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Abid ABDELAZIZ
Information Society Division, Universal Access and Preservation Section, UNESCO, Paris
Abdelaziz Abid graduated from the University of Tunis in 1970 with a Bachelor Degree from the Faculty of Humanities and the Teachers College (Ecole Normale Supérieure). In 1973 he graduated from the University of Montreal, Canada, with a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science. He served as Secretary-General of the National Library of Tunisia with teaching assignments at the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA). Joined UNESCO in 1976 as a UNESCO expert and later as Chief Technical Adviser for the School of Information Science (ESI) project in Rabat, Morocco. This project was funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He spent 9 years in Morocco as Professor and Head of Department (Directeur des études) within the same institution. He joined UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in 1985 where he was in charge of library development projects and access to scientific information in developing countries. In 1988 he organized the international architectural competition for the Library of Alexandria, Egypt which was inaugurated officially only in 2002. He is now in charge of the "Memory of the World" Programme, which is a successful preservation and access initiative, as well as projects relating to libraries and access to information, digital heritage preservation, information literacy. He has traveled extensively all over the world, visiting about 70 countries. He co-ordinates joint IFLA/UNESCO library and information projects. He has contributed many book chapters, conference papers and journal articles in Arabic, English, French and Spanish on library development, information literacy, library education, access to scientific information, and preservation of, and access to, documentary and digital heritage. He has also edited a number of CD-ROMs as part of the "Memory of the World" Programme, especially within the framework of the Slave Trade Archives project.
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze
Engineering
Centro di Fotoriproduzione, Legatoria e Restauro, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Roma
Vito CAPPELLINI
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Vito Cappellini was born in Pistoia, Italy, in 1938. In 1961 he obtained the degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino. After some activity in the industry on data processing and automatic control, in 1963 he started research activity at Centro Microonde (now Istituto di Ricerca sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche - IROE) of National Research Council (C.N.R.) in Florence, where he was mainly concerned with ionospheric studies by means of satellites, data processing, digital telemetry and communications. In 1975 he obtained the Full Professor degree in Electrical Communications at Florence University, being later appointed Director of the Istituto di Elettronica for the period 1977-79. In 1981-1989 he was Director of the IROE Institute in Florence. For the period 1993-1995 he was Dean of the Engineering Faculty of Florence University. His main research interests are: digital signal-image processing, digital communications, multimedia systems, remote sensing, art-work analysis-restoration and IPR protection (watermarking). He developed many researches under Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR), C.N.R. and carried out several contracts with Industries. He participated at many European Commission Consortia, with special reference to multimedia and telematics applied to Cultural Heritage (MUSA-ESPRIT, RAMA-RACE, ARTLINE-ACTS, IMPRIMATUR-ESPRIT, M-CUBE-ESPRIT, etc.). He is now taking active part at EVAN Project. He has published over 350 papers in the above fields and contributed to several books: co-author of "Digital Filters and Their Applications" (Academic Press, 1978), editor of "Data Compression and Error Control Techniques with Applications" (Academic Press, 1985), editor of "Time-Varying Image Processing and Moving Object Recognition" (North-Holland, 1987). He is in the Editorial Board of several international journals: "Signal Processing" (North Holland), "Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing" (Birkhauser), "European Transactions on Telecommunications". He was Chairman of the IEEE Central&South Italy Section. He has been the Italian Representative in the Seven Nations Cooperation Program on "Remote Sensing from Space". He was Director of the C.N.R. “UFFIZI Project”. He was Italian Representative in the EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories). He was Chairman of the Technical Committee of ITINERA (the Italian Infostructure for European Research in Advanced Communications), supervising ITALHOST. He was President of the Italian Telecommunications Group (TTI); he is now in the Coordination Committee. He is member of CNIT (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni). He is vice President of the Foundation on Applied Meteorology. He is an "expert" of Italian Ministries of University, Research, Cultural Heritage and Industry. He is Director of the Excellence Centre for Communication and Media Integration. He is one Coordinator of EVA Network (Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts), organizing many International Events (in particular EVA Florence, London and Berlin). He received in 1981 the "Clerk Maxwell Premium" by IERE and in 1984 the "IEEE Centennial Medal". Professor Cappellini is "fellow" of the IEEE, member of EURASIP, AEI, ANIPLA, AIT and ARI.
