Digital Preservation

William Kilbride, executive director of the UK-based Digital Preservation Coalition, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about data management and digital preservation in the UK. Kilbride shares his experiences  of working with the Archaeological Data Service, Glasgow Museums and the DPC, and talks about the DPC’s work with digital preservation advocacy, outreach, training and communication.BiographyWilliam Kilbride earned a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Glasgow. Prior to joining the Digital Preservation Coalition he was assistant director of the Archaeology Data Service and later research manager for Glasgow Museums, where he supported the curation of digital images, sound recordings and digital art.

Karen Cariani talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her work at WGBH in Boston and as co-chair of the Library of Congress National Stewardship Digital Alliance Infrastructure Working Group. Cariani also talks about the unique digital preservation challenges facing television content.BiographyKaren Cariani has worked at WGBH in Boston since 1984 where she produces, manages and archives television shows. She also provides research services, rights clearances and licensing services for the Media Library and Archives. She also worked with digital libraries and online multimedia educational resources and she helped develop and implement the WGBH digital archives management system. Her current projects include managing the American Archive Inventory project for CPB and project director of PBCore development and Boston Local TV News Digital Library project. She served two terms on the Board of Directors of Association of Moving Image Archivists, co-chaired the AMIA Local Television Task Force and is currently co-chair of the Library of Congress National Stewardship Digital Alliance infrastructure working group, the AMIA Copyright Committee and AMIA Open Source Committee.

Anne Van Camp talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her work at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the Research Library Group and the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Van Camp is helping to make the Smithsonian Institution Archives publicly available online through increased use of social media and crowdsourcing.BiographyAnne Van Camp began her career at Chase Manhattan Bank as an archives manager, went on to Stanford’s Hoover Institution as a director of archives, then to the Research Library Group as an archivist and finally to the Smithsonian as director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Van Camp talks about her career, her experiences in Silicon Valley and her work at the Smithsonian, using social media and crowdsourcing to make the Archives more exciting and relevant. In April, 2012, the Library of Congress wrote about Van Camp as a digital pioneer.

Mike Wash, chief information officer of the National Archives and Record Administration, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about Wash’s work at the GPO and NARA, including the creation of a new GPO digital publication system, Fedsys, and leading NARA closer to the national goal of creating permanent public access to government content. Wash, a lifelong photographer who spent the first several decades of his career working for Kodak, also touches on the engineering side of photographic equipment and his influence on modern camera functions.BiographyMike Wash, a lifelong photographer, graduated from Purdue University in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and went directly to work for Eastman Kodak, where he had worked as a student since 1973. While at Kodak, he designed and implemented many of the standard automatic functions that still exist in modern digital and film cameras. He holds 18 patents for his work. In 2004, Wash was hired as the Government Printing Office’s chief technical officer. One of his major contributions at GPO was the development of the Federal Digital System, which is capable of accepting input from the federal government, assuring the user that it was authentic information, preserving that data in perpetuity and providing permanent public access. In 2011, Wash became the chief information officer of the National Archives and Record Administration where he continues the work of creating permanent public access to government content. In December, 2011, the Library of Congress wrote about Wash as a digital pioneer.

Helen Tibbo is Alumni Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this podcast she talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about history, information retrieval and her pioneering work designing curriculum for 21st century information technologists and digital curators.BiographyHelen Tibbo has been an educator for over 30 years. She earned an M.A. in American Studies, an MLS and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science. In 1989, Tibbo joined the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she taught reference and online retrieval. She recognized the growing need for students to be trained in handling digital materials and the lack of resources for that training, so in 2000 she started teaching Digital Preservation and Access, one of the first college courses of its kind in the world. Today she is a leader in training future digital curators and information technologists.

Andrea Goethals, digital preservation and repository services manager at the Harvard University library, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her career transition from architecture to information technology and about her repository work at the Florida Digital Archive and in Harvard University’s library system. Goethals also talks about her work on the Global Digital Format Registry and with the preservation working group of the International Internet Preservation Coalition.BiographyAndrea Goethals is digital preservation and repository services manager at the Harvard University library. She earned a Bachelor of Design in Architecture in 1989, a Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning in 1998 and a Master of Science in Computer Science in 2002, all from the University of Florida in Gainesville. She was a GIS Programmer and Cartographer, a Software Developer for the Geoplan Center at the University of Florida, a Java Developer and Architect for the Florida Center for Library Automation and senior digital library software engineer at the Harvard University Library Office for Information Systems.

Margaret Maes, executive director of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance, talks with the Library of Congress’s Mike Ashenfelder about her early work as a law librarian and how her concern for preservation of born-digital legal and government publications led to her co-found LIPA. Maes also talks about the unique digital preservation challenges facing law librarians today.BiographyMargaret Maes is the executive director of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance. She graduated with a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 1973 and an M.A. from the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship in 1975. She has worked as a librarian at Hindry & Meyer, P.C.; head librarian for the National Center for State Courts, acquisitions librarian and foreign & international law bibliographer at the Cornell Law Library, assistant director for collections and technical services at the University of Minnesota Law Library and associate director for information resources at the University of St. Thomas Schoenecker Law Library.

