Hi folks - I floated an idea at the CURATEcamp closing yesterday that we all
introduce ourselves on this list.  The format would be very much like the
intros at CURATEcamp:

Name
Where you're from
What you do
What are the top 2 or 3 things you are most interested in, in the digital
curation community

I'll start:

I'm Declan Fleming, and I'm the director of IT at the University of
California, San Diego Libraries.

My main curation interests are around building communities, linked data, and
building sustainable repositories.

D

I lurk here for the most part, but I'll introduce myself.  I'm Peter Murray, assistant director for technology service development at LYRASIS.  My job interests intersect with the community at open source software, and I'm also interested in linked data and digital identities.

Peter

On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Declan Fleming wrote:

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Peter Murray         Peter.Mur...@lyrasis.org        tel:+1-678-235-2955                
Ass't Director, Technology Services Development   http://dltj.org/about/
LYRASIS   --    Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.
The Disruptive Library Technology Jester                http://dltj.org/
Attrib-Noncomm-Share   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

Hi, all. I'm Dorothea Salo, from Madison Wisconsin. Starting quite
shortly, I will be splitting my time between teaching library
technology and similar courses (including data curation) at the School
of Library and Information Studies at UW-Madison and helping
evangelize for the Islandora repository suite as part of
DiscoveryGarden, Inc.

I'm interested in data-curation education (obviously), data-service
development and management in libraries, storage and repository
software, legal imbroglios around data, preservation and discovery of
digital data, and the sociology of data sharing (with a view to
encouraging more of it).

Dorothea

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Dorothea Salo                s...@wisc.edu

Hi,

Since I suggested that people make more use of the mailing list, I
suppose I ought to pipe up as well! Thanks, Declan, for proposing that
list members introduce themselves.

My name is Erik Hetzner. I work on the Web Archiving Service [1] at
CDL, and a few other other projects in my spare time [2].

My interests are in the web, in web archiving, and in making large
scale collections (esp. web archives) more useful.

best, Erik

1. http://webarchives.cdlib.org/
2. http://e6h.org/

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Hi all...

I'm Kevin Clarke, from Boone, N.C.  I'm the programmer at the Grateful
Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz.  I'm interested in music, metadata, and
microservices.

mmm, mmm, good...

Kevin

This is a great idea.

My name is Gretchen Gueguen (it's pronounced "Giggin" for the curious, btw). I am the Digital Archivist in the special collections department of the University of Virginia Library and part of the Mellon-funded AIMS project (http://born-digital-archives.blogspot.com/). I work primarily with born-digital materials that are accessioned as part of manuscript collections: so everything from 25 year old 5.25" floppies to cloud-based data sets (potentially). My interests therefore skew to digital preservation and curation as well as some hardware and software preservation. I'm also really interested in data management in archives.

P.S. check out the project I'm putting together about digital archives for Archives Month this October: http://dayofdigitalarchives.blogspot.com/ participants are still very welcome!

-Gretchen

I'm Mike Smorul from the University of Maryland and I'm an al^H^H java
programmer. I'm the lead programmer for the UMIACS ADAPT project
(http://adapt.umiacs.umd.edu), a digital archiving research group. Our
lab supports a mix of low level research and production tool
development. We've released tools to assist in integrity monitoring,
data ingestion, and warc file management.

My interests lie in high performance data storage and service development.

-Mike

I should also mention, we're looking to hire a full time java
programmer in the dc area.

I'm Susan Parham, Research Data Librarian at Georgia Tech (Atlanta)
where I'm coordinating the development of our digital research data
curation program. My background is in repository and digital library
management & development. The GT library is partnering with other
campus units to propose an institute-wide data stewadrship framework,
with a focus on providing long-term access & preservation of research
data.

I'm interested in putting together a proposal to hold a Southeast
CURATEcamp in Georgia in 2012. I have interested colleagues here at
Tech & we'll be approaching folks at neighboring universities soon
(GSU, UGA, Emory, etc.).

If you're in the SE and are interested, let me know!

Susan

My name is Randy Fischer, I'm a heads-down programmer
working at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

I work with Priscila Caplan's group developing a software
system called  DAITSS (Dark Archive In The Sunshine State).
I help maintain an installation of it for the Florida Digital Archive.

Of late I'm interested in RESTful architecture design, modern
engineering methodologies, and information presentation and
visualization.