Elizabeth S. DULABAHN
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program project (NDIIPP), Library of Congress, Washington
Elizabeth Dulabahn is Senior Advisor for Integration Management in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. In addition to overseeing the Library’s digitization support services, she is currently working on a number of initiatives involving the collection, preservation, and presentation of digital content. These include an electronic copyright deposit pilot; a project to explore policies and procedures needed for an expanded web harvesting program; and an initiative to re-conceptualize the presentation of the Library’s digitized content on the Library’s web site. She also serves as the Program Officer for four of the partnerships funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), and co-chairs the NDIIPP Preserving Creative America initiative, which seeks to enlist the commercial and private sector in collaborations that will result in content that is sustainable over the long-term. Prior to joining the newly created Office of Strategic Initiatives in 2001, Beth worked extensively in the areas of conceptual modeling and IT planning at the Library. She served as a consultant to the IFLA Study Group on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) in the mid-1990’s, and was part of the management team that selected and implemented an integrated library system at the Library in 1999. Beth holds a PhD in Latin from Bryn Mawr College.
Luciana DURANTI
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, InterPARES project, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Dr. Duranti’s research aims at finding solutions to digital records issues that are not specific to a given socio-cultural and juridical context but can be universally applied. She is presently Project-Director of InterPARES, a large multinational, collaborative and interdisciplinary research project on the long-term preservation of authentic electronic records funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by numerous other granting agencies and institutions worldwide. For the InterPARES contribution to the management of digital records Dr. Duranti has been honoured with the 2006 Emmett Leahy Award, which is annually presented by the Institute of Certified Records Managers and ARMA International to an individual who is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator in the area of records and information management, and with the 2006 British Columbia Innovation Council Award, which is annually presented by the Premier and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia to an individual who has open new frontiers to research.
Prior to moving to Canada in 1987, she was a Researcher in the professorial ranks of the Special School for Archivists and Librarians at the University of Rome, and served as State Archivist in the State Archives of Rome
Professor Duranti holds a Doctorate in Arts (1973) and graduate degrees in Archival Science from the University of Rome, Special School for Archivists and Librarians (1975), and in Archivistics, Paleography, and Diplomatics from the School of Archivistics, Paleography and Diplomatics of the State Archives of Rome (1979)".
Tommaso GIORDANO
European University Institute, Fiesole
Tommaso Giordano is Deputy Director of the European University Institute Library in Florence. He has extensive experience in library coöperation and automation in Italy and abroad (Europe, Asia, Central America). He has been President of the Italian Library Association and a member of the executive committee and Honorary Treasurer of EBLIDA (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations). He is external professor in library management at the Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari and has written extensively on information management issues in Italian and international scholarly journals. In recent years he has been active in the field of library consortia, electronic licensing and digital preservation. He is currently President of INFER, the Italian consortium forum for electronic resources.
Börje JUSTRELL
Riksarkivet, Stockholm
Börje Justrell is director and head of the Information and Communication technology (ICT) Department at the Swedish National Archives. Previously he worked as a record manager, but since 1989 he is responsible for technical matters at the National Archives. Justrell teaches archival science at the University of Stockholm, and has been a member of CA committees. He is the national representative for Sweden in expert groups on digitisation within the European Commission and has also worked in the Minerva and MinervaPlus projects. He has published articles and books on archival science and technical issues in Sweden as well as internationally.
Rowena LOVERANCE
Learning and Information Department, British Museum, London
Rowena Loverance belongs to the pioneering generation of new media professionals in UK museums. In 1991 she made the British Museum’s first exhibition interactive and CDROM, The Anglo-Saxons Interactive and in 1996, with colleagues at Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, she created the Global Digital Museum, an early web application enabling users to curate their own online museum exhibition. She was a member of the prototype team for the British Museum’s collections online multimedia public access system (COMPASS) with particular responsibility for its evaluation. With external funding from Japan’s NTT EAST, she then set up an in-house educational multimedia team, whose flagship product, the http://www.ancientcivilizations.co.uk series of online learning resources, has been widely acclaimed for its innovative architecture, high level of interactivity and imaginative use of museum collections.
Rowena has taken part in both successful and unsuccessful EU digital consortia and gives papers on museums and online learning at EU conferences, in the US and Japan. She was a member of the UK National Museums Directors Conference subgroup which wrote the influential paper Netful of Jewels: New Museums in the Learning Age in 1999, she represented the national/larger museum sector on the Department of Education and Skills project to encourage cultural institutions to use Curriculum Online and is currently working with Becta, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, on barriers preventing cultural institutions from creating online learning resources. She serves as a Trustee of the 24Hour Museum, the UK’s online cultural and heritage portal.
