4C PROJECT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Digital Preservation Manager
Barbara Sierman MA is Digital Preservation Manager at the KB National Library of the Netherlands. Since 2005 she participated in various European projects on digital preservation, like Planets, Driver, APARSEN and SCAPE. She wrote various articles about the organisational and policy aspects of digital preservation and presents regularly at digital preservation conferences. She took part in the development and validation of the standards ISO 16363 on audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories and ISO 16919 on requirements for bodies providing such audit and certification and is a member of the steering committee of the IIPC, the International Internet Preservation Consortium.
Job Titles:
- OCLC - Economist / Digital Preservation Expert
Brian Lavoie, Research Scientists at OCLC Research, has many years of research experience in digital preservation, and writes and speaks frequently on the topic. In addition to co-founding the initiative that produced the PREMIS Data Dictionary, which became the de facto standard for preservation metadata, he has special expertise in the economics of long-term digital curation, serving as the co-chair of the National Science Foundation's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Brian's current research focuses on system-wide organization of library resources. Brian has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics.
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- Malta 's National Archivist
- National Archives of Malta - National Archive / Government
Charles Farrugia is Malta's National Archivist. A Commonwealth Scholar, Charles represents Malta on the European Archives Expert Group and the Working Group on the Digitisation of Cultural and Scientific heritage. During the last years he was coordinator of a number of EU funded projects under the Leonardo Mibility measure, Interreg IIIB and the e-content plus programme. He lectures on the Course leading to a Diploma in Archives and Records Management at the University of Malta, and was also the host and organiser of the 41st International Conference of the Round Table on Archives to be held in Malta during 2009. Charles was also council member of the Malta Library Association for a number of years and is a founding member of the Friends of the National Archives of Malta and of the Maltese National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM - Malta). He is also a member of the Society of Archivists of the U.K.
Job Titles:
- LOCKSS - Service Provider / Curation Expert
The LOCKSS Program is aimed at long-term preservation of web published materials (e-journals, books, blogs, websites, archival materials etc.) David started the program and built and tested the initial prototype, developed the OpenBSD-based network appliance technology that LOCKSS peers used for the first 5 years of production, and was part of the research team that developed the award-winning fault- and attack-resistant peer-to-peer network technology that underlies the LOCKSS network. He currently works on economic models for long-term storage.
Job Titles:
- Arkivum - Service Provider / Curation Expert
Matthew has spent 15 years leading a diverse portfolio of industry-led applied research projects including archiving and digital preservation, service-oriented computing, data mining and knowledge management to name but a few. He has spent over 10 years working closely with broadcasters, post houses and film archives to develop strategies, models, tools and systems for audio-visual restoration, preservation and archiving and is an active writer and speaker in this community.
Job Titles:
- Director of Standards and Technology at STM
Eefke is the Director of Standards and Technology at STM. She serves on the Board of international standards organisation EDItEUR, the Board of the Digital Preservation Coalition Alliance for Permanent Access, the Board of research data network DRYAD, as well as on advisory panels such as the NISO business working group on Supplementary Journal Information, DataCite working group on Certification Standards for Data centres, and CoData-ICSTU group for Data Citation. She also is the STM participant in the EU-cofunded projects PARSE.Insight and APARSEN (both on digital preservation) and ODE (Opportunities for Data Exchange). She has previously developed several successful scholarly information products, including Scopus TM, Scirus TM and ScienceDirect TM. She has also spent many years in the print world of academic publishing in areas such as Physics, Astronomy, Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics.
Mathematician by trade, having worked in radar design, solid modelling, and product data management, Sean currently works at BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre, UK. He is currently working on a range of projects including: Product Lifecycle Support (PLCS) ISO and OASIS-open; Concurrent Engineering - Data Clouds - Product data repositories - Long term model retention. His publications cover - Computational geometry, using topology based on quantization of fuzzy logic; Building STEP models from legacy systems; Design Definition Management; Dimensions of Integration; Editor for various ISO 10303 parts, including Information Rights, Issue, ... ; Long term/through life data retention/Data repositories.
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- Associate Director of the University of California Curation Center
Stephen Abrams is the associate director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library (CDL), with responsibility for strategic planning, innovation, technical oversight, and operation of UC3's services, systems, and projects. He is the principle architect of the Merritt curation repository and a leading advocate for the micro-services design patterns on which it is based. He also coordinates other major UC3 initiatives in web archiving, data management planning, and data publication, citation, and preservation. His most recent work involves economic cost modeling for long-term sustainability of digital library services, with a particular emphasis on paid-up or endowment pricing.