL 2008-2011, is on the Canadian National Committee for CODATA, and was the NRC’s W3C representative from 2001-2010.
Andreas Paepcke is a Senior Research Scientist and director of the Digital Library Project at Stanford University. His interests include user interfaces for small devices, novel Web search facilities, and browsing facilities for digital artifacts that are difficult to index. With his group of students he has designed and implemented WebBase, an experimental storage system for Web contents. His work on small devices has focused on novel methods for summarizing and transforming Web pages, and on browsing images on small devices. Dr. Paepcke has served on numerous program committees, including a position as Vice Program Chair, heading the World-Wide Web Conference’s ‘Browsers and User Interfaces’ program track, and as Program chair of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. He was a member on several National Science Foundation proposal evaluation panels. Dr. Paepcke received BS and MS degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Previously, he worked as a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratory, and as a research consultant at Xerox PARC.
David Pcolar is the Library Systems Research and Development Specialist for the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He manages the storage and virtual compute infrastructure for the UNC Libraries, and is the technical manager for the Carolina Digital Repository.
Jodi Schneider is a Ph.D. student at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland. Her research interests include scientific and scholarly communication and the Social Semantic Web. Before joining DERI, Jodi founded an open access journal for library technologists (Code4Lib Journal), was community liaison for the research summary wiki AcaWiki, and worked in academic libraries. She holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and a M.A. in mathematics (University of Texas, Austin). At DERI, her current research is on argumentation on the Social Semantic Web, and she serves on W3C groups on Scientific Discourse in biosciences and Library Linked Data.
Lars Svensson is IT Manager at the German National Library, where his work focuses on information retrieval and library data integration using Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technologies. His group’s recent projects include releasing the German library’s PND authority files as linked data. Lars is a frequent speaker on the use of linked data and Semantic Web in libraries. He serves on the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group.