Bertram Ludäscher
Bertram Ludäscher is working in data and knowledge management, focusing on the modeling, design, and optimization of scientific workflows, provenance, data integration, and knowledge representation. He is a founder of the open source Kepler scientific workflow system project and a member of the DataONE leadership team. Ludäscher leads the NSF-funded Whole-Tale project that aims to transform the practice of knowledge discovery and dissemination into one where data and code are united with research articles to create “living publications” or tales. In other projects he develops workflow and provenance technologies for quality control and data curation of biodiversity data, and for taxonomy alignment. He is a professor at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences, where he directs the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS). He also holds affiliate appointments with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Department of Computer Science. Before coming to Illinois, Ludäscher was a professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining UC Davis, he worked at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD as a research scientist. He received his MS in CS from the University of Karlsruhe and his PhD in CS/databases from the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Beth Sandore Namachchivaya
Beth Sandore Namachchivaya is the University Librarian at the University of Waterloo. She has significant leadership experience specific to academic libraries, expertise in research and information technology, and has led the development of information discovery systems and digital preservation programs. Her research areas include discovery and access, new forms of scholarship, and the development of sustainable digital curation practices.
Prior to her appointment at Waterloo, Namachchivaya held appointments as Associate Dean of Libraries, Associate University Librarian and Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library in technical services, information technology, and most recently led the establishment of a comprehensive research and scholarly communication program. Namachchivaya has held prior appointments at Northwestern University, the University of California, Berkeley, the California Digital Library, and the National Agricultural Library. Beth was selected as a fellow of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), participated in the Association of Research Libraries’ Research Library Leadership Fellows program and is currently affiliated with the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences. Beth is professionally active as the incoming chair of the Tri-University Group (TUG) Library consortium (UWaterloo, Wilfrid Laurier, and Guelph Universities), the OCUL Collaborative Futures Directors’ Committee, and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Portage Steering Committee.
Megan Senseney
Megan Senseney is a Research Scientist at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. She works collaboratively on a number of projects that sit at the intersection of digital humanities and data curation. She is also pursuing doctoral studies in library and information science with an interest in qualitative studies of complex socio-technical research environments. In particular, she is interested in understanding what happens when people’s needs, technical infrastructures, and policies are at odds in the creation of new knowledge. Previously, she spent six years as a project coordinator at CIRSS where she managed a number of projects funded by the Mellon Foundation, IMLS, and NEH. Significant projects includes Publishing Without Walls, a library-based digital scholarly publishing initiative; Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis, a project geared toward facilitating the creation of text datasets for computational analysis; and Digital Humanities Data Curation, a series of NEH advanced institutes designed to help scholars steward their digital resources through the research lifecycle. For the past four years she has also been an instructor and workshop organizer for the DHOxSS Humanities Data Curation strand.
Eleanor Dickson
Eleanor Dickson is the HathiTrust Research Center Digital Humanities Specialist. She leads training and outreach for the HathiTrust Research Center, which facilitates computational text analysis of the HathiTrust Digital Library. She works closely with researchers who utilize HTRC for text analysis, and helps coordinate projects in the Center’s Advanced Collaborative Support program. She is key personnel on an IMLS-funded project called Digging Deeper, Reaching Further, which has developed a train-the-trainer curriculum for librarians to develop skills to support text data mining. Previously, she contributed to digital humanities initiatives in the University of Illinois Library’s Scholarly Commons, and was a Research Library Fellow consulting on digital scholarship projects in the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship at Emory University. Her research interests include research behaviors in digital scholarship, particularly for text analysis, and scholarly needs for library-supported digital humanities and computational social science research.
Scott Althaus
Scott Althaus is Merriam Professor of Political Science, Professor of Communication, and Director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research (www.clinecenter.illinois.edu) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Cline Center aims to equip and empower social scientists, humanists, and decision-makers with tools to address key challenges that threaten human flourishing—climate change, civil unrest, inequality, and injustice, to name a few—by applying advanced computational techniques to extract structured insights from millions of news stories from around the world. Founded in 2004, the Cline Center connects data science and engineering experts with researchers in the social sciences and humanities to improve lives around the world. Key to this effort is the Cline Center’s network of more than 75 faculty and research affiliates hailing from more than a dozen departments in six colleges at the University of Illinois, and from other universities on five continents.