-Randy Fischer

I'm Nick Ruest, Digital Strategies Librarian at McMaster University. I
manage and create our repository infrastructure - DigitalCommons and
custom Drupal digital collections site which is currently migrating to
Islandora - workflows, policies, and lead all of our digitization projects.

I'm really interested in ingest workflows, data storage, and access.

-nruest

On 11-08-18 09:51 AM, Susan Parham wrote:

I'm Esme Cowles.  I'm a (mostly) Java programmer at UC San Diego Libraries, though I live in Gainesville, Florida.  I'm currently working on our repository (XDRE) and in a past life I authored the VRA Core XML schema.

I'm interested in metadata and whatever Declan tells me to be interested in :)

-Esme
--
Esme Cowles <escow...@ucsd.edu>

"Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them."
 -- http://www.cluetrain.org/

On 08/17/2011, at 12:37 PM, Declan Fleming wrote:

I'm Mark Matienzo, and I work as a Digital Archivist for Manuscripts
and Archives at the Yale University Library. For the last year and
half I've been working on the AIMS project along with Gretchen, who
posted previously. As of this month, I'm also the Technical Architect
for the ArchivesSpace project, which is the merger of the Archivists'
Toolkit and Archon archival management systems.

My interests in this space include developing user-driven and
automated pre-ingest/packaging and ingest workflows for born-digital
archival records, forensic transfer and analysis of media and file
systems, linked data, and investigating the practicality of
post-custodial approaches to electronic records.

Mark

Hi, everyone. My name is Tracy Popp. I am a assistant librarian working in
digital collections research and development at Texas Tech University. I am
a recent transplant to Texas from Michigan via University of Illinois.
Presently, I'm working on implementing digital preservation strategies and
work flows; specifically working with the BagIt specification to create
archival information packages.

My interests are primarily focused on preservation - audiovisual and
digital. I am also interested in general digital curation topics and
implementing practical solutions to a quickly shifting set of issues. Thanks
and "see" you all in the ether.

Best,
Tracy Popp

I'm Priscilla Caplan, the Assistant Director for Digital Library
Services at the Florida Center for Library Automation.   My group
developed DAITSS, an OAIS-based preservation system, and runs the
Florida Digital Archive, a long-term preservation repository for the use
of the 11 public universities of Florida.

I'm interested in active preservation strategies, issues pertaining to
archival storage, and education in digital preservation / digital
curation for working professionals.

p

On 8/17/2011 12:37 PM, Declan Fleming wrote:

Hi, I'm Janet Carleton, digital initiatives coordinator at Ohio
University Libraries.

I'm the archivist responsible for overseeing projects to digitize the
libraries unique analog resources, both in house and outsourced.
Currently we are using the Internet Archive, Omeka, and CONTENTdm for
access.

I'm interested in digital humanities in general, and just keeping an
eye on developments and successes.

___________________________________
Janet Carleton | Digital Initiatives Coordinator | Ohio University
Libraries | Alden 322 | Athens, Ohio | carle...@ohio.edu |
740-597-2527 | http://media.library.ohiou.edu/

I'm Danielle Plumer, currently at the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission as coordinator of the Texas Heritage Online program (which, due
to budget cuts, will be eliminated along with my position before the end of
the year).

I'm interested in common-sense approaches to digital curation and
preservation generally, along with other topics related to digital projects,
and I advocate for collaborative projects, open standards, and pretty much
anything that makes it easier for people to find and use neat collections of
stuff.

Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator

Texas Heritage Online

Texas State Library and Archives Commission

512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax)

dplu...@tsl.state.tx.us

dcplu...@gmail.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcplumer

Hi all,

I'm Carol Bean, from the Federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Library. I generally take care of technology stuff there. We have a digitization project which got put on hold while we rolled out a revamped intranet site.

I'm interested in digital curation, repositories, workflows, digital library systems, standards, and hardware setups.  I've been following this list while we worked on the web site, and am excited to see the developments in digital curation and bagit. I don't know that I have a lot to contribute, but I'm really glad this resource is here!

Carol

Wafted through cyberspace from my iPad

I'm Sarah Shreeves, Coordinator for IDEALS
(http://ideals.illinois.edu/) and the Scholarly Commons (see
http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/) at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. The IDEALS group also manages the campus
installation of Vireo, the ETD system developed by Texas Digital
Library. I chair the advisory group for the repository development
team here at UIUC, and am active in our campus wide Data Stewardship
Committee as well. I also chair our Scholarly Communications Committee
in the Library.

