Digital Pioneers

Interview date: February 8, 2010 Medford, Massachusetts and Centennial, Colorado Summary: Crane’s primary focus is open content. One of the biggest changes he has noticed is the shift  of using multiple digital resources in modern work. An innumerable amount of different resources are available for access. Crane sees a need for people to be able [...]

Interview Date: March 4, 2010 Denver, Colorado Summary: The first lesson Besser learned was that the most important things one should not take on alone and that things are best done in groups. Second is that you need a short range plan to fit into a long range vision. Having a vision of the future [...]

Interview date: March 4, 2010 Summary: Ray believes if something is worth doing, and worth doing well, people don’t want to have to keep reinventing the wheel. Digitization is an important part of strategy for all types of collections. People think of digitization primarily in regards to access, but it is more than just that. [...]

Interview date: February 11, 2010 Summary: Howe believes that digitization has become ultimately epistemological. It is about how people learn. How people find out something new every day, about how the brain works, how they learn, what the differentiations among people are. That understanding of the learning process and of education is the most important [...]

Interview date: January 28, 2010 Summary: For Staples, the new frontier is the putting of everything together in a way that doesn’t get in the way of the scholars doing their work but ends up with a durable product in repository that can be moved from one repository to another. Staples sees the ending product [...]

Interview date: November 4, 2009 Summary: Choudhury calls professionals who are coming up through the ranks data scientists or data humanists. He sees these data scientists as people who have expertise in a particular scholarly discipline and who are not afraid to speak with scholars directly as to understand data management and information science. The [...]

Interview date: November 30, 2009 Summary: When Allen thinks of the contemporary era of cloud computing and the movement of digital content to the network level, she realized that it is now all about finding aids and metadata. The digital world has become so different than it once was and every day, is something new. [...]

Interview date: December 3, 2009 Summary: Bishoff sees the sustainability in every area of digitization as the key issue. Digital content is being created at a rapid pace, regardless of the funding sources; there are now millions and millions of digital objects across the country. Of great important, Bishoff believes, is that of sustainability. Sustainability [...]