SPEAKER BIOS AND PRESENTATION OUTLINES
Catherine Candee has been leading the eScholarship initiative at the California
Digital Library since May 2000. The California Digital Library, or CDL, is the 11th
university library of the University of California. It was established in 1997 to build
the university’s digital library, to encourage campus libraries to share their
resources and holdings more effectively, and to provide leadership in the application
of information technology to the development of UC’s library collections and services.
Since its establishment, the CDL has amassed one of the largest digital library
collections available anywhere. It has also adopted a unique service model:
one that emphasizes service to libraries, educational establishments, and other
cultural and information organizations, over individual end-user services.
At CDL, Catherine Candee oversees the application of digital technologies to
influence and support innovations in scholarly communication throughout its life
cycle, including production and dissemination. The eScholarship program is the
focal point of this effort and includes experimentation with digital repositories for
dissemination of digital scholarly content, the development of supporting services
and tools for repository based communication, and publication of new scholarly
products, including peer-reviewed articles, books and journals, and findings in
non-standard formats.
Prior to working for the CDL, Candee developed and managed a publications
program for the Institute for Social and Economic Studies. Inspired by the
possibilities of internet-based communication, she returned to her own studies in
1992 and received an MLIS from UC Berkeley in 1994. She served as Head of UC
Berkeley's Astronomy/Math/Statistics Library from 1994-1996. She spent her next
4 years at Stanford, where she was the head of the Physics Library and Program
Officer for Stanford’s "Access to Information" Committee, the precursor to Stanford's
Digital Library Program.
"CDL's eScholarlship Program"
The University of California has made significant commitments to addressing the crisis in
scholarly communication and to safeguarding the unimpeded flow of scholarly output: through
academic senate actions to address issues of copyright management and tenure rewards,
through support to UC's libraries in matters of acquisition and management of collections,
and by launching and fostering the eScholarship program
(http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/responses/escholarship.html), which supports
experimentation in the production and dissemination of scholarship. Through the use of
innovative technologies and creative partnerships with the university's faculty and press,
UC's eScholarship program seeks to develop a financially sustainable model and improve
all areas of scholarly communication, including its creation, peer review, management,
dissemination, and preservation.
Dale Flecker is Associate Director for Planning and Systems in the Harvard University
Library. He has worked in the fields of information technology and libraries for 30 years,
and has been responsible for library technology at Harvard since 1979. Before Harvard
he was worked in technology and libraries at Yale University and the University of Michigan.
At Harvard Flecker has been responsible for the planning, implementation, and operation
of large scale automated systems used across the university, and for providing leadership
related to technology and digital information in libraries. Beyond Harvard Flecker has
spoken widely and written on library technology and digital libraries.
Eric Miller is the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic
Web Initiative.
Eric's responsibilities include the architectural and technical leadership in the design
and evolution of Semantic Web infrastructure. Responsibilities additionally include working
with W3C Working Group members so that both working groups in the Semantic Web
activity, as well as other W3C activities, produce Web standards that support Semantic
Web requirements. Additionally, to build support among user and vendor communities
for the Semantic Web by illustrating the benefits to those communities and means of
participating in the creation of a metadata-ready Web. And finally to establish liaisons
with other technical standards bodies involved in Web-related technology to ensure
compliance with existing Semantic Web standards and collect requirements for future
W3C work.
Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC Online Computer
Library Center, Inc. and the co-founder and Associate Director of the The Dublin Core
Metdata Initiative, an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online
metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models.
Eric is a Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Andrea Powell has been with CABI Publishing since 1991, starting in the Marketing
Department and moving into Product Development in 1994. In January 1999 she
was appointed to the Board of CABI Publishing and took over responsibilityfor all
aspects of product development, IT and production. Before joining CABI she worked
at Reuters Ltd for two and a half years, having won a place on their Graduate
Training programme in 1988. She holds a degree in Russian and French from
Cambridge University and is currently the Chair of the Association of Learned and
Professional Society Publishers, the body representing not-for-profit publishers. She
served as a Director of the Publishers' Licensing Society for three years, and is a
regular tutor on courses run by the International Association of Scientific, Technical
and Medical Publishers.
"A CrossRef Case Study: DOIs and the secondary publisher - a match made in
heaven?"
Secondary publishers' have been focused on linkage since they first started
publishing their abstract journals way back when. The advent of online
publishing has simply moved this activity into a new environment, where
linkage to full-text ought to be simple and efficient. The reality, of
course, is that the process of enabling seamless linkage between a secondary
database and the full-text it cites, and then delivering that added value to
the database searcher, is fraught with difficulties. My talk will chart the
progress we've made over the past several years to enhance our database and
to drive our subscribers ever more easily to primary publishers' full-text
content.
Allan A. Ryan, Jr. has been Director of Intellectual Property at Harvard Business
School Publishing since the creation of the position in February 2001. Before then,
he was for 15 years an attorney in the Office of General Counsel, Harvard University,
where his practice concentrated on intellectual property, art and cultural matters, and
international law.
Harvard Business School Publishing, a subsidiary of the Harvard Business School,
publishes Harvard Business Review and the books of the Harvard Business School Press,
as well as Harvard Business School Cases, several newsletters and a variety of electronic
endeavors for academia and the corporate sector.
As Director of Intellectual Property, Mr. Ryan is responsible for the acquisition, licensing
and protection of HBSP’s content. This includes such matters as authors’ contracts,
international publication and distribution of HBSP content, and protection against piracy,
counterfeiting and copyright infringement. Mr. Ryan also oversees HBSP’s trademark and
patent activities, and was chair of the company’s China working group.
Mr. Ryan teaches courses in international law at Boston College Law School and in intellectual
property at Harvard University summer school. Before coming to Harvard in 1985, he was a
supervising prosecutor in the United States Department of Justice, an assistant to the Solicitor
General of the United States, and a law clerk to Justice Byron R. White of the United States
Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota Law
School, and served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps.
He may be reached at ryan@hbsp.harvard.edu
(Additional presentation outlines forthcoming...)