Mike Ashenfelder and Bill Lefurgy, from the Library of Congress, talk with Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist of Maryland. Dr. Papenfuse discusses his career, his early success with records databases, creating the first online U.S. state archives, the utility of GPS data, developing a financially self-sustaining repository, the value of folding publicly contributed data into online state records and making government information available online to its citizens.BiographyDr. Edward C. Papenfuse is the Maryland State Archivist and Commissioner  of Land Patents, positions he has held since 1975. He helped design the  Archives building, co-created the Maryland State Archives website, and  teaches courses at the University of Maryland College Park, the University  of Maryland Law School, and the Johns Hopkins University.  He is the  author of ”In Pursuit of Profit: The Annapolis Merchants in the Era of  the American Revolution” (1975), with Joseph M. Coale, ”The Hammond-  Harwood House Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908” (1982) and  ”The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland  1608-1908” (2003).

Mike Ashenfelder, from the Library of Congress, talks with Michele Kimpton about her career as an electrical engineer, software engineer and business person. She also gives her visionary perspective on web archiving, digital preservation, cloud storage and the future of personal archiving.BiographyMichele Kimpton is the Chief Executive Officer at DuraSpace. Kimpton co- founded the DSpace Foundation in 2007 to lead the collaborative development and strategic direction of the DSpace open-source software platform. Kimpton is also a leader in cloud technology with Duracloud, a hosted service and open technology developed by DuraSpace.Before founding the DSpace Foundation, Michele Kimpton was a director in various startups, including Web Archive Director at Internet Archive and Chief Operations Officer at eframes.com. Prior to her software-related work, Kimpton was an electrical engineer for 15 years in the fortune 500 company, Raychem corporation, holding positions in engineering, product management, business development and sales management.

Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Adam Farquhar about digital preservation with PLANETS.BiographyAdam Farquhar is Head of Digital Library Technology at the British Library, where he co-founded the Library’s Digital Preservation Team and was a lead architect on the Library’s Digital Object Management system. He is Scientific Director of the EU-funded Planets Digital Preservation project, co-chair of the ECMA TC45 Standards Committee, serves on the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard Editorial Board, as well as on advisory groups for the JISC Repositories Program and the UK’s Digital Preservation Coalition. Prior to joining the Library, he was the principle knowledge management architect for Schlumberger (1998-2003), and a research associate at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory (1993-1998). He completed his PhD in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin (1993). Over the past twenty years, his work has explored ways to improve the way in which people can represent, find, use, exploit, and preserve digitally encoded knowledge.

Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Linda Tadic about the challenges and practical solutions for archiving and preserving digital video.BiographyLinda Tadic is Executive Director of Audiovisual Archive Network, an independent non-profit digital library and preservation service for historical sound and moving image collections. She also consults and lectures in the areas of digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation and metadata. She is an adjunct professor in New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. Tadic managed the Digital Library at Home Box Office (HBO), she was Director of the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia and Director of Operations for ARTstor. She is also a past President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA).

Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Chris Greer about the role of the federal government in science and information technology and about the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program, the primary mechanism the federal government uses to coordinate its IT research.BiographyChris Greer is Assistant Director for Information Technology Research and Development in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). His responsibilities there include networking and information technology research and development, cybersecurity and digital scientific data access. Prior to joining OSTP, Dr. Greer was Director of the National Coordination Office for the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, which coordinates IT R&D investments across the Federal government. He is on assignment from the National Science Foundation where he has served in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure as Senior Advisor for Digital Data and in the Directorate for Biological Sciences.

Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Babak Hamidzadeh, Director of Repository Development at the Library of Congress, about the challenges of building an efficient, scalable digital repository. Hamidzadeh describes how the Library’s repository works, future plans for the repository and its tools and what will be expected of IT professionals and digital librarians as their roles grow increasingly interdependent.BiographyBabak Hamidzadeh is Director of Repository Development at the Library of Congress. Hamidzadeh is a computer scientist and former professor of Science and Technology at the University of Hong Kong and the University of British Columbia in Canada. His area of expertise is digital archives and electronic records management.

Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Minnesota State Archivist Robert Horton about the challenges and success of making government electronic records available to the general public. Horton also talks about his work assisting other state archive in their digital preservation efforts.BiographyRobert Horton is state archivist and director of the library, publications and collections division at the Minnesota Historical Society. Among other activities, he is on the advisory boards of the National Archives’ Electronic Records Archives; the College of St. Catherine’s Library and Information School; and the University of North Carolina’s Educating Stewards of Public Information project. Currently, he directs the Society’s National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program initiative, working with legislative digital content and its preservation; the immigrant oral history project and Minnesota’s participation in the National Newspaper Digitization project.

Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress talks with Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas about the role of collaboration in digital preservation projects. Halbert describes the process of creating the Transatlantic Slave Database and the MetaArchive consortium.BiographyMartin Halbert, dean of libraries at the University of North Texas has worked in library administration and systems positions at University of North Texas, Emory University and Rice University. Halbert was an ALA/USIA Library Fellow stationed in Estonia assisting with the automation of the Tartu University Library. He is also president of the NDIIPP-funded MetaArchive Cooperative, an international consortium of research libraries and institutes that preserve digital archives in partnership with the Library of Congress.