Digital Pioneers

Interview date: February 8, 2010 Medford, Massachusetts and Centennial, Colorado Greg Crane is professor of Classical Studies at Tufts University and editor-in-chief of the Perseus Digital Library. Crane’s first exposure to digital technology in the humanities came when he was still a graduate student at Harvard, and developed a full-text retrieval system for the Thesaurus [...]

Interview date: March 4, 2010 Howard Besser is a Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of New York University’s Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program (MIAP) as well as Senior Scientist for the Digital Library Initiatives at NYU’s Bobst Library. Previously Besser was a Professor of Library Information Studies at UCLA’s School of Education and [...]

Interview date: March 4, 2010 Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services at the US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in Washington, D.C., has been with IMLS since 1996. She began directing the agency’s discretionary library programs in 1997. An archivist by training, Ray also has responsibility for both agency-wide digital initiatives [...]

Interview date: December 3, 2009 Liz Bishoff is currently Director of Digital and Preservation Services for the Biographical Center for Research (BCR). She is the former Vice President of Digital Collection Services at the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and Executive Director of the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP). She also served as OCLC’s Vice President [...]

Interview date: February 11, 2010 Kaye Howe is the National Science Digital Library’s (NSDL) Core Integration Director. She also leads the Resource Center for the National STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Digital Library. When the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) received a grant from the National Science Foundation to start the National Science [...]

Interview date: January 28, 2010 Thornton (Thorny) Staples is currently Director of Community Strategies and Alliances for Duraspace Inc. a private nonprofit organization. He is also director of the Fedora Project, a repository management system created to make open source software available to that contributes to being able to make digital information durable over the [...]

Interview date: November 30, 2009 Nancy Allen, Dean of Penrose Library at the University of Denver since 1992, has had nearly 40 years of library experience.   Prior to becoming the Dean of Penrose, she served as the Assistant Director for Public Services at Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, CO; was Associate Director for [...]

Interview date: November 4, 2009 G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Director of Operations for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins. [...]

Jim Kroll is currently a Manager at the Denver Public Library-Central. He oversees the department of Western History and Genealogy and the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library. Jim tells the story of the origins of the DPL’s photo digitization project, one of the early large-scale digitization projects and an inspiration for the Colorado Digitization Project. [...]