2005 Summer Seminar Series
Instructor Bio's
Marc Bragdon
Marc Bragdon is Electronic Services Librarian with the University of New Brunswick Libraries Electronic Text Centre and Co-ordinator of its Imaging Centre. Marc plays a lead role in the ongoing development of digital preservation strategies for UNB Libraries that incorporate international standards in digital imaging and information exchange as well as associated networked indexing and search/retrieval applications.
Lisa Charlong
Lisa Charlong has been with the Text Centre since it's inception in 1996, Lisa is the Centre's Assistant Director and coordinator of XML initiatives. Lisa was project manager of the Canadian Poetry database, a collection published with Chadwyck-Healey as part of its Literature Online product. She is currently project manager and XML developer/trainer for the Atlantic Canada Portal, working with Dr Margaret Conrad, the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies. She is also part of the UNB team developing an Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) program at UNB.
Lisa comes to the Text Centre with a BA, a BEd and 13 years experience in cultural institutions including archives, libraries, and galleries. Lisa is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Education Technology.
Diane Hillmann
Diane Hillmann is currently Director of Library Services and Operations for the National Science Digital Library. Earlier in her career she worked for the Cornell University Library, managing authorities and maintenance processes for the Library's database. She was a member of MARBI from the late 1980's to 2000, specializing in Holdings and Authorities formats. Diane was an early participant in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, and is currently editor of "Using Dublin Core" as well as a member of the DCMI Usage and Advisory Boards.
Daniel Pitti
Daniel Pitti is currently Associate Director at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia. He has over ten years experience applying markup technologies to humanities research projects and archival description. He has been involved in the development of EAD, as the chief technical editor, since it's beginning in 1993. Daniel is a member of the EAD Working Group of the Society of American Archivists. He has taught introductory and advanced courses in the Rare Book School (Virginia) and around the world since 1997.
David Seaman
David Seaman is the Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF). The DLF is a consortium of major academic libraries -- with member institutions currently from the United States and Great Britain -- who identify standards and "best practices" for digital collections and network access; who coordinate leading-edge research and development in libraries' use of electronic-information technology; and who incubate projects and services that libraries need but cannot develop individually (see http://www.diglib.org/).
David joined the DLF in 2002 from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, where he was the founding Director (1992-2002). In this role, he oversaw the creation and development of an online archive of XML and SGML texts, of which many are available in multiple e-book formats. In addition, he has lectured and published extensively in the fields of humanities computing and digital libraries. He has taught an introductory course on Building Electronic Texts from 1997-2002 for University of New Brunswick's Summer Institute and, since the mid-nineties, e-text and internet courses for the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.