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Greg Crane
No Comments yet.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 [...]
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Howard Besser
No Comments yet.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 [...]
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Joyce Ray
No Comments yet.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 [...]
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Digital Pioneers
View the entire list of Digital Pioneer interviews.
Who are the Digital Pioneers?
In short, they are people who were a part of, and influenced, the direction of cultural heritage digitization in the formative years between 1994 and 2005.
We are forming a selection committee to evaluate and select subjects for future interviews. To facilitate research and identification of potential subjects we have developed this set of selection criteria. If you know anyone who fits this description, we’d love to hear about it. Use the Suggestion Form to let us know.
Selection Criteria for Digital Pioneers:
- Active in Cultural Heritage digitization practice, theory or tools development, or funding priority setting between 1994 and 2005.
- Published more than one article in a peer reviewed publication.
- Presented at multiple conferences (three or more) dedicated to cultural heritage digitization (e.g. Web Wise, JCDL, Open Repositories, CNI, DLF Forum, DRH)
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- Received more than one grant from a national funder (public or private) during the period
- Served on more than one review board of funding agencies such as NEH, IMLS, NSF, etc.
- Had a national impact and generated results—new tools, research, models, services, practices, or alliances in cultural heritage digitization–that had strategic impact, showed innovation, or fostered collaboration in at least one of the following areas:
- Digital Collection Building: the creation, use, presentation, and preservation of significant digital resources
- Research: the investigation of ways to improve the creation, use, and presentation of digital resources, both in pure and applied research.
- Demonstration: test new models and practices.
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- Was a principal or senior program officer for a funding agency (e.g. IMLS, NSF, Mellon) or support organization (e.g. DLF, CNI, CLIR) that supported digitization development.