Catherine LUPOVICI
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Catherine Lupovici is Head of the Digital Library Department, Direction des Services et des Réseaux, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, since March 1999. This department is in charge of the coordination of pilot projects building on digital library services, technologies and standards. This includes the digital repository for long term preservation and access of all the digital collections of BnF, as well as web archiving in the context of the Legal Deposit extension to the "French Web". She is the current Program Officer of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC). Prior to joining BnF she was for ten years Libraries Activity Manager within Jouve SA, a French electronic publishing company offering data conversion and document scanning services. During this time she led two R&D DGXIII Library programme funded projects: MORE (Marc Optical Recognition) and ELSA (Electronic Library SGML Applications). Her previous experience includes, from 1984 to1988, national responsibilities for university libraries co-operation networking and automation in France within the Ministry of Education, DBMIST (Direction des Bibliothèques, des Musées et de l'Information Scientifique et Technique), with specific expertise in union catalogues, interlibrary loan policies, collection development policies and library automation. From 1977 to 1983 she was head of the National Academy of Medicine Library, Paris.
Patricia MANSON
Unit "Learning Cultural Heritage" in the Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission, Luxembourg
Philippe PONCIN
Institut National De L'Audiovisuel, Paris
Born in 1948-01-30, graduated from Ecole Nationale des Télécommunications in June 1973.
After joining the Archives Management of INA in 1977, he designed and set up the technical division , including all the storage, inventory and restoration services with dedicated buildings, equipment and technical staff trained for the purpose.
He was then in charge, as Deputy Director since 1984, of the evolution of the computerised information system (production and retrieval) , and of the development of technical innovations for archival services (digital systems devoted to audio and video restoration, multimedia indexing and retrieving facilities). He was also responsible for surveys and reports in France and abroad as technical chairman of the FIAT (International Federation of Television Archives) from 1984 to 1994, organizing Joint Technical Symposiums with IASA and FIAF. He was involved as manager of INA's mission in China from 1995 to 1997.
He joined the Audio-visual Research Laboratory of INA in 1997, in charge of management of the European research projects ( in programs as ESPRIT, ACTS project, Telematics project and now IST for Learning and Cultural Heritage).
Stefano RODOTA'
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Seamus ROSS
Digital Preservation Europe (DPE) project HATII, University of Glasgow
Seamus Ross, Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation, and Director of Humanities Computing and Information Management at the University of Glasgow, runs HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) (http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk) of which he is the founding director. He is an Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre in the UK(http://www.dcc.ac.uk), a co-principal investigator in the DELOS Digital Libraries Network of Excellence (http://www.dpc.delos.ac.uk) and Principal Director of DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) (http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu). He leads HATII's contribution to two other EU FP6 funded IPs, PLANETS (http://www.planets-project.eu/) and CASPAR (http://www.casparpreserves.eu/). He was Principal Director of ERPANET a European Commission activity to enhance the preservation of cultural heritage and scientific digital objects (http://www.erpanet.org), and a key player in The Digital Culture Forum (DigiCULT Forum) which worked to improve the take-up of cutting edge research and technology by the cultural heritage sector (http://www.digicult.info). Before joining the University of Glasgow he was Head of ICT at the British Academy and a technologist at a company specialising in knowledge engineering. He earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Some of his publications are available at http://eprints.erpanet.org. During 2005/6 Seamus Ross is Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford). Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College (Oxford).
Ute SCHWENS
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main
Permanent Deputy of the Director General of theGerman National Library, Director of German National Library Frankfurt am Main
Date of birth: 5 January 1959 in Offenbach am Main
Civil status:married
1977: University entrance qualification
1980: Library school graduation and beginning of career as librarian in academic libraries at the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main
1985: Assistent of the Director General
1990: Head of the Bibliographic Services department
1996: Qualifying for senior librarian
1997: Head of Department Digital Library
1998: Director Services and Archives (Reader Services, National Bibliographic Services)
since 1999: Permanent Deputy of the Director General of the German National Library/ Director of the German National Library Frankfurt am Main
Participation in Committees:
- German UNESCO-Commission, Executive Committee
- German National Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- German Institute for International Educational Research, Scientific Advisory Board
- Frankfurt Group - a European forum for academic and research information, representing key players in the information chain
- FEP/CENL joint committee on electronic publications.
