The Price of Digitization:
Speakers' Brief Biographies
Abuhoff | Bickner |
Bonn
| Chapman | Harm | Kaufman
| Lesk | Moritz | Pence
| Puglia | Sledge |
Stephenson | Waters
| Wittenberg
Jack
Abuhoff
Mr. Abuhoff has served as President and Chief Executive
Officer of Innodata since September 15, 1997 and as Chairman
of Innodata's Board since May 8, 2001. From 1995 to 1997
he was Chief Operating Officer of Charles River Corporation,
an international systems integration and outsourcing firm.
From 1992 to 1994, he was employed by Chadbourne & Parke,
and engaged in Sino-American technology joint ventures with
Goldman Sachs. He practiced international corporate law
with White & Case from 1986 to 1992. He holds an A.B.
degree from Columbia College (1983) and a J.D. degree from
Harvard Law School (1986).
Carrie
Bickner
Assistant Director for Digital Information and System
Design at The New York Public Library, Carrie's forthcoming
book, Web Design on a Shoestring, will be published
by New Riders in August 2003. Bickner writes for A List
Apart, Library Journal and Technology Electronic
Reviews.
Maria
Bonn
Maria Bonn is the Director of the Scholarly Publishing
Office (SPO) at the University of Michigan Library. She
has a 1990 PhD in English Literature from the State University
of NY at Buffalo, and a 1997 Masters of Information from
The University of Michigan School of Information. In her
current role as Director of SPO she designs and oversees
efforts to explore and develop library-based electronic
publishing. In 2000-2001, she served as the project director
for the Making of America
project at the University of Michigan.
Stephen
Chapman
Stephen Chapman is Preservation Librarian for Digital
Initiatives in the Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard
University Library. As a member of the Library Digital Initiative
team, Steve advises advises curators and other members of
the Harvard community about approaches to collections digitization,
and is a member of the technical team developing and administering
Harvard's Digital Repository Service. Steve also facilitates
discussions and investigations among digitization experts
(at Harvard and beyond) to develop and refine production
workflows that optimize quality and cost. He received the
Esther J. Piercy Award from the American Library Association
in 1999. He has an M.L.S. from the University at Albany
and an M.A. in English from Boston University.
Nancy
Harm
Nancy Harm is an Account Manager with Luna
Imaging, Inc., where she consults on a broad array of
client projects. Luna enables institutions to build high-quality
visual collections in digital form and provides sophisticated
Insight software to manage, access and use these collections
for research and teaching over the Internet. After three
years at Luna's Los Angeles headquarters, Nancy recently
relocated to New York where she can better assist Luna's
East Coast clientele. Before joining Luna Imaging she held
the position of Director of Collections at the Schenectady
Museum, Exhibitions Registrar at the Whitney Museum of Art,
and Registrar at Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson
Museum of Art, where she was active in Cornell's Digital
Access Task Force prior to the conception of Cornell's Institute
for Digital Collections.
Peter
B. Kaufman
Peter B. Kaufman is Director of Strategic Initiatives at
Innodata, overseeing the company’s relationships with
libraries, museums, universities, and archives. In this
capacity, he helps cultural and educational institutions
plan their digitization programs with the same efficiencies
that Innodata instructs its commercial clients to pursue.
He also serves as a Senior Fellow in media and international
affairs at the World Policy Institute of the New School
University. Previously, he served as President and Publisher
of TV Books, a commercial publishing company that produced
companion books to television documentaries and other broadcast
media; President and Executive Director of PUBWATCH, a not-for-profit
organization providing support to the book industries of
Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union;
and Director of Publications at the Institute for EastWest
Studies, a foreign-policy think tank in New York. He has
written about publishing and media for, among others, Scholarly
Publishing, Publishers Weekly, The (London) Times Literary
Supplement, The New York Times, The Nation, and International
Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia.
Michael
E. Lesk
After receiving the PhD degree in Chemical Physics in 1969,
Michael Lesk joined the computer science research group
at Bell Laboratories, where he worked until 1984. From 1984
to 1995 he managed the computer science research group at
Bellcore, then joined the National Science Foundation as
head of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems.
Since mid-2002 has been working at the
Internet Archive. He is best known for work in electronic
libraries, and his book Practical Digital Libraries
was published in 1997 by Morgan Kaufmann. His research has
included the CORE project for chemical information, and
he wrote some Unix system utilities including those for
table printing (tbl), lexical analyzers (lex), and inter-system
mail (uucp). His other technical interests include document
production and retrieval software, computer networks, computer
languages, and human-computer interfaces.
