DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle
Instructor Biographies
Carolyn Hank. Carolyn Hank is a Triangle Research Libraries Network Doctoral Fellow at SILS. She served as project manager for the university-wide Digital Curation/Institutional Repository Committee (2005-2008), charged with creating a digital preservation program and proof-of-concept institutional repository at UNC-CH. She served as PI on the research studies, "Building from Trust: Using the RLG/NARA Audit Checklist for Institutional Repository Planning and Deployment," and "Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation." She is currently project manager for the DigCCurr I project, and recently led the study on "Challenges, Curricula, and Competencies: Researcher and Practitioner Perspectives for Informing the Development of a Digital Curation Curriculum." She teaches in the areas of digital preservation and access, digital curation, and human information interactions. Prior to entering the doctoral program at SILS, she worked in the Office of Research at OCLC. 
Dr. Christopher (Cal) Lee. Dr. Lee earned his doctorate at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, joining the SILS faculty during the summer of 2005. He has conducted research in digital preservation and digital curation, working on the CAMiLEON, VidArch and DigCCurr projects. Lee has also worked as an electronic records archivist. His dissertation focused on the development of the OAIS Reference Model as an international archival standard. He teaches in the areas of archival administration, electronic records management, digital curation, and resource selection and evaluation. Dr. Lee is co-PI for the IMLS-funded DigCCurr projects. 
Dr. Richard Marciano. Dr. Marciano holds degrees in Avionics and Electrical Engineering (National School of Civil Aviation, Toulouse, France), M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, and worked as a Postdoc in Computational Geography. He joined the SILS faculty in the summer of 2008 and is Lead Scientist in the DICE Group (Data Intensive Computing Environments). Current research projects include DCAPE (distributed production preservation environment for trusted archival preservation services), eLegacy (preservation of geospatial data), T-RACES (cyberinfrastructure for the humanities), informatics for urban planning environments, and conducting research with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Dr. Marciano has taught on electronic records issues in three SAA-sponsored summer camps (July 2007, July 2008, and August 2008). 
Dr. Nancy McGovern. In September 2006, Nancy Y. McGovern became the Digital Preservation Officer for ICPSR. For the five years prior to that, she was the Director of Research and Assessment Services and Digital Preservation Officer at Cornell University Library. She has focused on digital preservation research and practice since 1986, when she began a decade of service on the senior staff of the Center for Electronic Records at the U.S. National Archives. Since 2003, she has been a developer and primary instructor for the workshop series begun at Cornell and now hosted by ICPSR, "Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Solutions." She has completed her PhD on a digital preservation topic through University College London.
Dr. Seamus Ross. Dr. Ross is the Dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the
University of Toronoto. He earned his BA from Vassar College,
his MA from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD from the University of Oxford. He was the Director of Humanities Computing and Information Management at the University of Glasgow and ran the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) of which he was the founding director in 1997. He is also Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre in the UK, a co-principal investigator in the DELOS Digital Libraries Network of Excellence, Principal Director of DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), Principal Investigator of the AHDS-Performing Arts, and a project partner and member of the management boards of Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR) and Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services (Planets). He was Principal Director of ERPANET a European Commission activity to enhance the preservation of cultural heritage and scientific digital objects , and a key player in The Digital Culture Forum (DigiCULT Forum) which worked to improve the take-up of cutting edge research and technology by the cultural heritage sector. 
Dr. Manfred Thaller. Dr. Thaller is a professor in "Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung", or Computer Science for the Humanities at University of Cologne. He received his PhD in Modern History from the University of Graz in Austria. He did a postdoc fellowship in (empirical) sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna where he specialized in historical mobility studies. He also participated in research projects on the history of the family, study of the daily life of the Middle Ages and interlocking directorates of German and Austrian companies. He was responsible for the design and implementation of a general data base oriented programming system for history, and conducted research on a general methodology of historical computer science. He was the founding director (1997-2000) of the "Humanities Information Technology Research Programme" and the attached research center of the University of Bergen, Norway. 
Dr. Helen R. Tibbo. Professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), teaches in the areas of archives and records management, digital preservation and access, electronic retrieval, and reference. Dr. Tibbo is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and has served on SAA Council. Dr. Tibbo is also a co-PI with collaborators from the University of Michigan and the University of Toronto for a Mellon Foundation-funded project to develop standardized metrics for assessing use and user services for primary sources. She is also on the Editorial Board of the Digital Curation Centre's (DCC) Digital Curation Manual and the ISO Working Group that is developing an international standard for audit and certification of digital repositories. Dr. Tibbo has extensive experience planning and conducting practitioner-oriented education and dissemination events with "Digitization for Cultural Heritage Information Professionals," 2002-2004; "NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellowship Symposia," 2004-2007; the DigCCurr2007 conference; and the DigCCurr2009 conference. Dr. Tibbo is the PI for the IMLS-funded DigCCurr Projects. She was a co-PI with collaborators from the University of Michigan and the University of Toronto for a Mellon Foundation-funded project to develop standardized metrics for assessing use and user services for primary sources in academic archives. This work is now extended to government archives with support from NHPRC.Assisting
Heather Bowden. Heather Bowden is a Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral Fellow and the DigCCurr II Project Manager. She came to SILS in the Fall of 2008 after receiving her Master's degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Denver. She is conducting research in media and file format obsolescence and has begun work with Richard Marciano and the DICE group to explore the development of tools to help with the challenges of maintaining viable file formats in digital collections. She is working with the Long Now Foundation to develop their Format Exchange project and is working to further their long term digital preservation strategies. She is also developing the first iteration of the Digital Curation Exchange website, which will serve as a community space for digital curation practitioners and educators. For more information, e-mail Dr. Helen Tibbo at [tibbo (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu],Dr. Cal Lee at [callee (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu], or
Mike Brown at [brownmeb (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu].