DPM Workshop Instruction Team

Keynote Speaker for October 2009 Workshop

Martha Anderson, Director of Program Management, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), Library of Congress

Martha Anderson is Director of Program Management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) at the Library of Congress. She also serves on the Steering Committee of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) - an international organisation of 37 national libraries and not-for-profit archives dedicated to collecting and archiving significant web content. Early in the NDIPP program, she was a member of the Preservation Architecture Working Group and managed the Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT).

Previously, Martha served as Project Manager for the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress working with preservation architecture projects. During the first charter period, 2003-2006, of the IIPC, she chaired the Metrics and Testbed working group. During her tenure on the staff of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress, Martha Anderson served in the roles of Manager of the Digital Conversion Group, Production Coordinator for American Memory historical web collections, Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) for the multi-year paper scanning contract and as the National Digital Library Program Liaison to the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress.

Prior to joining the Library of Congress in 1996, Martha worked in electronic publishing as Editor and Project Manager for a variety of CD-ROM reference products including Time Almanac and the Patrologia Latina Database.

Past Keynote Speakers

Current Instruction Team

Dr. Nancy Y. McGovern (2003- ) Director, Digital Preservation Management Workshop

Nancy Y. McGovern is the Digital Preservation Officer for ICPSR. Her responsibilities include developing and promulgating policies that reflect prevailing standards and practice in the digital preservation community and developing appropriate preservation strategies for the expanding range of social science digital content ICPSR collects. Her research interests include the organizational aspects of digital preservation and the means for the digital preservation community to continually respond to the preservation opportunities and challenges of evolving technology. She has more than 20 years experience with the preservation of digital content. Before joining ICPSR, she served as a digital preservation manager and researcher at Cornell University Library, the Open Society Archives in Budapest, and the Center for Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration.

Dr. Myron P. Gutmann (2009-) Topic specialist: Resources

Myron P. Gutmann is Professor of History and Information and Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, where he also holds the title of Research Professor in the Population Studies Center. Gutmann has broad interests in interdisciplinary historical research, especially health, population, economy, and the environment. As Director of ICPSR, he is a leader in the archiving and dissemination of electronic research materials related to society, population, and health, with a special interest in the protection of respondent confidentiality. He is the author or editor of four books and more than seventy articles and chapters. Gutmann has served on a number of national and international advisory committees and editorial boards. In 2005-2006 he was President of the Consortium of Social Science Associations, an advocacy organization supported by more than 100 professional associations, scientific societies, universities and research institutions.

Molly Kleinman (2009-) Topic specialist: Legal issues

Molly Kleinman received her B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College and her M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information. She is a member of the American Library Association, and serves as a Copyright Scholar for the ALA's Copyright Advisory Network. Before becoming a librarian, Molly was an associate at the Wendy Weil Literary Agency in New York, where she assisted with contract negotiations, managed permission requests and reprint rights, developed new contracts for digital and audio permissions, and evaluated manuscript submissions. As Copyright Specialist for the University of Michigan Libraries, Molly redesigned and manages the U-M copyright website, coordinates copyright education and outreach for faculty, staff, and students, and works on author advocacy initiatives.

Kari R. Smith (2008- ) Topic specialist: Preservation metadata, DPM Workshop Project Manager

Kari Smith earned her B.A. in International Relations from George Mason University and her M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information. She is head of the Visual Resource Collections and Media Services at the University of Michigan Department of the History of Art. With more than ten years of experience with digitization and metadata projects, Kari is leading the VRC through its ongoing transition from a predominantly slide library and image archives to a collection of digital image resources. She is responsible for managing this program in addition to addressing the daily operational needs of the department faculty as well as external users of the photographic distribution project and archival image materials. She engages with colleagues around the University and at peer institutions as well as through professional associations. Kari's research interests include intellectual and long-term access to cultural material especially through interoperable metadata of digital objects. She is a member of the VRA's Data Standards Committee, Embedded Metadata Subcommittee investigating the preservation implications of embedding rich metadata into image files.

Lance Stuchell (2009-) Digital Preservation in Action, DPM Workshop Project Coordinator

Lance earned his B.A. in History from Northwestern University and received his M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan's School of Information. Lance's current duties as the Digital Preservation Projects Coordinator at ICPSR include coordinating logistical details and content reviews for the DPM Workshops, and assisting Nancy McGovern in guiding policy and practice development at ICPSR. Lance's professional interests focus on emerging digital preservation best practice and standards, collection development and appraisal in the digital archive, and disaster planning for digital assets.

Past Instructors

Train-the-trainer Intern (2008- )

The instruction team selects a past workshop participant to be a train-the-trainer intern for each 5-day workshop to assist the instruction team for the workshop, become more familiar with the curriculum, and gain experience as a workshop instructor in presenting these topics.

Watch this Space: October 2009 train-the-trainer intern pending selection