Tom
Moritz
Tom Moritz is Director of the Library at the American
Museum of Natural History and currently is Principal Investigator
on a $2 million, five year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation to produce a digital library integrating all
forms of natural history information -- including collections
(specimen and artifact) data. He is a long time participant
in initiatives to develop inclusive strategies for capture
and managment of museum information. He is also Chair of
the Information Management Task Force for the World Commission
on Protected Areas of IUCN (The World Conservation Union)
and is vice-Chair of
BCIS (the Biodiversity Conservation Information System)
an international consortium of international organizations
focusing on the managment and delivery of biodiversity information.
Dan
Pence
Dan Pence is Vice President, Document and Imaging Services,
for Systems Integration Group, Inc., (SIG). SIG, established
in 1984, is a minority-owned small business primarily serving
the federal government information technology market. Mr.
Pence has been with SIG since 1995. In his eight years with
SIG, he has managed numerous digital conversion projects,
including the services provided to the Library of Congress
under the National Digital Library Program. Mr. Pence has
worked in the field of computer services and related technologies
for 30 years. He holds an MS in Systems Engineering and
an MBA from the University of Michigan. Prior to entering
the civilian workforce, he served six years as a commissioned
officer in the U.S. Navy.
Steven
Puglia
Steven Puglia has worked as a Preservation and Imaging
Specialist at the US National Archives and Records Administration
for the last 15 years. Steve has been working with digital
imaging technology for the last 12 years, and oversees the
Digital Imaging Lab at NARA. He provided technical guidance
to NARA's pilot Electronic Access Project, and has assisted
many other institutions with both digitizing and photographic
duplication projects. Steve researched and authored "The
Costs of Digital Imaging Projects," published in RLG's
DigiNews in 1999.
Jane
Sledge
Jane Sledge has thought about and managed museum information
since 1977. She has worked with the Canadian Heritage Information
Network, the Smithsonian Institution, the UNESCO-ICOM Museum
Information Center in Paris, the Getty Information Institute,
and is now with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of
the American Indian. As Information Resources Manager for
NMAI, she works to organize and connect NMAI’s intellectual
and informational resources and databases both internally
and to audiences worldwide. Ms. Sledge has management expertise
in program administration, content engineering, and collaborative
projects.
Christie
Stephenson
Christie Stephenson directs the work of the Digital
Conversion Services unit in the University of Michigan Library.
During her tenure at Michigan, the group has grown to a
staff of ten. They provide a variety of scanning, OCR, and
text encoding services to the Library, other U of M units,
and external clients and have contributed to major projects
funded by the Mellon Foundation, NEH, and IMLS. Prior to
coming to Michigan in 1999, Stephenson served as Digital
Collections Librarian at New York University, and was an
art librarian at the University of Virginia for a number
of years. While at Virginia, she established the Digital
Image Center and also served as Project Director for the
Museum Educational Site Licensing Project. Stephenson has
an M.A. in Art History from the University of Virginia and
earned her MSLS degree from the University of North Carolina.
Donald
Waters
Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly
Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before
joining the Foundation, he served as the first Director of
the Digital Library Federation (1997-1999), as Associate University
Librarian at Yale University (1993-1997), and in a variety
of other positions at the Computer Center, the School of Management,
and the University Library at Yale. Waters graduated with
a Bachelor's degree in American Studies from the University
of Maryland, College Park in 1973. In 1982, he received his
Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University. Waters conducted
his dissertation research on the political economy of artisanry
in Guyana, South America. He has edited a collection of African-American
folklore from the Hampton Institute in a volume entitled Strange
Ways and Sweet Dreams. In 1995-96, he co-chaired the Task
Force of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the
Research Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital Information,
and was the editor and a principal author of the Task Force
Report. He is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and is the author of numerous articles
and presentations on libraries, digital libraries, digital
preservation, and scholarly communications.
Kate
Wittenberg
Kate Wittenberg is Director, Electronic
Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC). Kate is interested
in developing models of self-sustaining, web-based, scholarly
publications designed for research and education. She is
particularly interested in the issues of copyright and intellectual
property, licensing and pricing models for libraries, peer-review,
and interdisciplinary scholarship in an online environment
and is currently exploring these issues through the development
of several online publications, including Columbia
International Affairs Online, Columbia
Earthscape: An Online Resource on the Global Environment,
and the American Historical Association's Gutenberg-e
Dissertation Awards. Kate has received funding for the
electronic publishing programs from The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, The National Science Foundation, The Council
of Library and Information Resources, and the Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition.
NINCH SYMPOSIUM: April 8, 2003, New York City