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HOWARD
BESSER
Howard Besser is an Associate Professor at UCLA¹s School of Education
& Information where he teaches courses and does research on multimedia,
image databases, digital libraries, metadata standards, intellectual property,
digital longevity, information literacy, and the social and cultural impact
of new information technologies. He is the author of dozens of articles,
has served on a variety of standards-setting bodies, and consults widely
for libraries, museums, archives, and arts organizations.
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CHRISTOPHER
CHIA
Dr Christopher Chia is the Chief Executive of the National Library
Board of Singapore. From 1983-1988, he worked for the National Computer
Board (NCB) of Singapore in the Software Engineering and IT Manpower Departments,
where his responsibilities included planning the development of IT professionals
and promotion of IT culture. In 1988, Dr Chia became founding Deputy Director
of the Information Communication Institute of Singapore, which trained
software engineers in telecommunication at a postgraduate level. He was Director
of the applied IT R&D arm of the NCB, the Information Technology Institute
of NCB from 1992 to 1994. Dr Chia has a Master of Science and a PhD in
Computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology, and was conferred the "Friend of IT" Award by the Singapore Computer
Society in March 2000.
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DANIEL
GREENSTEIN
Daniel Greenstein is Director of the Digital Library Federation -
a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering in the
use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and
services. Prior to joining the DLF in December 1999, Greenstein was located
in the United Kingdom where he was founding director of two networked information
services working on behalf of the nation's universities and colleges. He
holds degrees from the Universities of Pennsylvania and Oxford and began
his career as a senior lecturer in history at the University of Glasgow.
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JEAN-CLAUDE
GUEDON
Ph. D., in history of science, Jean-Claude Guédon presently
teaches in the comparative literature department of the University of Montreal.
In the last dozen years, his work has focused on matters related to the Internet
and scholarly electronic publishing. In 1991, he started the first electronic
scholarly journal in Canada (Surfaces). He has been program committee co-chair
for Inet 1996, 1998 and 2000. In 1998, he was selected as Leiter lecturer
for the National Library of Medicine in the USA. A member of the steering
committee of the Canadian National Site Licence Project, he also chairs CNSLP's
Advisory Board. In May 2001, he was invited to address the ARL conference
in Toronto.
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JOAN
LIPPINCOTT
Joan K. Lippincott is the Associate Executive Director of the Coalition
for Networked Information (CNI), which is concerned with the use of information
technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual
productivity. Joan has played a central role in establishing and expanding
CNI since its founding in 1990. She is responsible for programs focusing
on the use of networked information to transform institutions, including
New Learning Communities, Working Together, and Assessing the Academic Networked
Environment. Joan has written on a variety of topics, including collaboration
between librarians and information technologists, networked information,
end-user searching, and teaching and learning in the networked environment.
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TITIA
VAN DER WERF
Titia van der Werf is a researcher at the National Library of the
Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek). She has been involved in many important
digital library projects in Europe and has been a driver of research and
development of metadata and architectural frameworks, tools and procedures
and policies for the deposit of electronic documents with national libraries
within Europe. From 1996-1999 she was involved in the BIBLINK project, funded
by the EU to promote the electronic exchange of authoritative metadata between
publishers and National Bibliographic Agencies. From 1998-2001 she was involved
in the NEDLIB project, also EU funded, which aimed to construct the basic
infrastructure upon which a networked European deposit library can be built.
She is currently involved in Project Reynardus, the Gigaport project and
SURFworks project.
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