Brandon Butler
Brandon Butler is the first Director of Information Policy at the University of Virginia Library. He provides guidance and education to the Library and its user community on intellectual property and related issues, and advocates on the Library’s behalf at the federal, state, local, and campus level. Butler is the author or co-author of a range of articles, book chapters, guides, and presentations about copyright, with a focus on libraries and the fair use doctrine. Before coming to UVA, Brandon taught copyright and supervised student attorneys in the IP Law Clinic at American University, and advocated for research libraries around the country at the Association of Research Libraries. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2008.
Christine Borgman
Christine L. Borgman is Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. Prof. Borgman is the author of more than 200 publications in information studies, computer science, and communication, including three sole-authored monographs. Her newest book, Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World, was published by MIT Press in 2015. Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000) each won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).
She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for Computing Machinery; a recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information, Association for Research Libraries, and EDUCAUSE; the Research in Information Science Award from ASIST; and a Legacy Laureate of the University of Pittsburgh. She is a member of the advisor board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, U.S. Co-Chair of the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation and Attribution, and previously served on the U.S. National Academies’ Board on Research Data and Information and the U.S. National CODATA.Among the editorial boards on which she serves are the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and PLOS One. Recent keynote and plenary lectures include the Research Data Alliance (2014, Amsterdam), VALA (Melbourne, 2014), Library of Congress (2014), Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (Malta, 2013), Astrophysics Data System 20th Anniversary Symposium (Harvard, 2013), and Italian National Research Council (Rome, 2013).
Beth Cate
Beth Cate is an Associate Professor with the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University Bloomington. Cate joined the SPEA faculty after serving for 13 years as Associate General Counsel to Indiana University. As AGC, intellectual property law and policy were among her primary practice areas, and she regularly advised on matters involving issues of copyright, patent, trademark, and technology transfer. Before joining Indiana University in 1998, Beth served as a Law Clerk for The Honorable S. Jay Plager of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; served as in-house counsel to Eli Lilly and Company’s U.S. operations; and practiced law with the firm of McKenna & Cuneo (now McKenna Long & Aldridge) in Washington D.C., focusing on civil litigation and international trade. Professor Cate’s scholarly interests include the role and efficacy of law in promoting innovation and shaping an intellectual property commons; law and policy surrounding access to and use of personal information; the use of digital technologies in developing and enforcing law; and the influence and role of religion in governance and public life.
Marc Cormier
Marc Cormier is the head of Humanities publishing at Gale-Cengage.
Krista Cox
Krista Cox is the director of public policy Initiatives at Association of Research Libraries. In this role, she advocates for the policy priorities of the Association and executes strategies to implement these priorities. She monitors legislative trends and participates in ARL’s outreach to the Executive Branch and the US Congress.
Prior to joining ARL, Krista worked as the staff attorney for Knowledge Ecology International, an organization dedicated to searching for better outcomes, including new solutions, to the management of knowledge resources, particularly in the context of social justice. While at KEI, she wrote and filed amicus briefs in various intellectual property cases; attended the WIPO Diplomatic Conference that concluded the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled; and worked extensively on promoting better policies for the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). She also has prior experience as the staff attorney for Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, an organization that promotes access to medicines, particularly those technologies created through federal funding.
Krista received her JD from the University of Notre Dame and her BA in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the State Bar of California.
Mary Ellen Davis
Mary Ellen K. Davis is Executive Director of the Association of College and Research Libraries. She represents the association to the higher education community and has advanced ACRL’s stands on scholarly communication, information literacy, and assessment through presentations, conversations, and collaborative activities. She works closely with the ACRL Board of Directors on strategic planning and governance and with the Budget & Finance Committee.