I'm interested in preservation services, data curation and management,
and, as Dorothea called it, the 'sociology' of data sharing within the
larger context of scholarly communications.

Sarah

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Sarah L. Shreeves
IDEALS Coordinator
Scholarly Commons Coordinator
University Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/
http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/

Hi,

I'm Michael Della Bitta, I'm a Senior Applications Developer at NYPL
on the digital repository team. Generally speaking I'm interested in
digital preservation, particularly at a low level.

Thanks,

Michael

On Aug 17, 12:37 pm, Declan Fleming <dec...@declan.net> wrote:

I'm Lisa Miller, an associate archivist at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford. I'm interested in born-digital material, which comes to us on everything from 5.25-inch floppies to travel drives and hard drives, and everything in between. I'm especially interested in efficient processing workflows for these materials, covering description of the materials, providing them to researchers (we've had 3 requests from researchers this month for the content of 3.5-inch floppies in three different archival collections), and preserving them.

Lisa K. Miller | Hoover Institution Archives | Stanford University | Stanford CA 94305-6010
lisa.mil...@stanford.edu
voice 650-724-2961

Thanks for kicking this off, Declan!

I'm Katherine Kott
Based in Palo Alto, CA
Working half time on the ArchivesSpace project, and half time as a
digital library project manager for Stanford University (through Dec.
2011)
Most interested in what makes projects successful, especially when
they involve cross-institutional collaboration; how libraries can step
up/build capacity for new ventures like data curation; currently
studying organization development and bringing that perspective into
the mix

On Aug 17, 9:37 am, Declan Fleming <dec...@declan.net> wrote:

Hi Im Don Sutton.

I work at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD.  Ive been working on the technical side of Chronopolis (https://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/) here at SDSC for the past 3 years.

In the past few months I ve started up on the new RCI (http://rci.ucsd.edu/) pilot project at UCSD.

My interests are interoperability methods for data discovery and sharing, reliable storage and most anything with 2 wheels.

Don

Hi all,

I am Lynn Yarmey, Science Data Librarian at Stanford.  I am in the
early days of building a data program to support science by aligning
library infrastructure and expertise with gaps and needs on campus.  I
am a metadata nerd (of the scientific context variety) and an activist
for prioritizing scientific reproducibility throughout system design
and development while realistically and effectively supporting
'upstream' research.  I <3 community-developed controlled vocabularies
and strongly believe that recognition and stitching together of data
expertise at a variety of levels/locations will be an important part
of any service/infrastructure model going forward.

It was great to meet so many of you at CURATEcamp!
Lynn

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Janet Carleton

Kia ora all,

my name is Peter McKinney and I work at the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa. I'm part of the National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) team and I'm responsible mostly for things pertaining to policy, but I do other things around testing and requirements development for our preservation system (which we've been running for nearly three years now). So, I'm interested in the day-to-day grind of preservation including; ingest flows of 'tricky' materials, the tools we use (format ID, validation, virus), and risk analysis. I'm also very interested in policy development across archives and libraries (we are in the process of moving to a shared preservation infrastructure with Archives New Zealand).

Best wishes from Wellington.

Pete

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I'm Courtney Mumma. Until this December, I'm a digital archivist at
the City of Vancouver Archives in British Columbia, Canada. My work
over the past two years has focused on working with Artefactual
Systems, Inc. (http://artefactual.com/) and our internal team of 2
archivists, a manager and a conservator, developing the city's first
digital archives system* to acquire, process, and store born digital
and digitized archives (http://archivematica.org/), and then manage
and provide access to born digital, digitized, analog and hybrid
archives (http://ica-atom.org). The pilot project has been
predominately based on the acquisition of the hybrid records of the
Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Things that float my boat include, but are not limited to: born-
digital acquisition, transfer analysis and pre-ingest processing;
ingest and access workflows for born-digital and hybrid records; open
source digital forensics and visualization software development for
archivists for use in the aforementioned processes; and innovative
collaboration strategies (linked data? shared documentation? crowd-
sourced empirical data about processes?).

*system = People, Processes, Technology

~~Courtney

Courtney C. Mumma, MAS/MLIS
Digital Archivist
City of Vancouver Archives
our website: http://vancouver.ca/archives
our blog, AuthentiCity: http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/