Technical Aspects Conveners

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Workstream conveners are responsible for the recruitment of a broad range of workstream members and the identification of expert participants for DPLA activities over the next two years.

John Blyberg

Assistant Director, Darien Library
John Blyberg (B.A. English, University of Maine, 1998) is the Assistant Director for Innovation and User Experience at the Darien Library in Connecticut. He was formerly the System Administrator and Lead Developer for the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) in Michigan. Prior to working in libraries, John was the IT manager for the North American office of the British car company, Lotus.

Aaron Chaletzky

Digital Library Specialist, Library of Congress
Program specialist responsible for mass-digitization initiative with Internet Archive, HathiTrust repository workflow, print-on-demand books workflow with Amazon.com and remote storage operations workflow.

Soleio Cuervo

Designer, Facebook
Soleio is a designer at Facebook where he is responsible for conceptualizing and designing Facebook’s core products and features. Soleio joined Facebook in 2005 and spearheaded the development of early applications such as Notes, Links and Video. He is also responsible for designing the site’s Like feature and commenting systems. Soleio previously oversaw Facebook’s visual standards and common interface patterns. He is now lead designer of Messages, Groups and Chat. Soleio is a Duke ‘03 alum.

Tim DiLauro

Johns Hopkins University

Lee Dirks

Director, Portfolio Strategy | Microsoft Research Connections
Lee Dirks is the Director for Portfolio Strategy in the Microsoft Research Connections team, where he is responsible for overseeing a global team focused on collaboration projects with educational, governmental, and commercial institutions to help researchers in their work to solve the most urgent challenges in medicine, environmental science, engineering, education, and many other fields.

Michael Edmonds

Digital Collections, Wisconsin Historical Society
Michael Edmonds has been sharing the Wisconsin Historical Society’s rare books, manuscripts, images, and other historical documents on the Web since 1999. Over that time, he has guided digitizing projects aimed at a wide variety of audiences, from K-12 students to PhD dissertators. He has also worked on statewide consortia, reviewed grant proposals for state and federal agencies, and taught part-time (since 1986) at the Univ. of Wisconsin School of Library & Information Studies.

Emily Gore

Associate Dean for Digital Scholarship & IT/Florida State University Libraries
Emily Gore is Associate Dean for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services at Florida State University. Prior to joining FSU, Emily held positions at Clemson University, NC ECHO and East Carolina University. During the course of her career, Emily has received over $2.5 million in grant funding for technology/digital initiatives. Emily is a member of the Frye Leadership Institute Class of 2011 and is the 2009 Lyrasis NextGen Librarian Award winner for Technology.

Jorge Martinez

Director of IT / Knight Foundation
George Martinez is Knight Foundation’s director of information systems. He leads the foundation’s information systems department, as well as its universal broadband access and libraries initiatives. He is an alumnus of Leadership Miami and a board member and former chairman of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) of the Council of Foundations. He is also a member of the Foundation Inforamtion Systems Managers group and former board member of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (N-TEN).

Robert McDonald

Indiana University

Brad McLean

DuraSpace

Carole Palmer

Director, Center for Informatics Research in Science & Scholarship and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carole Palmer is PI on the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project, a collaborator on the Data Conservancy and Open Annotation projects, and leads the data curation education initiatives at Illinois. She conducts research on scholarly information work in the digital environment and problems in aggregation of digital collections, with a focus on supporting interdisciplinary inquiry. She teaches in the areas of information behavior and information use and collaboration in the research process.

Robert Stein

Deputy Director for Research, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Robert Stein is the Deputy Director for Research, Technology and Engagement at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). In that role, Stein leads a wide range of activities for the museum including an extensive efforts in publising & media, web technology, education, and conservation. Since 2006, he has shaped the way that the IMA has applied technology and media to the mission of the museum. As a result, the IMA is widely recognized as a leader among museums in the use of technology.

David Weinberger

Co-Director, Harvard Library Innovation Lab
David Weinberger is a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. He writes about the Net’s effect on ideas.

Kristina Woolsey

Exploratorium

Pam Wright

Chief Digital Access Strategist, National Archives and Records Administration
Ms. Wright is NARA’s Chief Digital Access Strategist. As such, she is responsible for formulating and implementing NARA’s strategic direction for providing online public access to NARA holdings. She is also responsible for planning, designing, overseeing, and executing the work of the Digital Strategy and Services program, which includes NARA’s social media, Archival Research Catalog, lifecycle policy, digitization and web services programs under one umbrella. She currently chairs the Online Public Access Integrated Product Team in planning and developing digital access requirements for the Electronic Records Archives. She also chairs the Open Government Working Group, which is responsible for the development of NARA’s Open Government Plan and overseeing the completion of tasks outlined in the plan.