Mary Ellen has served in various capacities at ACRL including chief operating officer, editor of C&RL News, and professional development program manager before becoming the executive director in 2001. She has an M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.A. in education from Central Michigan University, where she worked as a reference and instruction librarian.
J. Stephen Downie
Stephen Downie is Associate Dean for research and a professor at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences, and the Illinois codirector of the HathiTrust Research Center. He has been an active participant in the digital libraries and digital humanities research domains. He is best known for helping to establish a vibrant music information retrieval research community. Since 2005, he has directed the annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX). He also was a founder of the International Society Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) and its first president.
Patricia Feeney
Patricia Feeney is Crossref’s Head of Metadata. During her 10 years at Crossref she’s helped thousands of publishers understand how to record and distribute metadata for millions of scholarly items. She’s also worked in various scholarly publishing roles and as a systems librarian and cataloger.
Lucie Guibault
Dr. Lucie Guibault is associate professor at the Law and Technology Institute of the Schulich School of Law, which is part of Dalhouhsie University in Halifax, Canada. She joined the Schulich School of Law in July 2017, after spending twenty years at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
She is specialized in international and comparative copyright and intellectual property law. Her main areas of interest include copyright and related rights in the information society, open content licensing, collective rights management, limitations and exceptions in copyright, and author’s contract law.
She has published extensively on legal issues relating to open access in science. In the area of text and data mining, she co-authored together with Ian Hargreaves and others a report for the European Commission (DG Research and Innovation) entitled ‘Standardisation in the area of innovation and technological development, notably in the field of Text and Data Mining’ (Luxembourg, 2014). She also co-authored a paper with Christian Handke and Joan Josep Vallbé entitled ‘Is European falling Behind? Copyright’s Impact on Data Mining in Academic Research’, which received the LIBER Innovation Award 2015 and the Finalist Best Paper Award at the EPIP conference 2015. She was also partner of two Horizon2020 projects dedicated to Text and Data Mining, namely OpenMinTeD and FutureTDM.
Wolfram Horstmann
Wolfram Horstmann is the Director of Göttingen State and University Library. Prior to that, he was Associate Director at the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, UK. He is currently leading several strategic projects in the areas of scholarly communication, open access, research data and digital transformation for the University of Göttingen and for the library in Göttingen, for example in the context of LIBER and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). In addition, he teaches Information science with a specialization in Scholarly Communication and Open Science at Humboldt University Berlin.
Clifford Lynch
Clifford Lynch has led the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the intelligent uses of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual life. CNI’s wide-ranging agenda includes work in digital preservation, data intensive scholarship, teaching, learning and technology, and infrastructure and standards development. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information.
He is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit of the American Society for Information Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the National Information Standards Organization. He served as co-chair of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information from 2011-2016; he is active on numerous advisory boards and visiting committees. His work has been recognized by the American Library Association’s Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award.
Peter Murray-Rust
Peter Murray-Rust is a chemist currently working at the University of Cambridge. As well as his work in chemistry, Murray-Rust is also known for his support of open access and open data.
His research interests have involved the automated analysis of data in scientific publications, creation of virtual communities, e.g. The Virtual School of Natural Sciences in the Globewide Network Academy, and the Semantic Web. With Henry Rzepa, he has extended this to chemistry through the development of markup languages, especially Chemical Markup Language. He campaigns for open data, particularly in science, and is on the advisory board of the Open Knowledge International and a co-author of the Panton Principles for Open scientific data. Together with a few other chemists, he was a founder member of the Blue Obelisk movement in 2005.
Darby Orcutt
Darby Orcutt is Assistant Head, Collections & Research Strategy, NCSU Libraries, Faculty, University Honors Program, Affiliated Faculty, Genetic Engineering & Society Center, and Computational Research Strategist, Center for Innovative Management Studies (CIMS), as well as recently served as the Associate Chair of the Faculty of NC State. His 2010 edited collection, Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion, provided the first treatment of the use of data across the academic library enterprise, and he proposed and directed the NCSU Libraries’ 2014-2016 Strategic Initiative, “Aligning Collections with Emerging Needs in Research Informatics.” His current work revolves primarily around advocacy and support for interdisciplinary and computational research.