Dietrich SCHÜLLER
Phonogrammarchiv, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Dietrich Schüller is director of the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. A specialist in audiovisual preservation and restoration, he has worked as a consultant to a number of audiovisual archives world-wide. He is Vice-President of the Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme and Chair of the Sub-Committee on Technology for the Memory of the World-Programme of UNESCO, member of the European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) and of the Audio Engineering Society , author of numerous publications on audiovisual preservation, and lecturer at several Austrian Universities. He is currently, inter alia, partner in EU funded projects DELOS and TAPE, the latter concentrating on training in audiovisual preservation in Europe. He is also engaged in training seminars outside Europe, more recently in Mexico, the Caribbean, China, the Philippines, Singapore, and Central Asia.
Andrea SCOTTI
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Firenze
Andrea Scotti è stato ricercatore all'Università Ebraica di Gerusalemme dal 1984 al 1986 ed ha condotto ricerche relative alla storia documentaria della scienza nel Medio Oriente. Successivamente ha continuato la sua attività di ricerca nelle biblioteche e archivi dell'Europa Orientale lavorando dal 1986 al 1992/3 tra le altre, in Polonia, ex Cecoslovacchia e infine in Ungheria dove dal 1989 al 1991 ha ricoperto la cattedra di Documentary History of Science alla ELTE di Budapest con una fellowship della Soros Foundation. Nel 1993 è diventato ricercatore all'Institut für Naturwissenschaftsgeschichte di Monaco di Baviera portando un progetto di catalogazione delle fonti primarie della storia della scienza lì conservate. In questo periodo ha sviluppato una applicazione per registrare, gestire, pubblicare e condividere i risultati della sua ricerca sul web. Da allora è consulente scientifico e tecnologico all'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza e libero docente in Computing & Humanities all'Università di Bologna. Attualmente sta anche lavorando come direttore del progetto "open source" Pinakes 3.0 OSI finanziato dalla fondazione "Rinascimento Digitale".
Anna Maria TAMMARO
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Firenze
Docente incaricato del corso Editoria digitale (Laurea triennale) e del corso Biblioteca digitale (Laurea Magistrale), Coordinatore italiano dell'International Master in Library and Information Studies (a distanza) e dell'Erasmus Mundus Master of Digital Libraries.
Principali interessi di ricerca: Biblioteca Digitale, Editoria digitale, Biblioteche ed apprendimento, Internazionalizzazione e qualità della formazione.
Esperienza internazionale: Information Officer IFLA Education and Training Section, Member of Board EUCLID European Association of Library Schools Teachers.
Pubblicazioni principali:
(2006) (together with A. Salarelli.) Biblioteca digitale, Milano: Bibliografica
(2005) Adapting LIS education to the digital age: co-operation and internationalisation for innovation. Proceedings 13. BOBCATSSS Symposium, Budapest 31 Jan – 2 Feb 2005. (pp. 27-37) ISBN: 963-463758-2.
(2002). Facilitating scholarly communication: cost and benefit of a digital University Press. IFLA pre-conference Meaningful measures for emerging realities. Pittsburgh, 12-16 Agosto 2001. (pp. 43-50). 4th Northumbria International Conference on Performance measurement in libraries and information services.
Stefano VITALI
Archivio di Stato di Firenze
In 1984 he entered the State Archives of Florence, where, between 1987 and 1993, was responsible for the fonds of the Granducy of Tuscany during the Lorena domination (1737-1859); since 1993 he has been responsible for projects and programmes for application of information technologies to the management and description of historical archives, including the web site of the State Archives of Florence (http://www.archiviodistato.firenze.it). Member since 1996 of the Committee on Descriptive Standards of the International Council on Archives, he has served as Chairman of that Committee from 2000 to 2004. He is professor of Theory and techniques of arrangement and description of archives at the University of Turin and professor of Archival science and Information technologies in the Schools of Archival Science, Paleography and Diplomatics of the State Archives of Florence, Bologna, Turin and Genoa. He is authors of books and articles on contemporary history and archival science. He has recently published the book Passato digitale. Le fonti dello storico nell’era del computer (Digital Past. The sources for the historian in the computer age), Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2004.
