Babak Hamidzadeh, Library of Congress Director of Repository Development
Description
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.
Biography
Babak 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.
United States
