DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle
Instructor Biographies
Carolyn Hank. Carolyn Hank is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies at McGill University. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Her dissertation research looked at scholars who blog, and how blog characteristics and blogger behaviors, preferences, and perceptions impact digital preservation. She is a 2010 recipient of a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from Beta Phi Mu. She served as project manager for the DigCCurr I project (2007-2009) and program manager for the UNC-CH Digital Curation/Institutional Repository Committee (2005-2008), and Carolina Digital Repository (2008-2009). She teaches in the areas of digital preservation and access, digital curation, human information interactions, and research methods. 
Dr. Christopher (Cal) Lee. Dr. Lee (Co-PI) is Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He teaches classes for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as continuing professional education workshops in archival administration, records management, digital curation, understanding information technology for managing digital collections, and the construction of digital repository rules. His primary area of research is the long-term curation of digital collections. He is particularly interested in the professionalization of this work and the diffusion of existing tools and methods into professional practice. His research projects have included CAMiLEON, which examined migration vs. emulation as digital preservation strategies; an in-depth case study of the development of the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS); VidArch, which investigated the curation of collections of digital video; DigCCurr and DigCCurr II, which have designed curriculum materials and set of field experiences to prepare students for careers in digital curation; and Educating Stewards of Public Information for the 21st Century (ESOPI-21), which is a joint initiative with the School of Government at UNC to prepare public sector professionals. Dr. Lee is also one of the leaders of an effort to design and built a long-term institutional repository at UNC. A major focus of his work is personal digital archives.
Dr. Richard Marciano. Richard Marciano is a professor in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC, Chapel Hill and Director of the Sustainable Archives and Leveraging Technologies (SALT) lab. He leads development of preservation environments for projects funded by NARA, NHPRC, IMLS, NSF, DHS, and the Research Triangle Park (RTF) Foundation. He is the principal investigator for the NHPRC-funded Distributed Custodial Archival Preservation Environments (DCAPE) initiative, and the NARA/NSF CI-BER project (CyberInfrastructure for Billions of Electronic Records). Dr. Marciano has been working with government records and technology for over a decade. Experience covers eGovernment, environmental data and policies, planning environments, regional, state, and federal records. He holds degrees in Avionics and Electrical Engineering, M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, and worked as a Postdoc in Computational Geography. 
Dr. Nancy McGovern. Nancy Y. McGovern is the Digital Preservation Officer (DPO) and a Research Assistant Professor at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a social science data archive that was established in 1962 at the University of Michigan. Her responsibilities as the DPO include developing and promulgating policies that reflect prevailing standards and practice in the digital preservation community and developing appropriate preservation strategies for the expanding range of social science digital content ICPSR collects. Her research interests include the organizational infrastructure for digital preservation and the means for the digital preservation community to continually respond to the preservation opportunities and challenges of evolving technology. She has almost 25 years of experience with the preservation of digital content, including a decade working on electronic records at the U.S. National Archives. She completed her PhD on technology responsiveness for the digital preservation community at University College London in 2009.
Dr. Seamus Ross. Dr. Ross is the Dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the
University of Toronto. 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 the University at Cologne. He received his PhD in Modern History from the University of Graz in Austria and holds a postdoc in (empirical) sociology from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. He was a senior research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for History at Göttingen, Germany, for almost twenty years, where he has been responsible for the design and implementation of a discipline specific software. History being close to what memory institutions hold, he directed digitization projects in archives and libraries already since the early nineties. He was the founding director (1997-2000) of the "Humanities Information Technology Research Program" and the attached research center of the University of Bergen, Norway. After coming to Cologne in 2000 he served eight years in the library committee of Germany’s National research Council (DFG) and is currently a member of the strategic advisor board of Germany’s Federal research ministry on eHumanities. He has been - or is - in charge of three large scale strategic advisory studies on aspects of the further development of the national library policy. As history leads to libraries, digital libraries lead to preservation: After participating in two large scale European Union projects on digital preservation (Delos and Planets) he is now lead developer in a distributed regional preservation repository network in North Rhine Westphalia. 
Dr. Helen R. Tibbo. Dr. Tibbo (co-PI) is an Alumni Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), and teaches in the areas of archives and records management, digital preservation and access, appraisal, and archival reference and outreach. She is also a Fellow and current President of the Society of American Archivists (SAA).From 2006-2009, Dr. Tibbo was the Principal Investigator (PI) for the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services)-funded DigCCurr I project that developed an International Digital Curation Curriculum for master’s level students (www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr). She is also the PI for DigCCurr II (2008-2012) that extends the Digital Curation Curriculum to the doctoral level. In 2009, IMLS awarded Prof. Tibbo two additional projects, Educating Stewards of Public Information in the 21st Century (ESOPI-21) and Closing the Digital Curation Gap (CDCG). ESOPI-21 is a partnership with UNC’s School of Government to provide students with a Master’s of Science in Library/Information Science and a Master’s of Public Administration so that they can work in the public policy arena concerning digital preservation and curation issues and laws. CDCG is a collaboration with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Digital Curation Center (DCC), both of the United Kingdom, to explore educational and guidance needs of cultural heritage information professionals in the digital curation domain in the US and the UK. Dr. Tibbo is a co-PI with collaborators from the University of Michigan and the University of Toronto on a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)-funded project to develop standardized metrics for assessing use and user services for primary sources in government settings. This project extends work that explored user-based evaluation in academic archival settings funded by the Mellon Foundation. Prof. Tibbo is also co-PI on the IMLS-Funded POlicy-Driven Repository Interoperability (PoDRI) project lead by Dr. Richard Marciano.
Assisting
Angela Murillo
Angela Murillo is a second year doctoral student at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina. She received her bachelor’s degrees in Geosciences, English, and Spanish and her MLIS (Beta Phi Mu) from the University of Iowa. During her master’s program she was an IMLS Digital Libraries Research Fellow. She also worked at Digital Library Services and Special Collections and University Archives. Some of her research interests include digital curation; scientific data - specifically how scientists seek and use information, reuse of data and collaboration; social and cultural aspects of information seeking behavior; and effects of digital environments on globally/multilingual or underrepresented communities. Her website is: http://amurillo.web.unc.edu.Alex Poole
A native of Connecticut, Alex Poole was educated at the Loomis Chaffee
School (cum laude), Williams College (BA, Highest Honors, History),
Brown University (MA, History), and the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill (MSLS, Beta Phi Mu). A DigCCurr fellow, he focuses on
digitization and the humanities.Heather Barnes
Heather L. Barnes is a second-year doctoral student at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to beginning the doctoral program, she received her MSLS from UNC and her BA in sociology from Smith College. She is currently a DigCCurr Fellow, with research interests in multimedia preservation and personal archiving.
Timur Uckun
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
Angela Murillo at [amurillo (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu].