Sessions

Alistair Miles

Alistair Miles is a member of the informatics team within the Centre for Genomics in Global Health, and is based at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University. He is part of a team developing information systems to support data-sharing networks that enable clinicians and researchers around the world to collaborate effectively on large-scale research projects assisting the global campaign to eliminate malaria. Previously, Alistair was a senior computing officer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University, where he led the FlyWeb Project, developing proof-of-concept cross-database search tools for genomic research, based on Semantic Web technology. Prior to that, Alistair was a research scientist at the STFC e-Science Centre, where he worked on a number of projects related to the development and application of semantic technologies to data management problems in science.Alistair has also been a member of two Working Groups within the W3C’s Semantic Web Activity. He is an editor of the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Reference, currently a W3C Proposed Recommendation.

Eunchul Lee

Dr. Eunchul Lee is a professor of Library and Information Science at Sungkyunkwan University and the president-elect of Korea Library Association. He also served as the president of Korean Society for Library and Information Science from January 2001 to December 2002. His main teaching and research interests include, among other things, the effective management of libraries and information centers. He has made significant contributions to library and information science communities through various consulting and research projects. The following is a list of some of his recent work: 1) designing ways to improve article indexing systems for Korea national assembly library; 2) investigating usage statistics of Korea special libraries; 3) designing ways to improve performance measurement of university libraries; 4) developing and managing a historical resource center for East Asian countries; 5) revising the 3rd edition of Korea Dewey Decimal Classification (KDC).

Michael Crandal

Michael Crandall is Chair of the Master of Science in Information Management program and a Senior Lecturer in the Information School of the University of Washington. Prior to joining the Information School in January of 2005, he spent five years as Technology Manager for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Libraries and Public Access to Information Program, with responsibility for software development, technical support and network deployment for over 40,000 public access computers in over 11,000 libraries across the United States. As part of this project, Mr. Crandall also initiated and managed the program grant for development of WebJunction, an international public access computing portal.

Before this, Mr. Crandall was Manager of the Knowledge Architecture Group in Microsoft Information Services, responsible for design and management of the technical infrastructure and search services for Microsoft’s intranet portal site, MSWeb (2.2 million requests and 31,000 users per month), and the design, development, and management of a corporate taxonomy project to support content management and retrieval throughout the company. Prior to Microsoft, he worked at the Boeing Company on multiple projects related to information management and information architecture, including an internal real-time newsfeed, the intranet search engine and portal subject access tools, and the company library’s web site. He was a member of the Boeing Information Management Standards Board, the Web Advisory Board, the Knowledge Management team, and the Structured Information Objects (metadata schemas) Technical Working Group. He has served on the Dublin Core Metadata Board of Trustees since its inception in 2001, and is active in ASIS&T. Research interests include impacts of public access computing, ICT in developing countries, metadata and knowledge organization, social dimensions of knowledge transfer and large scale information systems.

Parallel sessions

Linda Powell

Linda Powell is the Chief of the Micro Statistics section in the Research and Statistics Division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She has a BA in Economics from Rutgers University and an MS in Finance from George Washington University. She has worked in the banking industry since 1985 and financial microdata management since 2000.

Johan Oomen

Drs. Johan Oomen is head of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision R&D; Department and researcher at the VU University Amsterdam. He is mainly working on externally (FP7, ICT PCP) funded research projects that focus on providing acces to digital heritage over networks. The R&D; department is part of the Images for the Future project team, the largest digitisation project in Europe to date. Oomen holds a BA in Information Science and an MA in Media Studies. In his PhD position at the VU University, he is working on the AGORA project, funded by NWO. Johan Oomen is member of the Webstroom expert group (on the use of streaming media in higher education) funded by the SURF Foundation and General Secretary of the international DIVERSE network. He has worked for the British Universities Film and Video Council (London) and the RTL Nederland (Hilversum). He has given (invited) talks at leading conferences and published numerous articles in journals, including Ariadne, Innovate and Informative Professional. His book «Internet en het Nieuwe Leren: de toepassing van streaming media» has been published.

Anna Christaki

Anna Christaki has received her Bachelor of Science degree (BSc) in Computer Science from the Department of Informatics in the University Of Athens. She received her Master of Science degree (MSc) in Advanced Computing from the Computer Science Department in the University of Bristol, UK. She has worked in MIRALab in the University of Geneva as a research assistant participating in European R&D; projects. She has worked in America Online’s UK department as a software engineer, designing and developing web applications and databases. She has been employed at Image Video and Multimedia Systems (IVML) laboratory of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) as a Senior Software Engineer since 2003, participating in the architectural design and development of internet based applications in National and R&D; European Projects.

Vassilis Tzouvaras

Dr. Vassilis Tzouvaras has received the Bachelor of engineering degree (B-Eng) in the department of electronic and systems engineering of Essex University in UK. He received the Master of engineering degree (M-Eng) in the department of automatic control and systems engineering of Sheffield University in UK. He received the Ph.D. in 2005 in Image Video and Multimedia systems Laboratory (IVML) of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and his research includes semantic interoperability, knowledge representation languages, extension of logic formalism with fuzzy logic operators, semantic web technologies, multimedia retrieval and neuro-fuzzy systems. He has been involved in 8 R&D; European IST projects and in 5 National projects. He has published 6 articles in international journals and books and 30 in international conferences.

Qing (Jason) Zou has been the Systems librarian at Lakehead University since he received his MLIS from McGill University in 2005. He is also a Ph.d student of School of Information Studies at McGill University, Canada. His research areas include integrated library systems, metadata, knowledge organization systems.

Tutorials

Thomas H. Baker was the DCMI Director Specifications and Documentation since May 2005. He is currently the Chief Information Officer of DCMI Ltd., and is the chair (and founder) of the DCMI Usage Board. He has previously worked as a researcher on digital library issues at the Göttingen State and University Library in Germany and a Project Leader for Digital Libraries at the Birlinghoven Library of the Fraunhofer Society in Bonn. He holds an M.S. in library science from Rutgers University, a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University, and taught for two years at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. He has worked as a partner and activity lead in several EU-funded projects, such as SCHEMAS, CORES, and the DELOS Network of Excellence. He currently co-chairs a working group on interoperable metadata profiles in the Compentence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM) and the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group of the World-Wide Web Consortium.

Marcia Lei Zeng

Marcia Lei Zeng is Professor of Library and Information Science at Kent State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at University of Pittsburgh and M.A. from Wuhan University in China. Her major research interests include knowledge organization systems (taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology, etc), metadata and markup languages, database quality control, multilingual and multi-culture information processing, and digital libraries for cultural objects and learning objects. Her scholarly publications include over 60 papers and four books, as well as many national and international conference presentations. She has chaired and served on standards committees and working groups for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Special Libraries Association (SLA), American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), US National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). She was a member of the Advisory Group for NISO Z39.19-2005 Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri and the IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri. She currently chairs the ASIST Standards Committee and IFLA Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) Working Group while also serving as a working group member in developing the IFLA Guidelines of Digital Libraries and ISO 25964 Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies.

Dr. Sam Gyun Oh is a professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul Korea, head of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 and ISO TC46 SC9. He represents the National Library of Korea at the DCMI Oversight Committee.He teaches courses such as database design, Web database design, designing XML and metadata schemas, ontology modeling, information architecture, and designing knowledge management systems. His main research interest is in the area of metadata and ontology modeling. He has extensive experience in consulting companies and government sectors regarding design of metadata and ontologies. He received his Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University, NY, USA in 1995 and worked for the Information School at the University of Washington for 4 years (1994-1998) prior to taking his current post.