Thomas Padilla
Thomas Padilla is Visiting Digital Research Services Librarian at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He publishes, presents, and teaches widely on digital scholarship, digital collections, Humanities data, data curation, and data information literacy. He is Principal Investigator of the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported, Collections as Data. Thomas is a member of the Association for Computers and the Humanities Executive Council (2017-2021), the Global Outlook::Digital Humanities Executive Council, the WhatEVery1Says Advisory Board, the Integrating digital humanities into the web of scholarship with SHARE Advisory Board, and the ARL Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence Advisory Group. Thomas serves as an Editor for dh + lib Data Praxis. Thomas is a regular instructor at the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Institute (HILT).
Michelle Paolillo
MichellePaolillo is the Digital Curation Services Lead in the Cornell University Library (CUL) department of Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services (DSPS). She leads efforts focused on the preservation of CUL’s digital assets, coordinates Cornell’s partnership in HathiTrust, and is the Service Manager for the Cornell University Library Archival Repository (CULAR). From 2010-2014, she managed CUL’s digitization effort with Google Books, through which she began to learn about the vast potential of digital text. She contributes to a number of other efforts related to technology-enabled research, projects in digital humanities, and leads introductory workshops about computational methods for text analysis.
Andrew Piper
Andrew Piper is Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. His work focuses on using the tools of data science to promote a more inclusive understanding of culture and creativity. He is the director of .txtLAB, a cultural analytics laboratory, as well as editor of the new open access journal, Cultural Analytics. He is the leader of the SSHRC-funded partnership grant, “NovelTM: Text Mining the Novel,” which brings together over 20 academic and non-academic partners across North America in the humanities, computer science, and industry to facilitate the first large-scale quantitative and cross-cultural study of the novel. His new book, Enumerations: Data and Literary Study, is forthcoming from Chicago in Fall 2018.
Matthew Sag
Matthew Sag is a Georgia Reithal Professor of Law at Loyola University of Chicago School, where he is also the Associate Director for Intellectual Property of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies.
Professor Sag studied economic history, political science and law at the Australian National University where he graduated with honors. He clerked for Justice Paul Finn at the Federal Court of Australia and practiced law in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Professor Sag’s research focuses on intellectual property and its intersection with technology and competition law. He has also authored a series of empirical studies of judicial behavior. His work has been published in leading journals such as Nature, and the primary law reviews of the University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern, Georgetown, Iowa, and Notre Dame. His research on copyright and fair use has been widely cited in academic works, court submissions, judicial opinions and government reports.
Professor Sag is an Advisory Board Member of the HathiTrust Research Center.
Rachel Samberg
Rachael G. Samberg is UC Berkeley’s Scholarly Communication Officer. A Duke Law graduate, Rachael practiced intellectual property litigation at Fenwick & West LLP for seven years before spending six years at Stanford Law School’s library, where she was a Lecturer in Law and Head of Reference & Instructional Services. Rachael speaks throughout the country about scholarly communication issues, and is a national presenter for the ACRL Workshop, Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement.
Jean P. Shipman
Jean Shipman, MSLS, AHIP, FMLA, is the VP, Global Library Relations for Elsevier. Prior to that she was the Executive Director, Knowledge Management and Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library; Director of the MidContinental Region and National Training Office of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine; Director for Information Transfer, Center of Medical Innovation; and Adjunct Faculty of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine; all at the University of Utah. She has also been employed by the John Hopkins University, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, University of Maryland, University of Washington and Virginia Commonwealth University. She served as president of the Medical Library Association for 2006-2007 and on the Board of Directors for the Society for Scholarly Publishing from 2013-2016. She was a member and co-chair of the Chicago Collaborative, a group of publishers, librarians and editors, who met to discuss issues regarding scholarly communications. She is the co-editor of two books: Information and Innovation: A Natural Combination for Health Sciences Libraries, and Strategic Collaborations in Health Sciences Libraries (in press). She has also authored many journal articles, book chapters and given numerous professional presentations
George Strawn
George Strawn is the director of the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Prior to joining the Academies, Dr. Strawn was the director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. He also served as the co-chair of the NITRD Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. Dr. Strawn is on assignment to the Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Strawn was the National Science Foundation (NSF) Chief Information Officer (CIO). As the CIO for NSF, he guided the agency in the development and design of innovative information technology, working to enable the NSF staff and the international community of scientists, engineers, and educators to pursue new methods of scientific communication, collaboration, and decision-making. Prior to his appointment as NSF CIO, Dr. Strawn served as the executive officer of the NSF directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and as acting assistant director for CISE. Previously, Dr. Strawn served as the director of the CISE Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research, where he led NSF’s efforts in the Presidential Next Generation Internet Initiative. Prior to coming to NSF, Dr. Strawn was a Computer Science faculty member at Iowa State University. He also served there as director of the ISU Computation Center and chair of the ISU Computer Science Department. Dr. Strawn received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Iowa State University and his B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics and Physics from Cornell College.
Paul F. Uhlir
Paul F. Uhlir, J.D., is a consultant in information policy and management. He was Scholar at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, DC in 2015-2016, and Director of the Board on Research Data and Information at the NAS, 2008-2015. He was employed at the NAS in various capacities from 1985-2016, and at the Department of Commerce in 1984-1985. Paul has written or edited 27 books and over 70 articles, mostly in scientific data law, policy, and management. He speaks worldwide on these topics and consults to governments, professional organizations, and universities. In 1997 he won the National Research Council’s Special Achievement Award and in 2010 the CODATA International Prize, both in the field of data policy. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011.
Paul has a B.A. degree in world history from the University of Oregon (1977), and a Master’s degree in foreign relations and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego (1983, 1984). For more detailed information about his professional activities, see his website at: www.paulfuhlir.com.
Günter Waibel
As Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of California Digital Library, Waibel manages one of the world’s largest digital research libraries. The CDL was founded by the University of California in 1997 to radically reconceive the way scholarly information resources might be published, archived, and accessed in the context of rapidly emerging technologies. The CDL fulfills its mission to support UC libraries and scholars by building world-class digital collections and providing more than 20 innovative and award-winning services, from a system-wide library catalog to tools for managing data and an open access platform for publishing faculty research. In collaboration with the UC libraries and other partners, the CDL continues to innovate in areas of collection management, discovery services, digital curation and scholarly publishing, transforming the ways that UC faculty, students, and researchers create, discover and access scholarly information. The CDL has an annual budget of $23.4 million and a staff of more than 70 library leaders, technologists and information managers. Collaborating with stakeholders across the UC system, Waibel is advancing efforts to build and support new models of scholarly communication; provide leadership, strategic planning, management and decision making for the CDL; and foster strategic partnerships at the state, national, and international levels.
Kate Wittenburg
As Managing Director, Kate provides overall leadership and management of the Portico digital preservation service. She oversees strategic planning, business development, budgeting, and work with managers in production, technology, marketing, sales, and publisher relations departments, as well as the Portico Advisory Committee. Kate brings to Portico deep experience with issues at the intersection of digital technologies, academic libraries, and scholarly publishing. Previously, Kate served as project director of client and partnership development for Ithaka S+R, where her work with libraries and publishers helped to develop resources, products, and services that enabled these communities to grow as sustainable digital organizations while remaining true to their core missions.
Before joining ITHAKA, Kate worked at Columbia University, where she was the editor-in-chief of Columbia University Press, and went on to found and direct the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia, a digital publishing partnership involving the library, the university press, and the academic IT department.
Glen Worthey
Glen Worthey is the Digital Humanities Librarian in the Stanford University Libraries, where he is a member of Humanities Text Services (hText) and head of the Digital Initiatives Group (DIG). In the big, wide DH world, George is a member of the executive boards of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium and of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), as well as deputy secretary of the Steering Committee of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). He was one of the local hosts of the Digital Humanities 2011 conference at Stanford.